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

• newJuliet is a naked cry of pain

  

  But Theatre Y's staging covers up the Romanian prison camp story with too many needless additions. As the audience enters The Ready storefront space in Lincoln Square, they're asked to take off their coats and shoe…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 6:30pm -
• newCourtney Mora from In Masks on an album to take you apart and put you back together

  

  Current musical obsessions of Courtney Mora from In Masks, Maddie Rehayem from the Cell, and Salem Collo-Julin from the Reader A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone e…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 6:30pm -
• newHer Honor Jane Byrne remembers when the mayor moved to Cabrini

  

  Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks's planned quartet of Chicago plays. Playwright-actor-director J. Nicole Brooks wasn't yet in kindergarten when Mayor Jane Byrne did the unthinkable and moved into…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 6:00pm -
• newTodd Barry marks three decades in stand-up with Stadium Tour

  

  Call him “bone dry” if you must, but don't call him “alt.” The laid-back, unassuming, eminently cool aesthetic of Pilsen's Thalia Hall is such a harmonious fit for veteran stand-up Todd Barry that it's wild…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 5:50pm -
• newLight in Winter celebrates Unity Temple in music and movement

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright's recently restored “good-time place” provides a divine backdrop for Winifred Haun and Dancers. No entrance greets the eye at the intersection of Lake Street and Kenilworth Avenue in Oak Park…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 5:30pm -
• newFilament Theatre's Forts! builds adventures, agency, and awareness

  

  Kids and families are in charge at this Portage Park theater It could have been Lord of the Flies. Filament Theatre was giving over complete control of its space to a young audience for Forts!…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 5:15pm -
• newSteppenwolf's LookOut series opens its doors to younger companies

  

  First Floor's Plano and Definition's White connect emerging companies and established artists. Since the early 90s, Steppenwolf Theatre has hosted local performing arts companies in its ever-expanding space on Nort…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 5:00pm -
• newSouthern Gothic gave Windy City Playhouse a blueprint for immersive theater

  

  The author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater talks to the creators about how the long-running hit came to be. Windy City Playhouse's 2018-2019 production of Southern Gothic was not the first and not t…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 4:30pm -
• newStar Creature Universal Vibrations starts 2020 with a bundle of boogie

  

  Star Creature Universal Vibrations starts 2020 with a bundle of boogie, Elastic Arts debuts a 16-channel overhead sound system, and more. Last week, supreme Chicago boogie label Star Creature Universal Vibrations…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 4:00pm -
• newDinner and a show

  

  Theater doesn't have to make you hangry. All too often, a night out at the theater means compromising on an acceptable dinner.…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 3:45pm -

CINewsNow

Huffington Post: Illinois

• newR. Kelly To Face Trial For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Hairdresser
  It's the first of four state cases in Illinois the disgraced R&B singer and accused serial sexual abuser faces, in addition to two pending federal trials.
  - 13 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 2:48pm -
• Pete Buttigieg Fails To Secure Delegates In Illinois’ Most Diverse Districts
  The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s struggles with Black and Latino voters continue.
  - 16 days ago, 7 Jan 20, 11:42am -
• Illinois Pot Vendors Score $3.2 Million On First Day Of Legal Weed Sales
  State officials called Jan. 1 "a historic new day" as people spent millions on newly legalized recreational cannabis.
  - 20 days ago, 2 Jan 20, 7:46pm -
• Illinois Governor Pardons More Than 11,000 Low-Level Marijuana Convictions
  Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the expungements on Tuesday, one day before recreational cannabis became legal in Illinois.
  - 22 days ago, 1 Jan 20, 2:54am -
• Michigan, Illinois Set To Usher In Recreational Pot Sales
  Both Michigan and Illinois, which allows sales starting on Jan. 1, are officially joining nine other states that broadly allow marijuana sales.
  - 55 days ago, 28 Nov 19, 6:44pm -
• Buffalo Wild Wings Fires Employees After Alleged Racism Toward Diners
  An Illinois customer said her party was told to switch tables because of their race.
  - 79 days ago, 4 Nov 19, 3:52pm -
• Trump Acts Out Police Shooting
  During a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, President Trump mimed the gunfire from officers who stopped a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio.
  - 87 days ago, 28 Oct 19, 1:13pm -
• 9-Year-Old Charged With Murder In 5 Illinois Fire Deaths
  No child as young as this one has been accused in a mass killing since at least 2006.
  - 8 Oct 19, 9:28pm -
• Planned Parenthood Builds New Clinic Near Missouri's Lone Abortion Provider
  The massive new health care center, located in southern Illinois, is equipped to serve an estimated 11,000 patients annually.
  - 2 Oct 19, 11:38am -
• More Than 2,000 Containers Of Fetal Remains Found In Garage After Doctor's Death
  Illinois authorities are baffled over why the former abortion provider hadn't followed standard medical practices.
  - 20 Sep 19, 5:35pm -

