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- Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-police-department-civil-forfeiture-investigation/Content?oid=23728922 153 comments
- Be like Rose https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trump-biden-pro-wrestling/content?oid=83126969 8 comments politics
- The great evil Republicans remain silent about E. Jean Carroll’s charge that Trump raped her. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trump-carroll-biden/content?oid=79704734 530 comments politics
- "Profits over people" - is there a way out? https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/coronavirus-corporate-greed/content?oid=78896591 18 comments politics
- The new Cold War with China has cost lives against coronavirus https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/coronavirus-china-us-response/content?oid=78757637&media=amp+html&oid=78757637&__twitter_impression=true 15 comments politics
- Deconstructing the perpetual war machine https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/foreign-policy-perspective-trump-iran/content?oid=71409994 5 comments politics
- Black hockey players excel on ice despite history of racism, lack of rinks in Chicago https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/blackhawks-blacks-in-sports-national-hockey-league/content?oid=45276499 53 comments hockey
- Stop blaming Bernie Sanders for the GOP baseball shooting https://www.chicagoreader.com/bleader/archives/2017/06/16/stop-blaming-bernie-sanders-for-the-gop-baseball-shooting 39 comments politics
- Drunk driver who killed a cyclist in Chicago lies at sentencing, gets a 10-day sentence. Ten days. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cann-san-hamel-sentencing-false-statements/Content?oid=25618983 546 comments bicycling
- Why did the drunk driver who killed Bobby Cann get only ten days in jail? http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cann-san-hamel-cyclist-drunk-driver-sentencing/Content?oid=25446274 9 comments bicycling
- The Tangier Twilight of Paul Bowles. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tangier-twilight/Content?oid=901338 8 comments books
- How liberals love diversity and ignore inequality http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/walter-benn-michaels-the-trouble-with-diversity-election/content?oid=24418522 65 comments politics
- No-show cops and dysfunctional courts keep Cook County Jail inmates waiting years for a trial http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cook-county-jail-pre-trial-detention-investigation/Content?oid=24346477 21 comments law
- Think a vote for Trump is a vote against the machine? Think again. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trump-emanuel-daley-chicago-machine/content?oid=24073577 5 comments politics
- The disappearing Chicago accent is layered with local history http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/local-accent-dialect-daley-superfans-wendt-mancow/bestof?oid=22604803 11 comments linguistics
- New Chicago D.A. opposes Mandatory Minimums for *Gun Crimes* http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/kim-foxx-bid-unseat-anita-alvarez-cook-county/content?oid=21359641 14 comments politics
- The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders's 1963 arrest http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bernie-sanders-1963-arrest-full-story-school-segregation/content?oid=21247370 4 comments politics
- Books we can't wait to read in 2016 http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2016/01/04/books-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2016 7 comments books
- Bernie Sanders says he’d use executive orders to spur immigration reform. "Hillary came out and said she wanted to deport the refugee children that were fleeing violence in Central America," Rosa said. In contrast, "Bernie has said he is going to work to keep families together." http://www.chicagoreader.com/bleader/archives/2015/12/24/bernie-sanders-says-hed-use-executive-orders-to-spur-immigration-reform 634 comments politics
- A controversial book on Hinduism is back in print in India—with a tweak - Wendy Doniger's book is back http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/wendy-doniger-art-institute-hinduism-controversy/content?oid=20306319 50 comments india
- How an Illinois governor delayed Chicago's efforts to build protected bike lanes http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bobby-cann-protected-bike-lanes-clybourn-quinn/Content?oid=20305324 7 comments bicycling
- How Chicago Public School officials decided to pull Persepolis from the classroom -- "our schools are run by ass-covering bureaucrats who, when faced with controversial content, don't even show the slightest interest in reading a book they're gearing up to ban" http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/e-mails-show-cps-officials-pull-persepolis-classrooms/content?oid=16355626 7 comments politics
- Charter school operator won't say how it spent your tax dollars http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/charter-schools-spending-foia-united-neighborhood-organization/content?oid=11880450 3 comments politics
- Death of a Cyclist: The story of Bobby Cann, and how DUI endangers even the safest of cyclists http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cyclist-bobby-cann-bike-safety-clybourn-lanes/Content?oid=11385971 11 comments bicycling
- "Rahm closed 50 schools...left schools so broke they can't afford toilet paper or librarians...In the last year, he cut Prosser's budget by about $1.2 million...[now he's] proposing to put a Noble Street charter school in an abandoned lumberyard right across the street from Prosser." http://www.chicagoreader.com/bleader/archives/2013/10/16/mayor-rahm-to-prosser-high-beat-it 112 comments politics
- Mayor Rahm to Public Schools: Beat it! In the wake of 50 Public Schools being shuttered, Rahm Emmanuel has hiked funding to Charters. Now he proposes to put a brand new Charter School directly across the street from Prosser High School, which had its budget cut by $1.2 million. | The Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/bleader/archives/2013/10/16/mayor-rahm-to-prosser-high-beat-it 8 comments politics
- Chicago Reader: how a heroin ring on Chicago's west side operates http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/gang-violence-heroin-new-breeds-vice-lords/content?oid=8761736 2 comments indepthstories
- Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools: Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicagos-unionized-public-schools-outperform-charter-schools/content?oid=7559748 38 comments politics
- The feculency factor: reviewing a bunch of self-published books http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/04/13/the-feculency-factor-reviewing-a-bunch-of-self-published-books 36 comments books
- The history of the ERA shows the GOP's rightward shift quite starkly: support of the ERA was part of the party's platform from 1940 to 1980, Eisenhower asked Congress to pass it in 1958, and after its 1972 congressional passage, Nixon endorsed it. Now we have Santorum. http://www.chicagoreader.com/bleader/archives/2012/02/20/the-era-doa-30-years-ago 5 comments politics
- The politics of pot - Are our politicians too paranoid to decriminalize marijuana? http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/politics-of-marijuana-reform-and-decriminalization/content?oid=5101495&showfulltext=true 111 comments politics
- Class War, With Fangs: In the Twilight series, vampires and werewolves stand in for nobles and commoners. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/twilight-saga-eclipse-review-class-war/content?oid=2044447 4 comments reddit.com
- Serial Killer "specialist" Dr. Helen Morrison torn apart in a feature. Was thinking of buying her book until I came across this piece. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/true-crime/content?oid=915674 11 comments reddit.com
- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is up for re-election soon. After 20 years of incompetence, arrogance and nepotism, there's a chance he might not be mayor much longer. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-daley-chicago-mayor-election/content?oid=1514615 17 comments politics
- See You in Court, Donald Rumsfeld: Two American civilians say the U.S. tortured them in Iraq. A Chicago judge won't let the former secretary of defense duck out of their lawsuit. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/donald-rumsfeld-torture-suit-case/content?oid=1515390 11 comments reddit.com
- Federal Judge Says Rumsfeld Can't Duck Torture Trial http://www.chicagoreader.com/theblog/archives/2010/03/05/federal-judge-says-rumsfeld-cant-duck-trial 12 comments politics
- A discussion of the "r word". Is it sometimes less offensive to say "retarded"? http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/rahm-emanuel-sarah-palin-family-guy-retard-disabilities/content?oid=1467084 15 comments reddit.com
- Chicago's Museum of Holography is Being Unfairly Shuttered! In Related News: Chicago Has A Museum of Holography! http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/museum_of_holography/ 5 comments technology
- Why Obama is Running: Getting Power to the People http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Confessions of a US Army Torturer http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/torture/ 47 comments reddit.com