Chicago Reader 4-28-2011

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Nightlife snapshots: Before, during, and after the Black Lips show at Logan Square Auditorium.

Music editor Philip Montoro goes to bat for nerd-metal masters Slough Feg.

Three Beats: A revived Chicago label does right by late trumpeter Bill Dixon . . . and more.

Whistler co-owner Billy Helmkamp on the arrival of spring and XTC’s Skylarking.

Gossip Wolf wonders what Will Butler of the Arcade Fire was really doing at Poetry magazine.

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one of this was easy. From choosing the shape and size of every font to determining the chronology of information in each event listing to figuring out how to capture more space for not one but two feature stories, the reimagining of the Chicago Reader has been a meticulous project.

It’s serious business, going in and asking for change (or, as our film critic J.R. Jones would say, “upheaval”) at a publication as venerable as this. On the one hand, there is the Reader’s proud 40year history and extraordinary journalistic legacy to uphold. On the other, there is the need to excite and provoke both new and existing readers, whose habits have drastically changed due to the Web— and who, I believe, will continue in the years to come to pick up a smart, evolving print publication.

Not a single alteration to these pages was made merely for change’s sake. Our two biggest “upheavals”—the dual glossy covers and, on the flip side, a new identity for the Reader’s expanded music content—were highly deliberate. We intend for the glossies to lend more longevity to the paper, throughout and even beyond the week.

And with the “B Side,” we aim to provide more exposure than ever for our always-incisive, ahead-of-the-curve coverage of Chicago’s music scene.

Something else you’ll probably notice: Our intentional foray into participatory journalism. Several of the Reader’s new features strike a tone that’s more cocktail party than lecture hall. You Are Here (11), Culture Vultures (32), In Rotation (B7) and Artist on Artist (B11) capture the conversation of musicians, authors, visual artists, and other inthe-know/off-the-beaten-path Chicagoans. We feel that this kind of interaction follows in the playful spirit of our James Beard Foundation Award-nominated Key Ingredient (56)—which is now paired in our Food & Drink section with a similarly styled craft cocktail challenge (57).

We’ve improved the manner in which we offer suggestions on how to best experience

the city. Our new Agenda pages (8) draw from multiple topics and genres to bring together a weeklong calendar of the most fascinating goings-on across the city. We’ve abandoned Critics’ Choices in favor of a single designation— the almighty Reader Recommends insignia (so noted by the reverse R)—to help you determine which among our already-curated listings are the very best of the best. We’ve reorganized the way we present theater listings (grouping them by new and opening shows) and film listings (breaking them down by new releases, continuing showings, and repertory screenings) to help you better navigate those cultural offerings.

We also will be committing to a style of sports coverage all our own with the weekly “Mudville” feature (13), which will run the gamut from the joy and pain of pro sports fandom to the revelry of recreation sports—everything from baseball to cycling to roller derby.

We’ve abandoned column names—“Hot Type,” “The Business,” and “The Works”—in lieu of placing the writers’ names—Michael Miner, Deanna Isaacs, and Ben Joravsky—front and center. We’re pretty sure you referenced those columns by the writers’ names, anyway.

Also note that Savage Love, which keeps its name, has moved further back in the paper (75) in classifieds, and that music critic Miles Raymer’s column will return next week.

To create a mega Arts & Culture section (31), we’ve amassed our coverage of theater, performing arts, dance, comedy, visual arts, literature, and film. It makes sense to us, and hopefully to you, to have all of this in one place.

And we’re spotlighting the cool artisans and indie crafters among us in our weekly Local Wares feature (59), while drawing deserved attention to the unique and creative homes of Chicagoans on a page we’re calling “Space” (61). Turn that page and you’ve arrived at our classifieds section, which has moved from the back to the center of the publication.

Over on the B Side, you’ll still find the bedrock of the music section—our pithy and informative concert previews—but they’re now combined with our regular concert listings in an easier-to-use, day-by-day format under the collective moniker Soundboard (B17). Gossip Wolf (B5) is being distilled down to what it does best—pure music-scene gossip—with a new feature, Three Beats, offering a roundup of news, reviews, and miscellany on three specific genres—punk, metal, and jazz one week, say, and classical, pop, and electronic the next.

And Photo Pit has been retired to make way for a nightlife photo gallery in which we turn the camera away from the stage and into the crowd, the green room, the afterparty . . .

With all this talk of a print reinvention, you might think we’ve overlooked the Web. Nope.

We’re launching a new blog to coincide with our shiny new print edition. After much deliberation, we settled on a name we’re sure you’ll either love or hate: the Bleader. (Get it?) You’ll find other significant changes to our Web site, chicagoreader.com, too—with many more on the way.

There’s not enough room on this page to properly thank all of the people who contributed to the making of this redesign (suffice it to say that everyone who works at the Reader played a critical role), but it would be remiss not to acknowledge the tireless work ethic and boundless creative energy of art director Paul Higgins, as well as the willingness of design consultant Ron Reason to push our boundaries and his own. We are also grateful to the dozens of people in the community who shared their valuable time and honest feedback. You know who you are.

Did we leave any stone unturned? We think not. But we could be wrong. Direct your constructive criticism—or your fawning praise— to chicagoreader.com/new.

How’s that for upheaval?

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DJs from Ghe20 G0th1k, the blowout NYC-based dance party, open a show at Berlin alongside resident DJs Teen Witch and Baby Bamboo. How to Dress Well headlines. See page B17 of the Reader B Side for more information. 10 PM, Berlin, 954 W. Belmont, $7, free before 11 PM with RSVP to do312.com/event/2011/04/28/cult.

Green and Growing Fair

Learn how to get your seeds started, your tools sharpened, and your compost . . . fermented at the 19th go-round of this annual spring festival at Garfield Park Conservatory. In addition to the aforementioned how-tos, there will be food and live music, a silent auction of urban gardening paraphernalia, used gardening books for purchase, and a sale of seedlings. 10 AM-2 PM, Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park, 312-746-5100, garfieldconservatory.org. F

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Homeless and formerly incarcerated men and women in search of employment can burnish their resumés and dirty their hands at Growing Home, which provides job training through an organic farming nonprofit. Celebrated chef Paul Virant doesn’t need much in the way of resumébuilding—his acclaimed Western Springs restaurant Vie will soon be joined by Perennial Virant in Lincoln Park—but he nonetheless puts himself to work cooking tonight at a benefit for Growing Home.

Going with the theme, desserts are from Sweet Miss Giving’s, which does with pastries what Growing Home does with fruits and veggies. 5:30 PM cocktail reception, 6:30 PM dinner, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 773-549-1336, growinghomeinc.org/benefit, $125.

Cheesemakers, confectioners, apiarists, brewers, and bakers— but no candlestick makers—are featured at a fine foods fair hosted by artisan provisions shop Pastoral. More than 35 purveyors are confirmed to attend; expect samples and sales from Goose Island Brewery, Ames Honey, Potter’s Organic Crackers, Seedling Farms, and more. 11 AM-3 PM, Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine, Chicago French Market, 131 N. Clinton, 312-454-2200, pastoralartisan.com. F

Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis played together on one enviable occasion in 1956, an event re-created onstage at the Apollo Theater in the musical Million Dollar Quartet. Today through 9/4, they’ll line the walls here, too, as part of an exhibit of paintings by alt-country luminary Jon Langford—a visual artist who’s played with the Mekons and the Waco Brothers—as well as George Lindmark, Walter Fydryk, Don Elmi, and Rick “Fish” Janes. There’s also a special tribute to Howard Finster, the prolific Baptist preacher whose work helped put Chicago on the map as a haven for “outsider” artists. The artists will attend tonight’s reception. 5-7 PM, Apollo Theatre, 2540 N. Lincoln, 312-514-1802, anatomicallycorrect.org. F

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At this annual zombie lurch through Andersonville, which includes stops at Simon’s, Farragut’s, the Call, and Hamburger Mary’s, makeup artists will be on hand to help you put your face on—or take it off, if that seems more in the spirit of the day. Admission doesn’t buy the booze itself, but covers a T-shirt, makeup, two tickets to any show by event producer pH, and a cup. Register at Atmosphere (5355 N. Clark). 2 PM, Clark between Foster and Bryn Mawr, chicagozombiepubcrawl.com, $20-$25.

My Heart Is an Idiot

Davy Rothbart, the editor of Found magazine and a contributor to This American Life, traveled the country seeking advice on his love life from such questionable figures as Newt Gingrich, Ira Glass, Zooey Deschanel, and Rothbart’s mother. His efforts and those interviews are chronicled in this documentary; both Rothbart and director David Meiklejohn will participate in a Q&A after tonight’s screening.

7 PM, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee, 312-243-9088, art.org, $10.

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Music and Rebellion

Musicians pay tribute to the other Labor Day—May Day—as well as the 125th anniversary of the Haymarket riots at a show featuring folksinger and labor historian Bucky Halker, jazz mandolinist Don Stiernberg, Los Pichardo, Filipino activistmusicians the Bagwis Collective, Old Town School teacher Jimmy Tomasello, and others. 7 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, 773-728-6000, oldtownschool.org, $15.

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Though Chicago doesn’t much want for rad queer dance parties, this weekly Wicker Park number fills a particular niche with go-go dancers, both male and female. The party’s hosted by dollmaker, artist, and nightlife fixture JoJo Baby, and features tunes by resident DJs Teo and Phenom. 11 PM-4 AM, Evil Olive, 1551 W. Division, 773-235-9100, $8 after midnight.

Sex advice columnist Dan Savage, who started the It Gets Better project last year after a wave of LGBT teen suicides, headlines a luncheon celebrating the close of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s 25th year. 11 AM VIP reception, noon luncheon, Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan, 312-922-2322, aidschicago.org, $150-$500.

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A baobab tree lays an egg that contains a boy who will save his west African village from drought. That’s the premise of a musical production by the Quebec-based Theatre Motus that opens tonight as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Two performances—Thu 5/5 at 10:30 AM and 7 PM—are in French, and all performances are suitable for kids aged four and up. Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle, Evanston, 312-661-1028, chicagohumanities.org, $11, $5 kids.

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On a wet, cold night last week, when few were interested in paying to see the Cubs play the Padres from across the street, Wrigleyville Rooftops opened its space to a media junket atop the six-flat I lived in for a few years in the mid-80s, at 3643-45 N. Sheffield.

Living in a Wrigley Field rooftop apartment undeniably had an element of boyhood romance. Bleacher tickets, then $3.50, were sold only on the day of the game. Crowds would begin lining up at six or seven on a weekend morning outside the gates at Sheffield and Waveland, especially on beautiful days in that halcyon summer of 1984. In the winter there was nothing quite as beautiful as the sun setting behind a snow-covered Wrigley.

Yet it was also bohemian squalor. The building was infested; we’d set off an insecticide bomb to chase the roaches upstairs, then the woman above would set off one of her own and chase them back down. The door handles were loose and sometimes came off entirely. I once jimmied my way through the front door only to find a snowdrift had crept two yards into the living room off the porch.

The landlord was squeamish about letting people on the roof and only permitted it when he was around. (The landlord’s pals claimed

someone got too drunk on an opening day a year or two before and fell off, impaling himself on the fence below.)

Now, of course, the building—one of three owned by Wrigleyville Rooftops—is a cash cow because of its roof, although people still live in the apartments on the first two floors.

The doors—and handles—have been replaced with steel models seen in office stairwells, and the whole main stairway has been reinforced with concrete to support the traffic. The thirdfloor apartments have been stripped to their brick walls and turned into a sports bar, albeit with numerous support posts spoiling the sight lines to the flat-screen TVs. The sight lines from the rooftop, however, remain wonderfully clear. It’s no more remote than the corner seats in the upper deck at White Sox park—a part of the whole Wrigley experience and yet also separate from it.

When it’s cold one simply watches outdoors for a while, then goes downstairs to get warm and watch on TV, same as we did.

A fan will pay $75 to $250 for the luxury, depending on the time of year and the Cubs’ opponents. Even with food and drink included that’s a chunk of change, topping out at what I first paid as my share of the rent. No one’s clamoring for roaches for nostalgia’s sake.

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arlier this month, Free Street Theater, that venerable hub of peace, love, and self-actualization, posted a set of “FAQ’s About Our Transition” on its Facebook page, including an all-caps assurance that “OUR DOORS ARE OPEN.” It looked more than a little desperate.

The “transition” in question was the abrupt request for artistic director Ron Bieganski’s resignation, March 21, followed by the exit of creative director Anita Evans two days later.

Less than two years after a triumphant 40year anniversary celebration, Free Street had been purged of its core artistic leadership.

Bieganski—passionate, prickly, and generally known as the beating heart of Free Street’s celebrated teen-mentoring program—had been there 26 years, Evans almost 16. Nearly all of Free Street’s 18-member primary ensemble of teen actors elected to follow them out and are working with them to try to launch something new. The only remaining full-time staff member is administrator Mica Cole, who was hired two years ago and promoted to executive director in December.

Headquartered in a Pulaski Park facility and supported by Chicago’s After School Matters program and other donors, Free Street teaches writing, acting, and “life skills” to hundreds of kids annually, and performs for hundreds more. (A satellite ensemble led by Nick Stockman at Little Village High School is said to be unaffected and is scheduled to open a produc-

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Although Cole—a DePaul Theatre School grad who’d been director of education at Writers’ Theatre—was a onetime Free Street ensemble member herself, the collaborative chemistry wasn’t the same.

Founded by local legend Patrick Henry in 1969 to perform theater in underserved neighborhoods, Free Street morphed over the years into job training and—especially since Bieganski became artistic director in 1995— youth mentoring. Its annual budget of roughly $400,000 is 95 percent dependent on grants and donations. In the recent tight economy, about 25 percent of that funding disappeared.

Last December, informed of a looming deficit, Bieganski took a pay cut and Evans dropped to half-time status. At about the same time, he says, the board changed the management structure “from a collective to something more top-down.”

Bieganski says he came to the theater the next working day after Free Street’s latest production closed and was met by Cole, Handler, and Grimm, who took him to task for using an ensemble member as a babysitter one evening a week, and particularly for having let her stay overnight during a snowstorm. “They said I put the institution at risk by having an tion, Damaged Psyches, in the Free Street 18-year-old girl whose mother I’ve known for theater May 6.) more than ten years babysitting at my house,” Neither Cole nor Free Street’s current board Bieganski recalls. “They said there was the ilpresident, Peter Handler of the Driehaus Foun- lusion of possible impropriety. They said that dation, is commenting except to say that Bie- was one of the things that showed that I lacked ganski’s departure wasn’t related to the diffi- proper decision making. I remember going, did cult fiscal year Free Street just completed. The you talk to her mother?” administration’s official position is that it has The babysitter’s mother, Anna M. Long, a a confidentiality policy that teacher and former Free “prohibits the disclosure of Street board member, was any information about perone of a number of people sonnel matters.” The board who wrote impassioned letpresident who presided ters to the board protesting over the fireworks, Esther Bieganski’s ouster. “If this Grimm, quickly retreated was a legitimate course of to a mere board seat when action,” she asked, “why —Former Free Street wasn’t I the parent notified, matters blew up, and let Theater artistic director why wasn’t [her daughter] Handler, who’s been on the Ron Bieganski questioned?” board longer, take the heat.

In a phone interview Long Bieganski’s under no such constraint and, clearly still shaken, he blames said she gave permission for her daughter to a difference in philosophy about how Free stay the night with the Bieganskis rather than Street should be run for the split. For most try to get home during the snowstorm. “I’ve of the last six or seven years, he says, the or- had three children go through the Free Street ganization has been collectively managed by program; my kids have grown up under Ron. Evans, himself, and the managing director, He’s been a mainstay of my family. In fact, who until two years ago was Bryn Magnus. my son stayed with him for a month about Collaborative management was congruent three years ago when he was a senior in high with Free Street’s overall ethos of working school.”

