Photos of the rally following the Chicago SlutWalk on Saturday June 4. It was held in Daley Plaza. In an interview with WBEZ about the event, Chief co-organizer Jamie Keiles said, “I would like to see sex entirely removed from the idea of rape. It’s a violent crime.
That was then: In September of 1968, women’s history was made, when a group of women protesting outside of the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City threw “instruments of torture” into a trashcan.
Alice Conroy loves a good mystery. The North Side resident has figured out that all the hours she’s spent reading mystery novels amount to more than a decade. So when her detective husband is gunned down, Alice is primed to believe something fishy is going on.
The Loop will be swarming with bookworms over the weekend. The Printers Row Lit Fest is an annual bonanza of book readings and book browsing. It’s a perfect weekend outing, but for those looking for more, Eight Forty-Eight decided to speak with someone who’s immersed in books everyday.
Human Rights Watch experts track wars, poverty and abuses all over the globe. Their reports, however, don't always show the human face behind the analysis. That’s what Human Rights Watch exposes when it hosts its annual film festivals in major cities like New York and London.
In the series Fear of Frying: Culinary Nightmares, food reporter Nina Barrett has done her part to tame some of the tasks that can make entering the kitchen so unnerving. She’s tackled knife sharpening, party throwing and egg boiling.
Hockey and basketball season may be over for Chicago, but not baseball. No matter how their team is doing, every baseball fan loves the the long ball, the home run.
