Chicago Magazine

• John C. Reilly Will Play an Old-Timey, Honkin' Good Show in Chicago
  A Q&A with the Chicago native, who booked a gig at the Old Town School of Folk Music with his band on June 22.
  - 21 Jun 13, 1:00pm -
• Chance the Rapper Is the Next Big Thing from Chicago, the New American Capital of Hip-Hop
  How the 20-year-old from Chatham became the city's next breakout star.
  - 21 Jun 13, 11:51am -
• Tonight, Jeff Tweedy Is Your Opening Act
  When you’ve survived rock stardom, secession from a major label, and rehab, how can you possibly up the ante?
  - 20 Jun 13, 11:45am -
• Three Great Artists Making Music in Chicago This Summer
  We caught up with two rock stars and a Pulitzer-winning composer to talk about what they're listening to, where they're traveling, and what they like about playing in Chicago.
  - 19 Jun 13, 1:00pm -
• This Is a Very Good Time for Tacos in Chicago
  Between Chicago’s old-school taquerias and its fancy new joints, there are plenty of places to get a fine taco in town.
  - 19 Jun 13, 12:15pm -
• Pitchfork Versus Lollapalooza: A Summer Music Megafest Smackdown
  Here's how two of summer's biggest fests match up in a head to head comparison, dished out by two guys who should know: Organizers Mike Reed and Perry Farrell.
  - 18 Jun 13, 4:25pm -
• United Way of Metropolitan Chicago’s Annual Community Celebration
  June 7, 2013--United Way of Metropolitan Chicago hosted its annual Community Celebration event on Friday, June 7 to honor the contributions of top corporate partners, volunteers, board members and donors who support the organization’s LIVE UNITED 2…
  - 17 Jun 13, 2:30pm -
• Chicago's Oldest Singles Are Getting All the Action
  Online dating over age 55 isn't that different than going out in your twenties, a recent Q&A with five seniors revealed.
  - 17 Jun 13, 1:45pm -
• Seven Gold and Bronze Cuffs You'll Love to Wear This Summer
  Nothing says sexy like a little wrist bling.
  - 17 Jun 13, 10:54am -
• Duran European Sandwich Café: Open Faces and Low Prices
  Have lunch on a budget at this casual, sophisticated spot on Milwaukee Ave in River West.
  - 13 Jun 13, 2:37pm -

Chicago Reader

• newHere's who is on the Pitchfork/Silver Room Block Party/ComplexCon cover (and the winner of our contest!)

  

  How many did you guess correctly? A crowded festival weekend means a crowded cover!…
  - 18 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:10pm -
• newPHOTOS: Take Action to End Criminalization, Detention, and Deportations Protest

  

  An estimated 12,000 people marched in downtown Chicago on July 13 to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies.…
  - 19 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 3:44pm -
• "About Face," Wrightwood 659's exhibition on post-Stonewall LGBTQ art, embraces the uncertainty of queer identity

  

  The show’s real power lies in how it acknowledges the complicated intergenerational conversations between queer artists of color. Thirty minutes after I left "About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art" at W…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 7:00am -
• Leaving Home, Coming Home, a blurry portrait of photographer Robert Frank, finally hits theaters

  

  One of the last surviving Beat artists looks back on a long life. Not even ten minutes into director Gerald Fox's 2004 documentary Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, the legendary photographer-c…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 7:00am -
• Mom's at Politan Row turns the table on Japanese 'Western food'

  

  Chefs Randi Howry and Kelly Ijichi tap a nostalgia in the making. I promise I'm not just going to write about food hall vendors for the rest of my life, but this summer it feels like I could. Much more so than the…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 7:00am -
• The Legendary Shack Shakers bring their harmonica-driven punk stomp back to Chicago

  

  
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:00am -
• Boston singer-songwriter Sidney Gish confronts the complexity of life with stripped-down music

  

