Ian Bell's WTO/99 speaks to our nebulous future. https://bit.ly/4xqsQNe
Review: WTO/99 - Chicago Reader
Ian Bell's WTO/99 speaks to our nebulous future.
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The Voices of Connection program gives incarcerated people 775 minutes of free phone calls per month. https://bit.ly/3Udv8AK
Illinois prisons expand free phone calls - Chicago Reader
The Voices of Connection program gives incarcerated people 775 minutes of free phone calls per month.
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Chicago Reader print issue of August 2026 (Volume 55, Number 19). https://bit.ly/4xrfCjo
Chicago Reader Volume 55, Number 19
Chicago Reader print issue of August 2026 (Volume 55, Number 19).
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For some, repurposing found items is a way of life. https://bit.ly/4hao29Q
‘I found it in the alley!' - Chicago Reader
For some, repurposing found items is a way of life.
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Staff note: August 2026 Surveillance issue https://bit.ly/3RJLNeB
The quiet infrastructure of control - Chicago Reader
Staff note: August 2026 Surveillance issue
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Professionals and everyday customers trust Jordans Beauty Supply for authentic, professional grade beauty products and expert service. https://bit.ly/4fN72nG
Southeast Spotlight: Jordans Beauty Supply - Chicago Reader
Professionals and everyday customers trust Jordans Beauty Supply for authentic, professional grade beauty products and expert service.
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Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
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Illinois should come up with a humane transfer plan for the people still at Logan prison. https://bit.ly/4pVp9wx
I lived in the women's prison slated for closure - Chicago Reader
Illinois should come up with a humane transfer plan for the people still at Logan prison.
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Alleys are a haven for garages, afternoon play, smoke breaks, and inadvertently, misfit items. https://bit.ly/4fT8GUT
Chicago's alleys are a little word - Chicago Reader
Alleys are a haven for garages, afternoon play, smoke breaks, and inadvertently, misfit items.
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Plus: First Presbyterian hosts an anti-ICE hardcore blowout, No I.D. headlines a spectacular night at the Ramova Loft, and more. https://bit.ly/3TBwC7Q
The resurrected Krill release their first song in a decade - Chicago Reader
Plus: First Presbyterian hosts an anti-ICE hardcore blowout, No I.D. headlines a spectacular night at the Ramova Loft, and more.
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Morain An, a Chinese-born graphic artist, primarily uses old-school watercolor and ink in her editorial illustrations. https://bit.ly/4q3TWaw
The staying power of the handmade - Chicago Reader
Morain An, a Chinese-born graphic artist, primarily uses old-school watercolor and ink in her editorial illustrations.
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Works by Xinlyu Wang at SAIC Galleries envision what the near future might bring for human memory, animal survival, and local culture. https://bit.ly/4fLkN6h
Virtual reality - Chicago Reader
Works by Xinlyu Wang at SAIC Galleries envision what the near future might bring for human memory, animal survival, and local culture.
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Gertie's curatorial director muses on the distance between friends. https://bit.ly/4brjVm4
On friendship - Chicago Reader
Gertie's curatorial director muses on the distance between friends.
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Book of Wyrms are the ultimate soundtrack for rolling a jay in a swank 70s custom van with Frank Frazetta artwork on the side. https://bit.ly/4hc7fTL
Virginia band Book of Wyrms conjure vintage metal and fantasy vibes - Chicago Reader
Book of Wyrms are the ultimate soundtrack for rolling a jay in a swank 70s custom van with Frank Frazetta artwork on the side.
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Women in the music business aren't always given the space to run their careers on their terms, but Jill Scott defies industry conventions. https://bit.ly/4yM6zL8
Jill Scott brings her timeless Black soul to the Chicago Theatre for a three-night stand - Chicago Reader
Women in the music business aren't always given the space to run their careers on their terms, but Jill Scott defies industry conventions.
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A trio of Sascha Huth works on view at the SAIC Galleries tackle the deeply human challenge of managing absence. https://bit.ly/455EzEN
Lived experience - Chicago Reader
A trio of Sascha Huth works on view at the SAIC Galleries tackle the deeply human challenge of managing absence.