Evans was with the ensemble for a rehearsal together, creating “something like family.”

But when Magnus moved to New York and March 22 when Cole announced that Bieganski was replaced by Cole, Bieganski says, “that was no longer working there. “The kids were collective running of it started to fall apart.” continued on 19

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Development Commission, which oversees the mayor’s $500-million-a-year TIF program.

There are dozens of mayor-appointed boards and bodies in this town dutifully doing whatever Mayor Daley wants. But I have a soft spot in my heart for the CDC, which rubber stamps each of the mayor’s proposed TIF deals no matter how ill-conceived, wasteful, or counter-productive. It’s hard not to be impressed by such pliability.

This particular meeting had special significance. The incoming mayor—that’s you, Rahm!—campaigned as a TIF reformer who would crack down on corporate giveaways and make the program more transparent. If he ends up being true to his word—and I remain exceedingly skeptical, though he deserves the chance to renege in his own manner and time before I write that he has—this would be one of the last chances for the CDC to let the good times roll.

And, man, they didn’t d i s a p p o i n t , t h ro w i n g around roughly $130 million in property tax dollars like it was confetti.

Good thing the city and schools aren’t broke.

Oh, wait . . .

This time, actually, I couldn’t complain about most of their recommendations, which get passed on to the City Council for approval (and it always approves). At least the money’s earmarked for deals in truly blighted communities—which, of course, is where TIF dollars are supposed to go, as opposed to the Loop or the near south and west sides, which have soaked up most of the money for years.

The CDC recommended spending $3 million on two senior citizen centers, one in the old Goldblatt’s building on Ashland, the other on 112th Street. I can’t be against housing for seniors—if all goes well, pretty soon I’ll be one.

The CDC also recommended writing down the cost of several city-owned south side lots—appraised for $668,000, to be sold for $10—so the buyer, the Comer Science and Education Foundation, can create a community garden. Comer is part of the rapidly expanding Noble Street Charter School empire, which, as you read here a couple weeks ago, is becoming the Starbucks of high school education in Chicago.

Still, we’re talking about turning vacant lots into gardens. Even I would probably vote for that if the mayor appointed me to the CDC, as improbable as that is to imagine.

I couldn’t even begrudge the two Big Mama deals of the day: $45 million to Sinai Health System and $21 million to Finkl Steel.

Yes, Sinai probably has enough corporate contacts to raise the money on its own. But at least it’s anchoring a blighted west side community by building a new ambulatory center at its hospital in North Lawndale. Besides, just about every well-endowed institution in town has fed from the TIF trough, including the University of Chicago, Loyola University, DePaul University, and Rush University Medical Center. Might as well be Sinai’s turn.

As for Finkl, at least it’s staying in Chicago, moving from Lincoln Park to a new facility at 1355 E. 93rd Street. Of course, it’s hard to hear big-time operators, like the guys who run Finkl, say how happy they are to remain in the city they love. Hey, if you love it so much, why'd we have to pay you $20 million to stick around?

But if they didn’t take our money, they’d take the money Canada offered to move their operations to Quebec. And at least the city of Chicago is using the money to bribe—I mean, convince—an industry to transform an abandoned factory into a facility that will bring decent-paying industrial jobs to a poor community. That’s just what the TIF program is supposed to do. So I have to say: good job, Mayor Daley, from your favorite TIF writer in town.

The city promised to eliminate the blight in East Garfield Park for $16 million.

Apparently the unblighting process costs more than they planned.

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ith just a few weeks to go in Mayor Daley’s regime, I headed to City Hall to check out one of the last rounds of Tax Increment Financing handouts of the era—that is, the April 12 meeting of the Community

Of course, the CDC couldn’t finish its business without some little machination. This one involved the budget for the Chicago/Central Park TIF district on the west side. This one’s going to take a brief (I promise) primer on how this TIF stuff works.

When the City Council creates a TIF district, it fills its coffers with property taxes diverted from the schools, parks, county, etc. To keep the city from going hog wild with the cash, each TIF has a budget it’s not supposed to exceed. In 2002, the council set the Chicago/ Central Park district's ceiling at $16 million.

Essentially, the city promised to eliminate the blight in East Garfield Park for $16 million.

Well, apparently the unblighting process costs more than they planned. Though they haven’t surpassed the initial budget yet, they now want to raise the ceiling by $57 million.

At the April 12 meeting, city planner Chip Hastings and 28th Ward alderman Jason Ervin said the TIF needs a bigger budget because rising property values have increased the costs of buying land for future TIF-financed deals. So they asked to raise the ceiling from $16 million to $73 million, a 356 percent increase.

I was hoping someone on the CDC might ask: Well, if you haven’t spent all the money in the original budget, why do you need more? Or:

What development deals do you have in mind?

Or: Why do you need more TIF money to stimulate growth in the area when rising property values suggest it’s already growing? Or: How can you ask to set aside even more property tax money when the schools you’re taking it from are $820 million in the red?

Good questions—but not, of course, the ones you’re likely to hear from a board member appointed by the mayor. So without discussion, the CDC unanimously voted to recommend that the council raise the budget in the Chicago/Central Park district. I suspect the council will go along. The council always does.

Ironically, the biggest winner out of all this is Mayor-elect Emanuel, Mr. TIF Reformer himself. Thanks to the CDC, he might just wind up with an extra $57 million in the Chicago/ Central Park TIF district to play around with.

In other words, lots of good old-fashioned slush—just in case he has some ambitious projects up his sleeves. Think of it as the CDC’s house-warming gift to the incoming mayor. v Care to comment? Find this column at chicagoreader.com/politics. Ben Joravsky discusses his reporting weekly with journalist Dave Glowacz at mrradio.org/theworks.

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If Anne Brontë, who died of tuberculosis at 29, had lived in our era instead of hers, and if she’d hankered for a soul mate, she might have shown up on the Reader’s Matches site describing herself as “spiritual, not religious.”

It’s a popular choice; for a long time I’ve wondered if it’s either a pickup line or an attempt to hang on to faith by a fingernail.

Still, spirituality is real. Christopher Lane tells us Freud puzzled over it. Freud’s friend Romain Rolland, a writer who’d win the Nobel Prize, said religion offered a “sensation of ‘eternity,’ a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded.” Freud allowed “I cannot discover this ‘oceanic’ feeling in myself.” Even so, “This gives me no right to deny that it does in fact occur in other people.”

I’ve had two conversations with Matches patrons who call themselves spiritual, not religious. “I’m not religious but I believe in a higher power, I suppose,” says Becky Masters, a 39-year-old massage therapist. “The closest to prayer I think I’ve ever experienced is in a yoga way where you kind of let go and open up a little bit. I don’t think yoga is a religion but it maybe fulfills that world for me. Maybe religious people are looking for the answers outside of themselves whereas I’m looking for the answers inside of myself.” Still, she believes in “the possibility of reincarnation, multiple lives, things like that.” Heaven, she has her doubts about.

Fredrico Casiano is “absolutely” sure of God and heaven. If religions weren’t so quick to open fire at each other, perhaps he’d subscribe to one of them; but as things stand his advice is to seek the spirit above and beyond. An aspiring screenwriter, Casiano, 29, says, “As long as you believe in something or have some faith, the

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saying, ‘He wouldn’t just leave us,’ and some of them were crying,” she recalls. After asking a lot of questions that she says went unanswered, Evans put up a new Facebook page for the ensemble. At 3:30 PM the next day Cole sent her an e-mail saying, “I am assuming that you are resigning from your position at Free Street. If that is not the case, please e-mail me today by 5 pm.” Evans says she didn’t see the e-mail until midnight.

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Given the lack of transparency and the abruptness, he adds, “there’s rumors out there.”

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our years ago we looked to the incoming Chicago City Council with great hope and expectation—at long last, there would be a vigilant watchdog to guard us against the most egregious excesses of an all-powerful mayor.

Silly us.

Let’s just say things didn’t turn out as we’d hoped: aside from some modest, occasional steps forward, we witnessed four more years of aldermen rubber-stamping mayoral initiatives—think of the parking meter lease deal, millions of dollars’ worth of barely monitored corporate subsidies, raids of the rainy-day piggy bank, and head-scratching appointments of yes-men, hacks, and misfits to head city agencies.

So here we go again.

With renewed hopes and expectations—maybe this will be the council to say, “Sorry, boss, even I can’t do that”—what follows is our guide to the insiders, reformers, wannabe insiders, and pretend reformers in your City Council. This time around the retreads will be joined by 13 new faces, including a firefighter, a geeky University of Chicago grad student, and, of course, more lawyers—because you can’t have too many of them.

Without further ado, meet your Chicago City Council. If you end up disappointed, remember this—you elected them.

3RD – PAT DOWELL ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, defeating incumbent

Dorothy Tillman in triumph of Pat over “The Hat” PREVIOUS LIFE: City planner STRENGTHS: Smart enough to know what’s going on WEAKNESSES: Too pragmatic to do much about it REELECTION: Beat another Tillman, Dorothy’s daughter, Ebony PROSPECTS: Bright, as long as she’s facing opponents named Tillman

4TH – WILL BURNS ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, winning open seat

created when incumbent Toni Preckwinkle was elected Cook County Board president last fall PREVIOUS LIFE: State representative, aide to state senate president Emil Jones WHY HE REMINDS PEOPLE OF BARACK OBAMA:

Manages to be progressive while somehow never offending the boss LADDER-CLIMBING POTENTIAL: Watch out,

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5TH – LESLIE HAIRSTON ENTERED OFFICE: 1999, defeating

incumbent Barbara Holt in a runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Lawyer in Illinois attorney general’s office THE DAY SHE CAME TO PLAY: Voted against the parking meter lease deal—and flew to Pittsburgh to tell its City Council not to follow Chicago’s lead

9TH – ANTHONY BEALE ENTERED OFFICE: 1999, defeating

13TH – MARTY QUINN ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, ran unopposed after

17TH – LATASHA THOMAS ENTERED OFFICE: 2000, appointed by Mayor

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incumbent Frank Olivo retired and three other candidates were bounced from the ballot PATRON: House speaker and ward committeeman Michael Madigan, who donated all the contributions—$52,000— Quinn received

Daley to replace Terry Peterson, picked by Daley to head the Chicago Housing Authority PREVIOUS LIFE: City attorney

PREVIOUS LIFE: Community activist

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Defeated David Moore in a runoff days after she— and not he—was featured at a mayoral presser announcing the arrival of Walmart to the ward THAT’S WHAT’S CALLED:

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incumbent Freddrenna Lyle in a runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Attorney who’s worked for the state of Illinois and Odelson & Sterk, which led unsuccessful challenge to Emanuel’s residency ALL IN THE FAMILY: Father Eugene Sawyer was Sixth Ward alderman and mayor PROSPECTS: Emanuel, who endorsed Lyle, may never forget—but when a deal needs to be made he occasionally forgives.

14TH – ED BURKE ENTERED OFFICE: 1969, winning a 10TH – JOHN POPE ENTERED OFFICE: 1999, winning open seat PREVIOUS LIFE: Bean counter

in mayor’s budget office M.O.: Approachable guy in historically sleazy ward (see former alderman Ed Vrdolyak) put into office by Daley operatives CHALLENGE: Do something with shuttered steel mills, garbage dumps, and slag heaps SOLUTION: It’s complicated, but while it’s being figured out someone is likely to get rich off subsidies from the city.

Hello, tax increment financing!

7TH – SANDI JACKSON ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, defeating Mayor

Daley appointee Darcel Beavers PREVIOUS LIFE: Gigs with Democratic National Committee and Clinton administration ALL IN THE FAMILY: Married to Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. HIGHLIGHTS: Had one of council’s most independent voting records LOWLIGHTS: Missed the vote on the parking meter lease deal. Hey, at least she didn’t vote for it.

8TH – MICHELLE HARRIS ENTERED OFFICE: 2006, appointed by Mayor

Daley after predecessor Todd Stroger was elected Cook County Board president PREVIOUS LIFE: Secretary to county board under former president John Stroger, Todd’s father DISTINGUISHED BY: Unwavering loyalty to the powers that be. She voted for every major initiative supported by the mayor.

PROSPECTS UNDER RAHM:

Care to take a guess?

11TH – JAMES BALCER ENTERED OFFICE: 1997, appointed by Mayor

Daley to replace Patrick Huels, who resigned after accepting a controversial loan PREVIOUS LIFE: Marine who served in Vietnam CAN BE COUNTED ON: To defend veterans CAN ALSO BE COUNTED ON:

To defend Mayor Daley COURAGEOUS STANDS:

Denounced Avatar for denigrating the military.

Opposed settling a lawsuit alleging police mistreated detainees: “We’re supposed to pay because we don’t give these guys a sandwich?”

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS:

Was Burke secretly behind the challenge to knock Emanuel off the ballot?

How much will Emanuel make him grovel to keep his committee chairmanship?

15TH – TONI FOULKES ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, winning a runoff for

an open seat after predecessor Ted Thomas retired RETAINED OFFICE: Winning another runoff in April PREVIOUS LIFE: Union activist and cake decorator at Jewel SAD FACT: The blighted ward is starved for development but ranked next-tolast in TIF spending.

12TH – GEORGE CARDENAS ENTERED OFFICE: 2003, replacing incumbent

Ray Frias after Frias dropped out of the runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Worked in business; remains

president of his own money transfer company KEY TO VICTORY: One of the lowest voter turnouts in the city FONDNESS FOR: Impassioned speeches detailing Mayor Daley’s greatness PROSPECTS UNDER RAHM:

18TH – LONA LANE ENTERED OFFICE: 2006, appointed by

Mayor Daley to replace Thomas Murphy, who became a circuit court judge PREVIOUS LIFE: Murphy aide GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT:

Banned ice cream trucks from ward after saying she saw one dealing drugs GREATEST FAILURE:

Unable to ban pet chickens within city limits HER REVENGE ON FOWL: Voted to repeal

city’s foie gras ban

19TH – MATTHEW O’SHEA ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie,

winning open seat after incumbent Virginia Rugai decided to retire PREVIOUS LIFE: Aide to Rugai A FEW WORDS ABOUT RUGAI:

Like Alderman Lane, she banned ice cream trucks in her ward. Great minds think alike.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT O’SHEA: He’ll do what the

mayor wants, unless it involves ice cream trucks.

20TH – WILLIE COCHRAN ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, defeating 16TH – JOANN THOMPSON ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, defeating

Impassioned speeches exalting Mayor Emanuel’s greatness

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special election upon the death of incumbent Joseph Burke, his father PREVIOUS LIFE: Cop ALL IN THE FAMILY: Wife Anne Burke is a state supreme court justice WHAT ELSE: Runs a law firm that represents numerous city contractors. Receives millions in contributions from politicians and business interests. Finance committee chairmanship gives him oversight of billions of dollars in city expenditures.

incumbent Shirley Coleman in a runoff RETAINED OFFICE: Winning another runoff,

this time over frequent candidate Hal Baskin PREVIOUS LIFE: Cook County correctional officer and union activist BEST FRIENDS, 2007:

Organized labor BEST FRIENDS, 2011: Pro-

business groups and Emanuel WHAT CHANGED: She did, by consistently voting the Daley way

incumbent Arenda Troutman, who’d been charged with taking bribes PREVIOUS LIFE: Cop WON REELECTION: Defeated rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith in a runoff RHYMEFEST’S ENDORSEMENTS:

Al Sharpton, Cornel West, Kanye West COCHRAN’S ENDORSEMENT: Emanuel BEST COCHRAN RAP:

“We wrapped this victory up in a hip way.

We’re gonna hop onto the next four years.”

