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Music
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Music Feature
Dec 21, 2020
Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020
With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.
By Jack Riedy
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Music Feature
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Year in Review 2020
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mutual aid
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activism
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COVID-19
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pandemic
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Black Lives Matter
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Matt Muse
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People’s Grab-N-Go
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Femdot
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Delacreme Scholars
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Femi Adigun
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the Scholars Slide By
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Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive
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Feed the West Side
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John Walt Foundation
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Nachelle Pugh
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Pivot Gang
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Frsh Waters
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Qurissy Lopez
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Bandcamp Friday
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Nnamdï Ogbonnaya
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Nnamdï
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Brat
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Krazy Karl
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Black Plight
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Assata’s Daughters
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EAT Chicago
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Chicago Community Bond Fund
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Illinois Prison Project
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Brave Space Alliance
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Macie Stewart
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Sima Cunningham
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Ohmme
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KC Tenants
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Chicago Community Jail Support
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Montessori School of Englewood
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Kooyrigs
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Warm Violet
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Avery Springer
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Art Is Love Vol. 1
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Why? Records
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Ruby Watson
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Sen Morimoto
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Tasha
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Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
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CIVLization
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CIVL SAVE Emergency Relief Fund
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Situationchicago
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Experimental Sound Studio
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Quarantine Concerts
Reader
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Reader events
Dec 4, 2020
The
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Thank you for your support!
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Mar 30, 2020
Reader Coloring Book
available to benefit paper, artists
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Politics
Dec 20, 2018
Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn't mention ways to help the incarcerated Tennessee woman.
By Maya Dukmasova
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Cyntoia Brown
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Rahm Emanuel
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Love & Protect
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Claudia Garcia-Rojas
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Susana Mendoza
Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 10, 2018
Readers and writers rally to rescue Volumes Bookcafe
The owners of the Wicker Park bookstore asked their friends to help them stay open.
By Madeline Happold
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Kimberly George
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Rebecca George
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bookstores
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Wicker Park
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fundraising
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Rebecca Makkai
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Kathleen Rooney
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Eve Ewing
Columns & Opinion
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On Culture
Oct 11, 2017
A Chicago theater veteran’s view from Puerto Rico
Longtime Theater Oobleck ensemble member Dave Buchen sees hurricane devastation from his house on a hill in San Juan.
By Deanna Isaacs
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Santurce district, San Juan
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico
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The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
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Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
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Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 11, 2015
Rahm's reelection campaign is largely funded by people outside Chicago
Most of the $28 million raised by Mayor Emanuel's campaign comes from beyond the city limits.
By Mick Dumke
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Bob Fioretti
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Jesus Garcia
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Willie Wilson
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William "Dock" Walls
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Bleader
Jul 15, 2014
Toni Preckwinkle: I'm out of the mayoral contest!
The Cook County Board president says she won't challenge Rahm Emanuel.
By Mick Dumke
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Toni Preckwinkle
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Karen Lewis
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Robert Fioretti
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2015 mayoral election
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Chicago Teachers Union
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campaign finance
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Democratic Party
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Chicago Forward
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Bleader
Jun 26, 2014
Preckwinkle says that she's not going to say whether she's running for mayor
The Cook County board president says she's focused on her reelection effort but refuses to rule out a mayoral bid.
By Mick Dumke
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Chicago
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Cook County board
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Best of Chicago
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Arts & Culture
Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Three-Hit Run by a Theater Raising $31 Million
Port Authority
,
Hedda Gabler
, and
The Dance of Death
at Writers Theatre
By Tony Adler
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Best of Chicago 2014
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Jeanne Gang
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Chicago Reader
,
David Halberstam
,
William Brown
,
Kimberly Senior
,
Henry Wishcamper
,
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Bleader
Apr 5, 2013
Will anyone challenge Mayor Emanuel in 2015? Anyone? Anyone?
A short list of people who, under some circumstance, could challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015.
By Mick Dumke
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Politics
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News
,
mayor
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Rahm Emanuel
,
Chicago politics
,
2015 election
,
Toni Preckwinkle
,
fundraising
,
Robert Fioretti
,
Scott Waguespack
,
Roderick Sawyer
,
Tom Dart
,
Chicago City Council
,
Miguel del Valle
,
Jesus Garcia
,
Karen Lewis
,
Chicago Teachers Union
,
Lisa Madigan
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Feb 14, 2013
Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce
Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's
The Fall of the House of Usher
.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
On Culture
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Chicago Opera Theater
,
Brian Dickie
,
Ken Cazan
,
Andreas Mitisek
,
Long Beach Opera
,
Philip Glass
,
The Fall of the House of Usher
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Gregory O'Leary
,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
,
Lyric Opera
,
opera
,
Anthony Freud
,
opera season
,
fundraising
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Eric Slauter
,
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
,
Harris Theater
News & Politics
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Chicago Reader at Forty
Feb 17, 2011
1977
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
By Michael Miner
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Reader at 40
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1977
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beekeeping
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Bleader
Oct 27, 2008
The latest tale of the take
Democratic state's attorney candidate Anita Alvarez has raised more than six times as much money as Republican Tony Peraica.
By Mick Dumke
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News
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Clout City
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Fundraising
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Ed Burke
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Richard Mell
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Cook County State's Attorney
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Tony Peraica
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Anita Alvarez
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Richard Devine
,
Thomas O'Brien
,
Michael Sheahan
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 9, 2007
John Edwards and—Daniel Biss?
Would-be Illinois state representative Daniel Biss raised more money than any national congressional candidate on ActBlue.com last week. Why?
By Harold Henderson
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Politics
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Illinois
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Fundraising
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Daniel Biss
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ActBlue
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Yearly Kos
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 8, 2006
Next: the Blagojevich reforms
After four years and two successful elections, will Rod Blagojevich end pay-to-play government at last?
By Harold Henderson
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Politics
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Reform
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Rod Blagojevich
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Fundraising
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