  Few emerging songwriters have captivated me in quite the same way as Boston’s Sidney Gish. On her breakout album, 2017’s No Dogs Allowed, she confronts her life experience with wit and fun, using self-aware lyrics and refined layers of gui…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:00am -
• “Weird Al” unleashes his inner conductor for the symphonic Strings Attached tour

  

  “Weird Al” Yankovic . . . with a symphony?…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:00am -
• After 25 years, Smash Mouth’s gold still glimmers

  

  I’m sure you’re expecting a takedown here, since at some point in the past two decades it apparently became unforgivable for a band to record a phoned-in cover of “I’m a Believer” for a family movie starring an animated green ogre. I…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:00am -
• Connecticut psych freaks the Mountain Movers add more noise-rock to their heady jams

  

  The Mountain Movers are among my current faves, because they know how to freak the fuck out. Formed in the mid-2000s, the Connecticut band started as a showcase for the songs of New Haven indie rocker Dan Greene, and since then their cosmic tr…
  - 1 day ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:00am -

CINewsNow

Huffington Post: Illinois

• Illinois Is Expunging Marijuana Convictions, But That Will Only Do So Much
  “Expungement, for the most part, is not done with just a snap of the fingers and all the records go away,” says a criminal justice reform advocate.
  - 17 days ago, 2 Jul 19, 6:08pm -
• Illinois Governor Signs Order Protecting Transgender Students
  Gov. J.B. Pritzker's order mandates schools have safe spaces for LGBTQ youth and establishes a task force to craft policies supporting nonbinary students.
  - 18 days ago, 1 Jul 19, 6:54am -
• Illinois Set To Expunge Up To 770,000 Marijuana Convictions
  Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a bill this week set to legalize cannabis use in the state.
  - 21 days ago, 28 Jun 19, 2:11pm -
• Illinois Legalizes Recreational Marijuana Sales
  It's the first time a state has legalized the commercial sale of cannabis through the legislature.
  - 24 days ago, 25 Jun 19, 5:34pm -
• Weatherman Hasn't Appeared On Sinclair Station Since Criticizing 'Code Red' Alerts
  An Illinois meteorologist has been off the air since telling viewers the ominous warning was a "corporate initiative" that "many of us have tried to dissuade."
  - 39 days ago, 10 Jun 19, 8:42pm -
• Illinois Passes Watered-Down Bill To Diversify Corporate Boards
  A provision in the bill to require public companies in Illinois to have at least one woman, one black and one Latino director on their boards got scrapped.
  - 44 days ago, 5 Jun 19, 12:36am -
• Illinois Passes Sweeping Abortion Rights Legislation
  The Reproductive Health Act removes decades-old provisions requiring spousal consent, waiting periods and criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions.
  - 48 days ago, 1 Jun 19, 11:01am -
• Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Make It Easier For People In Jail To Vote
  Many prisoners are still eligible to vote. The measure would help with voting while incarcerated and with registration and voting information when released.
  - 50 days ago, 30 May 19, 6:56pm -
• Panic And Confusion As Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Is Poised To Close
  Right across the river, an abortion clinic in Illinois is bracing for an influx of patients.
  - 50 days ago, 30 May 19, 11:27am -
• Illinois Advances Legal Weed Sales Bill That Would Be First To Pass Via State Legislature
  The measure would legalize marijuana and also allow for sweeping pardons of low-level offenders.
  - 50 days ago, 30 May 19, 10:09am -

