Chicago Reader

10/30/2025

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness. https://bit.ly/3LixD0g

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.

10/29/2025

Reader news editor Shawn Mulcahy discusses his work documenting how ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal/state agents are interacting with demonstrators. He joins the conversation at The 21st Show with host Brian Mackey and Chicago Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott.

Listen to the full interview for more on how federal agents are treating demonstrators as judges order agents to limit the use of force and whether he’s seen a change in their behavior over the past few months.
https://bit.ly/3JB6dCj

10/29/2025

Chicago Reader print issue of October 30, 2025 (Volume 55, Number 5). https://bit.ly/4qsUWod

Chicago Reader print issue of October 30, 2025 (Volume 55, Number 5).

10/29/2025

New Theatre Project gives David Harrower's drama about a sexual predator and his victim confronting each other a site-specific staging. https://bit.ly/3Jx0mhr

New Theatre Project gives David Harrower's drama about a sexual predator and his victim confronting each other a site-specific staging.

10/29/2025

The Empty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series ended 20 years ago, but it returns for one night to roll out a new retrospective box set. https://bit.ly/4oh7L3D

The Empty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series ended 20 years ago, but it returns for one night to roll out a new retrospective box set.

10/29/2025

A young woman's attempts to bring on her period with the help of a witch brings on bloodlust in Factory's The Sporting Life. https://bit.ly/4qx2Eh1

A young woman's attempts to bring on her period with the help of a witch brings on bloodlust in Factory's The Sporting Life.

10/29/2025

Las Borinqueñas traces the effects of the 1950s trials of the birth control pill in Puerto Rico through the lives of five women. https://bit.ly/3LfEtnd

Las Borinqueñas traces the effects of the 1950s trials of the birth control pill in Puerto Rico through the lives of five women.

10/29/2025

New issue drop!

On the cover: "Five and a half feet under: the gravediggers of Rosehill Cemetery" by Andrew Stojkovich

📸 Kirk Williamson

Pick yours up in person tomorrow or read the PDF now!

https://bit.ly/48UodSE

10/29/2025

In 30 minutes, Reader news editor Shawn Mulcahy talks about his work documenting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with The 21st Show! Tune in! https://bit.ly/3J50zIE

Video by Shawn Mulcahy

10/29/2025

4 Chairs Theatre's revival of a family drama by late Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson is aching and intimate. https://bit.ly/47LRpKi

4 Chairs Theatre's revival of a family drama by late Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson is aching and intimate.