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

• Best of Chicago: Vote now!

  

  chicagoreader.com/best The choices in each ballot category are the top nominees from an earlier nominating round.…
  - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:30pm -
• A day of service

  

  Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator Monday January 18 commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and there are several ways to participate in our yearly tribute to one of the architects…
  - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 1:30pm -
• Post-pandemic, will we see triage for the arts?

  

  Brian Loevner thinks arts organizations should consider new ways to survive—and close. This is the first of two columns that will examine the ideas of "cultural triage." We're heading toward the one-year annivers…
  - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 1:15pm -
• Escalating violence and lack of police response put the city’s homeless even more at risk

  

  A string of fires and stabbings have many advocates worried, and challenges in reporting and investigating these crimes leave little hope for justice. After what some say was an unprecedented pattern of violence a…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 7:00am -
• A memorial to Alejandro Morales

  

  Alejandro Morales’s death doesn’t just leave a hole in Chicago’s DIY music scene—it’s a loss to community activists, to affordable housing advocates, and to countless friendships. In the the nearly two w…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 3:15pm -
• Zoo Motel and The Journey take us away from it all

  

  Links Hall and Chicago Shakespeare host two virtual interactive shows on isolation and connection. Even before the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, the desire to get away from this current hellsca…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 2:50pm -
• Eviction court judge slams moratorium as ‘utter idiocy.’ It’s not on the record.

  

  Cook County let eviction court go unrecorded for six months. It was close to 11 AM on Tuesday, January 5, when Cook County circuit court Judge Martin Moltz said in open court that he thought Governor J.B. Pritzker…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 12:45pm -
• Chicago EBM producer Understudy brings a little light into his music’s murky throb on a new compilation

  

  Few contemporary musicians can simultaneously disturb me and get me dancing quite like Jack Brockman. The Chicagoan fronts industrial trio Civic Center, whose recent vinyl debut for American Dreams (June’s The Ground Below) tamps down its me…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 7:00am -
• DJ Corey grew up immersed in footwork, and he’s learned it inside and out

  

  Chicago producer DJ Corey is footwork royalty. His father, DJ Clent, got hooked on ghetto house in the early 90s, and by the end of that decade had established a career in the faster, more aggressive styles of juke and footwork.…
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 7:00am -
• Examining the white spaces in Chicago dance

  

  A community townhall reaffirms the need for communication and representation. On January 7, one day after Georgia’s runoff election resulted in its first Black senator and a white supremacist insurrection disrupt…
  - 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 5:45pm -

CINewsNow

Huffington Post: Illinois

• Illinois General Assembly Passes Sweeping Criminal Reform Bill
  House Bill 3653, which now heads to the governor's desk, would end cash bail and require all police officers to wear body cameras.
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 12:38am -
• Democrats Ask GOP Congresswoman Who Cited Hitler To Resign
  Illinois Rep. Mary Miller told a rally earlier this week, “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ’Whoever has the youth has the future.’”
  - 10 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 4:50pm -
• Illinois Expunges Nearly 500,000 Cannabis Arrest Records
  "We can govern with the courage to admit the mistakes of our past -- and the decency to set a better path forward,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said.
  - 16 days ago, 1 Jan 21, 1:08pm -
• Illinois Woman Who Bought Flags From Kohl's Also Sent Used COVID-19 Test
  A used nasal swab found in a biohazard bag appears to belong to a person in Virginia.
  - 27 days ago, 21 Dec 20, 4:41pm -
• Illinois Veterans Nursing Home Investigated After 27 COVID-19 Deaths
  Nearly 200 residents and staff members at the State Veterans Home at LaSalle have tested positive for the virus as cases rise throughout the Midwest.
  - 53 days ago, 25 Nov 20, 4:39pm -
• Illinois Judge Approves Extradition Of Kyle Rittenhouse To Wisconsin
  The 17-year-old faces a potential life sentence for fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha in August.
  - 79 days ago, 30 Oct 20, 4:48pm -
• Black Woman Shot By Illinois Police Officer Seeks Justice From Hospital Bed
  A cop shot Tafara Williams and her boyfriend, Marcellis Stinnette, during a traffic stop, wounding Williams and killing Stinnette.
  - 85 days ago, 25 Oct 20, 8:44am -
• Illinois Public Health Director Breaks Down In Tears Addressing Surging COVID Toll
  "I’m desperate to find the message that will work ... to turn this around," said an emotional Dr. Ngozi Ezike.
  - 85 days ago, 24 Oct 20, 9:38pm -
• Tammy Duckworth Agreed To Help Confirm 2 Anti-Choice Judges. In The End, She Couldn't.
  The Democratic senator had said she’d back the GOP nominees in a bipartisan deal. They turned out to be too awful, and she voted against both.
  - 16 Sep 20, 6:22pm -
• Attacking A Retail Worker Enforcing Face Masks Is Now Aggravated Battery In Illinois
  Offenders risk imprisonment for two to five years and fines of up to $25,000.
  - 10 Aug 20, 8:33pm -

