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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 10, 2017
Hair, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now

"The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Decease, I Insist: A Funerarial Comedy, Mass St. Productions, Sophie Duntley, Rebecca Escobedo, Katie Ruppert, Engage! A Choose-Your-Own Sci-Fight Show, Stellar Productions, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hair: The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical, Liam Quealy, Mercury Theater, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot, Brenda Didier, Eugene Dizon, Michelle Lauto, Life in 35mm: An Improvised Documentary, the Annoyance, Jordan Wilson, improv, Mark Walsh, Monticello, Thomas R. Geoghegan, Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allen Poe, slavery, the Declaration of Independence, Sally Hemings, A Puppet Playdate With Grandma D, Pride Arts Center Theatre for Youth, Blue's Clues, Jessica Herthel, Shelagh McNicolas, Jazz Jennings, transgender, I Am Jazz, The Taming of the Shrew, Ridgeville Park District, Shakespeare on the Ridge, Arc Theatre, Natalie Sallee, Teddy Boone, oudoor Shakespeare, Pulse Theatre, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee, Chris Jackson, Lewis R. Jones, Nicholia Q. Aguirre, Kate Robinson, Adam Zaininger

News & Politics, Politics Mar 28, 2017
Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state

In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Politics, A Colony in a Nation, All In With Chris Hayes, American Revolution, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, cannabis, Chris Hayes, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, John Adams, Laquan McDonald, marijuana legalization, MSNBC, police state, policing, racial politics, Rahm Emanuel, revolution, Richard Nixon, stop and frisk, Thomas Jefferson

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 25, 2016
Recommended
From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical

In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alexander Hamilton, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Miguel Cervantes, Joshua Kirkland, Chris De'Sean Lee, Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Aaron Burr, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, In the Heights, Porchlight Music Theatre, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 28, 2016
Recommended Video
Comedian Adam Conover is ruining democracy

The host of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything comes to Chicago to debunk myths about America's flawed electoral system.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Adam Conover, Adam Ruins Everything, Donald Trump, Thomas Jefferson, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, College Humor, election, Hillary Clinton, Recommended, Video

News & Politics, Feature Oct 29, 2015
The Declaration of Independence is still important

In Our Declaration, political philosopher Danielle Allen reflects on the continuing significance of the founding document.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, Danielle Allen, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, Chicago Humanities Festival, Our Declaration, Chicago Tribune Literary Award, Isabel Wilkerson, Rebecca Skloot, Studs Terkel, Chang-rae Lee,, Salman Rushdie, Illinois Humanities Council, Mary Schmich, James Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, American Revolution

Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2014
Seeing the soul food in American cuisine's mirror with author Adrian Miller

Thomas Jefferson's mac and cheese jones, and other highlights from the history of soul food
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Adrian Miller, Soul Food:The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate a a Time, soul food, Thomas Jefferson, Black Power

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
The Fourth—a day to reflect, if you can keep it

Memorial Day is what the Fourth should be
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Independence Week, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell, World War I, Leon Pitts Jr., Wall Street Journal, Obamacare, Chief Justice John Roberts, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2012
After-birth abortion flap arrives at the Chicago Tribune

After-birth abortion flap finally hits the Tribune
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Shots Fired, News, After-birth abortion, Dennis Byrne, Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, abortion, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson

News & Politics, Media Aug 13, 2009
The News Wars Are Coming

If it's fight or die on the new media landscape, does anyone think traditional media won't fight?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, David Marburger, Daniel Marburger, AP, Rupert Murdoch, Dean Singleton, Connie Schultz, iCopyright, Ian Shapira, Copyright Act of 1976, David Simon, The Wire, newspapers, news business, aggregation, parasitic aggregators, Gawker, James Grimmelmann, Laboratorium, Thomas Jefferson, Louis Brandeis, International News Service v. Associated Press, William Randolph Hearst

Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2008
Celebrating the 2nd on the 4th

If you're troubled by what the Supreme Court just had to say about gun laws, read some libertarians.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, New York Times, Second Amendment, Steve Chapman, U.S. Supreme Court, Radley Balko, Thomas Jefferson, Justice Antonin Scalia, Jack Rackove

News & Politics, Essay Jun 3, 1999
The Man With the Plan

Faith in our money managers is the new American religion. If Alexander Hamilton has been overlooked, it's because he was ahead of his time.
- By Andrew Santella
- Tags: Essay, Essays, Andrew Santella, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary War, Aaron Burr, George Washington, secretary of the Treasury, First Continental Congress, Hamilton Grange, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, taxation, New York Post, Federalist Papers, James Madison, Jeffersonian democracy, Arnold A. Rogow, Alexander Hamilton, American, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, John Steele Gordon, Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt, Michael Lind, Hamilton's Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition, American Heritage, National Review, Newt Gingrich, statism, flat tax, Kate Sturges Buckingham, John Kenneth Galbraith, War of 1812, Stephen Girard, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon, Teddy Roosevelt, tax and spend, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Charles Montagu, the White House

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Hair, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now

"The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week's best bets.

Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state

In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.

Recommended
From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical

In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.

Recommended Video
Comedian Adam Conover is ruining democracy

The host of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything comes to Chicago to debunk myths about America's flawed electoral system.

The Declaration of Independence is still important

In Our Declaration, political philosopher Danielle Allen reflects on the continuing significance of the founding document.

Seeing the soul food in American cuisine's mirror with author Adrian Miller

Thomas Jefferson's mac and cheese jones, and other highlights from the history of soul food

The Fourth—a day to reflect, if you can keep it

Memorial Day is what the Fourth should be

After-birth abortion flap arrives at the Chicago Tribune

After-birth abortion flap finally hits the Tribune

The News Wars Are Coming

If it's fight or die on the new media landscape, does anyone think traditional media won't fight?

Celebrating the 2nd on the 4th

If you're troubled by what the Supreme Court just had to say about gun laws, read some libertarians.

The Man With the Plan

Faith in our money managers is the new American religion. If Alexander Hamilton has been overlooked, it's because he was ahead of his time.

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"The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week's best bets.

In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.

In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.

The host of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything comes to Chicago to debunk myths about America's flawed electoral system.

In Our Declaration, political philosopher Danielle Allen reflects on the continuing significance of the founding document.

Thomas Jefferson's mac and cheese jones, and other highlights from the history of soul food

Memorial Day is what the Fourth should be

After-birth abortion flap finally hits the Tribune

If it's fight or die on the new media landscape, does anyone think traditional media won't fight?

If you're troubled by what the Supreme Court just had to say about gun laws, read some libertarians.

Faith in our money managers is the new American religion. If Alexander Hamilton has been overlooked, it's because he was ahead of his time.

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