Chicago Reader

Speed Wash

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Speed Wash
By GRANT PICK
Pick had a way of capturing the city through the eyes of the people he wrote about. His subjects were authentic and unfiltered (and not always in a pleasant way). He documented all the mess and excitement of life in a Chicago that in some ways has long since died—and in some ways is still very much alive.

READER BITES

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

READER BITES
Hot chocolate isn’t something I usually go for. While I may crave it a couple times a year, usually around the holidays, it was more in my rotation when I was younger — before I acquired a taste for coffee, matcha, or chai. But they’re doing something different at Sfera Sicilian Street Food.

Bean pie, my brother?

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Bean pie, my brother?
By MIKE SULA
Made from cooked, mashed, small navy beans, the bean pie is the iconic food of Black Muslims everywhere.

Reader Rewind

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Reader Rewind
By SALEM COLLO-JULIN
So for our final issue of 2024, we’ve decided to share some of our favorite gems from those cherished archives.

Reader Letters

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Reader Letters
The Chicago Reader accepts comments and letters to the editor of less than 400 words for publication consideration.

POETRY CORNER

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

By Adrienne Novy
A weekly series curated by the Chicago Reader and sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.

IMAGINE THIS

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Every week I’m reminded that there’s a younger person out there who, like myself (yes, that was me in the library), is discovering our pages or website for the first time. And every week there’s something great, new, challenging, or maybe even joyful that I’d like them to know about.

Chicago Reader

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT

BUFORD, JAMAL DEGERATTO, DANIEL DEVER, MATT DOUBLEDAY, JAKE MIKVA, ROBERT REITER, MARILYNN RUBIO, CHRISTINA CRAWFORD STEED