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• Review: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

  15-01-2025 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Den of Thieves 2: Pantera in wide release in theaters
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• The guajolota torta tamal at Santa Masa Tamaleria

  15-01-2025 19:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s no turkey in this monumental sandwich at Jhoana Ruiz and Danny Espinoza’s pandemic-born house of masa, now reborn in a former Dunning diner. But the native Mexico City carb attack takes the shape of one, and thus derives its name from the Nahuatl word for turkey. The couple’s guajolota is considerably chef-kissed up from […]
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• Hard truths

  15-01-2025 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. As of this writing, I have seen 11 of the 12 films I’d need to have seen in theaters to be up-to-date with my New Year’s resolution. Not bad, I think. […]
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• Dollar store treasure

  15-01-2025 19:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The dollar store always has surprising finds, including really stylish shoppers. It’s a fertile place for the thrifty and creative, a combination that often produces intriguing sartorial choices.  Shelly Parks, 65, perfectly embodies this mix; sporting a colorful patchwork outfit that matched her cheerful personality, Parks was rocking the accessory aisle. “I’m pretty much a […]
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• Editor’s note: Painter Gertrude Abercrombie

  15-01-2025 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago is riddled with impressionable visual curiosities in any weather, but there’s something about winter that encourages the eye to narrow in on our shared city poem with a hungry spirit: a three-legged lawn chair in an empty parking spot, a raccoon on a rooftop, and lost gloves laced through a fence. At night, the […]
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• Get your local laurels at Windy City Shorts

  15-01-2025 19:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Windy City Shorts isn’t your typical open mike night. There are no anxious first-time comedians flipping through joke-filled Moleskine notebooks or acoustic guitar dudes who liked Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) enough to take a swing at a Bob Dylan cover. There isn’t even a microphone.  Instead, the new quarterly Lincoln Lodge showcase has a projector, […]
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• ALTERNATE REALITY WITHOUT HUMANS

  15-01-2025 18:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Karl Michael Iglesias
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• ‘An object animated to create the illusion of life’

  15-01-2025 18:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close, through 4/6 at Chicago Cultural Center
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 15

  15-01-2025 18:16 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 15. January 16, 2025.
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• Meet the new Chicago Board of Education

  15-01-2025 17:05
  
  Chicago Public Schools’ newly elected board members. (Illustration by Becky Vevea/Chalkbeat, photos by Colin Boyle and Mauricio Peña/Block Club Chicago and courtesy)
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  Meet the new Chicago Board of Education
  By Becky Vevea, Chalkbeat Chicago
  Jan 14, 2025 at 5:29pm EST
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• José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, Civil Rights Leader and Young Lords Founder, Dies at 76

  15-01-2025 15:30
  
  José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a fierce advocate for justice and the founder of Chicago’s Young Lords, has died at age 76. His sister, Daisy Rodríguez, announced his death on Friday morning. The cause of death was not disclosed.
  Jiménez began the Young Lords in the 1960s as a street gang to defend Puerto Ricans in Lincoln Park, then one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. By 1968, the group became a force for social change, inspired by the Black Panth
  
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• Farewell to a larger-than-life architect of Chicago’s concert ecosystem

  15-01-2025 15:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Thursday, January 2, “Crazy” Steve Szegho died at age 73. A rock promoter, Jam Productions security staffer, talent manager, and bon vivant, Szegho cut a colorful figure in Chicago music for more than half a century. He was the son of inventor Constantin Szegho, whose work on cathode-ray tubes led to the development of […]
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• Walgreens to Close Five South Side Chicago Stores, Leaving Communities in Pharmacy Deserts

  15-01-2025 14:45
  
  Photo Credit: Mike Mozart, Flickr
  Walgreens will close five Chicago stores in the coming weeks, a company spokesperson confirmed to NBC Chicago. The closures, planned between Feb. 17 and Feb. 27, include stores in the following locations:7111 South Western Avenue (West Englewood)
  4005 West 26th Street (Little Village)
  9148 South Commercial Avenue (South Chicago)
  3405 South King Drive (Lake Meadows)
  7109 South Jeffery Boulevard (South Shore)The company attributed the closures to the costs of rent
  
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• The Carr Report: Saving Challenge 2025

  15-01-2025 14:30
  
  In 2021, I received an inbox message from a friend. She informed me about a “Saving Challenge” she was inspired to do.  In 2022, on New Year’s Day, she inboxed me again saying Happy New Year. She included a photo of a pile of cash that was at least three-feet high. She said she had saved a total of $4,610 from her saving challenge.
  After seeing her success with this challenge, I thought it would be a good idea for me to challenge all my readers and followers to a saving ch
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Jan. 15, 2025

  15-01-2025 14:00
  
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• ‘Her painting was her life and her life was painting’

  15-01-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery" through 6/1 at Carnegie Museum of Art
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• A seat at a set table

  15-01-2025 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In early January, S. Mayumi “Umi” Grigsby stepped down as chief of policy for the City of Chicago. In this exclusive interview with the Reader, Grigsby reflects on her time in the mayor’s office and shares her thoughts on the challenges the city faces with the incoming Trump administration. Born in Liberia, Grigsby and her […]
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• Chicago Reader Announces Restructuring and Layoffs

  15-01-2025 05:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  CHICAGO, IL – The Reader Institute for Community Journalism, publisher of the Chicago Reader, on Tuesday announced the immediate layoffs of six non-union employee staff positions, spurred by an urgent need to reduce costs in order to avoid organizational closure.  In addition to the layoffs, RICJ CEO Solomon Lieberman submitted his resignation to the RICJ […]
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