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“Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening” honors both historical activists and modern stewards of Chicago. https://bit.ly/4wBMiq3
City in a garden - Chicago Reader
“Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening” honors both historical activists and modern stewards of Chicago.
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Hipolito Sanchez's Slow Motion for Meat makes its Monday Night Foodball debut with a mystery menu of smoked meats and more. https://bit.ly/45DKRvm
This Monday Night Foodball is Slow Motion for Meat
Hipolito Sanchez's Slow Motion for Meat makes its Monday Night Foodball debut with a mystery menu of smoked meats and more.
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The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago's independent and underground film scene has to offer. https://bit.ly/4g5Ooc0
The Moviegoer: Steel and solidarity - Chicago Reader
The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago's independent and underground film scene has to offer.
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The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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Community members ask the Illinois EPA to deny a permit for the long-standing metal shredder. chicagoreader.com/news/environ...
Residents call on Sims Metal to ‘Stop Poisoning Pilsen’ - Chicago Reader
Community members ask the Illinois EPA to deny a permit for the long-standing metal shredder.
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I wanted to learn more about how Spotify’s data plays a role in live music for my newest @chicagoreader.com feature. I ended up writing more about Instagram.
Is the Internet panopticon going to ruin live music too? - Chicago Reader
Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint.
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Join us this weekend for Pop Quiz Hot Shot, a comedy-trivia hybrid built for a night of witty trivia, sharp comedy, and high-energy atmosphere. Buy your tickets now at popquizhotshot.fun and meet us at The Lincoln Lodge this Sunday, August 2nd!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot
Chicago's take on the British panel show. Hilarious. Puzzling.
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Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder. https://bit.ly/4w0xrVi
American Football go against the grain to make their best album this century - Chicago Reader
Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder.
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The durian massaman curry at Eat Fine Design by Khun Kung is a synthesis of creamy sweetness, warm earthiness, and silky richness. https://bit.ly/3Sa9mNL
Eat the durian massaman curry at Eat Fine Design by Khun Kung
The durian massaman curry at Eat Fine Design by Khun Kung is a synthesis of creamy sweetness, warm earthiness, and silky richness.
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Raised by a musical family in Cabrini-Green, Isaiah Sharkey remembers that he was carrying around a toy guitar by age three and that his uncle gave him a small acoustic guitar at age four. https://bit.ly/4bHETxl
Homegrown guitar phenom Isaiah Sharkey brings eclectic funk to Garcia's - Chicago Reader
Raised by a musical family in Cabrini-Green, Isaiah Sharkey remembers that he was carrying around a toy guitar by age three and that his uncle gave him a small acoustic guitar at age four.
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Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon play a spontaneous form of minimal music with an ecosystem like a pond: It's placid on the surface but teems with microtonal life underneath. https://bit.ly/4w0xr7K
Jeff Kimmel & Jack Langdon's ambient sounds contain multitudes - Chicago Reader
Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon play a spontaneous form of minimal music with an ecosystem like a pond: It's placid on the surface but teems with microtonal life underneath.
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“The Lawn Open" curators Molly Blumberg, Qiuchen Wu, and Alana Ferguson present mini golf in a way that's unexpectedly subversive. https://bit.ly/3U6uo0f
You can play an artist-designed mini golf course in Bridgeport - Chicago Reader
“The Lawn Open" curators Molly Blumberg, Qiuchen Wu, and Alana Ferguson present mini golf in a way that's unexpectedly subversive.
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Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex stumbles over genre pastiche but successfully delivers sex to the masses. https://bit.ly/4vXDJom
Review: I Want Your Sex - Chicago Reader
Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex stumbles over genre pastiche but successfully delivers sex to the masses.
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Kay Martinovich directs Carr's story of dreams, infidelity, and a woman's desire to have "more than good" in life at Gift Theatre. https://bit.ly/4wxSuPS
Irish playwright Marina Carr returns to Chicago with Marble - Chicago Reader
Kay Martinovich directs Carr's story of dreams, infidelity, and a woman's desire to have "more than good" in life at Gift Theatre.
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