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Chicago Reader print issue of July 24, 2025 (Volume 54, Number 42) bit.ly/4m71gP8
My note in this week’s @Chicago_Reader: Small independent publications are essential to local news, about attending the @AltWeeklies conference chicagoreader.com/columns-opinio…
Jimmy Rogers first made his mark playing alongside Muddy Waters and Little Walter in the 1940s, but he didn't have the hits to end up as famous. bit.ly/4kUpuLF
Please, if you have a chance, take some time to read this piece. I wouldn't be this annoying about it if I didn't think these were stories that should be told: chicagoreader.com/music/music-fe…
Fred Below helped invent the beat of electric Chicago blues chicagoreader.com/music/the-secr… @Chicago_Readerより
The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office's openness under State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke bit.ly/3GZPQOo
Chicago rapper Ju-Blick chooses his steps carefully to do right by the Chatham community that raised him. bit.ly/45intnS
Zine Club Chicago and Chicago Public Library's Richard J. Daley branch plan a day of vendors, discussions, and more on Saturday, July 26. bit.ly/46V7bm6
Plus: Pritzker signs “anti-squatter” bill into law and Chicago's Disability Pride Parade takes to the Loop. bit.ly/4m1slE9
For over a decade, Thomas Kong sat at the register in his convenience store, Kim's Corner Food, and created art out of whatever was around. bit.ly/3IAXvDs
Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring production. bit.ly/4kPA2eY
Blank Theatre Company offers a spare but evocative revival of Stephen Sondheim's Passion in an intimate setting. bit.ly/3GRMBZu
Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother. bit.ly/3TV1HAf
At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what it claims. bit.ly/3Ur6RnG
As I said, I'm only being annoying about this because I think this story and the stories of the people impacted are important. If you haven't had a chance to read my cover story for @Chicago_Reader, save this for your lunchtime read today. 🙏
Please, if you have a chance, take some time to read this piece. I wouldn't be this annoying about it if I didn't think these were stories that should be told: chicagoreader.com/music/music-fe…
Sophie Brooks's Oh, Hi! makes insights into modern romance that aren't revelatory, but the delivery is unhinged enough to stick. bit.ly/4f0uqgw
Labor news: actors and stage managers at Second City signed off on a new contract that raises wages across the board, home care workers continue their fight for better pay, and more chicagoreader.com/news/labor/lab…
Singer-songwriter Lefty Parker brings quiet, intimate folk to Color Club chicagoreader.com/music/concert-…
Find shows, lectures, exhibitions, and other things to do in our community calendar chicagoreader.com/community-cale…