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- News & Politics, Feature Oct 3, 2019
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‘Enough is enough’
Many in Chicago's Hong Kong community share common concerns for the safety of loved ones back home.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 4, 2019
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A new battleground
Veterans of the armed forces' segregated past fight to keep their legacy alive.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 4, 2019
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‘Don't push us out’
The First and 26th Wards will vote on a nonbinding referendum that asks whether Illinois should li ft the ban on rent control—prohibited in the state since 1997.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 18, 2018
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Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit
At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2018
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Healthy Hood wants to make sure people on the south and west sides start living better and longer
Tanya Lozano's nonprofit Youth Health Service Corps and fitness studio Healthy Hood make exercise classes and disease screenings available and affordable.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2018
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Reader announces Sujay Kumar as print managing editor
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 10, 2018
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The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
- 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 27, 2018
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A resolution to a five-year-old Title IX complaint
Olivia Ortiz's 2013 Title IX complaint was one of the catalysts for the University of Chicago to reevaluate its sexual assault report process.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2018
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Archive dive: how grassroots groups around Chicago put police abolitionist ideas into practice
Jessica Disu didn’t always consider herself a police abolitionist, but an appearance on Fox News in 2016 made her the face of the movement. In a Reader article that same year she said, “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new.”
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2018
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Archive dive: A report from Morton, Illinois, the self-declared pumpkin capital of the world
In 2006, Linda Lutton and Catrin Einhorn explored the town's busy season and spoke with the workers who pack the pumpkin, most of whom come from the tiny Mexican town of La Soledad.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2018
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More than 100 people showed up at a public meeting in order to save the Hideout
Instead Alderman Brian Hopkins announced he'd already introduced a zoning ordinance to protect the beloved bar.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2018
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival about witches
Kristen Sollée explained our current witchy moment, with detours into mythology, theology, and Bewitched.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2018
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Joravsky’s election predictions—going where the New York Times is too scared to venture
Ben Joravsky offers predictions for the 2018 midterm elections—including those for both houses of Congress.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Rahm’s legacy: fictitious narratives and real obligations
Don't be fooled. The mayor isn't gone yet, and neither are the problems he's leaving behind.
- 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?
- News & Politics, Politics Nov 1, 2018
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Efforts to turn Cook County Jail into a polling location persist following governor’s veto
A legislative effort to allow Illinois inmates to exercise their right to vote continues despite Governor Rauner's veto of the bill.
- News & Politics, Politics Nov 1, 2018
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Cook County judicial elections stir up unusual public scrutiny
At least two Cook County judges are at risk of losing their seats. Why is that so rare?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2018
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Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform
Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 26, 2018
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Why should the government interfere with the very personal process of gender identity?
Days after a Trump administration memo calls for a strict binary definition of gender, the Intersex Justice Project marches to protest surgeries on babies and children with ambiguous genitalia.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2018
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Warning, Democrats: a Rauner victory over Pritzker could turn Illinois into a red state
A second term by our current governor would feature more of the same thing: union bashing, budget slashing, school privatization, etc.
- 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 18, 2018
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Rauner and Pritzker tout government transparency while blocking access to records
Will Illinois's candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
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Where and what to vote for this midterm election in Chicago
You’ll have to decide on the who by yourself.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2018
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018
At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.