The Economist: Illinois

• The yacht primary: Governors’ races have become contests between bajillionaires
  Print section Print Rubric:  The 0.1% are pushing aside other gubernatorial hopefuls Print Headline:  The yacht primary…
  - 19 Oct 17, 10:57am -
• Fizzled: Chicago’s soda tax is repealed
  Main image:  IT MUST have been one of the shortest-lived taxes in the history of Illinois. On October 11th lawmakers of Cook County, which includes Chicago, overwhelmingly voted to r…
  - 13 Oct 17, 1:20pm -
• The big squeeze: American public pensions suffer from a gaping hole
  Print section Print Rubric:  Pension costs in American states are crowding out other spending Print Headline:  The big squeeze…
  - 5 Oct 17, 10:54am -
• Labour brawl: A new threat to public-sector unions is headed to the Supreme Court
  Main image:  SOMEWHERE among the thousands of petitions the justices will wade through when they return to work in September is a case that could transform the labour movement in Ame…
  - 17 Aug 17, 1:37pm -
• Spot the governor: State governments are shutting down more frequently
  Print section Print Rubric:  State governments are imitating Washington’s bad behaviour Print Headline:  Spot the governor…
  - 6 Jul 17, 10:50am -
• The Midwest’s basket case: Who should run Illinois?
  Print section Print Rubric:  Who should run the Land of Lincoln? Print Headline:  The Midwest’s basket case…
  - 18 May 17, 10:46am -
• Biography of a gun shop: How Chuck’s became a symbol of what’s wrong with America’s gun laws
  Print section Print Rubric:  Shopping at the nation’s most contentious gun-dealer Print Headline:  Anything you want…
  - 16 Mar 17, 11:55am -
• Illinois’s governor race: Can Chris Kennedy fix Illinois?
  Main image:  ILLINOIS was a mess when Bruce Rauner took over as the first Republican governor in many years in January 2015. This large Midwestern state, with a population of 13m, ha…
  - 13 Feb 17, 10:30am -
• Schools: Teaching economics
  Print section Print Rubric:  Creative fixes for the teacher shortage Print Headline:  Teaching economics P…
  - 26 Jan 17, 10:44am -
• Another Super Tuesday: A big night for Trump, Clinton and Kasich is Rubio’s last
  VOTER turnout in Illinois appeared to have beaten the record set in the primary elections of 2008, when Barack Obama, who had adopted Chicago as his hometown, and Hillary Clinton, who was born in Chicago, were opponents on the Democratic Party’s ba…
  - 16 Mar 16, 3:10am -

The Guardian: Illinois News

• newYingying Zhang murder: anger in China as US killer of scholar spared death penalty
  Brendt Christensen has never revealed the whereabouts of Yingying Zhang, whom he raped and then decapitated in IllinoisA US former doctoral student has been spared the death penalty for kidnapping and murdering a 26-year-old Chinese scholar, promptin…
  - 14 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 8:35pm -
• See you later alligator as Chicago's Chance the Snapper is captured
  5ft 3in animal had been spotted last week in Chicago lagoonReptile caught by Florida expert will be sent to sanctuary or zooThe alligator had a good run as day after day the people hunting for him in a Chicago lagoon came up empty, but in the end he…
  - 3 days ago, 16 Jul 19, 2:09pm -
• Alligator on the loose: Chicago searches for roaming reptile
  Authorities, aided by a volunteer named Alligator Bob, are trying to trap the animal spotted swimming in a city lagoonAll eyes in Chicago on Wednesday were on a man named Alligator Bob, who was paddling around a lagoon in the city searching for – w…
  - 9 days ago, 10 Jul 19, 5:06pm -
• America's corn belt farmers face uncertainty after rain … and more rain
  Cold, rainy weather has meant severe planting delays for farmers from Ohio to Nebraska – and next week’s acreage report takes on heightened importanceIn his 32 years of farming, Steve Fourez says he’s almost never been so late planting corn and…
  - 26 days ago, 23 Jun 19, 1:00am -
• Chicago baby cut from killed mother's womb dies
  Yovanny Jadiel Lopez, who had been on life support since April, dies from severe brain injury An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman’s womb died Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed hi…
  - 35 days ago, 14 Jun 19, 9:01pm -
• Threat to Missouri abortion clinic leaves neighboring providers scrambling
  With reproductive rights under aggressive attack, clinics across state lines are bracing for an influx of women seeking careDr Erin King felt a weight lift off her shoulders – at least for a few minutes.The executive director of Hope Clinic in Gran…
  - 48 days ago, 1 Jun 19, 2:00am -
• More tornadoes tear through central US as 40m at risk of severe weather
  A dozen people injured as twisters rage across KansasMissouri, Pennsylvania and Illinois also report tornadoesMore tornadoes ripped across the central US overnight and on Wednesday almost 40 million people remain at risk of severe weather across a va…
  - 51 days ago, 29 May 19, 11:13am -
• Baby cut from mother's womb in fetal abduction opens eyes in hospital
  The infant, taken alive from 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, was reunited with his father in hospital but remains in grave conditionA baby that was cut from his mother’s womb by attackers who killed the pregnant woman is clinging to life and has op…
  - 58 days ago, 22 May 19, 11:23am -
• Lord Moore of Lower Marsh obituary
  Conservative politician whose ascent to high office under Margaret Thatcher foundered on NHS and social security reformsThe former Tory cabinet minister John Moore, Lord Moore of Lower Marsh, who has died aged 81, had a brief, meteoric cabinet career…
  - 59 days ago, 21 May 19, 11:15am -
• Louis Farrakhan denies antisemitism – then refers to 'Satanic Jews'
  Nation of Islam leader speaks in Chicago after Facebook banChristian and Jewish leaders in city condemn invitationIn a speech denying allegations of antisemitism, misogyny and homophobia after Facebook banned him from the social media platform, Natio…
  - 69 days ago, 11 May 19, 8:52am -