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

• One city's reparations program that could offer a blueprint for the nation
  Evanston, Illinois, is levying a tax on newly legalised marijuana to fund projects benefiting African Americans in recognition of the enduring effects of slavery and the war on drugsFor years, Robin Rue Simmons watched Evanston, Illinois, “working…
  - 4 days ago, 19 Jan 20, 3:45am -
• Illinois governor pardons 11,000 for low-level marijuana convictions
  Democrat JB Pritzker says pardons represent first wave of thousands expected under state’s new marijuana legalization lawIllinois governor JB Pritzker granted more than 11,000 pardons for low-level marijuana convictions on Tuesday, describing the s…
  - 22 days ago, 31 Dec 19, 4:25pm -
• Illinois man who built memorials for mass shooting victims retires
  Greg Zanis created almost 27,000 handcrafted white crosses, Stars of David and Islamic crescent moons for victimsFrom Parkland to Las Vegas, and Columbine to Sandy Hook, Greg Zanis’ work has been a comfort to those suffering in the aftermath of whi…
  - 27 days ago, 27 Dec 19, 12:30pm -
• How local 'fake news' websites spread 'conservative propaganda' in the US
  Locality Labs, a company operating scores of sites that purports to be a local news organization, is facing criticism it is part of a rightwing lobbying effortIn March this year, the small Illinois town of Hinsdale, in the western Chicago suburbs, wa…
  - 65 days ago, 19 Nov 19, 2:00am -
• Chicago teachers' strike ends as union reaches labor deal with city
  Delegates approve tentative deal including pay raises over five years, after 11 days of canceled classesChicago teachers and the country’s third-largest school district reached a labor contract deal on Thursday, ending a strike that canceled 11 day…
  - 83 days ago, 31 Oct 19, 5:15pm -
• My rich town was poisoned by a corporation. Even the 1% isn't safe from pollution | Chantal Panozzo
  Environmental and political leaders in the US have decided the environment is worth compromising for private profitMy son took his first breath in a place I never imagined would be potentially harmful for his health: Hinsdale, Illinois.Hinsdale is li…
  - 92 days ago, 23 Oct 19, 6:00am -
• 'A couple of drinks with dinner': Chicago police chief found asleep in his car
  Eddie Johnson says incident related to medicationMayor’s comments differ from first official explanationThe top police officer in Chicago told the mayor he had “a couple of drinks with dinner” before he fell asleep at a stop sign while driving…
  - 96 days ago, 19 Oct 19, 11:49am -
• Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans. Will you be next?
  Tens of thousands of people have received demands to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits – often decades old – plunging them into a Kafkaesque struggle against a faceless bureaucracy To read our entire Automating Poverty series, cli…
  - 100 days ago, 15 Oct 19, 5:00am -
• Nine-year-old charged with murder of five people in Illinois trailer park fire
  Prosecutors criticised after alleging the youngster started the blaze intentionally to kill three small children and two adultsA nine-year-old child has been charged with the first-degree murder of three children and two adults in a fire at a trailer…
  - 9 Oct 19, 3:20am -
• More than 2,000 foetal remains found at home of former Indiana abortion doctor
  Authorities uncover thousands of preserved remains at the home of Ulrich Klopfer More than 2,000 medically preserved foetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week, authorities have s…
  - 14 Sep 19, 8:57pm -

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…
  - 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…
  - 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…
  - 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…
  - 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…
  - 4 Jun 19, 6:00am -

Daily Herald

• newMurder suspect's cellphone shows searches for information on the case, the day Hinsdale woman was killed.
  Records of a suspect's cellphone show someone searched for information on the Andrea Urban murder, the evening after the Hinsdale woman was killed, a detective testified Wednesday.
  - 8 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 7:51pm -
• newO'Hare on Friday will begin screening some passengers for coronavirus
  Officials began distributing information at O'Hare International Airport Wednesday and will start health screenings Friday for passengers arriving from the Wuhan region of China, the site of an outbreak of a deadly coronavirus virus that causes pneum…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 6:49pm -
• newJuice WRLD died of oxycodone, codeine overdose: autopsy
  An autopsy has ruled that rapper-singer Juice WRLD died of an overdose of oxycodone and codeine, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Wednesday.Juice WRLD, born Jarad Anthony Higgins, died early Dec. 8, 2019, at Christ Medical Center in Oak…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 4:02pm -
• newCorrection: Chicago Schools-Discrimination Lawsuit story
  In a Jan. 21 story about the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against the Chicago public school district, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 21.2% and nearly 21% of the district's teachers are black
  - 12 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 3:48pm -
• newHearing may set order of R. Kelly's Chicago sex abuse trials
  Prosecutors in Chicago are expected to tell a judge which of the sex charges against R&B singer R
  - 17 hours ago, 22 Jan 20, 10:39am -