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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) _ The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his…

A day-by-day, year-by-year dig into the archives of the Chicago Reader, 1971-2021. All leading…

Anna Jo Beck Warning: This story contains descriptions of physical, sexual, and police violence.…

It’s sad but true that we’re never so much appreciated as when we’re newly…

On July 27, Governor J.B. Pritzker repealed the state’s 32-year-old HIV criminalization statute—a law…

click image Browse the archives of Reader articles and issues back to 1971. Support…

Pinch me: The nonprofit group Protect Our Parks was back in court this week…

Wesley Hamilton for Chicago reader Warning: This story contains brief descriptions of alleged rape…

Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that…

“Fasting felt necessary, mind over matter,” Sharonda Miller says. Courtesy Antu’Nesha Taylor Stretched out…