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Johnny Twist

“You don’t think they call me the Elusive Johnny Twist for nothing, do you?” SHARON LURYE, courtesy of JOHNNY TWIST. On a storefront in Woodlawn there’s a faded, almost illegible green sign that reads...

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Freedom Day

ARPITA ANEJA. From left to right: boycott participant Dr. Fannie Rushing, Jasson Perez of the Black Youth Project, Jitu Brown of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, and co-producer Tracye...

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Beer Memories

COURTESY OF BEER HOPTACULAR. The Beer of the Year winners, as voted on by attendees: “Fallen Angel” by Lucky Monk Brewery (first place), “Not Your Father’s Root Beer” by Small Town Brewery (second),...

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Somos Esto

SHARON LURYE Hector Duarte’s studio is full of butterflies and barbed wire. If you counted up every orange monarch butterfly that flits by in the paintings and murals that line the walls of his...

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The Secret Is Out

SHARON LURYE There is a secret that only a select few may understand. For decades, those who do have gathered in dimly-lit rooms, huddled together for hours as they play out their wildest fantasies....

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Equal Property

MAGGIE SIVIT Beryl Satter combined a gripping personal story and a meticulously-researched history of systematic racism in her 2010 book Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of...

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Strangers in Strange Lands

SHARON LURYE As the horrors of the Holocaust loomed over Europe, thousands of Jews fled the continent and a new diaspora began in North America. Two museums on the South Side are now exploring the...

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Farm to Market

ZOE KAUDER NALEBUFF Steven Lucy has deep roots in Hyde Park. When he was born, his parents, currently resident masters at the University of Chicago’s South Campus Residence Hall, were resident heads...

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Visions of the East

JOHN WEINSTEIN/THE FIELD MUSEUM Talk about China in Western media tends to hover between competitive—the country is a geopolitical rival and a burgeoning superpower—and ambitious—it’s the next big...

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Local School Councils by the Numbers

On April 7 and 8—report card pick-up days—public schools in Chicago held their biannual elections for local school councils, or LSCs. These councils hold real power: they approve the school’s budget,...

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