Chicago Sun Times

• Joliet man loses appeal in 2009 attempted murder of ex-girlfriend

  

  Bradley Schlott, 51, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he attacked his ex-girlfriend with a knife in March 2009. The Illinois Appellate Court confirmed the 2016 conviction of Bradley Schlott Monday in the attempted murder of his former girlfr…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Jun 19, 7:46am -
• Ald. Edward Burke is due in court — again

  

  Great spectacle but few surprises are expected as Chicago’s longest-serving alderman answers to a fresh indictment. For the second time this year, Chicago’s longest-serving alderman is due at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. But this time, he’l…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Jun 19, 7:27am -
• ‘Promise fulfilled’ for tattoo titan Ryan Henry

  

  The Pilsen shop 9MAG, setting for VH1’s “Black Ink Crew Chicago,” was created to carry out a pledge the owner made to his slain sister, Nova. Freehand tattoo artist Ryan Henry’s love of art, a work ethic instilled in him by his father and a p…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Jun 19, 7:00am -
• Robberies reported in West Garfield Park: police

  

  Police are warning residents to be aware of their surroundings following a pair of robberies in West Garfield Park on the West Side. Police are warning residents to be aware of their surroundings following a pair of robberies in West Garfield Park…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Jun 19, 6:06am -
• Dear Abby: Even after husband hurt me, I don’t know how to leave

  

  His anger issues are worsening to the point where he bashed wife’s head into a car window. DEAR ABBY: My husband has always had anger issues. Recently, they have progressed from targeting inanimate objects to targeting me. A few weeks ago, when he…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Jun 19, 6:00am -

Daily Herald

• newBoy hurt when rides collide at Chicago-area church festival
  Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was injured by debris after two rides collided at a church festival in suburban Chicago
  - 5 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 5:41am -
• newA timeline of the Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald
  A timeline of the Chicago police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald
  - 13 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:03pm -
• newFour Chicago police officers fired in Laquan McDonald cover-up case
  The Chicago Police Board has fired four police officers for covering up a white officer's 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
  - 14 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 8:36pm -
• newLightfoot fires back at Preckwinkle over crime letter
  Using sarcasm followed by an argument fit for a prosecutor, Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired back at Toni Preckwinkle Thursday for the vanquished mayoral challenger's attempt to exonerate county bail reform as a "root cause for gun violence."
  - 16 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 6:56pm -
• newHeat wave forecast prompts Chicago public housing checks
  Public housing officials in Chicago are planning wellbeing checks on residents as the heat and humidity are expected to mount to dangerous levels
  - 20 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 2:24pm -