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- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2018
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Reader announces Sujay Kumar as print managing editor
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2018
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Tavi Gevinson says goodbye to Rookie
"Thank you for growing up with us," says the founder of the website that became the public diary for a generation of teenage girls.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2018
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Chance the Rapper offers a video preview of the new Chicagoist
An explainer on Chicago's City Council system is the first release since he bought the shuttered site in July.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2018
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Goodbye to Tony Adler, the best weekly theater critic Chicago's ever had
His retirement after 38 years will leave a void both at the Reader and in Chicago's theater scene.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2018
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‘Tackling Taboos’: A conversation on redefining our own truths
From parental career pressure to porn, no topic was off the table at this Chicago Ideas Week event.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2018
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Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader
Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2018
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In a face-off against Pritzker, Rauner tries a little Reagan-style voodoo economics
Last week's televised debate between the governor and his Democratic challenger, J.B. Pritzker, revealed exactly nothing about the two candidates' intentions regarding the state income tax rate.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2018
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The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill is at war with American exceptionalism and imperialism
A Q&A with the Chicago-born investigative reporter, who returns to town October 9 for a live taping of his political podcast Intercepted.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2018
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Reader announces Anne Elizabeth Moore as editor in chief, Karen Hawkins as digital managing editor
The new publisher of the Reader is Tracy Baim, founder and longtime executive editor of the Windy City Times.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2018
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An ESPN podcast documentary gets a first-of-its-kind premiere party in Chicago
An ESPN audio documentary about former MLB star Jose Canseco will make its world premiere in front of a live audience in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2018
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Here's hoping that the myth of the bad teacher is finally laid to rest
Even Mayor 1 Percent is backpedaling away from his earlier support of charter schools and his refusal to
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2018
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Who can say who wrote that unsigned New York Times essay? Who can say but shouldn't?
The ethical swirl around the op-ed by an anonymous White House official?
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2018
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Will Elon Musk's bullet train to O'Hare go up in smoke?
The Tesla and Space X CEO's bizarre, pot smoke-filled performance on Joe Rogan's podcast casts doubt on his O'Hare bullet train project.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2018
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How this got made: the award-winning 2017 Best of Chicago issue cover
The Reader's graphic designer and former director of photography and two sign painters explain how they created and photographed a mural in just 12 days.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2018
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Alec Klein, Northwestern professor accused of sexual misconduct, resigns
Six months after former students accused him of sexual harassment and bullying, the award-winning journalist, a director at the Medill Justice Project, resigns.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2018
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Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2018
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Chance the Rapper owns Chicagoist—now what?
Chance announced he'd bought Chicagoist via a single he dropped late last night, but what do we know about his ability to bring the site back to life?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2018
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iLLANOiZE Let's Get Social music showcase gives a platform to Chicago's rising hip-hop stars
"Social media can sometimes be superficial but it can also show you who’s putting in the [groundwork] to get themselves heard."
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2018
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Profiles abuse scandal inspires new magazine examining Chicago theater
"The reason I came to grad school was to ... create a revolution through theater," the editor of Chicago Theater Now says.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
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Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2018
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Chicago Crusader publisher Dorothy Leavell to lead the Reader
Leavell said she wants to continue the paper's tradition of investigative reporting.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2018
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Photographer Pat Nabong climbed to new heights for our cover story—literally
"Climbing got me through a lot of hard times and taught me lot about life."
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2018
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Anne Ford, the Reader’s Studs Terkel, reveals her secrets: ‘It’s all being curious’
The author of 190 as-told-to profiles of Chicagoans on the column's genesis, challenges, and satisfactions
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
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Truth, belief, and The Americans
When it began I thought The Americans was kind of silly. No longer.