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• Prison health care, school vouchers, turmoil at Northwestern

  08-02-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Prison health care can only get worse The dastardly company that refused to treat patients’ vision problems under a “one good eye” policy, trained staff to be dubious of people’s illnesses, and was found by a federal judge to provide medical care so poor it’s unconstitutional, recently renewed its contract with the Illinois Department of […]
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• ‘The excitement of watching excitement onscreen’

  08-02-2024 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  "What’s a better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the winter than hot films for cold temps?"
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• A slice of Mississippi in Chicago

  08-02-2024 17:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 1947, my paternal grandmother, Essie, left the warm fields of Doddsville, Mississippi, for the cold streets of Chicago. Her husband, Sam, my grandpa, had come before her to find work and get settled. During the Great Migration—the mass exodus of Black Americans from the south to northern and midwestern states in the 1900s—they were […]
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• The 2024 Frequency Festival invites you to widen your ears

  08-02-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The eighth edition of the Frequency Festival begins in Chicago on Tuesday, February 20. This annual event (COVID canceled the 2021 installment) grew out of the Frequency Series, founded in April 2013 by programmer Peter Margasak (a former Reader staff writer who now lives in Berlin) and hosted by Constellation. Margasak initially conceived the series […]
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• Being with Lilith

  08-02-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Candace Hunter about her exhibition “The Alien‐Nations and Sovereign States of Octavia E Butler,” on view at the Hyde Park Art Center. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. “Alien-Nations + Sovereign States of Octavia E Butler,” a solo show by Candace Hunter aka chlee, at the […]
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• Making Black queer spaces

  08-02-2024 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let’s say you threw a ticketed birthday party at a 700-person capacity venue and it completely sold out. You would be stoked. Think about it: your name would be out there, you would make bank from the event, and everyone, including you, would have danced to good music in a packed house. But what if […]
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