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• Review: WTO/99

  05-08-2026 19:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  WTO/99 screening Thu 8/11 at 7 PM at the Music Box Theatre
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• Illinois prisons expand free phone calls

  05-08-2026 17:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is extending a pilot program that provides incarcerated people with 775 minutes of free phone calls per month.  Naomi Puzzello, public information officer for the IDOC, confirmed in an email to the Chicago Reader that the department decided to extend the program after seeing “a significant increase in minute […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 55, Number 19

  05-08-2026 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 55, No. 19. August 2026.
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• The quiet infrastructure of control

  05-08-2026 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Right now, as you read this, someone is watching you.  From AI-powered cameras and automated license plate readers to drones and GPS monitors, police at every level have access to a truly impressive arsenal of tools collecting information, whether you’re on the bus, at a coffee shop, or within the confines of your own home. […]
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• Southeast Spotlight: Jordans Beauty Supply

  05-08-2026 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jordans Beauty Supply1911 E. 79th Street, Wed, Thu, and Fri 10 AM–5 PM, Tue and Sat 10 AM–3 PM, closed on Sun and Mon(773) 734-6268, jbseducational.com, Email  [email protected] @JordansBeautySupply, Facebook Jordans Beauty Supply Some businesses are built on ambition; Jordans Beauty Supply was built on belief. When the company where Ike Jordan had spent years […]
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• ‘I found it in the alley!’

  05-08-2026 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Social Fabric is a glimpse into the vibrant lives, objects, and spaces that shape our city, cocurated with community archives and local photographers. It can be the most mundane day: gloomy, overcast, and, somehow, both chilly and muggy, when a walk through a Chicago alley brings about an entirely new trajectory. Maybe you spotted a […]
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• I lived in the women’s prison slated for closure

  05-08-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I read the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) announcement that the new Logan Correctional Center will be built in Crest Hill, next to the new Stateville prison, I felt deep worry for all those still behind bars at the current prison. As a woman previously incarcerated there, I know firsthand that conditions at Logan […]
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• Chicago’s alleys are a little world

  05-08-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a bustling city where every nook and cranny is packed with bars, coffee shops, and corner stores, alleys exist as a place of calm, one where people can find far more than a parking spot. Sometimes, that’s a painting. Madisyn Mettenburg was roaming aimlessly through the alley near her Ravenswood apartment after a rough […]
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• Chicago’s alleys are a little word

  05-08-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a bustling city where every nook and cranny is packed with bars, coffee shops, and corner stores, alleys exist as a place of calm, one where people can find far more than a parking spot. Sometimes, that’s a painting. Madisyn Mettenburg was roaming aimlessly through the alley near her Ravenswood apartment after a rough […]
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• Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet?

  05-08-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I came into writing this piece several months ago—wide-eyed, Gen Z, hopeful that gripping on to analog methods for dear life might just help us resist the slop and the shit overtaking our media landscape. It’s not news that everything posted online is surveilled by federal agencies and regurgitated by bots, then collected as personal […]
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