Issue Archive for Apr 26 - May 2, 2018 Vol. 47, No. 29
Home Land, Promised Land, Candy Land
Yvette Mayorga’s art depicts Mexican immigrants’ vision of the American dream
By Kerry Cardoza
Memorial to fascist Balbo stays put
MLK mural mystery in Bronzeville
Do immigrants really find a better life in the U.S., or is it just a fantasia of prosperity full of barely concealed threats?
by Kerry Cardoza | Apr 25, 2018
The artist, Eugene "Eda" Wade, wants to know, but nobody seems to have any answers.
by Jeff Huebner | Apr 24, 2018
The dance troupe recreates the spirit of an old roller rink and a traveling road show.
by Oliver Sava | Apr 25, 2018
Its Spanish title, La Luz de un Cigarrillo, is more fitting.
by Jack Helbig | Apr 25, 2018
An honest conversation gets buried in too many layers of contrivance.
by Dan Jakes | Apr 27, 2018
Bekah Brunstetter's play takes its characters to exquisitely complicated places.
by Justin Hayford | Apr 26, 2018
This adaptation of an Iraq war memoir by a "GI Joe Schmoe" is strangely lifeless.
by Irene Hsiao | Apr 27, 2018
Oh, the good old days when a former president admitted to criminal complicity on prime-time television!
by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 26, 2018
Like the original production, Kokandy Productions' revival weaves serviceable material into a compelling story.
by Albert Williams | Apr 26, 2018
But it’s sweet, sweet nostalgia porn.
by Tony Adler | Apr 25, 2018
There’s plenty of drama in the story of Chicago’s street murals—but not here.
by Tony Adler | Apr 25, 2018
The kitchen at Avondale’s Ludlow Liquors is so good it gets its own name.
by Mike Sula | Apr 20, 2018
Irving Park's Serbian bakery has savory pastries of epic proportions, and much more.
by Mike Sula | Apr 26, 2018
Plus: What’s good for the gander is good for the gander.
by Dan Savage | Apr 25, 2018
A plaque explaining the controversial Italian aviator's legacy could be added to the lakefront memorial, officials said.
by John Greenfield | Apr 23, 2018
by Jamie Ramsay | Apr 27, 2018
by Cecil Adams | Apr 27, 2018
More than a century ago, Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the radical union’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on that legacy of struggle through music.
by Kim Kelly | Apr 26, 2018
An expert negotiator, he went to bat for stars as big as James Brown and Muddy Waters, but he also clawed back royalties for countless forgotten artists who’d never gotten their due.
by Yana Kunichoff | Apr 19, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Noah Berlatsky | Apr 20, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Leor Galil | Apr 20, 2018
by Leor Galil | Apr 20, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Leor Galil | Apr 20, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 20, 2018
by Luca Cimarusti | Apr 20, 2018
by Steve Krakow | Apr 25, 2018
Plus: White Mystery keep on celebrating their first decade, the All Smiles hip-hop showcase reaches its sixth birthday, and more.
by J.R. Nelson | Apr 25, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 19, 2018
by Luca Cimarusti | Apr 20, 2018
by Ben Joravsky | Apr 19, 2018
by Maya Dukmasova | Apr 26, 2018
by Mike Sula | Apr 23, 2018
by Ben Sachs | Apr 20, 2018
by Hunter Stuart | Apr 20, 2018
by Julia Thiel | Apr 24, 2018
by Ashley Mizuo | Apr 19, 2018
by Steve Heisler | Apr 19, 2018
by Vince Cerasani | Apr 23, 2018
by Steve Heisler | Apr 23, 2018
by Ben Joravsky | Apr 24, 2018
by Patrick Friel | Apr 24, 2018
by Deanna Isaacs | Apr 23, 2018
by Aimee Levitt | Apr 23, 2018
by Ashley Mizuo | Apr 23, 2018
by Sue Kwong | Apr 23, 2018
by Maya Dukmasova | Apr 24, 2018
by Ben Sachs | Apr 24, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 23, 2018
by TJ Kliebhan | Apr 24, 2018
by Aimee Levitt | Apr 24, 2018
by Luca Cimarusti | Apr 25, 2018
by Maya Dukmasova | Apr 25, 2018
by Leor Galil | Apr 26, 2018
by Deanna Isaacs | Apr 25, 2018
by Kevin Warwick | Apr 25, 2018
by Evan F. Moore | Apr 27, 2018
by Aimee Levitt | Apr 26, 2018
by Ben Sachs | Apr 27, 2018
by Steve Heisler | Apr 27, 2018
by Julia Thiel | Apr 27, 2018
by Peter Margasak | Apr 27, 2018
by Steve Heisler | Apr 27, 2018
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