21ST – HOWARD BROOKINS JR. ENTERED OFFICE: 2003, defeating

25TH – DANIEL SOLIS ENTERED OFFICE: 1996,

29TH – DEBORAH GRAHAM ENTERED OFFICE: 2010,

incumbent Leonard DeVille PREVIOUS LIFE: Lawyer FAMILY TIES: Father Howard Brookins Sr., former state senator ACT OF COMPLIANCE: Voted for parking meter deal ACT OF DEFIANCE: Cubs fan, though native south-sider EXPLANATION: “I loved Lee Smith. He seemed like he put a little Jheri-curl juice on the ball and then struck out the side.”

appointed by Daley to replace Ambrosio Medrano, who went to federal prison during Silver Shovel scandal PREVIOUS LIFE: Badass Pilsen community activist who helped form UNO when it was a badass community watchdog KEY TO REELECTION: Winning more than 90 percent of the runoff vote in Chinatown enabled him to overcome losing Pilsen to activist Cuahutemoc Morfin

appointed by Mayor Daley to replace Isaac Carothers after he pleaded guilty to taking bribes PREVIOUS LIFE: State rep

22ND – RICARDO MUNOZ ENTERED OFFICE: 1993, appointed by

Daley after predecessor Jesus Garcia was elected to the state senate PREVIOUS LIFE: Garcia aide AMBITION: Building a little political machine on southwest side NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT:

Engineered election of old mentor, Garcia, as Cook County Commissioner. Now Munoz tells Garcia: Get me some coffee.

NOTABLE FLOP: Voted for parking meter deal.

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky . . .

26TH – ROBERTO MALDONADO ENTERED OFFICE: 2009, appointed by

Mayor Daley to replace Billy Ocasio, who become adviser to Governor Pat Quinn PREVIOUS LIFE: County commissioner ALL IN THE EX-FAMILY: Maldonado was once married to the sister of alderman Luis Gutierrez, who picked Ocasio to replace him when Gutierrez left for Congress.

Ocasio wanted to be replaced by his own wife, Veronica, a Gutierrez aide, but Daley picked Maldonado instead.

23RD – MICHAEL ZALEWSKI ENTERED OFFICE: 1995,

winning open seat after predecessor James Laski was elected city clerk PREVIOUS LIFE: Streets & San deputy commissioner

27TH – WALTER BURNETT JR. ENTERED OFFICE: 1995, defeating

In return for obedience, Mayor Daley named him president pro tempore, which oversees the council when the mayor steps out.

JOB BENEFITS: Occasionally gets to pound the mayoral gavel

24TH – MICHAEL CHANDLER ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie—

28TH – JASON ERVIN ENTERED OFFICE: 2011, appointed

again. Defeated incumbent Sharon Denise Dixon, who had defeated him four years ago.

PREVIOUS LIFE: Alderman from 1995 to 2007

by Mayor Daley to replace retiring alderman Ed Smith a few weeks before the election PREVIOUS LIFE: Village manager of west suburban Maywood; CPA FAST LEARNER: Within a month of his appointment, he signed off on three TIF deals worth about $106 million total.

WHY HE WANTED THE JOB BACK:

Hard to say—this is one of the poorest, toughest wards in town.

PROSPECTS: Not good. Invariably this ward will get sliced and diced in the coming remap.

would rant and rave against the administration before supporting everything the mayor proposed.

Graham skips to the last part.

30TH – ARIEL REBOYRAS ENTERED OFFICE: 2003, winning the

seat left vacant when Daley decided he needed another Hispanic alderman and shipped Michael Wojcik to the CTA PREVIOUS LIFE: Assistant commissioner, Department of General Services GREATEST LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT:

Ordinance naming portion of Central Avenue after the former president of Poland KEY VOTES AGAINST DALEY: None VOTE ON PARKING METER DEAL: None. He

was absent that day.

31ST – REGNER “RAY” SUAREZ ENTERED OFFICE: 1991, winning an

incumbent Dexter Watson PREVIOUS LIFE: Convicted of armed robbery at 17, later pardoned; employee of then-recorder of deeds Jesse White KNOWN FOR: Great quotes SUCH AS: His explanation for why voting for the meter deal was like taking Cialis: “It’s good on the one hand, but on the other hand it can cause some blindness and some other things.”

CAREER OPPORTUNITY:

DIFFERENCE FROM PREDECESSOR: Carothers

open seat after predecessor Raymond Figueroa decided not to run PREVIOUS LIFE: Streets & San deputy commissioner M.O.: Tears into city officials before reformers have a chance, clearing way for mayor to do what he wants COUNCIL ROLE: Chairs committee on housing and real estate, collects contributions from figures in housing and real estate

32ND – SCOTT WAGUESPACK ENTERED OFFICE: 2007,

defeating incumbent Ted Matlak in a runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Aide to Berwyn mayor

33RD – RICHARD MELL ENTERED OFFICE: 1975, winning open seat PREVIOUS LIFE: Spring factory owner ALL IN THE FAMILY: Former governor

Rod Blagojevich, son-in-law; state rep Deb Mell, daughter NICKNAME AS WARD BECOMES INCREASINGLY HISPANIC: Old Gringo KEY ROLE: Chairs council’s

rules committee, which will oversee ward remapping WHAT HE’LL GET IN RETURN FOR HELPING PROTECT INCUMBENTS:

Whatever he wants

34TH – CARRIE AUSTIN ENTERED OFFICE: 1991, appointed by

Mayor Daley after her husband, Lemuel Austin, died of heart attack PREVIOUS LIFE: Secretary, 34th Ward Democratic Party KEY ROLE: Chairs budget committee WHAT IT DOES: Very little, except holding hearings each fall designed to get an appropriately large majority to sign off on the mayor’s budget

35TH – REY COLON ENTERED OFFICE: 2003, defeating

incumbent Vilma Colom PREVIOUS LIFE: Park District employee LOOKS LIKE A REFORMER: Voted against

plan to put Children’s Museum in Grant Park—and against the meter deal LOOKS LIKE A HACK:

Employed girlfriend as chief of staff, accepts donations from developers PROSPECTS: Constituents will love him, except those who hate him— see 46th Ward.

36TH – NICHOLAS SPOSATO ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, defeating

incumbent John Rice in a runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Firefighter ON RICE’S SIDE: Ward boss Bill

MOMENT OF OBSCURITY: Had to

Banks, Rahm Emanuel

talk security into letting him into council chambers so he could be sworn in four years ago MOMENT OF CLARITY: Voted against parking meter deal—and actually read it beforehand PROSPECTS UNDER RAHM: Will be sought after by reporters seeking counterpoint

ON SPOSATO’S SIDE: Firefighters, cops, and

gadfly Frank Coconate PATH TO VICTORY:

Voters awoke from slumber after years of rule by Banks.

Free at last!

PROSPECTS: Will he stay with the gadflies or bend to the boss?

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37TH – EMMA MITTS ENTERED OFFICE: 2000,

41ST – MARY O’CONNOR ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie,

appointed by Mayor Daley after predecessor Percy Giles was convicted of taking bribes PREVIOUS LIFE: Sundayschool teacher BIG ACHIEVEMENT: For better or worse, welcomed Walmart to west side PATRONS: Former alderman Ike Carothers, Mayor Daley

winning a runoff over Maurita Gavin after Gavin’s boss, incumbent Brian Doherty, opted not to run PREVIOUS LIFE: Deli owner, Edison Park Chamber of Commerce president PATH TO VICTORY: City’s last Republican bastion finally went Democratic.

WHAT THIS MEANS: Nothing.

Republican Doherty was as loyal to Daley as any Dem.

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Expect Cullerton to vote similarly—without a peep.

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42ND – BRENDAN REILLY ENTERED OFFICE: 2007, defeating

incumbent Burton Natarus PREVIOUS LIFE: Aide to house

speaker Michael Madigan GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT:

Led fight against Daley’s plan to cram Children’s Museum into Grant Park REWARD: Never-ending gratification of Gold Coast residents PROSPECTS: After running unopposed for reelection, he sent money to other council candidates RAINMAKING POWERS:

39TH – MARGARET LAURINO ENTERED OFFICE: 1994,

appointed by Daley to replace her father, Anthony, who was subsequently indicted in a ghost-payrolling scheme PREVIOUS LIFE: Aide to father PATH TO VICTORY: Ward’s voters appear biologically incapable of voting for anyone not named Laurino, or least related to them. Laurino’s husband, Randy Barnette, is Democratic committeeman.

PROSPECTS: My friend Rahm

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40TH – PATRICK O’CONNOR ENTERED OFFICE: 1983,

defeating incumbent Ivan Rittenberg in a runoff PREVIOUS LIFE: Lawyer TOUGH TASK: As Daley’s council floor leader, he had to rally others behind parking meter deal. But he was up to it.

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Favorable. If he can help sell the meters for Daley, imagine what he can do when Rahm starts talking about schools.

Maybe not so good.

His favorites lost.

43RD – MICHELE SMITH ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie,

defeating Tim Egan in a runoff after incumbent Vi Daley opted not to run PREVIOUS LIFE: Federal prosecutor, Democratic ward committeeman BIG CAMPAIGN ISSUE:

Controversial development of old Lincoln Park Hospital site. She stood with locals against the deal, which Egan and Vi Daley backed.

LESSONS FOR OTHERS:

Don’t sign on with developers until after you win election.

44TH – TOM TUNNEY ENTERED OFFICE:

47TH – AMEYA PAWAR ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, defeating

2002, appointed by Daley after predecessor Bernie Hansen retired PREVIOUS LIFE: Owner of Ann Sather restaurants MAJOR MISSTEP: Selfproclaimed champion of small businesses voted for meter deal that has damaged small businesses.

three other candidates, including Tom O’Donnell, the anointed successor of retiring incumbent Eugene Schulter PREVIOUS LIFE: University of Chicago grad student, program officer in Northwestern University Office of Emergency Management SUPPORTERS CLAIM:

Self-proclaimed champion of small businesses paving way for north side’s first Walmart

He beat Schulter’s “Fighting 47th” Ward Democratic Organization COMPARED TO: Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, Scott Waguespack, though not necessarily in that order

45TH – JOHN ARENA ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie,

48TH – HARRY OSTERMAN ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, winning open seat

NEXT MAJOR MISSTEP:

defeating John Garrido in a runoff after incumbent Patrick Levar opted not to run PREVIOUS LIFE: Graphic design company owner KEY CAMPAIGN MANEUVER:

Slammed Garrido for the meter deal though neither was in the council to vote on it and both opposed it FIRST TERM GOAL: Try to move Garrido out of ward—or city, if possible—in upcoming remap

46TH – JAMES CAPPLEMAN ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, defeating

after incumbent Mary Ann Smith opted not to run PREVIOUS LIFE: State rep ALL IN THE FAMILY: Mother, Kathy Osterman,

was alderman until Daley named her head of city Special Events and tapped Smith, her top aide, as replacement M.O.: Another Edgewater pol who’s progressive— as long as it’s okay with the mayor PROSPECTS: Meet the new boss . . .

49TH – JOE MOORE ENTERED OFFICE: 1991, defeating

incumbent Bob Clarke

Molly Phelan in a runoff after incumbent Helen Shiller opted not to run

PREVIOUS LIFE: City lawyer WHY HE’S SMILING: Won with 72 percent of

PREVIOUS LIFE:

the vote after a razor-thin runoff win in 2007

Social worker, critic of affordable housing

WHY THE DIFFERENCE:

HOW HE MADE THE RUNOFF: Convinced

ward’s many Shiller haters he was one of them HOW HE WON THE RUNOFF: Convinced

Shiller’s dispirited supporters that he actually liked her BIGGEST CHALLENGE:

Find political identity and stick with it

more wired into what’s next.

Rogers Park foes waved a white flag and said, “You win, Joe.” GREATEST REGRET: Voting for the meter deal PROSPECTS: Daley and the meter money are gone—but Joe’s still there

50TH – DEBRA SILVERSTEIN ENTERED OFFICE: Rookie, defeating

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Democratic committeeman, and former Stone protege Ira Silverstein PATH TO VICTORY: Everyone turned against Stone, including Daley, Emanuel, and the Silversteins

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WHAT SHE’LL DO:

Like most of her colleagues—and her predecessor—whatever the mayor wants. The more things change . . .

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Pink Ladies at a sleepover

The Original

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Grease’s girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side.

By Cynthia Gallaher

n 1971, friends dragged me to

near Fullerton. The story of a bunch of

see Grease, a musical that was

hoody teens from a school the authors

getting its premiere run at

called “Rydell High,” the show featured

Kingston Mines Theatre, on

Chicago-specific references to Foster

what was then the new Off-

Beach and Melrose Park. Also a girl gang,

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the Pink Ladies.

“There were Pink Ladies at Taft High when my sister went there,” I whispered to my friend Sue. “This is fiction, silly,” she replied. “There are no Pink Ladies.”

She was so wrong.

I was a preschooler in 1957 when my sister Sharon came home from Taft, in Norwood Park, bearing tales about the scary group of girls known as the Pink Ladies. She said they hung out in front of the school and stood tough as they puffed cigarettes, wearing stern-faced wha’-chulookin’-at expressions. Their black flats, nylons, and pencil-slim skirts were topped with varsity jackets emblazoned with a champagne glass bubbling over in pink embroidery. Their eyes were smoky with makeup and their billowy hair was haloed in scarves tied taut at the chin, like the strap on a combat helmet.

Jim Jacobs, who wrote Grease with Warren Casey, graduated from Taft the same year my sister did. He based the show on his experiences there, which included bleacher observations of the Pink Ladies. Casey, who died in 1988, drew on memories of teaching high school in New York state.

The Original Grease “The Pink Ladies Opens Mon 5/2, 7 PM. Through 6/5: Thu-Fri were the tough8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, est broads I’ve ever Sun 3 PM, American s e e n , b e fo re o r Theater Company, since,” says Ja1909 W. Byron, 773cobs, now 68.

404-4125, atcweb.org, $35-$40, opening night He remembers $50. them stowing razor blades in their teased hair, in case girls from another gang attacked them, and carrying church key can openers, not just to pop a Hamm’s but to use for protection.

The original Grease was appropriately raw. In his rave review for the Chicago Tribune, William Leonard called the characters “a bunch of foul-mouthed, lazy, brawling, useless, cheating, disrespectful no-goods” and warned the show was “for those who don’t mind dirty four-letter words and lots of them.”

But when it left Chicago for Broadway, Jacobs says, he and Casey were pressured to clean up the racy lyrics and write new ones for general audiences. In the car-sex anthem “Greased Lightning,” for example, a lyric that originally read “the chicks will cream” became “the chicks will

scream,” and the line “You really are a clown if you think that I’ll go down in greased lightning” got cut altogether. Jacobs and Casey dumped the Chicago references, too. By the time the sunsoaked California film version came along in 1978, Grease was squeaky clean enough for Olivia Newton-John to star.

In a 2009 blog post addressed to “Mr. and Ms. Chicago Producers,” current Tribune critic Chris Jones pleaded for a revival of the nasty old Grease. American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli liked the idea and called Jacobs. They decided to restore some old material from the Kingston Mines days and add new DJ patter. The results can be seen now in an ATC production that began previews April 21 and opens a planned eightweek run on May 2. “It isn’t a museum piece or a gloss production,” says Paparelli. “It’s not the Grease we know. We’re taking what we’ve learned from the iconic Grease of the past 40 years and crafting it to an edgy level to really allow Chicago to see itself in the characters.”

Even the good-girl lead character, Sandy, is slated to sing a suggestive number that didn’t make it into the Broadway version. Called “Kiss It,” the song’s got her crooning, “Kiss it right where I’m tender.”

The Pink Ladies got started somewhere between 1953 and 1955, depending on whom you ask, and lasted into the early 60s , with anywhere from a handful to nearly 50 members at any given time. Many of them were the children of inner-city Roman Catholics who’d come to Norwood Park looking for a first home after World War II. The club’s name resulted from a stunt some friends pulled on Sunday afternoons after church when they were 16 years old. Dressing up in sophisticated hats, heels, and gloves, they hit the downtown clubs, anxious to dance.

