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Kwyn Townsend Riley, a grad student at WIU, recently won the Chicago Readers 2021 Best of Chicago Competition.

As a part of the 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series, author Ling Ma MFA ’15 will read from her collection of fictional works in a Klarman Hall event next Thursday.

“The Quiet Before” looks at the percolations of many disparate movements, such as #MeToo, suffrage and the explosion of white nationalism in the U.S.

"You and yours and them, she be willing to give, she be willing to live, she know she got the world on her back and the galaxes in her womb. She is a woman so she know that means that she is a warrior too …" – "and She Worthy" by Kywn Townsend Riley, from her spoken word album, "and She Worthy."

Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood named Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser in February 2021. Here's what has happened since.

Dancers perform underneath the Olympic cauldron during the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Birds Nest National Stadium. Michael Kappeler/dpaThe Olympic flame in the Birds Nest Stadium was extinguished a few minutes after IOC president Thomas Bach declared the 24th ...

A bill progressing through the Wisconsin Legislature was meant to spur the expansion of electric vehicle charging, but then things got complicated.

Chicago’s leading alternative newspaper for decades faces extinction as its board members split over the leadership of the Reader’s co-publisher and president, Tracy Baim.

A stalemate among board members of the Chicago Reader threatens to derail its move to a nonprofit business model and undermine the editorial independence of the alternative biweekly after more than 50 years.

Let’s not make this current dispute personal. The Reader is an important voice, especially for journalists of color and other often-marginalized groups.