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

• Three killed and four wounded in apparently random Chicago shootings
  Gunman killed by police named as Jason Nightengale, 32Three women and girl seriously wounded as police seek motiveA man who police say killed three people and wounded four in a series of shootings in and around Chicago posted nonsensical and expletiv…
  - 7 days ago, 10 Jan 21, 4:26pm -
• How watching my sons during the pandemic taught me resilience
  A photographer tells us what she learned from her two young sons while photographing them during the pandemicDecember marks the 10th month of the Covid-19 pandemic. For a child this can feel like their entire life with no end in sight. For my two son…
  - 18 days ago, 31 Dec 20, 6:00am -
• Three shot dead after gunman opens fire at bowling alley in Rockford, Illinois
  Duke Webb charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in shooting at Don Carter Lanes in RockfordA US army sergeant has been charged in the deaths of three people and the wounding of three more in a shooting at an Illinoi…
  - 21 days ago, 27 Dec 20, 10:44pm -
• US confirms over 126,000 Covid cases on Friday, third daily record in a row
  States recording daily highs include Illinois and North CarolinaWhite House chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positiveUS politics – live coverageThe US confirmed 126,480 new coronavirus cases on Friday, a record number for a third day in a row. At…
  - 72 days ago, 7 Nov 20, 10:40am -
• Black woman shot by police says officers ‘allowed her boyfriend to die’
  Tafara Williams, 20, spoke to reporters via Zoom from hospitalMarcellis Stinnette, 19, was killed by police last week in IllinoisA black woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said on Tuesday officers did nothing more than cover h…
  - 82 days ago, 27 Oct 20, 2:12pm -
• Illinois shooting: protests after police kill Black teenager and wound woman
  Officer fired after death of Marcellis Stinnette, 19, in WaukeganTafara Williams, 20, says she’s fighting ‘to be strong’ for her sonA Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a police officer who also fatally shot her 19-year-ol…
  - 85 days ago, 25 Oct 20, 8:51am -
• Illinois officer fired after shooting Black couple inside their vehicle
  Officer who fatally shot Marcellis Stinnette and wounded Tafara Williams committed ‘multiple policy’ violations, said police chiefAttorneys representing a Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a suburban Chicago police officer…
  - 85 days ago, 24 Oct 20, 2:20pm -
• Cheer star Jerry Harris arrested on charges of child sexual abuse images
  Harris admitted during interview after FBI agents raided his home that he had asked teen to send him photos and videosJerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, was arrested on Thursday on felony charges of production of child se…
  - 17 Sep 20, 4:06pm -
• Destructive 'wall of wind' tears through Iowa and Chicago – video
  A powerful thunderstorm known as a 'derecho' has brought heavy rain and winds of up to 100mph to the US states of Iowa and Illinois. Gusty winds and heavy rain brought down trees, damaged roofs, cut power and destroyed structures. More than 20,000 pe…
  - 11 Aug 20, 3:27am -
• US coronavirus deaths near 150,000 as 21 states declared 'red zones'
  Covid-19 deaths have risen three weeks in a row while new cases week-over-week recently fell for the first time since JuneUS deaths from the coronavirus were approaching 150,000 on Wednesday, the highest level in the world and rising by about 10,000…
  - 29 Jul 20, 12:37pm -

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

• new4th victim dies after gunman's attacks in Chicago, suburbs
  Authorities say a 61-year-old woman became the fourth person to die from a series of shootings this month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a police shootout
  - 10 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 1:36pm -
• Jim Tilmon -- Chicago TV newsman, meteorologist, pilot -- dies at 86
  Jim Tilmon died Saturday afternoon in Arizona, according to Frank Whittaker, station manager of WMAQ-TV, where Tilmon worked for more than 22 years.
  - 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 7:37pm -
• Prosecutors: Woman robs 4 Chicago stores in less than hour
  A 21-year-old woman charged with robbing four Chicago convenience stores in the space of less than an hour has been ordered by a judge held on $50,000 bond
  - 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 5:14pm -
• Union: 17 Chicago cops resting in burgled office suspended
  The president of the Chicago Police officers' union says 17 officers and supervisors have been suspended for their involvement in an incident in which several officers were captured on video lounging in the office of a congressman during last summer'…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 7:42pm -
• Police department suspends cops who lounged in congressman's office
  The Chicago Police Department has doled out suspensions of up to 20 days against 17 Chicago police officers and supervisors accused of sleeping on a couch, popping popcorn and drinking coffee in the burglarized office of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush at the s…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 7:10pm -