“Before long,” recalls Zipper, a member who didn’t want her real name used, “we were sitting pretty and sipping pink ladies”—a frothy gin-and-grenadine cocktail that, according to another club member, Rose Marie Doladee Marinelli, was served to them without the alcohol.

“There was no Rizzo or Frenchy,” says Pink Lady Sandra Pav-

lik Brigante, referring to a pair of Grease creations—the former a hard-shelled bad girl, the latter an airhead who dreams of being a beautician. Brigante paints a picture at odds with Jacobs’s vision of razor-toting JDs. “We liked to play volleyball, plan which parties and dances we wanted to attend, then hung out at Canale’s Pizza on Higgins,” she says. “We kept it official. Paid club dues and raised money for children’s charities.”

And they were chartered as a social athletic club.

Otherwise, the Pink Ladies might’ve been considered a gang and harassed by the cops. The main thing, says Zipper, was the dancing.

But Marinelli remembers things differently.

Grease’s depiction is “true to us,” she says.

Program cover from the 1971 premiere production of Grease “You had to act tough in a public high school dominated by people who never went to a and felt like an outsider. “We said, ‘We don’t Catholic elementary school, as we had. You need boys to give us jackets. We’ve got our own.’” Brigante asserts that it was she who needed friends. It was survival.”

To qualify for membership in a parallel had the inspiration and got the jackets made, all-male club known as the Goombas— one adding that when she picked them up she of several with a claim to being the model was surprised to find that the champagnefor Grease’s Burger Palace Boys—a kid had to glass insignas had been embellished with win a fistfight with someone from a differ- bright red cherries. “I told the shop owner ent neighborhood. The Goombas would drag that Pink Ladies don’t have cherries,” she race and occasionally scuffle with a rival says— although they generally do—then gang from Park Ridge called the Vanguards. laughs. “Well, we were all virgins anyhow.”

That’s another point on which people differ.

Zipper says they also rumbled down by the “There was a good portion of sex going on,” rocks at Montrose Beach.

“We didn’t use guns, but some guys from says Golda. “In automobiles, in garages, at the Steinmetz High School came around one drive-in movies.” night, stuck a shotgun out a car window, and “Our motto was ‘be tough, act tough, be fired,” recalls Goomba Leo Golda. “They put a lover boy,’” notes Goomba Rich Bollman, a hole in one guy’s car radiator, but that was who dropped out of high school to marry his the extent of it.”

15-year-old Pink Lady girlfriend.

Marinelli and Brigante each claim to have “Among the girls,” says Pink Lady Phyllis originated the Pink Lady varsity jacket, Stratton, “I think I was the only virgin.” v which came with a detachable hood. MariCare to comment? Find this story at nelli says she did it as a way to assert herchicagoreader.com. self at a school where she had no boyfriend

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hanks for reminding us of our sacred mission, Voron. Ordinary bloggers and journalists are fine for staying current on nuclear meltdowns, Middle East upheavals, and other passing phenomena. But it’s up to the Straight Dope to keep the planets straight.

Here’s where things stood as of 1996. Planet X was the name astronomer Percival Lowell gave in the early 20th century to the hypothetical celestial body that would account for apparent irregularities in the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet then known.

In 1930, what we now call Pluto was discovered in the approximate location Lowell had predicted for Planet X. But this discovery was coincidence, made possible by sheer doggedness on the part of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who found the new planet—Pluto, it turned out, was far too small to budge Neptune.

The search for Planet X continued. In 1972 astronomer Joseph Brady predicted it’d be a massive body with an orbit at a steep angle to those of most other planets that took 464 years to revolve around the sun. Brady’s conjecture was never widely accepted, and more precise observations during the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby established that the supposed anomalies in Neptune’s orbit were, in fact, nonexistent. In short, there was no Planet X. End of story? Naturally not. In 2005 astronomers poring over telescopic images discovered another largish object out past Neptune. Initially called 2003 UB313 (the 2003 part identifies the year the crucial photos were taken), it bore several distinctive

traits: First, it was the most distant object known to orbit the sun other than a few comets. Second, it was pretty big, with a diameter roughly a fifth of Earth’s, although it was only a quarter of 1 percent as massive. Third, and here we get to the interesting part, it takes 557 years to circle the sun, and its orbit is at a steep angle to those of the other planets, much as Joseph Brady in 1972 had predicted for Planet X. Again, however, it was just coincidence. Eris was nowhere near as massive as Brady’s hypothetical giant. Nonetheless, 2003 UB313’s discoverers had Planet X on their minds and nicknamed their find Xena, after TV’s warrior princess. Wiser heads prevailed, and ultimately the thing was named Eris.

The discovery of Eris proved to be the downfall of Pluto. The two objects were about the same size; if Pluto was a planet, so was Eris. Astronomers were now faced with the prospect of a planetary roster consisting of eight large to really large planets plus two relatively dinky ones. Pluto’s status as a planet had always struck some people as dubious, not only because of its size but also its funky orbit, which is itself sharply angled and at times brings Pluto closer to the sun than Neptune. The arrival of Eris on the scene revived the argument.

The problem wasn’t just Eris. Pluto is located in a remote section of the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit known as the Kuiper Belt. (Eris is in an even more distant zone called the scattered disk.) For a long time astronomers thought there wasn’t much in the Kuiper Belt other than Pluto and its moons,

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dust, and the occasional comet. Then starting in 1992 they discovered the first of what are now more than 1,000 known Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs. Some think the KBO count could eventually reach 70,000. The Kuiper Belt, in other words, was like the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—that is, a region of crud, little if any of it worthy of planetary designation.

But there was no way to define planet so that Pluto stayed in the club while the largest of the crud was kept out. One attempt to preserve Pluto’s planethood wound up elevating several other miscellaneous objects to planetary status as well, including the asteroid Ceres and Pluto’s moon Charon. This will never do, the International Astronomical Union decided. In 2006 it demoted Pluto to dwarf planet.

You’d think that would mean the end of the Planet X saga, too. Not so. “Planet X” has now become the default term for any large orbiting item of interest on the solar system’s fringe.

To learn more about what’s out there, NASA has launched the New Horizons space probe, which will fly past Pluto in 2014 and later, it’s hoped, past some KBOs. The space agency doesn’t expect to spot any new mystery objects, project scientist Harold Weaver told my assistant Una. But at least speculation about future Planet Xs (in the Kuiper Belt, anyway) won’t be so wildly off the mark. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago 60611. Subscribe to the Straight Dope podcast at the iTunes Store.

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culture vultures

In-the-know Chicagoans tell us what they’re watching, reading, and seeing.

Ken Saunders, owner/director of Ken Saunders Gallery and Art Chicago exhibitor, just experienced:

Ethan Austin, cofounder and second banana at Give Forward, went with his whole company to see: A Good Old-Fashioned Mix of This and That on its opening night at Second City “It’s sketch and improv, and a fun little show. There was a hilarious sketch about two ‘kids’ opening presents; the presents kept getting lamer, but the two performers became increasingly excited about them, jumping around.

It was a very frenetic scene—I don’t know how they lasted the whole time, which must have been four or five minutes. I probably would have passed out after 30 seconds.”

Through April 28, 10:30 PM, 1608 N. Wells, secondcity.com.

James Gleick’s The Information “His book, Chaos, from the 1980s, was so revelatory and inspiring to me as an artist and, later, as a bureaucrat. He talked about how systems develop and patterns evolve, and our attempt to identify and predict them—and he was great at explaining complex physics so a layperson could understand. Very engaging. In talking about this new book, Gleick said it has taken him 20 years to understand what he’d started writing about in Chaos—that ‘information’ is a fundamental building block of the world found in genes, bytes, currents, codes, bits, libraries, etc. He also talks about the invaluable role of redundancy in communication, which I find especially reassuring. I haven’t finished it yet, because I’m savoring every bit!”

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Barbara Koenen, director of Chicago Artists Resource in the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, just started reading: Cameron Esposito, standup comic, might be reading: Something by Tobias Wolff

“David Sedaris recommends that we all read Tobias Wolff—not just when asked by a reporter about his favorite authors, but in front of a full theater of his own fans. I would have been happy just to hear new work, or Sedaris’s take on stories I’ve read, when I saw him in suburban Waukegan last month—his only stop on this tour in the Chicagoland area. But charm a group of suburbanites with dirty jokes, tell off-the-cuff anecdotes during a Q&A session, and then end the evening plugging someone else’s books—copies of which he was selling in the lobby next to his own?

That man’s as classy as he is hilarious.”

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Winifred Haun, artistic director at Winifred Haun & Dancers, checked out: The film Never Let Me Go “It was originally a book by Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote Remains of the Day. I loved the mystery of the movie— it’s a bit of a thriller—and that you think you know what’s going on, but you can’t really tell. Slowly, like in the book, the story is revealed. And even at the end of the movie, you still have this penetrating feeling like, you think you know what’s going on, but you really just sense it and feel it instead of having everything laid bare. Carey Mulligan, who plays the lead, is really wonderful. She comes across as really smart and strong. I would love to play with the concept of feeling that there’s something there, but not being able to see it directly, in my work, so that people feel comfortable having it touch them without it being spoon-fed to them.

We Shall Be All, an audio/sound/ sculpture performance by Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz at the Museum of Contemporary Art “One piece happens in the main hall, the other in a dark room. The two works were both magical: both provided the listener/viewer with an opportunity to enjoy an artistic experience that was transcendental and out-of-body, if only because as a listener/viewer you had to respond to the fact that the experience was so different than expected. One goes into a museum to look at things, so just responding to the challenge of bringing different senses to bear can make for a really enriching experience.

The evening I went, a bunch of more knowledgeable members of the art scene were in the audience, and I could tell that they were genuinely moved.”

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Woyzeck, two ways

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vant-gardists have always been drawn to Woyzeck, and it’s easy to see why. For one thing, it was unfinished when its German author, Georg Büchner, died young of typhus in 1837.

Some scenes look like fragments, some may’ve been rejects, and there’s no clear indication of their order, so an experimenter has plenty of room to mess around.

It’s also as dark as Woyzeck and Pony can be. Based on a senThrough 5/22: sational crime of the Wed-Sun, check period, Woyzeck folwith theater for lows the unraveling of repertory schedule, a soldier who, driven Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, crazy by poverty and 773-278-1500, powerlessness, kills chopintheatre.com, the mother of his in$28, both plays $48. fant child. The piece is full of biting social satire—with blackly comic, over-the-top scenes of powerful assholes abusing the hapless antihero—and constitutes a blueprint for pretty much all of Bertolt Brecht, parts of Waiting for Godot, and Monty Python at its nastiest.

This spring, six Chicago theaters and an opera company have banded together to present the Woyzeck Project, a festival anchored by two shows running now at the Chopin Theatre: About Face Theatre’s premiere production of Pony by Sylvan Oswald, which tosses a few Büchnerian elements into a contemporary story about transgender identity, and Woyzeck itself, as adapted and directed by Sean Graney for the Hypocrites. In addition to sharing a venue and a

starting point, the two productions employ the same set, sound, lighting, and prop designers.

The Hypocrites give us Büchner’s story straight up. Franz Woyzeck hardly ever sees his lover, Marie, because he’s constantly working humiliating side jobs to supplement his military pay. One, as a subject in a science experiment, may actually be designed to drive him nuts, and he’s starting to experience nightmarish hallucinations. Eventually Marie takes up with another guy. When Woyzeck catches on, he leads her out to the woods and kills her. Graney’s adaptation steals text from various parts of the original to cobble together a narrator of sorts—a knowing, sinister figure who appears to Woyzeck at times, tipping him off to Marie’s infidelity and giving him confirmation, with a raised eyebrow, of his doom.

Graney and his crack ensemble tease out the play’s humor, pathos, and terror. Scenes in which Woyzeck is tormented by his bosses, Captain Hauptmann and the mad scientist called Herr Doktor, are played broadly and expertly for laughs. But, in a remarkable choice, Geoff Button is allowed to project kindness and intelligence as Woyzeck. From his first scene, he comes across as a grounded, decent, sweet guy who just happens to be losing his marbles.

The production design is similarly bold. In a brilliant stroke by sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, the cacophony in Woyzeck’s head—buzzing insects, a wheezing baby’s cry, the beating of his own heart—is produced by the other actors, who become a kind of choral, oral Foley artist. And everyday objects develop into pow-

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erful symbols: An oblong rock, for instance, represents Woyzeck and Marie’s baby—until it becomes a weapon.

Graney’s most potent image is a simple can of peas. Herr Doktor’s experiment requires Woyzeck to eat nothing but peas for months, and throughout the play, even as he listens to Marie’s dying sobs, Franz keeps spooning them into his mouth. It doesn’t occur to him to break the habit of obedience.

ABOUT FACE’S PONY is similarly accomplished, with outstanding performances throughout. But Oswald’s play ultimately disappoints. The eponymous character is a woman who blows into town passing as a man. Pony takes up with Marie, who—in the play ’s closest connection to Woyzeck—is obsessed with a recent crime of passion in the woods: Another woman named Marie was stabbed to death there by a jealous lover. Oswald’s Marie says she wants to know, to experience, the murderer’s state of mind. Everyone in the piece has cards they play close to the vest, mostly having to do with gender. But Marie’s obsession remains a mystery until the end, and then it doesn’t add up. Her craziness comes across as a stock device.

There are plenty of other problems. Late in the action, Pony acquires an annoying tendency to state the play’s themes in essay-like monologues. Another character, a therapist, takes a turn towards violence that doesn’t seem in tune with the person we’ve known to that point. And Marie apparently turns completely sane in the play’s last moments.

Oswald’s dialogue is smart, though, and the play offers a sweet scene between Pony and a young queer man, Heath, who’s come looking for her. Kelli Simpkins’s Pony and Matthew Sherbach’s Heath are absolutely endearing. Director Bonnie Metzgar gives the script’s every nuance time to breathe, for better and also for worse: If the pace were quicker, the holes in the script might be less noticeable. v

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Bruiser: Tales From a Traumatized Tomboy The entries in Kelsey Huff’s catalog of childhood embarrassments are familiar. There’s a couples’ skate at the roller rink, a mom obsessed with kitschy collectibles, a disconcertingly mature new rival in the girl-scout troop. But Huff animates her 60-minute solo show with an elastic face and a striking gaze, the irises of her aquamarine eyes popping from the whites like double exclamation points. With her wicked sense of timing and knack for surprise, Huff outmatches her material.

The theater of childhood mortification seems like a cop-out for this talented comic. She could be doing riskier work than this. —Keith Griffith Through 5/26: Thu 8 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango. com, $12.

Bury the Dead Six freshly killed soldiers stand up in their battlefield graves, refuse to be buried, and rhapsodize about the simple pleasures of life while a scandalized general insists that a military doctor convince them they’re officially dead. Director Beth Wolf can’t find a tone that unifies the dark satire and poetic earnestness in the first half of Irwin Shaw’s unwieldy 1936 play. But the cast of this troubled Promethean Theatre Ensemble production handle tricky, poignant scenes with grace and guts during the more cohesive second act, in which important women from the soldiers’ lives travel to the mass grave to convince the men to stay dead.

—Justin Hayford Through 5/21: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Artistic Home, 3914 N. Clark, 866-811-4111, theartistichome.org, $20.

The Conquest of the South Pole Middle-aged, jobless slacker Slupianek convinces three unemployed buddies—and some guy who alternately stutters and impersonates a dog—to sequester themselves in an attic and reenact Roald Amundsen’s 1910 journey to the South Pole. Not even a fed-up wife wielding a loaded pistol can get them to stop their game and look for work. It’s only when they beat the crap out of some condescending guy at a birthday party and the homicidal wife decides she wants in on the polar fantasy that they shrug it off. Um, what? German playwright Manfred Karge provides no psychological or social context for the men’s interminable childishness, so it’s no surprise that Kimberly Senior’s handsomely designed, wellacted Strawdog Theatre production feels empty.

