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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former President Barack Obama’s presidential center will move another step closer to its brick-and-mortar future next week when…
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) _ The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors’ observation Sunday at a Chicago hospital and…
A day-by-day, year-by-year dig into the archives of the Chicago Reader, 1971-2021. All leading up to our 50th anniversary in October.
Anna Jo Beck Warning: This story contains descriptions of physical, sexual, and police violence. Dear Maya, Blessed life to you and yours, always. And I pray…
It’s sad but true that we’re never so much appreciated as when we’re newly dead. Especially if the death is sudden and unexpected. Three months ago,…
On July 27, Governor J.B. Pritzker repealed the state’s 32-year-old HIV criminalization statute—a law that overwhelmingly impacted Black people in Cook County—making Illinois just the second…
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Pinch me: The nonprofit group Protect Our Parks was back in court this week attempting to keep the Obama Presidential Center out of Jackson Park. POP’s…
Wesley Hamilton for Chicago reader Warning: This story contains brief descriptions of alleged rape and sexual assault. Roger Bonair-Agard was intelligent, mischievous, and even adored. One…
Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is our ‘real’ story? And what stories do we tell ourselves about…