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French, the former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, is running a close race against the incumbent Wright in the Republican primary runoff, focusing heavily on culture war issues.
In the past five years, there have been 976 West Nile virus cases reported in Texas, resulting in 106 deaths, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
I’ve been going to the Harold Washington Library Center diligently since I was 18. The summer between high school and college, I would write four days a week on the fourth floor, in the wooden cubbies that face State Street. It was at this age that I began to take writing seriously, so seriously tha
The fossil fuel industry pumps millions into preparing high schoolers for jobs as lease operators, technicians and more. The president's call to "drill, baby, drill" has reinvigorated that work.
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The number of New York City families receiving offers to public preschool programs remained flat this year, despite a major push from Mayor Zohran Mamdani to increase outreach and expand the progr
The City Council will reintroduce a bill banning the sale of birds at pet stores across New York after a fledgling attempt last year didn’t get off the ground. Councilmember Harvey Epstein, a Democrat from Manhattan, will introduce the bill that would prohibit the sale of some birds in pet shops. Th
A Honduran man was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza a day after a judge barred most arrests inside New York City immigration courts. Court observers and advocates were shocked Tuesday morning after a 21-year-old Honduran man was taken by masked ICE agents after he left a routin
A 40-year-old Rikers Island detainee died Tuesday morning, marking the second death in city jail custody in less than 24 hours, THE CITY has learned. The detainee, identified by the Department of Correction as Umais Khan, had been arrested May 5 and was awaiting trial on felony robbery and narcotics
For more than 80 years, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has been providing educational scholarships and opportunities to students in Illinois. In 2024, the Illinois Lottery launched a joint specialty ticket that contributes directly to ten different admirable causes, including UNCF. With its vi
We’re excited to announce that Malik Jackson will be the next publisher of the Chicago Reader! Jackson most recently served as the executive director and publisher of South Side Media Works, which operates community newspapers South Side Weekly and the Hyde Park Herald. You can read the full press r
The Sheep Detectives in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>The Sheep Detectives</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
LifeHack in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>LifeHack</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Chicago-born and raised muralist Robert Valadez remembers the song “Cult of Personality,”  a 1988 single from the band Living Colour. “In the song, they say ‘Only you can set you free,’” Valadez said while taking a break, slightly stained from painting the side of CocoBar restaurant on the Chic
The Secret History of Chicago Music covered bluesman Jimmy Johnson in 2020, and I recently got a nice message about it from a fan named John Suiter. He offered me a free copy of Margo Cooper’s Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews, which he’d helped get published in 2023. Suiter took the
Pandemonium, Please Hold, open run at Second City The post Laughing into the abyss appeared first on Chicago Reader.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>The Devil Wears Prada 2</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Mortal Kombat II in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Mortal Kombat II</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Despite the structural barriers to traveling between Chicago’s 77 community areas, many friends are willing to face the city’s geographic hurdles and sustain relationships that transcend race, gender, age, and class. In an effort to chronicle human connection and love in spite of these challenges, t
Erupcja in limited release in theaters The post Review: <i>Erupcja</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Bianca Pastel’s article [in the April 2026 issue, entitled “What Kyoto taught me about designing cities for humans”] was beautiful and brilliant, just like her work. It would be incredibly thoughtful and nice if people who design public spaces made them accessible and welcoming for everyone. I have
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