—Justin Hayford Through 5/28: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N. Broadway, 773-528-9696, strawdog.org, $10-$20.

Erratica Beautiful, tart-tongued English professor Samantha Stafford wants to keep sex and Elizabethan literature separate in this campus comedy by Reina Hardy. But they get tangled up all the same when a student tries to seduce Samantha with Shakespearean sonnets and the ghost of Christopher Marlowe starts whispering naughty nothings in her ear. Hardy writes with punch and verve but fails to integrate her romantic

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The Madness of George III is a highly polished look at chaos.

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he Madness of George III is as perfectly realized a play as you’re ever likely to see. In fact, it flirts with coming off a little too perfectly at times, and no wonder: Brit playwright Alan Bennett has had multiple opportunities to fiddle with his already masterful account of an English monarch’s mental breakdown since it first saw light in 1991. Bennett wrote the Oscar-nominated Through 6/12: script for the 1994 Wed-Sun, Chicago movie version as Shakespeare Theater, well as an adapta800 E. Grand, 312-595tion for the Ameri5600, chicagoshakes. can stage. Accordcom, $44-$75. ing to a program note, the Madness on display in Penny Metropulos’s sharp new production for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre combines elements from all three previous incarnations.

The combination of Bennett’s extraordinary wit and 20 years of buffing yields a play in which pretty much everything you’re likely to think of has been anticipated and beautifully wrought. Did it occur to you that Shakespeare had his own mad old king, Lear? Bennett found that parallel early on, and made it the basis of a gorgeous scene. Do you hear an erudite echo of Richard II in King George’s oddly precise ravings? Bennett put it there.

He also supplied a sly reference the French Revolution, some evergreen bits on taxes, and a cute little throwaway line connecting a royal page named Fortnum with the London luxury goods store Fortnum & Mason.

And yet, against all odds, there’s no sense of overkill. Soon to turn 77, Bennett started his professional showbiz career by partnering with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Jonathan Miller on the legendary 1960 comedy revue Beyond the Fringe, and he’s maintained a strong sense of the ludicrous throughout his career. His willingness to twit even those with whom the audience is likely to identify—abolitionist Whigs, for instance—helps keep the show alive and airy throughout its three-hour running time.

Madness deals with England’s 1788 regency crisis, triggered when the same George who lost the American colonies appeared to crack up. Formerly an unspectacular but more or less competent king who cultivated a Dubya-esque sense of himself as an upright gentleman farmer, King George III suddenly started suffering delusions and acting out.

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continued from page 33 story strand with less interesting ones involving Samantha’s aggressive publicist and a Marlboro Man-esque librarian. Dan Foss’s staging for the American Demigods zips along, and Lisa Herceg conveys a nimble wit as Samantha. Apart from a striptease performed by Marlowe and a pair of go-go boys, though, the production never generates the heat it needs. —Zac Thompson Through 5/14: Thu-Sat 8 PM, the Second Stage, 3408 N. Sheffield, 773-883-8830, $15.

Eurydice There’s an appropriately Greek duality to the two plays based on the Orpheus myth—Eurydice and Orpheus: Featuring DJ Puzzle as Fate—currently being presented by Filament Theatre Ensemble. Director Julie Ritchey uses Peter Oyloe’s dopey, gnomic Orpheus and Carolyn Faye Kramer’s adorably nebbishy Eurydice to draw out the ethereal lyricism of Sarah Ruhl’s 2005 Eurydice.

Ruhl’s modern fable takes on the lightness of a floating island, unbounded by history or place, in the cavernous Lacuna Lofts. But the same space shifts with disorienting specificity into an underground nightclub for Omen Sade’s physical-theater take on the myth. Though it’s the weaker of the two plays, dragged down by amateurish circus-arts bits, Sade’s primal Orpheus makes an effective counterpoint to Ruhl’s airy fare. Unfolding on a thumping concrete expanse of dance floor, it echoes and twists Ruhl’s imagery like an uneasy dream. See separate listing for the Orpheus schedule. —Keith Griffith Through 5/29: Fri-Sun 7:30 PM, Lacuna Lofts, 2150 S. Canalport, filamenttheatre.org, $10-$35.

Orpheus: Featuring DJ Puzzle as Fate A retelling of the Orpheus myth, set in modern times and featuring a Greek chorus of hip-hop dancing nymphs. Directed by Omen Sade and presented by Filament Theatre Ensemble, Orpheus is paired with Julie Ritchey’s staging of Eurydice

by Sarah Ruhl. See our Eurydice listing for a review of both shows and more schedule information.

Through 5/28: Fri-Sat 9 PM, Lacuna Lofts, 2150 S. Canalport, filamenttheatre.org, $10-$15.

Our Dad Is in Atlantis There’s a lot of potential in this two-hander by Mexican writer Javier Malpica, about young brothers whose father goes off to work in El Norte after their mother dies. It’s got vibrant, sympathetic characters and a situation fraught with dramatic possibilities. But Malpica never manages to build a compelling story around those assets. Instead he gives us tiny slices of daily life in which the rootless, lonely boys are shipped from one set of relatives to another before finally deciding to find dad. Director Ann Filmer tries hard to breathe life into the show, and Remy Ortiz and Todd Garcia have a great onstage chemistry—they’re convincing even though they’re at least a decade older than the children they play. Ultimately, however, all of their good work is undermined by the weak script. —Jack Helbig Through 5/21: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 5 and 8 PM, 16th Street Theater, Berwyn Cultural Center, 6420 16th, Berwyn, 708-795-6704, 16thstreettheater. org, $18.

Ribbon Around a Bomb Half of Jess Eisenberg Chamblee’s new musical is an infectious, girlpower kids’ show in which a precocious young painter named Kalakara gets a lesson in neglected female artists from the ghosts of three neglected female artists—Tamara de Lempicka, Mary Beale, and Artemisia Gentileschi. The dour other half

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recounts Kalakara’s breakdown and ensuing stint in a mental institution. As Chamblee tells these two unreconciled halves of her story concurrently, wobbling between sunny uplift and sour gloom, the effect is a lot like watching two competing shows at once. Kiana Harris’s staging for Prologue Theatre Company suffers from the same unevenness of tone, but the cast and many of the songs display a moving, heartfelt sincerity. —Zac Thompson Through 5/3: Mon-Tue 7:30 PM, Mary’s Attic Theatre, 5400 N. Clark, 773-784-6969, hamburgermaryschicago. com, $15.

Word Circus III: A New Play Festival The strippeddown living room of a Lakeview apartment serves as the playing space for Nothing Without a Company’s latest collection of one-acts. Each of the three pieces deals with confrontation, and each benefits from the voyeuristic intimacy the venue helps create. The effect is engaging when the action is subtle—as in the preshow, during which a young woman goes about her banal business, apparently unaware of the audience trickling in.

But those moments are rare. By the end of the night, subtlety gives way to hackneyed parables and outsize gestures such as a gay character speak-singing Stephen Sondheim’s “The Ladies Who Lunch” out a window and a woman getting her top ripped off. While none of the plays is close to performance-ready, the energy and audacity of the young actors is decent theater in itself. —Dan Jakes Through 4/29: Thu-Sat, check with theater for showtimes, nothingwithoutacompany.org, pay what you can.

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Adrift in Macao A parody of film noir, in which visitors to Macao wait for something that they can’t quite identify. Written by Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick and performed by InnateVolution Theater Productions. Previews Wed 5/4 and Fri 5/6, 7:30 PM. Opens 5/8. Through 5/29: Sun 7:30 PM, the Call, 1547 W. Bryn Mawr, innatevolution. org, $25.

The Amazing Acro-Cats A show with Samantha Martin and her performing cats. Sat 4/30, 2, 5, and 8 PM, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 777 N. Green, 312-733-6000, theaterland.com, $15.

Arizona, No Roosters in the Desert Four women cross the Arizona desert from Mexico and push the limits of their survival skills in this play by Kara Hartzler, based on interviews by Anna Ochoa O’Leary. Opens 4/28. Through 5/29: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, 773-539-7838, propthtr.org, $20.

Broadzilla! The Burlesque Beast Burlesque by Broadzilla. Fri 4/29, 10:30 PM, Exit, 1315 W. North, 773-395-2700, exitchicago.com. F Circus A circus performance featuring members of the Moscow State Circus. Benefits MSA & Circus Arts. Sun 5/1, 2 and 5 PM, Portage, 4050 N. Milwaukee, 773-736-4050, portagetheater.org,

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logorrhea (“I have to talk to keep up with my thoughts”), potty mouth, purple urine, and a sexual obsession with Lady Pembroke, the queen’s lady-in-waiting.

The king’s collapse threw the government into chaos. Bennett shows us the maneuverings that went on between the Tory prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, and a Whig faction anxious to install the Prince of Wales as regent. But the central drama here concerns George himself as he struggles to keep a grip on his family, sanity, health, authority, and sense of self.

This being the Enlightenment, doctors are summoned, and each has his hobbyhorse. One is into pulse rates and purgatives. Another is absolutely fascinated by stool samples. A third puts hot cups on the royal skin to blister it—that is, to create raw wounds through which bad humors are supposed to flee the body. A half-step removed from necromancy, the learned hucksters perform a medicinal Punch-and-Judy show that’s at once hilarious and—considering the whomping it gives the king—horrific.

After a while along comes Dr. Willis, a clergyman-turned-psychologist who administers a kind of talking cure liberally supplemented with leather restraints. He can be regarded as a hero of the piece since he manages to keep the more dangerous quacks from killing King George outright. But his techniques are as punitive in their way as anyone else’s—and more insidious. Like a primitive Werner Erhard, Willis believes the king must be broken of his arrogance before he can be brought back to health. Madness turns out to be less about what breaks in King George than what endures and finds its way back to the surface.

With all its fits and roars, the role of George itself looks like something of an endurance test, and Harry Groener—an import with lots of Broadway credits—passes nicely. He’s especially affecting in passages of intimacy with Ora Jones’s delightful Queen Charlotte.

But he’s only the head of a marvelous retinue.

James Newcomb combines asperity and compassion as Dr. Willis. David Lively reaches interesting depths as Edward Thurlow, George’s Lord High Chancellor, who finds himself compromised as he tries to maintain his power.

Richard Baird and Alex Weisman make a fine, fey pair as George’s incorrigible sons. And as the three doctors, Bradley Armacost, William Dick, and Patrick Clear manage to be clownish while never letting us forget how truly dangerous they are v

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Cubicle! An Office Space Musical Four men deal with bosses, fax machines, and other workplace issues in this musical presented by New Millennium Theatre Company. Opens 4/29.

Through 6/4: Fri-Sat 11 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, nmtchicago.org, $17-$20.

Defending the Caveman A comedy about men, women, and hetero relationships. Fri 4/29, 8 PM, Sat 4/30, 5 and 8 PM, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights, 847577-2121, metropolisarts.com, $36.

Down and Dirty Romeo and Juliet A spin on the tragic play by Shakespeare, presented

by Shattered Globe Theatre. Thu 4/28, 7 PM, the Spot, 4437 N. Broadway, 773-728-8933, spotchicago.com, $18.

Dripping Jewels . . . Painted Poetry An epic poem reading by Corliss Preston and Michelle Shupe. Sat 4/30, 8 PM, Mon 5/2, 7 PM, Josef Glimer Gallery, 207 W. Superior, 312-787-4640, josefglimergallery.com. F Electra and Orestes A queen and her lover murder the king. After witnessing the crime, the queen’s daughter sends her brother into exile. Presented by 20% Theatre Company Chicago and adapted and directed by Melissa Albertario. Opens 4/30.

Through 5/22: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Evanston Arts Depot, 600 Main, Evanston, 847-328-2204, artsdepot.us, $10-$15.

The Encyclopedia Show “Creation Myths” is the theme of this installment of the variety show. Fri 4/29, 7:30 PM, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 312-744-6630, chicagoculturalcenter.org, $8, or $15 to get Encyclopedia Brittanica CD-ROM. 500 Clown Nose Three clowns end up jailed and stuck in a barren landscape and try to escape in this play by 500 Clown. Opens 5/3. Through 5/21: Tue-Sat, check with theater for showtimes, Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble, 773-342-4141, adventurestage.org, $10-$17.

Gulliver’s Travels A man travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and other fantastical worlds in this play by Lowell Swortzell, based on Jonathan Swift’s novel. Presented by Li’l Buds Theatre Company. Opens 4/30. Through 5/22: Sat 1 PM, Sun 11 AM, Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, lilbudstheatre.org, $12-$18.

Haymarket Square Reenactment A full reenactment of the 1886 workers’ uprising by Paul Durica. Fri 4/29, 3 PM, Haymarket Square, Randolph & Desplaines. F Hedwig and the Angry Inch A rock singer searches for stardom and love in this adaptation of the off-Broadway musical. Hosted by Midnight Radio, a “HedHead” fan troupe. Sat 4/30, 9:30 PM, Wilmette Theatre, 1122 Central, Wilmette, 847251-7411, wilmettetheatre.com, $12.

Helen Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of the play by Euripides, in which the Trojan War has ended and Helen is shipped off to an Egyptian hotel to wait for her husband to find and rescue her. Presented by the Vintage Theater Collective. Opens 5/1.

Through 5/25: Mon-Wed 7:30 PM, Sun 1 PM, Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N. Broadway, 773-528-9696, strawdog.org, $20.

The Last Saint on Sugar Hill A young man confronts the greed of his landlord father, who wants to sell their property and displace the family living there, in this play by Keith Josef Adkins. Previews 4/29. Opens Tue 5/10, 7:30 PM. Through 6/12: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-4047336, mpaact.org, $15-$30.

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READER RECOMMENDS

Performance in Which Hopefully Nothing Happens

Stages, Sights & Sounds WITH ITS LECTURES AND PANELS, THE CHICAGO HUMANITIES Festival isn’t exactly kid-friendly. But this CHF-produced theater showcase is. Over the course of 12 days, four ensembles from various parts of the world stage edgy shows aimed specifically at children. Meanwhile, two lectures should help the old at heart hold out until the CHF deploys its philosophical discussions in force next fall. The full lineup: Theatre Motus arrives from Canada with Baobab, a tale, told in traditional west-African style, about a boy hatched from an egg produced by a baobab tree (5/3-5/7, Ethel M. Barber Theater, Northwestern University, 30 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston). Staged by Italy’s Teatro di Piazza d’Occasione in an interactive environment where the walls and floor react to audience members’ touch, Kindur: The Adventurous Journey of Icelandic Sheep provides a sheep’s-eye view of the glaciers and meadows of Iceland (5/4-5/15, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago). Scotland’s Puppet State Theatre manipulates scent as well as puppets in The Man Who Planted Trees, a fable about a shepherd and his dog who rejuvenate a barren valley (5/7-5/15, Museum of Contemporary Art). And a security guard tries to keep an overeager actor off an empty stage in Performance in Which Hopefully Nothing Happens, a show from Dutch troupe Theatregroep Max touted as “pure Monty Python for children” (5/11-5/15, Ethel M. Barber Theater).

Family Art and Adventure Day features activities, crafts, and a 1 PM performance by Chicago’s own Barrel of Monkeys (Sat 5/14, 11 AM-2 PM, South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr., free).

Grown-up fun includes University of Illinois professor Gillen Wood linking the environmental devastation wreaked by World War I to our own abuse of natural resources in a talk called Reforesting the Soul: The Ecological Vision of Jean Giono (Sat 5/7, 1 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art). And in Stories on Skins: Animal Hides and Iceland’s Heritage, Wood’s U. of I. colleague Marianne Kalinke discusses the origins of two important Icelandic manuscripts, written in the Middle Ages on animal hides (Sat 5/7, 5 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art). a 5/3-5/15, various days, times, and locations, 312-494-9509, chicagohumanities.org, $5-$10, $5 processing fee on all advance orders, $2 surcharge at the door, kids attend lectures free. —Asher Klein

Late Nite Jam Series Poetry, sketch comedy, and more, hosted by MPAACT. Opens 4/29. Through 6/11: Fri-Sat 10 PM, Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, mpaact.org, $10.

