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Mayor Rahm snubs the Lady Dolphins basketball team
On Wednesday, Mayor Emanuel brought Whitney Young's boys basketball team to City Hall to take a bow in front of the aldermen and receive a resolution honoring their "star-studded team" for winning the...
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Private company rakes in millions more from Chicago's parking meters
The private company that controls Chicago's parking meter system had another banner year in 2013, raking in $135.6 million in revenues from the public, according to an annual audit posted Friday...
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Show us your . . . pothole art
Northwest-side artist Jim Bachor repairs Chicago potholes with mosaic murals. by Patrick Sisson It's as reliable a sign of spring as buds on the trees and unfounded optimism in Wrigleyville: city...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 5/3: Global Cannabis March, Kids and Kites Festival, and...
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Street View 186: It's all in the details
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Alan is wearing staples I'm sure most guys own, but he takes this simple mix to the next...
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This week's Chicagoan: Cat, formerly homeless youth
This week's Chicagoan: Cat, formerly homeless youth: "It's hard to be a female on the streets, but to be a gay female was harder." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 5/4: Architectural Artifacts auction, I Like Bike, and...
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Five honors students from Chicago rap's freshman class
Five honors students from Chicago rap's freshman class: Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney by Leor Galil It's been more than two years since drill music and its best-known...
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In Rotation: Metro publicist Jenny Lizak on a punk documentary to give...
Current obsessions of Metro publicist Jenny Lizak, and Smart Bar booker Marea Stamper (aka the Black Madonna) by Philip Montoro Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Godflesh at Metro on April 15 After...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 5/5: the Living Newspaper Festival, "Production Line of...
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Meet the brewer—and meet his farmers
With breweries opening nearly every week in Chicago, it seems a bit less than news that one of them has installed tanks and is planning to start brewing this week. But on Saturday I went anyway to...
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Did you read about the world's oldest man, barbecue, and a hair-hanging...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About Alexander Imich, a 111 1/4-year-old scholar of the occult who is currently the world's oldest man? —Aimee...
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12 O'Clock Track: The blown-out garage punk genius of Teengenerate's 'Mess Me...
There's blown-out, treble-loaded garage punk and then there's Teengenerate. The Tokyo foursome's too short heyday between '93 ad '96 yielded greatness in the form of raucous, pogo-ready punk, most...
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Best shows to see: Nels Cline Singers, Kirin J Callinan
The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival wrapped up last night, and if you didn't get your fill of live music over the weekend there's still plenty of shows to see this week. Tonight Gigan...
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Street View 187: Derby dapper
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.One of the elements of style is attitude, and that counts a lot. Nothing's cooler than...
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Ani: All-purpose Japanese for a neighborhood that can use it
Ani, Arami's younger brother, brings all-purpose Japanese to Lakeview. by Mike Sula"Have you ever had sake?" a server asked as I scanned the beverage menu. It was an early evening, early in the week...
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The family member who most influenced me as a critic
A couple Sundays back was the yahrzeit of my cousin Naomi, so I went with my parents and a handful of other relations to the Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park for the unveiling of her gravestone. The...
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Evanston's Temperance Beer Company debuts on retail shelves with Gatecrasher...
Because you're reading a beer column, you probably already know that in 2013 Temperance became the first craft brewery in Evanston's history (the town was dry from 1858 till 1972). Before I started...
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Jeff Phillips's search for Harry and Edna
Photographer Jeff Phillips used Facebook to track down a couple who created a mysterious cache of Kodachrome slides. by Aimee Levitt About three years ago, Jeff Phillips, a Chicago-based photographer,...
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White Sox-Cubs crosstown preview
The White Sox and Cubs square off this week, and I've got my bets down with two poker buddies who happen to be Cubs fans. I grew up in Sox territory, the south side, and my friends are from Cubs...
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