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‘The Fan Club’ uses gig posters to support music venues
If you post a hashtagged photo of these posters in the wild, you'll trigger a donation to the Chicago Independent Venue League.
By Salem Collo-Julin | Oct 21, 2020
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Alexis Hex casts spells—and yarn 1
The crafty, supernatural queen hosts the webseries Knitting’s A Drag.
by Catey Sullivan | Oct 20, 2020
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‘Essential, not disposable’ 2
We need a new ethic of care that values workers not only for their labor but for the lives that they are living.
by Anna Romina Guevarra | Oct 20, 2020
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You’re going to be OK
The Mental Health Issue
Download My State of Mind: The Guide Book (PDF) by SocialWorks.
This 20-page section was a special pullout supplement in the October 15, 2020 Chicago Reader.
This content would not be possible without the support of the Chicago Reader partners: Habilitative Systems, Sinai Chicago, Joliet Job Corps and Paul Simon Job Corps, Adler University, Chicago Behavioral Hospital, Thresholds, and Kadima Mental Health Services. -
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The Housing Issue
Isaacs | Culture A book looks beyond skyscrapers to a neglected bounty of single family houses.
Dukmasova | Witness Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
Landlords A new database matches rental properties with owners, whether they like it or not.
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