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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On July 27, Governor J.B. Pritzker repealed the state’s 32-year-old HIV criminalization statute—a law that overwhelmingly impacted Black people in Cook County—making Illinois just the second…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…
“Fasting felt necessary, mind over matter,” Sharonda Miller says. Courtesy Antu’Nesha Taylor Stretched out on her bunk at night, arms all akimbo, Sharonda Miller likes to…
click to enlarge A handmade sign advertises the $20 entrance fee. Pride North illegally charged a $20 entrance fee to the festival on Sunday, city officials…
click to enlarge Dr. Charles Smith, Dred Scott: Asked Supreme Court to Free Him, c. 1985–99 Courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection (Gift of Kohler…