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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 14, 2018
Video
Folksinger Kristin Lems has been a favorite of the women’s movement—and of Dr. Demento

Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she's currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Kristin Lems, Evanston, Champaign-Urbana, feminist, ERA, women's movement, folk, Women Walk More Determined, Mammary Glands, Dr. Demento, Tim Vear, Lynn Keller, Cherry Wolfarth, Oh Mama!, In the Out Door, Carolsdatter Productions, We Will Never Give Up, Jane Addams, John Prine, Dan Fogelberg, Gil Scott-Heron, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Gloria Steinem, You Me and All of the Above, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2018
Happy belated birthday, Chicago! Here’s your life story, starting with the immigrants who founded you.

Also featured: the reversal of the Chicago River, the commodities trade, the Mayors Daley, and Jane Addams.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Chicago birthday, Chicago history, Harold Henderson, Jean Baptiste Point duSable, American Fur Company, Jane Addams, Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley

Film, Movie Feature Apr 5, 2017
Recommended
Lois Weber laid down a marker for women in film

But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Lois Weber, Lois Weber: Pioneer Progressive Filmmaker, Gene Siskel Film Center, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Shelley Stamp, Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, Phillips Smalley, Edwin S. Porter, Rex Motion Picture Company, Lois Weber Productions, Bosworth Inc., Carl Laemmle, Daniel Auber, The Dumb Girl of Portici, Anna Pavlova, Hypocrites Lois Weber, Shoes Lois Weber, Jane Addams, Hop the Devil's Brew, The People vs. John Doe, Where Are My Children?, Margaret Sanger, Tyrone Power Sr., What’s Worth While?, Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, The Blot Lois Weber, Margaret McWade, Philip Hubbard, progressive filmmaking, female filmmakers, silent cinema, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2016
Shame on Wheels, It's a Wonderful Life, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Donut Fest, Irish Christmas Market, and more happenings from December 9-11.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Poetry Foundation, Nicholas Rudall, Dylan Thomas, Electra, Court Theater, Irish Christmas Market, It's a Wonderful Life, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, American Association of University Women Chicago, Jane Addams, Not Normal Tapes, The First Annual Infestational, ChiTown Futbol, Donut Fest, Moe's Cantina, A Voice for Victims, Uri-Eichen Gallery, We Still Like You, Cole's

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2015
So what is a great Chicago book anyway?

Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament's halfway point.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Seminary Coop, Mike Royko, Richard J. Daley, Studs Terkel, Boss, Working, Isabel Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, Building Stories, Book of My Lives, Divergent, Time Traveler's Wife, Saint Louis, New York, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Stuart Dybek, Sandra Cisneros, Audrey Niffenegger, Chris Ware, Aleksandar Hemon, Sister Carrie

Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2014
The Jungle vs. Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament round one

Two books by Progressive-era reformers square off in the opening round of our contest.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Hull-House, Union Stock Yard, Progressivism

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Nov 25, 2013
Crunch time for the city's other teachers' union

As contract negotiations drag on, UIC United Faculty hosts a teach-in—and contemplates a walkout.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, AAUP, adjuncts, American Association of University Professors, Barbara Ransby, Bill Burton, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Dick Simpson, higher education, Hull-House Residents' Dining Hall, instructors, Jane Addams, Joseph Persky, labor, labor unions, lecturers, Leon Fink, Lon S. Kaufman, Paula Allen-Meares, Steven Ashby, student debt, teach-ins, tenure, tuition, UIC, UIC United Faculty, UICUF, unions, universities, university administrators, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois's School of Labor & Employment Relation, Walter Benn Michaels

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2013
Chikaming Country Club at 100

A centennial history of the Lakeside, Michigan, country club
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Mudville, Books, Sports, Chikaming Country Club, Lakeside, Michigan, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, George Halas, Luis Alvarez, John Paul Stevens, James Henry Breasted, George E.Q. Johnson, Al Capone, niblick, golf, foozle, Robert A. Black

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Feb 9, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .

Jane Addams's travel medicine kit and Tom Brown's Field Guide series
- By Joey Jachowski and Armando Salazar
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Julie Shapiro, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Jane Addams, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Terri Kapsalis, Weed Wolf, Tom Brown, nature, survivalism, Tom Brown's Field Guide, psychic death

Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2010
Women's Land Armies: Events with Elaine Weiss

In a series of local appearances, journalist Elaine Weiss discusses her new book "Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War."
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Books, Land armies, Elaine Weiss, Jane Addams, Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War, World War I, Libertyville, 19th Amendment, women's suffrage, gender, urban gardening, local foods, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Horticultural Society, Angela Mason, community gardening, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, soup dinner, Slow Food Chicago, food security, Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2009
One last thing on the Nobel Prize
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, Matt Taibbi, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jane Addams, Alva Myrdal, Norman Borlaug, Emily Green Balch, Carl von Ossietzky, Jane Addams

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2009
Video
Pots not bombs

The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival's opening night film, "On the Verge: The Smash EDO Campaign," documents the five-year-long protest outside a British plant aimed at disrupting the supply of arms for the Iraq war.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Iraq War, Jane Addams, Hull House, Anarchist, Film Festival, Brighton, UK, On the Verge, SchNEWS, Smash EDO, ITT, defense contractor, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2009
Video
The dark side of the Vancouver Olympics

A 2007 documentary, The Five Ring Circus, details the high costs to Vancouver of its bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The film screens Friday at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Olympics, Chicago 2016, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Jane Addams, Hull House, Vancouver 2010, Anarchist, Hull-House, Chicago Anarchists, Workers of the World Relax, Conrad Schmidt, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 10, 2008
Community Organizers vs. Village Idiots

The Republicans deserve merciless ridicule for their cynical attack on community organizers. Do the Democrats have the chops to deliver it?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Barack Obama, Chicago Tribune, John Judis, Chicago Sun-Times, Rudolph Giuliani, The New Republic, Huffington Post, Sarah Palin, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, John Raskin, Robert Reed, Jane Addams, Saul Alinsky, John Neffinger

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Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she's currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.

Also featured: the reversal of the Chicago River, the commodities trade, the Mayors Daley, and Jane Addams.

But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.

Donut Fest, Irish Christmas Market, and more happenings from December 9-11.

Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament's halfway point.

Two books by Progressive-era reformers square off in the opening round of our contest.

As contract negotiations drag on, UIC United Faculty hosts a teach-in—and contemplates a walkout.

A Chicago history, 1898-present

A centennial history of the Lakeside, Michigan, country club

Jane Addams's travel medicine kit and Tom Brown's Field Guide series

In a series of local appearances, journalist Elaine Weiss discusses her new book "Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War."

The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival's opening night film, "On the Verge: The Smash EDO Campaign," documents the five-year-long protest outside a British plant aimed at disrupting the supply of arms for the Iraq war.

A 2007 documentary, The Five Ring Circus, details the high costs to Vancouver of its bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The film screens Friday at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

The Republicans deserve merciless ridicule for their cynical attack on community organizers. Do the Democrats have the chops to deliver it?

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