Sian Heder's drama about Judith Heumann and the 1977 San Francisco sit-in trades Hollywood disability porn for radical crip activism. bit.ly/4AbZm6X

A recap of the best animated features and shorts at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival bit.ly/4iCr4T9

Chicago-based filmmakers Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan weave simple moments of vulnerability into a beautifully devastating feature. bit.ly/4sGUkNf

Democrats have a chance to address the inequality, military incursions, and domestic secret police force that led to the so-called "blue tsunami." bit.ly/4iFKTt0

The Cinema Scrapbook places film screenings in conversation with other local creative happenings, illuminating Chicago's rich cultural connectivity. bit.ly/4BHUyIl

Los Angeles–based rage rapper Lucy Bedroque likes tracks that push your speakers into the red, a choice that's practically de rigueur in the subgenre. bit.ly/4iHOeI4

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From Sudanese milk fermentation to Filipino herbalism, Azadi's classes help students reclaim traditional self-sufficiency. bit.ly/4kyOBXN

The Chicago Police Department has rewritten an internal policy that allowed officers to easily close missing persons cases they did not solve. bit.ly/4zumOwi

Filmmaker Nancy De Los Santos remembers the civil rights and labor icon who she had the pleasure of knowing over four decades. bit.ly/4zmIsSB

Star Urquidi and Miya Medina's global Pacific coastal pop-up Estrella del Mar returns to the next Monday Night Foodball. bit.ly/4AeLOru

After four EPs that revealed a fire in the belly, Yaelokre dropped a riveting debut full-length, Foreword (Atlantic), in September. bit.ly/4z7d0aP

Grabadolandia, a free educational printmaking festival run by the IGC, wants to inspire people to engage in “printmaking as a social force.” bit.ly/4ffFNCH

Sloane Murphy writes like she lives in a tavern on a vinyl barstool that's been desiccated by years spent soaking up other people's spills. bit.ly/4AhyGC4

Prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to disclose when officers have a history of misconduct, lying, or displaying bias.

But our reporting found county prosecutors were seemingly unaware of dozens of officers with problematic histories.

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PDF viewer and free download for Chicago Reader's print issue of November 2026 (Volume 56, Number 2). bit.ly/4BPnyxU

The real-life story of Jim Crow-era boxer Jack Johnson inspires Marco Ramirez's taut and engrossing drama at Writers Theatre. bit.ly/3Wd5JbJ

Can a legal settlement actually change a workplace, or does it just change the paperwork? By Devyn-Marshall Brown I didn't expect my first time at a strip club to go the way it went. I also didn't think I'd be going as a reporter, carrying $200 in singl... bit.ly/4iAredM

Eleanor Burgess's incendiary 2018 play about history, erasure, and power returns to Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. bit.ly/4ilvAqt

Stephanie Alison Walker's world premiere at Steppenwolf combines a comedy of manners with a sharp look at women's identity crises. bit.ly/4ix6vHU