A Lesson Before Dying A teacher is enlisted to teach a young black man who has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit in this play by Romulus Linney. Previews Wed-Thu 5/4-5/5, 8 PM. Opens 5/6. Through 6/11: Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Lincoln Square Theatre, Berry Memorial United Methodist Church, 4754 N. Leavitt, 773-275-9735, $5-$20.

Magic Chicago A magic show featuring Suzanne and Walter King Jr., produced by magicians Robert Charles and Benjamin Barnes. Wed 5/4, 7:30 PM, City Lit Theater, 1020 West Bryn Mawr, 773-293-3682, citylit.org, $20.

Maybe in a Moment A performance created in part by people who have severe, chronic mental illness. Through 5/8: Thu-Sat 7 PM, Sun 3 PM, Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western, 773-296-6024,

viaducttheatre.com, $20.

No More Dead Dogs The Griffin Theatre Company presents this adaptation of Gordon Korman’s comic novel about a boy who never lies because he does not want to be like his father. He ends up in detention after expressing his true feelings about his teacher’s favorite book. Written by William Massolia. Previews 4/30-5/7. Opens Sun 5/8, 7 PM. Through 6/19: FriSat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, no matinee Sun 5/8, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, theaterwit.org, $22-$30.

Nunset Boulevard This musical by Dan Goggin features the Little Sisters of Hoboken, who receive an invitation to sing at the Hollywood Bowl—which turns out to be the Bowl-A-Rama instead. Stars Tony nominee Felicia Fields. Previews 4/28-4/30. Opens 5/1. Through 5/29: Wed-Thu 2 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, check with theater for additional showtimes,

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continued from page 37 Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge, Munster, 219-8363255, theatreatthecenter.com, $36-$40.

The Original Grease PJ Paparelli directs this Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical—the original, R-rated version of the story about working-class outsiders and summer love. Previews through 5/1.

Opens Mon 5/2, 7 PM. Through 6/5: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron, 773-409-4125, atcweb.org, $10-$40.

Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli’s Daughter Sonja Moser directs this one-woman show created by Mary Fons, who stars as “Mary Minnelli”—a singing, dancing, dramatic woman who believes she’s Liza Minnelli’s daughter. Previews 4/28-4/29. Opens 4/30.

Through 6/4: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-275-5255, neofuturists.org, $10-$15.

Peter Pan Broadway in Chicago and Threesixty Entertainment’s touring production of the musical based on J.M. Barrie’s story features 15,000 square feet of high-resolution video. Opens 4/29. Through 6/19: Wed 2 and 7 PM, Thu-Fri 7 PM, Sat 2 and 7 PM, Sun 1 and 5 PM, Chicago Tribune Freedom Center, 777 W. Chicago, 312-977-1710, $20-$75.

Piano Bar the Musical, AKA Last Night This musical depicts what happened “last night” to five patrons of a north side piano bar. Written by Dan Gillogly. Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 PM, Sun 5/1, 3 PM, Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th, 773-445-3838, beverlyartcenter.org, $15.

Pinocchio Chicago Kids Company present this play about the wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy. Opens 5/4. Through 8/19: Tue-Sun, check with theater for showtimes, Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th, 773-445-3838, chicagokidscompany.com, $10.

Planet Karate In this comic play, the world’s inhabitants all use karate to protect themselves, make society better, or gain power. Opens 4/29. Through 6/17: Fri 10 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 4830 N. Broadway, 773561-4665, annoyanceproductions.com, $15.

The Rainmaker Set in the 1930s, this play by N. Richard Nash tells the story of a rancher and his family who try to keep their cattle alive during a drought.

Directed by Floyd A. May. Opens 4/30. Through 5/15: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 1:30 PM, James Downing Theatre, 6740 N. Oliphant, 224-725-3696, $13-$20.

Raised A staged reading of this Stephen Cone play, in which a small-town preacher discovers that he has a gift that could change the world. Sun 5/1, 2 PM, the Side Project, 1439 W. Jarvis, 773-973-2150, thesideproject.net. F Rantoul & Die American Blues Theater presents this Mark Roberts comedy about four people stuck in a “grimy” world. Opens 4/28. Through 5/22: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 5

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and 8 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, 312-462-6300, thechicagotheatre.com, $20-$50.

Skin A staged reading of Naomi Iizuka’s play, set in San Diego, that explores Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck.

Mon 5/2, 7:30 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-278-1500, chopintheatre.com. F Soul Samurai InFusion Theatre Company presents Qui Nguyen’s play in which a young samurai girl and her sidekick try to make it back home to Manhattan while avoiding Brooklyn-based shoguns who seek revenge against her. Opens 4/28. Through 6/5: ThuSat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, theaterwit.org, $10-$25.

Speculative Solution An experimental sound performance by Florian Hecker. RSVP required. Sat 4/30, 8 PM, Graham Foundation, 4 W. Burton Pl., 312787-4071, grahamfoundation.org. F Spring Awakening This Tony Award-winning musical

by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater follows a group of students who undergo a period of self-discovery and anxiety. A Broadway in Chicago production.

Tue 5/3, 8 PM, Wed-Thu 5/4-5/5, 7:30 PM, Fri 5/6, 8 PM, Sat 5/7, 2 and 8 PM, Sun 5/8, 2 and 7:30 PM, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph, 312-902-1400, broadwayinchicago.com, $27-$90.

Stage Kiss Sarah Ruhl’s romantic fantasy explores what happens when lovers share a stage kiss, and actors share a real kiss. Previews 4/30-5/8. Opens 5/9. Through 6/5: Tue-Sun, check with theater for showtimes, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $25-$78.

Steel Magnolias The Saint Sebastian Players present Robert Harling’s play about five Louisiana women who forge a sisterhood in a beauty salon. Opens 4/29. Through 5/22: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Saint Bonaventure Church, basement-level theater, 1625 W. Diversey, 773-404-7922, saintsebastianplayers.org, $15.

Story Potluck Six audience members get five minutes to tell a true story from their lives and compete for prizes in this series hosted by the American Demigods. Hosts for Thu 4/28, Cameron Esposito; Thu 5/5, Robyn Pennachia; and Thu 5/12, J.W. Basilo. Opens 4/28. Through 5/12: Thu 10 PM, the Second Stage, 3408 N. Sheffield, 773-883-8830, $5 suggested donation.

Stronger Than Silence: Surviving Our Secrets Cedric Young, Gabi Mayorga, Jennifer Mathews, and Craig C. Thompson give voice to the true stories of sexual violence survivors. Presented by Erasing the Distance and directed by Brighid O’Shaughnessy.

Thu 4/28, 7 PM, Hoover-Leppen Theatre, Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, 773472-6469, brownpapertickets.

Todd Glass WHEN THE RED BAR COMEDY CLUB opened just over a year ago, it operated once a week as a plush

downtown outpost for local stand-ups. Since then it’s grown in scope to encompass multiple nights and time slots. Now, by booking Todd Glass, Red Bar is signaling it’s ready to grow some more.

Glass is the club’s first big national act. A favorite for his disdain of airplanes, infomercials, and even the crowds at his own shows, the former Last Comic Standing contestant is ruthless yet maintains an affable, regular-guy air. His teardown of Kmart is leavened by the fact that he admits to having shopped there on multiple occasions. And for suits, no less. The last time Glass came through town, he was opening for David Cross at the Congress Theater. This show should offer a much more intimate look at the unforgiving, enjoyably caustic comic. a Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 and 10 PM, Red Bar Comedy Club at Ontourage, 157 W. Ontario, 773-387-8412, redbarcomedy.com, $15. —Steve Heisler

com, suggested $10 donation. F Waa-Mu 2011: What’s Next? A musical exploration of Northwestern student artists of what they hope their lives will be like after graduation. Opens 4/29. Through 5/8: Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, 600 Emerson, Evanston, 847-467-4000, $17-$28.

Watership Down When their birthplace is destroyed, two brothers lead a group of survivors on a

quest for a new home. They must face their fears to survive. Written by Jeff Award winner John Hildreth and based on the novel by Richard Adams. Features puppetry, stage combat, and movement. Previews 4/29-5/7. Opens Mon 5/9, 7:30 PM. Through 6/19: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood, 773-761-4477, lifelinetheatre.com, $20$35.

We Changed Our Pannies Comic burlesque by Off Off Broadzway. Opens 4/28. Through 5/19: Thu 8 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, stage773.com, $14.

COMEDY IMPROV/SKETCH

The Capitol Steps Political satire by this Washington, D.C.-based comedy troupe. Fri 4/29, 8 PM, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell, Glen Ellyn, 630-942-4000, cod.edu/artscntr, $28-$38.

Earthqueef An unscripted musical take on blockbuster disaster movies. Previews 5/4. Opens 5/11. Through 6/8: Wed 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 4830 N. Broadway, 773561-4665, annoyanceproductions.com, $10-$15.

Four Minutes Max! A variety show featuring friends of Pride Films and Plays. Includes comedy, video, multimedia performance, and more. Sun 5/1, 7 PM, Mary’s Attic Theatre, 5400 N. Clark, 773-784-6969, brownpapertickets.com, $15.

GTT Improv Thing vs. CIT Champions The winners of the GTT Improv Thing and the College Improv Tournament perform. Sun 5/1, 12:30 AM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango.com, $10.

I Am the Horizon Anthony Oberbeck presents this one-man sketch show about failure, heartbreak, and other subjects. Open run: Tue 8 PM, Playground Theater, 3209 N. Halsted, 773-871-3793, theplayground.com, $5.

Is This Your First Dead Husband? A sketch comedy revue about the things people do when faced with adversity. Written by Michael Larimer and Jessie Stegner. Opens 4/28. Through 6/2: Thu 10:30 PM, Division Street Dance Loft, 735 W. Division, third floor, 312-337-4349.

The Kates Stories, monologues, and more by this allfemale comedy troupe. Sat 4/30, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com, $10 suggested donation.

The 17th Annual Summerville Massacre and Cat Parade Sketch comedy about disaster and do-ityourself spectacle performed by the Other Other Guys. Opens 4/30. Through 6/4: Sat midnight, iO, 3541 N. Clark, 773-880-0199, theotherotherguys. com, $5.

Smush A variety show hosted by the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Tue 5/3, 8 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, stage773.com, $5.

That New Show Improv teams perform. Opens 5/3.

Through 6/28: Tue 8 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango. com. F Uncle’s Brother A long-form improv show with Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live), Joe Canale, and Brad Morris. Sun 5/1, 10 PM, iO, 3541 N. Clark, 773-8800199, chicago.ioimprov.com, $10.

READER RECOMMENDS

WILLIAM FREDERKING

The Weaver’s Tale: Of Debt and the Maidens Fifth House Ensemble presents this piece that examines greed, hard work, generosity, and consumerism.

Tue 5/3, 7 PM, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 312-7446630. F; Wed 5/4, 8 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago, Evanston, 847-492-8860, evanstonspace.com, $20-$25.

The Wild Party Variety Hour Burlesque, vaudeville, shtick, and other types of performance, hosted by Silent Theatre. Opens 4/30. Open run: every last Saturday of the month, Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, 773-539-7838, silenttheatre.com, $10.

Wonders Never Cease Provision Theater Company presents this comedy, adapted from a book by Tim Downs, in which a nurse pretends to be an angel to an actress whose fortune he seeks. Previews Thu 4/28, 7:30 PM, Fri 4/29, 8 PM. Opens 4/30.

Through 6/5: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Provision Theater Company, 1001 W. Roosevelt, 773-506-4429, provisiontheater.org, $22-$28.

Woyzeck of Sarajevo This play by Doyle Avant explores the effects of military conflict and Islamophobia. Tue 5/3, 7:30 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-278-1500, chopintheatre.com. F

Mordine & Company Dance Theater THANKS TO TWITTER AND FACEBOOK, WE seem to be venting more now and enjoying it less.

What’s the point if everybody’s so busy sending that nobody’s reading? Shirley Mordine’s new work, LifeSpeak, might’ve got stuck in venting mode, too—it’s built around the six dancers’ personal stories—if she hadn’t made a point of including what’s so often missing from the social-media equation: listening. The solos only truly come alive when the other dancers respond to them by mirroring, assisting, or confronting the soloist. Played live, Shawn Decker’s score underlines the intimate conversations in this exquisitely performed piece. LifeSpeak is part of Mordine & Company’s Next 2011 concert, which also includes Kaleidoscope, a new quartet by Mordine mentee Alitra Cartman. Guest troupe RE|Dance performs Michael Estanich’s The Mysterious Disappearance of the Second Youngest Sister, a trio featuring a young female writer, her female character, and the writer’s male alter ego. And Mordine remounts her 2009 Illuminations, based on the myth of Icarus and set against John Boesche’s intergalactic imagery. a Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 PM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com, $15-$22. —Laura Molzahn

STAND-UP

Rachel Feinstein Thu 4/28, 7:30 PM, Fri 4/29, 8 and 10:15 PM, Sat 4/30, 7 and 9:15 PM, Sun 5/1, 7 PM, the Improv, Woodfield Mall, 5 Woodfield, Schaumburg, 847-240-2001, improv.com, $17-$19.

Todd Glass Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 and 10 PM, The Red Bar Comedy Club, Ontourage, 157 W. Ontario, 773-387-8412, redbarcomedy.com, $15.

Interdimensional Super Show A stand-up show produced by Jeff Hansen. Opens 5/4. Through 5/25: Wed 8 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango.com, $10.

The Red Bar Comedy Show Comedy with Michael Isaac, Prescott Tolk, and special guests. Fri-Sat 4/294/30, 8 and 10 PM, Ontourage, 157 W. Ontario, 312573-1470, ontouragechicago.com, $10.

RIOT Comedy Marty DeRosa hosts Jeff Steinbrunner, Danny Kallas, Ricky Gonzalez, Candy Lawrence, and Renee Schultz. Thu 4/28, 9:30 PM, Chicago Joe’s, 2256 W. Irving Park, 773-478-7000, riotcomedychicago.com, $4-$8.

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DANCE Chicago Verge Dance Theatre Presenting Impulse—a Debut, contemporary dance. Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 PM, Sun 5/1, 7 PM, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, 773-2810824, linkshall.org, $18-$20.

Colectivo PAUSA en Movimiento Dance and poetry.

Thu 4/28, 7 PM, Northeastern Illinois University, recital hall, 5500 N. Saint Louis, 773-442-4636. F

Inaside Chicago Dance Project Choreographers Tony Savino and Harrison McEldowney present Mink, Jazz and Swing; Dancing to the Music of Miss Peggy Lee, Autumn Eckman presents At Face Value, and Richard A. Smith presents a Chicago-inspired work. Sat 4/30, 8 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773935-6860, brownpapertickets.com, $20-$30.

Joffrey Ballet Performing Rising Stars, with choreography by Edwaard Ling, Yuri Possokhov, and others. Opens 5/4. Through 5/15: Mon-Sun, check with theater for showtimes, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., 312-902-1500, auditoriumtheatre.org, $25-$145.

MaZi Presenting Spring Fling, dance inspired by the paintings of Laura Lee Junge. Thu 4/28, 7 PM, Jackson Junge Gallery, 1389 N. Milwaukee, 773-2277900, j2gallery.com. F Shirley Mordine & Co. Works by Shirley Mordine, Alitra Cartman, and Re|Dance. Fri-Sat 4/294/30, 8 PM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 847-864-5323, ruthpage.org, $15-$22.

The NU Group A collection of dance artists perform works by Northwestern alumni. Fri-Sat 4/29-4/30, 8 PM, Northwestern University, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center, 10 Arts Circle, Evanston, 847-4913147, brownpapertickets.com, $12-$20.

