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• Guitarist Jimmy Rogers played a part in every era of Chicago blues

  23-07-2025 23:03 via chicagoreader.com
  If you remember the Secret History of Chicago Music’s Winter Blues series, you know I used to cover the blues mostly in the dark, icy months. Lately, every month has felt pretty dark, as our country falls deeper into fascism and escalates its war on the disenfranchised, so I’m writing about a Chicago bluesman in […]
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• Cook County state’s attorney stops maintaining lists of discredited cops

  23-07-2025 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  This story is part of “A Catalog of Infamy,” a series on Brady cops and practices at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Chicago Police Department, and suburban police departments between the Invisible Institute and the Reader. Shortly after taking office in December, newly elected Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke quietly scrapped two […]
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• Ju-Blick has walked a long path to his debut album

  23-07-2025 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  I’ve known about Chicago rapper Ju-Blick for a long time. We’re about the same age, and we were both raised in Chatham, where he was born. But while I knew he was around, I didn’t get into his music till last year, when he put out the EP The Precursor and the single “Cop a […]
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• South Side Zine Fest brings a celebration of self-publishing to Bridgeport

  23-07-2025 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  Digital has come to dominate the media landscape but print is still very much alive and well, especially in the form of zines. DIY publications have played a central role in many cultural movements, from the self-published literary journals of the Harlem Renaissance to various punk subcultures of the late 20th century. Today, self-made publications […]
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• Southeast Spotlight: W.G.N. Flag & Decorating Co

  23-07-2025 18:06 via chicagoreader.com
  Rather than a restaurant or a rat-shaped hole, this Chicago hidden gem has been contributing to and commemorating the city’s cultural landscape for almost 110 years. Despite having no relation to the well-known local television station (and existing well before they were on air), WGN Flag & Decorating Co. is just as much of a […]
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• Trump sacks Chicago immigration judges

  23-07-2025 17:48 via chicagoreader.com
  You’re fired President Donald Trump has fired two Chicago immigration judges at a time when masked federal agents are increasingly turning to immigration courts to enact Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda. Assistant chief immigration judge Jennifer Peyton was one of dozens to be removed in an early July nationwide purge of immigration court officials that also […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 42

  23-07-2025 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 42. July 24, 2025.
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• How to be happy

  23-07-2025 16:04 via chicagoreader.com
  “First thought, best thought” was the credo of the Beats, but it could also apply to the art practice of the late Thomas Kong. For over a decade, Kong sat at the register in his Rogers Park convenience store, Kim’s Corner Food, and created artwork out of whatever was around him: packing materials, leaves, cigarette […]
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