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Here are all of our past issues of Chicago's favorite Progressive newspaper. Here you can download the whole issue OR visit the site of the group, people, band, restaurant, or issue we covered. If you're looking for an advertiser, try this page. If you're still confused, email us and we'll get it figured out.


Volume 2, Issue 2
March 2005

Cover: Civil Liberties Battle Brings the War Home

Other Features: Interview with Organizer Michael Miranda, Community Media Workshop, Center for American Progress, Organic Produce, Creating Change from the Underground Up, Ode to Carlos Cortez, Gentrification of Pilsen Photo Essay, best Music of ’04, Near NorthWest Arts Council, Profile of Author Elizabeth Crane, Pacific Garden Mission's New Home, Alchemy Theatre, Protest Posters

Reviews: Hot Doug's, Steppenwolf Theatre, Reeltime Evanston, John Rauhouse, All this Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane

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Volume 2, Issue 1
February 2005

Cover: Our Media Odyssey: What to Expect in Media Politics in Chicago and the Nation in Four More Bush Years

Other Features: CANTV Funding Struggles, Chicago Historical Society, MLK Jr. Day, Inaugral Resistance, Chicago Pollwatchers, Your Body No More, League of Women Voters, Separate and Unequal Care at Advocate, Federal and State Rep Guide, Department of Labor, Chicago Association of Community Organizers for Reform (ACORN), Charles H. Kerr Co., Radical Cheerleaders, Gay Marriage Protest, Creative America, The Guild Complex

Reviews: Lickety Split, Tanoshii, Curbstomp, The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis

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Volume 1, Issue 12
December 2004

Cover: What the HELL Do We Do Now? Election 2004 Response

Other Features: Chicago Colo, Iraq Vets Speak Out, Military Families, Vietnam Vets Against the War, The Doctor Checks In, Pilsen Residents Intiative, Good News About the Election, Wal-Mart Class Action Lawsuit, The American Dream, An Election Judge's Journey, 25 Alternative News Sources, Fast Food Elections, Behind Gaia Boxes, Chicago Poets, Santa Rampage 2004

Reviews: Welcome to Ashley, Quality Quill Publishing, The Actors Workshop Theatre, The Silver Spoon by Stacey Klemstein, Selling Women Short by Liza Feathersone, Devils Highway by Luis Alberto

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Volume 1, Issue 11
November 2004

Cover: The Fight for Senn High School: Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic & Resistance

Other Features: 2004 Voter Guide, Chicago Cable Stories, City College Teachers' Strike, Cleaning Up the Union, Food Not Bombs, Activst Group THONG, Remembering Matthew Shepard, Alternative Thanksgiving, COW Power Alternative Energy, Wal-Mart in Chicago

Reviews: Ethiopian Diamond, Sarah Becan, Peel, Way of the Wolf by E.E. Knight, Dick: the Man Who is President by John Nichols

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Volume 1, Issue 10
October 2004

Cover: Electoral Dysfunction: Let the Voter Beware

Other Features: Big Media Bodyslam, Open University of the Left, Elections & Astrology, Wilson Yard, Millon Worker March, Haymarket History, Ralph Nader, 2004 RNC, Kathy Kelly, Bobby Conn, Eyes Wide Open, Nuclear Energy Symposium, Artist Malaquias Montoya, No Doctors Interview, Around the Coyote Festival, Institute of Cultural Affairs, National Runaway Switchboard

Reviews: Mexican Fine Arts Center, Uncommon Ground, Rogue Theatre,

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Volume 1, Issue 9
September 2004

Cover: Milennium Park: It's Big

Other Features: Chicago Tonight Study, Chicago Air & Water Show, Sara Lee, Congress Hotel Strike, Chicago Jobs with Justice, Facade Project, Prostitution Advocacy, 2004 Chicago Independent Media Guide, Chicago Comic Convention, Vitamin Lady Dorothy Tanner, Health in the Arts, Language Barriers, Frank Pulaski, Cafe Intifada, Graham Cracker Comics, Black Bastard,