Perceptual Motion Presenting Through the Window: works by Lin Shook and Harvard Vallance. Thu-Fri 4/28-4/29, 7:30 PM, Hamlin Park, 3035 N. Hoyne, 773-635-0114, perceptualmotiondance.com, $15-$20.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29 6–8pm Dr. Raymond Moody Jr, MD author of LIFE AFTER LIFE and GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY

READINGS & TALKS Admission to all readings and talks is free unless otherwise noted. Lots more listings and coverage at chicagoreader. com/lit.

READINGS

Author Afternoon Patrick Somerville sits in on a discussion of his novel The Cradle. Somerville’s R title plot device is no mere MacGuffin but rather a sweetly drawn symbol that not only wraps up his debut novel with a neat bow but also communicates a wise and hopeful worldview. Sun 5/1, 2 PM, Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th, 773-445-3838, beverlyartcenter.org, $5.

Brute Neighbors Contributors read at this launch event for the anthology Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Poetry, Prose, and Photography, published by the DePaul Humanities Center, which includes the work of more than 50 local writers. Thu 4/28, 6 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com.

The Chicago Way This edition of the Q&A-style literary series features an interview with author Jonathan Eig (Get Capone) and celebrates the release of the latest issue of Criminal Class Review.

Sun 5/1, 7-9 PM, Hidden Shamrock, 2723 N. Halsted, 773-883-0304, chicagowayseries.com.

Larry O. Dean reads from a couple new poetry chapbooks; he’ll be joined by fellow poet Sarah Carson. Fri 4/29, 7 PM, Quimby’s, 1854 W. North, 773342-0910, quimbys.com.

Becky Beaupre Gillespie presents Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood. Fri 4/29, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com, and Sun 5/1, 4:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

Keir Graff celebrates the paperback release of his novel The Price of Liberty and is interviewed by author Bryan Gruley. Tue 5/3, 6 PM, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, 312-255-3700, newberry.org.

Jon Katz (A Dog Year) signs Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm. Wed 5/4, 7 PM, Barnes & Noble, 55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie, 847-676-2230, barnesandnoble.com.

Lambda Literary Awards Readings by finalists Scott Herring (Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism), James Klise (Love Drugged), Julie Marie Wade (Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures), and Michelle Renae (Dear John, I Love Jane). Tue 5/3, 7 PM, Gerber/Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville, 773-381-8030, gerberhart.org.

Sharon Levy presents Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth’s Largest Animals. Tue 5/3, 6 PM, 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th, 773-684-1300, semcoop.com.

Mary Hudson presents Misogyny: The World’s Oldest Prejudice, written by her late husband, Jack Holland; she’ll by joined by translator Monireh Mohammadi.

Thu 4/28, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

Wendy McClure (I’m Not the New Me) signs The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. Fri 4/29, 6:30 PM, Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm, Winnetka, 847-446-8880, thebookstall.com.

Myopic Poetry Series The featured readers are Meg Reilly and Arielle Greenberg. Sat 4/30, 7 PM, Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee, 773-862-4882, myopicbookstore.com.

PEN World Voices Festival Tour Panel with authors Najat El Hachmi (The Last Patriarch), Marcelo Figueras (Kamchatka), and Carsten Jensen (We, the Drowned); Aleksandar Hemon moderates. Wed 5/4, 6 PM, International House, University of Chicago, 1414 E. 59th, 773-753-2270, ihouse.uchicago.edu.

Poetry Fest The Chicago Public Library’s 12th annual

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Are near death experiences real? Or are they just a natu-

ral result of the brain shutting down? Join us as Dr. Moody draws on 35+ years of researching near death experience to discuss another aspect: that the moments surrounding our final departure are sometimes shared with the living, through a variety of sensory experiences.

LOCATION: First United Methodist Church sanctuary, 77 W. Washington St. Chicago $5 suggested donation. Cosponsored with Mindful Metropolis and the Chicago chapter of IONS.

FRIDAY, MAY 13 7–9pm CAN WE BE HAPPY? Ron Miller, author of The Gospel

Michael cutlip Opening Reception Friday, May 6 2011 5 - 7:30pm

of Thomas and Letters of Paul What is happiness? Is money the key to happiness? We will sample the insights from a wave of new books and studies probing this topic. $10 fee payable to Common Ground for this event. Location: 77 W. Washington St., 2nd floor, Chicago.

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poetry festival offers haiku readings, workshops, a small press exhibit, an open mike, and more. Sat 4/30, 10 AM-4:30 PM, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State, 312-747-4050, chipublib.org.

Poetry Off the Shelf Nikki Giovanni (Bicycles: Love Poems et al) reads her work for this Poetry Foundation series. Sat 4/30, 2-3 PM, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State, 312-7877070, poetryfoundation.org.

Red Rover Series “Readings that play with reading.” This edition’s theme: Poetry for Labor. A participatory reading. Sun 5/1, 9AM-noon, Haymarket Square, Randolph & Desplaines, groups.yahoo.com/ group/redroverseries.

RUI: Reading Under the Influence “Because everyone needs a literary hangover.” This edition’s theme: Six. The featured readers are RUI hosts Rob Duffer, Julia Borcherts, Amy Guth, Jesse Jordan, and newbie Erin Nedberbo. Wed 5/4, 7-9 PM, Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Sheffield, 773-281-4989, readingundertheinfluence. com, $3.

So You Think You Have Nerves of Steel? Literary broadsheet The2ndHand presents readings by Rachel Yoder and Amy Schleunes, along with comedy by Patrick Culliton and music by Lamon Manuel. Tue 5/3, 8 PM, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont, the2ndhand. com.

Speculative Fiction Reading Paul McComas (Unforgettable: Harrowing Futures, Horrors, and (Dark) Humor) and Tim W. Brown (Second Acts) read from their new novels. With music by I Lost Control. 21+. Mon 5/2, 7 PM, Lizard’s Liquid Lounge, 3058 W. Irving Park, 773-463-7559, lizardsliquidlounge.com.

Tuesday Funk Paul McComas, Tim W. Brown, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Brooke Wonders, and Scott Smith read for this edition of the series. 21+. Tue 5/3, 7:30 PM, Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark, 773-334-9851, tuesdayfunk. org.

Ryan Van Meter reads from his essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now. Thu 4/28, 7 PM, Quimby’s, 1854 W. North, 773-342-0910, quimbys. com.

Jacob Wheeler presents In Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl’s Journey Through Adoption. Fri 4/29, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst. com.

TALKS

Chicago Architecture Foundation Lunchtime Lecture Historian Dennis McClendon’s topic is “Chicago’s Bridges.” Wed 5/4, 12:15 PM, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan, 312-922-3432, architecture.org.

College of Complexes The Playground for People Who Think hosts Joseph Balkis holding forth on “Organized Labor.” Sat 4/30, 8 PM, Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N. Lincoln, 312-327-6611, collegeofcomplexes.org, $3 plus food/drink purchase.

Crime Writing and Research Discussion with mystery novelists Michael Harvey (The Third Rail), Libby Fischer Hellmann (Set the Night on Fire), and Frances McNamara (Death at Pullman). Wed 5/4, 6 PM, Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Sheffield, 773-281-4989, sheffieldschicago.com.

“The U.S. Army in World War II: Ten Things to Know” Talk by historian Rick Atkinson (The Day of Battle et al). Reservations recommended. Thu 4/28, 6 PM, Pritzker Military Library, 104. S. Michigan, 312-3749333, pritzkermilitarylibrary.org, $25.

“Women Artists, Words and Image” Panel discussion with cartoonists Nicole Hollander, Sarah Becan, Lucy Knisley, Corrinne Mucha, and Heather McAdams.

Wed 5/4, 6-7:30 PM, McCormick Tribune Center, Northwestern University, 1870 Campus, Evanston, 847-467-4099, northwestern.edu/writing-arts.

visual arts Listening Chambers, by Juan Angel Chavez

Gallery and museum listings are for exhibits opening between Thursday and the following Wednesday. More gallery and museum listings and coverage at chicagoreader.com/arts.

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he opening panel discussion at this year’s Art Chicago is titled “What If: To Dream, Desire and Acquire,” and that pretty much sums up the annual fair that brings together collectors, curators, artists, gallerists, scholars, and kibbitzers for four days of looking, talking, and dealing.

Running Friday through Monday, Art Chicago concentrates on modern and contemporary art. It shares the 12th floor of the Merchandise Mart with NEXT, a concurrent showcase of emerging artists. The two fairs are collaborating on some events, and a ticket to one not only gets you into the other but also into the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, down on the eighth floor. The three together fall under the rubric of “Artropolis.”

Among the highlights: Your Thursday-evening preview options depend on how much you want to spend and how late you want to stay up. First Focus includes appetizers and cocktails, VIP admission to the fairs, and book signings by photographer Laura Letinsky and avant-restaurateurs Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas (3-6 PM, $150). It’s followed by another, more plebeian preview offering wine and beer as well as DJ sets courtesy of Fig Media (6-9 PM, $40).

There’ll be 120 exhibitors on hand at Art Chicago, ranging from local notables like Anchor Graphics, Corbett vs. Dempsey, and the Carl Hammer Gallery to such exotic concerns as Berlin’s Wilde Gallery, Moscow’s Art-Kvartal, Paris’s Martin du Louvre, Tokyo’s Wada Garou, and Houston’s John Palmer Fine Art. Art Chicago and NEXT jointly sponsor Focus Photography, an exhibit of contemporary and vintage photography, and New Insight, a show of MFA work from across the country. Sculpture and installation projects will dot the Merchandise Mart both inside and out.

Besides the aforementioned panel on dreaming, desiring, and acquiring (noon-1 PM), Friday’s colloquies include “Think Global, Collect Local,”

in which collectors Larry Fields and Louis Corrigan put forth the notion that locavore values needn’t apply only to vegetables (3-4 PM).

On Saturday you can sit in on “Edgy Art: Who’s Collecting It, Who’s Exhibiting It?,” a panel inspired by the recent removal of a controversial David Wojnarowicz video from the National Portrait Gallery (1:30-2:30 PM). “In Our Own Backyard” features curators from the Renaissance Society, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Art Institute talking about the growth in support for regional artists (3-4 PM). And “Sound Structure” explores “sound . . . activated and manipulated as a material in contemporary art” (4:30-5:30 PM).

Sunday opens with a screening of clips from Arte No Es Fácil: Havana at the Center, a documentary project involving two “constellations of emerging artists and art historians, one in Chicago, one in Havana.” Cuban artists Hamlet Lavastida Cordovi and Yali Romagoza Sanchez take part in the ensuing discussion (11:15 AM-12:15 PM). Hot local artist Theaster Gates will be on hand for “Sculpture Making Place: Shifting Forms in Sculpture Parks,” a panel on public art that also involves the directors of sculpture parks in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Lincoln, Massachusetts (12:30-1:30 PM).

More Saint Louisans—artist/activist Juan William Chavez and Laumeier Sculpture Park exhibitions and collections director Kim Humphries—appear on the Monday panel “Shows From the Insider: A Discussion With Artists Who Curate” (noon-1 PM). They’ll be joined by School of the Art Institute faculty member Michelle Grabner and local artist Meg Duguid, “director of Clutch Gallery, a 25-square-inch space located in the heart of Ms. Duguid’s purse.” a 4/29-5/2: Fri-Sat 11 AM-7 PM, Sun 11 AM-6 PM, Mon 11 AM-4 PM, Merchandise Mart, 350 N. Orleans, 312-527-3701, $20 daily, $15-$25 multiday pass, free for kids under 13, full schedule at artchicago.com. —Sam Worley

First Focus A first look at Art Chicago and Next, with appetizers, drinks, and book signings by Laura Letinsky, Grant Achatz, and Nick Kokonas. Thu 4/28, 3-6 PM, at Merchandise Mart, 350 N. Orleans, 800-677-6278, merchandisemartdesigncenter.com, $150. . . . Atomic Sketch Artists create work on site and sell it for low prices. Thu 4/28, 6 PM, at Green Eye Lounge, 2403 W. Homer, 773-227-8851, greeneyelounge.com. . . . ASCII Chris Hefner, Cole Pierce, Julia Rooney, and others participate in this group exposition and offering of “audio multiples,” hosted by the Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative. Thu 4/28, 8-10:30 PM, at the California Clipper, 1002 N. California. . . . 5th Anniversary Fund-raiser A live and silent auction of work, with snacks, music, and drinks. Sat 4/30, 8 PM-midnight, at Roots and Culture, 1034 N. Milwaukee, 773-235-8874, rootsandculturecac.org, $30. . . . Art Sale Author Dan Parker sells works by Richard Hunt, Maurice Wilson, and others. Fri 4/29, noon-8 PM, Sat 4/30, 10 AM-7 PM, Sun 5/1, 11 AM-5 PM, at 1011 E. 43rd St. 1011 E. 43rd, 773-420-7474. . . . Lynsey Addario and Jane M. Saks A presentation and discussion with Addario, a photographer. Tue 5/3, 6 PM, at Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 312-369-8845 . . . Year-End Review Teams present two community-based sustainability projects. Tue 5/3, 6-8 PM, at Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury, 312-867-7254, archeworks.org. . . . Women Artists, Words, and Image Panel discussion about graphic novels, comics, and women, with cartoonist Nicole Hollander and artists Sarah Becan, Lucy Knisley, Corrinne Mucha, and Heather McAdams. Wed 5/4, 6-7:30 PM, at McCormick Tribune Center, Northwestern University, 1870 Campus. . . . Mother’s Day Art Spree Works by 13 Illinois artisans. Wed-Fri 5/4-5/6, 10 AM-3:30 PM, at James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, www.cms.il.gov/1_jrtc/. . . . Community Supported Art Chicago Launch event for new subscription service of locally produced art. Sat 4/30, 6-9 PM, at Threewalls, 119 N. Peoria, #2C, 312-432-3972, three-walls.org.

GallerieS

Arc Gallery 832 W. Superior, #204: Beds and Beyond: Intimate Spaces Paintings by Nancy Fritz. Reception Fri 4/29, 6-9 PM. 4/29-5/22. a Wed-Sat noon-6, Sun noon-4, 312-733-2787, arcgallery.org.

Architectural Artifacts 4325 N. Ravenswood: The Spring Show Group show and silent auction. Sun 5/1, 10 AM-5 PM. a 773-348-0622, architecturalartifacts.com.

Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College 1104 S. Wabash: Graduate Thesis Exhibition Group show.

Includes performances. Reception Fri 4/29, 5-7 PM. 4/29-5/20. a Mon-Sat 10-6, 312-344-6600, colum.edu/ book_and_paper.

Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington: Movie Mojo: Hand-Painted Posters From Ghana Posters advertising Nollywood films—locally produced films of Nigeria and Ghana. Reception Fri 4/29, 5:30-7:30 PM. 4/30-9/4. a Mon-Thu 8-7, Fri 8-6, Sat 9-6, Sun 10-6, 312-7446630, chicagoculturalcenter.org.

Chicago Photography Center 3301 N. Lincoln: Never Forgotten Photographs from Terezin and Auschwitz

by Claude Andreini. Reception Fri 4/29, 7-9 PM. Artist talk Sun 5/1, 2 PM. 4/29-5/27. a Sat-Sun 10-4, 773-549-1631, chicagophoto.org.

Cole’s 2338 N. Milwaukee: Art at Cole’s Prints by Melanie Kasten and paintings by Scott Pandel. Reception Sun 5/1, 6-8 PM. 5/1-5/29. a Mon-Fr 5:30-2, Sat 3:30-3, Sun 4-2, 773-276-5802, coleschicago.blogspot.com.

Columbia College Chicago 1104 S. Wabash: The Urban Quiet Chip Duggan’s multidimensional exhibit about metropolitan Chicago. Video, photographs, and APRIL 28, 2011 • CHICAGO READER 41

Something, painting by Nancy Fritz, part of Beds and Beyond: Intimate Spaces, a show of her work opening Fri 4/29, 6-9 PM, at the ARC Gallery, 832 W. Superior, #204, 312-733-2787. concrete casts. Reception Fri 4/29, 4-6 PM. 4/295/17. a 312-369-7569, colum.edu.

