ICYMI, the inimitable @kerrycardoza.bsky.social is out with a horrifying look into how SAIC is breaking its own policies on due process, academic freedom, & discrimination to target faculty who mention Palestine in their classrooms.
SAIC’s Palestine problem - Chicago Reader
The art school built its art therapy program around social justice, then claims of anti-Semitism devastated the department.
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Look at this beautiful poster! And then come to the event!
Blair Paddock@blairpaddock.bsky.social · 4w agoA couple of nights ago, Eric and Amy went to the black-crowned night heron rookery at the Lincoln Park Zoo to capture their calls. Next Sunday, we will break down their sounds, transforming them into a reimagined soundscape. RSVP (free) as spots are limited: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/mous...
I wrote about a wonderful new Chicagoland Polish home movie archive for @chicagoreader.com
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · last mo.Film scholar Agata Zborowska's “Not-So-Ordinary” project archives and restores amateur films from the city's Polish immigrant community. https://bit.ly/4ym0hBQ
“‘I don’t think that’s very realistic,’ said the artist, who was serving as a volunteer from an Irish American service society. ‘This was a jet engine, not a propeller plane.’ ‘I’d like them anyway,’ the woman said. ‘Just do what you can.’”
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 4w ago“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Wrote about the pleasures of being saved from burning planes for @nplusonemag.com, co-published here with @chicagoreader.com: chicagoreader.com/city-life/di....
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 4w ago“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
I wrote about how local Palestinian American olive oil importers are contending with huge cost increases (from $275-$400 per jerrycan) in the olive oil they ship in from the West Bank. Some worry that settler violence will eventually eradicate this economically important Palestine-Chicago trade.
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · last mo.Palestinian olive oil importers contend with drought, tariffs, and settler violence to bring their product to Chicago. https://bit.ly/4vi8lRs
Last time Illinois moved women from one prison to another, guards in the new facility peed on the belongings of the new transfers. @blairpaddock.bsky.social reports on the mixed emotions elicited by Logan Woman's Prison planned move north.
Blair Paddock@blairpaddock.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Illinois is rebuilding the state’s largest women’s prison outside of Chicago. I spoke with incarcerated women and employees about the 140 mile move. news.wttw.com/2026/07/13/l...
This is a remarkable interview. Anyone curious about the past, and the craft of history, should read it. That historical perspective comes the Christian gaze on the Jew… damn. thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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“This has nothing to do with Judaism. This has nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestine conflict. This has to do with foie gras.” from @morleymusick.bsky.social and some photos from me chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...
Are the animal rights protests at Galit anti-foie gras or anti-Israel?
The foie gras wars at Lincoln Park restaurant Galit have reached a stalemate.
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For @chicagoreader.com I wrote about a months long anti-foie gras protest, that has been routinely confused for an anti-Israel protest, outside of the Israeli restaurant Galit. @blairpaddock.bsky.social shot the photos. chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...
Great detail "...and suit jackets to lend an air of respectability to the endeavor" I love this story and hope the pictures turn up
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · 2mo agoRetired steelworker Tom Wells documented Chicago's 60 miles of freight train tunnels under the city--it was just a matter of finding the photographs. https://bit.ly/4vfnJOY
60 miles of tunnels run under the Chicago loop - a vast, utopian infrastructure project mostly abandoned by the mid 20th century. Retired steelworker Tom Wells documented them in 3d photographs in the late 80s. I wrote about trying to find the photos for @nplusonemag.com and @chicagoreader.com
From retirees to young couples, from artists and musicians to people going through tough times, the regulars at the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Branch all have their own story about what keeps them coming back and why this place matters to them.
The life and times of the Harold Washington Library - Chicago Reader
Regulars recount reading, drawing, and fighting in Chicago's beloved library
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Why the roses in the title of our newest podcast episode? thepolycrisis.org/demand-destr...
Demand Destruction | 04 | Smelling the Roses in Beijing
US-China diplomatic stabilization during the Middle East war
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a must-read on the most vital institution in chicago: the harold washington library, from @morleymusick.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/city-life/pe...
The life and times of the Harold Washington Library - Chicago Reader
Regulars recount reading, drawing, and fighting in Chicago's beloved library
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Morley is best-in-category here imo , was v looking fwd to this one & unsurprisingly it rocks bsky.app/profile/morl...
Morley@morleymusick.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor @nplusonemag.com, my essay about Operation Midway Blitz. I wrote about the apartment building that ICE raided, a young woman in ICE custody, asylum seekers and phone games, Silverio Villegas González & the owner of the hot dog restaurant where he worked. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
For @chicagoreader.com , I interviewed regulars at the Harold Washington Library, including: a man who copies reference books by hand, the lawyer who patented the Pringles can, a young woman banned from the library six times. Davon Clark's amazing pics in thread. chicagoreader.com/city-life/pe...
The life and times of the Harold Washington Library - Chicago Reader
Regulars recount reading, drawing, and fighting in Chicago's beloved library
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The “general response to Midway Blitz [was] an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality.” Over and over, Chicagoans pointed “to the normality of life as a defense against the menacing accusations” of ICE and CPB www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
ICE in Autumn | Morley Musick
Oscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...
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NYC! Chicago! n+1’s own Miss Translation, aka Bela Shayevich, is hosting two mixers / mini-workshops next week for “translators and the translation-curious,” including one at the n+1 office on Tuesday, May 19. Do NOT miss this opportunity to meet your soulmate!! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
And in a brilliant and humane reported essay, frequent n+1 contributor @morleymusick.bsky.social investigates ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz and tells the stories of Chicagoans dealing with the fallout from the assault. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
ICE in Autumn | Morley Musick
Oscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...
nplusonemag.com
For @nplusonemag.com, my essay about Operation Midway Blitz. I wrote about the apartment building that ICE raided, a young woman in ICE custody, asylum seekers and phone games, Silverio Villegas González & the owner of the hot dog restaurant where he worked. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
ICE in Autumn | Morley Musick
Oscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...
nplusonemag.com
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This is one of the best food courts in the city and its tenants are threatened with rental increases that could could force them to close. The landlord in question (Jiazhao "Frankie" Chen) is $65m in debt and facing foreclosure on 37 properties. His staffer told me he is in China.
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com.web.brid.gy · 5mo agoFrankie Chen, landlord of Chicago's main Chinatown food court, has threatened to nearly double the rent on its tenants. Chen is $65m in debt and faces foreclosure on 37 properties. Tenants say they'll leave if the rent increases. My latest, for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Tenants at Chinatown’s storied Richland Center food court brace for potential rent increases - Chicago Reader
Since last summer, Heung Seng Corporation’s staff have told tenants they will nearly double the rent on their next leases.
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