Reviews: Karyn's Fresh Corner, Cibelle, Patricia Barber, Moon Unit Sound Labs, Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz, Radioactive Panda

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Volume 1, Issue 8
August 2004

Cover: The Little Parade that Could

Other Features: Media Activist Update, Chicago Progressives, Chicago ADAPT, Northwestern Videotape Study, Lost Boys of the Sudan, DuPage County Politics, Free Health Clinic, 2004 DNC, Top 15 Chicago Poets, Eric Salcedo, Japanese Culture Center, Z Loft, Muchin' on Maxwell, Street Level Youth Media, New Life Volunteering Society

Reviews: The Anthony Molinaro & Howard Levy Project, Free Space, Sleepaway School by Lee Stringer

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Volume 1, Issue 7
July 2004

Cover: Activist Matriarch May Molina Dies in Police Custody

Other Features: PeaceFest, Chicago's Mice, Media Activism Road Trip, Public School Closings, Local Bookstores, Illinois Nuclear Energy, Pilsen Murals, Gay Pride 2004, Mixed Nutz Motorcycle Club, The Weather Underground, Girls in the Game, Lakefront Vision Ride, Left of Center Books

Reviews: The M's,

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Volume 1, Issue 6
June 2004

Cover: Something Dirty on the Horizon: 1,300 New Coal-burning Power Plants

Other Features: CANTV Funding, Working Bikes Cooperative, Critical Mass, College of Complexes, Gay Marriage, March for Women's Lives, City Farming, Chicago International Documentary Festival, Hyde Park Art Center, Marcos Raya, Resource Center Chicago,

Reviews: Appetite Theatre, Life at Sea, Found Magazine

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Volume 1, Issue 5
May 2004

Cover: The Ghost of Jim Crow: Covert Racism Still Shapes Unemployment in Chicago

Other Features: Version Fest, We Are Everywhere, Self-Made Radio, St. Basil Health Clinic, Not in My Name, Chicago Bloggers, Can Chicago Afford Wal-Mart?, The Peace School, Bubbles Academy, Facets Multimedia

Reviews: Swing Gitan, Riva Lehrer, Inspiration Cafe, Duenow, Columbia College Story Week

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Volume 1, Issue 4
April 2004

Cover: The Art of Activism: Freestyle Collective, Insight Arts, University of Hip-Hop

Other Features: Journal of Ordinary Thought, Sustainable Chicago, New World Resource Center, American Friends Service Committee, WRTE RadioArte, Rape Victim Advocates, M20 Anniversary Photo Essay, Compassion on Wheels, Earth Mothers, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness

Reviews: Lesser Birds of Paradise, Hidden Place by Shawn Shiflett, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Twilight Tales,

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Volume 1, Issue 3
March 2004

Cover: Great Radio Hope? (Air America Radio)

Other Features: Picking the Good Ones, RCN & CANTV, Chicago Freecycle, Stone Soup Co-op, Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo, Brave New Election part 2, Nancie King Mertz, Riviera, Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, Cakes for Kids,

Reviews: Comedy Sportz, Just Plain Folks, Beyond Media, Las Manos Gallery, The Mammals Theatre Company

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Volume 1, Issue 2
February 2004

Cover: Struggling for the Soul of WTTW

Other Features: Cutting the Pork, Racial Profiling, Kathy Kelly & Voices in the Wilderness, Brave New Elections part 1, Mercury Levels, Audio/Image Network, Dancing with Depression, High Risk Gallery, Workers Center, Multi-Cultural Dance Center

Reviews: Red Rooster, Paper Airplane Pilots, Cafe Mestizo

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Volume 1, Issue 1
January 2004

Cover: Big Media, A Response to the Chicago Tribune

Other Features: A Great Time to Be Progressive, Young Chicago Authors, Healing Earth Resources, RFID: Big Brother at the Grocery Store, Chicago Diner, Handlebar Bar & Grill, Activist's New Year's Resolutions

Reviews: Review of Moon's Crossing by Barbara Croft, Barajas

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