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• Mama African Marketplace forced to move

  03-02-2026 20:11 via chicagoreader.com
  This story was originally published by South Side Weekly. Access the original article here. When LaKiesha Williams opened Mama African Marketplace five years ago, she had no idea that the 4,000 sq ft business would transform into a communal space for local businesses to host events, employ dozens of youth and provide a sense of African […]
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• The Reader Is Back—New Leadership. New Era. Same Fearless Reader.

  03-02-2026 19:23 via chicagoreader.com
  CHICAGO, IL — The Chicago Reader returns to print on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, under new ownership group Noisy Creek. This is the first issue from Sarah Conway, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, as editor in chief. Sarah will lead the legacy organization’s award-winning editorial team into a new era. The leadership change was announced […]
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• Glenna Fitch, deep listening DJ

  03-02-2026 18:34 via chicagoreader.com
  Glenna Fitch, who DJs as Sold, has had a love affair with electronic music since childhood. While attending college at Kent State, they’d regularly trek more than an hour to Cleveland to experience the dance-oriented nightlife Kent lacked. In 2008, they cofounded a local dance party called Hot Knees so they could stop making the […]
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• Ratboys make you a sandwich

  03-02-2026 18:29 via chicagoreader.com
  One of the biggest Chicago indie-rock records of the year arrives this Friday, February 6: Singin’ to an Empty Chair by hardworking four-piece Ratboys. Their previous album, 2023’s The Window, was so terrific that it’s hard to imagine anybody topping it, but the new one somehow has more of the locomotive rhythms, easygoing melodies, and […]
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• Seriously silly, also sublime

  03-02-2026 17:04 via chicagoreader.com
  Così fan tutte, through 2/15, Lyric Opera House
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