Creative Lounge Chicago 1564 N. Damen: The New Thyck: A Full-Figured Fashion Exhibition An exhibition of fashion designs by Coldwater Creek, Shavonne Dorsey Designs, and others. Thu 4/28, 6:30 PM. a 312805-3646, chicagocreativelounge.org.

Erie on the Park 510 W. Erie: Augusto Yanacopulos Paintings. Reception Fri 4/29, 5:30-8:30 PM. RSVP required. a 312-587-9245, erieonthepark.com.

Gallery 400 400 S. Peoria: UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition #4 Group show. Reception Fri 4/29, 5-8 PM. 4/2930. a Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat noon-6, 312-996-6114, gallery400.aa.uic.edu.

Kavi Gupta Gallery 835 W. Washington: An Epitaph for Civil Rights and Other Domesticated Structures

Works by Theaster Gates. 4/30-7/2. a Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-5, 312-432-0708, kavigupta.com.

The Hills Esthetic Center 128 N. Campbell, Unit G: Everlasting Banquet Paintings by Matias Arganaraz, Dick Cowan, and Austin Eddy. Reception Sat 4/30, 7-11 PM. 4/30-5/14. a By appointment, thehillsestheticcenter@ gmail.com, thehillsgallery.blogspot.com.

Anita Ivy Miller Art/Gallery 410 S. Michigan, #827: Jim MacRoberts Sculpture. Reception Sun 5/1, 1 PM. Additional reception Sat 5/28, 5 PM. 5/1-28. a Thu 4:30-7, Sat 2-5, 847-767-6875, anitaivymillerstudio.com.

Per Populus Gallery 626 W. 18th: Man in the Mask Work

by Chris Tobar Rodriguez. Reception Fri 4/29, 6-10 PM. a 312-226-0331, perpopulusgallery.blogspot.com.

Schneider Gallery 230 W. Superior: Cornelia Hediger and Adad Hannah Photography. Reception Fri 4/29,

Geyser #3, photo by Suzy Poling, part of Natural Phenomenon, a show of her work opening Sat 4/30, 5:30-8 PM, at Zg Gallery, 300 W. Superior, 312-654-9900.

5-7:30 PM. 4/29-6/25. a Tue-Fri 10:30-5, Sat 11-5, 312-988-4033, schneidergallerychicago.com.

Slow 2153 W. 21st: The Low Down Work by Caroline Allison, Danica Favorito, and Jeffrey Grauel.

Reception Sat 4/30, 6-9 PM. 4/30-5/28. a Sat noon5 PM, or by appointment, 773-645-8803.

The Studio at Marshfield 1020 N. Marshfield: Fuck Art Chicago Group show. Sat 4/30, 7-11 PM, Sun 5/1, 5-9 PM. a By appointment, studio1020@gmail.com, thisisnotthestudio.com.

School of the Art Institute Sullivan Galleries 33 S. State, seventh floor: Graduate Thesis Exhibition Group show. Reception Fri 4/29, 8-10 PM. 4/29-5/20. a Tue-Sat 11-6, 312-629-6635, saic.edu/exhibitions.

School of the Art Institute Wabash Galleries 22-28 S. Wabash: Graduate Thesis Exhibition Group show.

Reception Fri 4/29, 8-10 PM. 4/29-5/20. a Tue-Sat 11-6, 312-629-6635, saic.edu/exhibitions.

Strawdog Theatre Company 3829 N. Broadway: Everybody Hurts Cross-stitched embroideries by Stacia Yeapanis. Reception Fri 4/29, 6-7 PM. 4/295/28. a 773-528-9696, strawdog.org.

Thomas McCormick 835 W. Washington: When I Grow Up I Want to Be Just Like Jasper Johns Drawings by Jack Roth. Reception Sat 4/30, 6-9 PM. 4/30-6/4. a Tue-Sat 10-5:30, 312-226-6800, thomasmccormick.com.

James R. Thompson Center 100 W. Randolph: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Works by photographers who use pinhole cameras. Hosted by the ISM Chicago Gallery. a 5/2-5/6, www.cms.il.gov/1_jrtc/.

Volume Gallery 328 S. Jefferson, first floor: Open Objects Works by Jonathan Muecke. Reception Sat 4/30, 6-8 PM. 4/30-5/15. a info@wvvolumes.com, wvvolumes.com.

David Weinberg Photography 300 W. Superior, #203: Mr. Wild’s Garden Photographs by David Weinberg.

Reception Fri 4/29, 5-9 PM. 4/29-5/27. a Tue-Sat 10-5:30, 312-529-5090, d-weinberg.com.

Zg Gallery 300 W. Superior: Natural Phenomenon New photographs by Suzy Poling. Reception Sat 4/30, 5:30-8 PM. 4/29-6/25. a Tue-Sat 10-5:30, 312654-9900, zggallery.com.

MuSeuMS

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S. Michigan: Altered and Adorned Rare prints and printed objects from Renaissance Europe. 4/30-7/10. a Sun–Wed 10:30–5, Thu-Fri 10:30–8, Sat 10:30–5, 312-443-3600, artinstituteofchicago.org, $18; $12 students, seniors; $2 discount for Chicago residents with proof of residency; free kids under 14; free Thu 5-8.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College 600 S. Michigan: Public Works Group photography exhibition. 4/28-7/17. a Mon-Sat 10-5 (Thu till 8), Sun noon-5, 312-663-5554, mocp.org.

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Join us for this full day of Sundance-organized seminars, screenings, and panels and gain firsthand insight into the world of narrative short filmmaking.

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By J.R. Jones

an an artist be ahead of his time but behind the curve? A bold original but a throwback to an earlier era? This violent contradiction may explain why comedian Ernie Kovacs— who died in an auto accident nearly 50 years ago, at the full flower of his creativity—still seems like such a singular talent. His 1950s broadcasts became the blueprint for satirical TV comedy, with their recurring oddball characters, their parodies of other programs, their fake commercials. Without Kovacs there would have been no Saturday Night Live, no SCTV, no David Letterman or Conan O’Brien.

Yet his brilliant and surreal sight gags, the like of which have disappeared from the tube entirely, were inspired by the great movie comedians of the silent era, especially Buster Keaton. The end of one tradition and the beginning of another, the link between the big screen and the small one, Kovacs might have been the most important transitional figure in American comedy.

Like the broadcast medium itself, however, Kovacs seems to be constantly evaporating into the ether. My parents watched him on TV back in the late 50s, but because he did variety shows instead of sitcoms his work wasn’t syndicated, and after his death he was largely forgotten. His widow, the singer Edie Adams, made a personal crusade of salvaging as many kinescopes and tapes of his broadcasts as she

could lay her hands on, and in 1977 Chicago’s own WTTW produced a killer series called The Best of Ernie Kovacs that compiled his choicest sketches and blackouts. That’s when I was exposed to him, and he fit right into the video landscape alongside SNL, SCTV, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus. WTTW reran the series forever, but there were only five episodes, and after that I never heard much about Ernie Kovacs. In the past couple weeks, when I’ve mentioned him to younger colleagues at the Reader, his name has drawn a blank.

Running over 13 hours, the six-disc DVD box The Ernie Kovacs Collection is the most comprehensive survey of the comedian’s work ever, beginning with his earliest live broadcasts on NBC in May 1951 and concluding with the stunning half-hour specials he taped for ABC in late 1961. To be honest, I’d rather have the old WTTW series, which was released on DVD in 2000 but is now out of print. Thirteen hours is a long haul, and some of the sketches included in the box are tedious, especially those culled from the two-hour NBC morning show Kovacs hosted from December 1955 to July 1956 (desperate to fill time, he’ll take a good two-minute idea and stretch it out to a deadly ten minutes). But the set also includes complete versions of important projects, like the half-hour Saturday Color Carnival episode from January 1957, whose sketches are exclusively pantomime, and the equally con-

ceptual May 1959 special Kovacs on Music.

Even the early programs can be fascinating in their way: broadcast live and shown here in their entirety, they reveal how intuitively Kovacs grasped the comic potential of the medium. “Ernie Kovacs knew exactly what to do with television before television knew what to do with itself,” David Letterman observes in the box set’s liner notes. To a great extent that meant exploiting TV’s sense of intimacy with the viewer. Back in the 80s I found it hilariously innovative when Letterman, on his old NBC show, would burst through the studio doors into the hallways of Rockefeller Center for some escapade. Yet the very first segment on the Kovacs box, a 1951 episode of his 15-minute afternoon show It’s Time for Ernie, shows the host breaking the illusion of the set by going out into the hall for a drink from the water fountain. We often speak of viewers welcoming an entertainer into their homes, but Kovacs immediately recognized the power of welcoming them into his.

A born improviser, he also understood the value of impulse. One of his best-remembered characters, the lisping poet laureate Percy Dovetonsils, was created instantaneously when someone handed Kovacs a pair of gag glasses with coke-bottle eyes pasted behind the lenses. Thrust into the pressure cooker of a live broadcast, he could be funnier when things went wrong, and his mischievous stagehands were happy to oblige. In one segment (excerpted in a montage on disc one), Percy picks up his ever-present martini glass to find a goldfish swimming in it; in another, from July 1956, a lame gag in which Percy drapes a napkin over his face to make his martini magically “disappear” falls apart when Kovacs empties the glass and then realizes it’s two and a half ounces of straight gin.

Without breaking character, he swallows the booze but then clues the audience in on this practical joke and milks it for the rest of the segment. (Addressing the director offscreen,

American: The Bill Hicks Story Stand-up comedian Bill Hicks was that rare cult hero who qualified as a hero, period. In the depths of the Reagan-Bush years, he unleashed a brilliant comic tirade against state power and small-mindedness that made him a sensation in the UK but doomed him in the U.S. (his last network TV appearance, on Late Show With David Letterman, famously wound up on the cutting room floor). For this 2009 British documentary, Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas follow Hicks from his childhood in suburban Houston to his untimely death from cancer at age 32, drawing on interviews with those closest to him (his mother and siblings, his Texas buddies, his early compatriots on the comedy circuit) for a surprisingly intimate and touching portrait. The video’s main drawback is a relative dearth of clips showing Hicks in his ferocious prime, so if you come away from this wondering what all the fuss is about, check out one of the six CDs (the best is Arizona Bay) or two DVDs (Sane Man, Bill Hicks Live) that represent his artistic legacy, and prepare to have your eyebrows singed off. —J.R. Jones 102 min. Fri 4/29, 6 PM; Sat 4/30, 8:30 PM; Wed 5/4, 6 PM, and Thu 5/5, 6:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Cave of Forgotten Dreams The latest “ain’t earth weird?” documentary from Werner Herzog focuses on the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France, where the oldest known cave paintings offer clues to what humans were like 32,000 years ago.

Herzog narrates in his usual faux-naif persona (“Is this where the modern human soul was born?”), and though his verbal shtick grows tiresome, his images never do: the paintings are extraordinary and the 3-D cinematography invites the viewer to get lost in every brushstroke. This is one of the few films to use the format for intellectual, even philosophical ends: the added depth parallels the deeper understanding of humanity that the paintings inspire. —Ben Sachs 90 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, River East 21 CFA Amateur Night Chicago Film Archives, Gene Siskel Film Center, and the Center for Home Movies present a selection of 16 notable amateur films, including Alfred Hitchcock Home Movies (1930) and Nixon Visits Idaho Falls (1971). 84 min. Wed 5/4, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center CineYouth 2011 This festival of more than 100 short films by people under 21 begins Thu 5/5 at 7 PM with a screening of the 2011 Academy Award-winning short God of Love (writer-director Luke Matheny will attend) and continues through 5/7. For more information see cinemachicago.org/cineyouth. Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Cultures of Resistance For this 2010 documentary, director Iara Lee traveled to Iran, Lebanon, Brazil, Burma, and Palestine to find out how the arts can open up ghettos and subvert oppressive governments.

73 min. Fri 4/29, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Dream Play An actor rehearsing a role for Strindberg’s The Dream Play gets involved in a shadowy separate production and a mysterious woman. I. Michael Toth directed this 2010 drama. 97 min. Screening as part of the Midwest Independent Film Festival, a networking event for independent filmmakers; doors open at 6 PM, and the screening follows at 7:30 PM. Tue 5/3, 7:30 PM. Landmark’s Century Centre The Exile Nation Project Charles Shaw’s indictment of the decades-long “war on drugs” is told through interviews with criminal justice experts as well as people who’ve had firsthand experience with drug laws. 120 min. Shaw will attend the screening. Mon 5/2, 7:30 PM. Portage

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Percy asks, “Did I read the poem or didn’t I?”) Nowadays, parodying TV shows and commercials may seem painfully trite—Saturday Night Live hardly does anything else—but we should remember that when Kovacs did this, TV as a nationwide phenomenon was only a few years old. Years before FCC chairman Newton Minow branded television a “vast wasteland,” Kovacs was taking dead aim at cooking shows, game shows (Beat the Clock, What’s My Line), kids’ shows (The Howdy Doody Show), late-night horror movie hosts (his Uncle Gruesome was the direct ancestor of SCTV’s howling Count Floyd), and the medium’s all-around scurrilousness (with a weather forecast delivered by a purring, scantily clad babe on a divan). The idea of lampooning commercials was even more subversive because, at that point, real commercials were still routinely integrated into programming, and in fact were often performed live by the hosts—including Kovacs. His actual commercials could be as zany as his fake ones, which only blurred the line further.

One might expect an artist to begin by emulating the old masters and then progress into more innovative work, yet Kovacs followed the opposite trajectory: his influential spoofing of TV (which seems so old hat now) gradually gave way to a dazzling talent for classically constructed sight gags (which, parodoxically, seem totally fresh). This was primarily because of money and technology: only later in his career, when he could command bigger budgets and the advent of videotape allowed him to record shows in advance, did Kovacs really begin to indulge his visual sense of humor. But his surreal sight gags, like his satire, were inseparable from his chosen medium. Just as Keaton used his early tworeelers and features to explore the illusions of the cinema (his first impulse on getting into movies was to tear a camera apart and figure out exactly how it worked), Kovacs seized on the optical tricks of the new video technology and mined them for every conceivable laugh.

His first big opportunity came in January 1957, when Jerry Lewis signed to produce a special for the NBC Color Carnival series but refused to fill more than the first 60 minutes of the 90-minute slot. Finding someone to follow Lewis—a gigantic star at that point—proved so difficult that NBC agreed to give Kovacs a handsome budget for a 30-minute program.

The resulting show, completely free of dialogue, featured some of his most inspired sight

gags. The opening shows a tympanist hitting a kettledrum; when he hits the drum next to it, his mallet vanishes into what turns out to be a tub of white goo. In another brilliant illusion, achieved by tilting both the set and the camera about 45 degrees, Kovacs tries to pour milk into a glass but the liquid leaps out diagonally. The program climaxes with a slapstick musical performance by the bizarre Nairobi Trio, stiffly mechanical figures wearing bowlers, overcoats, flowing wigs, and cheap rubber gorilla masks—Rene Magritte meets the Three Stooges.

Of the six discs in the set, the real gem is the fifth, which collects five of the eight half-hour specials Kovacs taped for ABC shortly before his death. The network had hired him to host

its weekly program Silents Please, which presented abridged versions of classic silent movies, and to produce and direct one special per month. Rather than shoot the specials one day a week, as the network desired, Kovacs insisted on marathon, round-the-clock tapings that guaranteed his crew a windfall of overtime pay, and augmented them with catered meals from fancy restaurants. Chronicled in Diana Rico’s 1991 biography Kovacsland, these happily creative sessions sound very much like the easygoing production of Keaton’s classic tworeelers, when cast and crew might address some story problem by knocking off for a game of baseball until someone had a lightbulb moment and they all raced back to the set.

Most of these specials included a montage of blackout gags, accompanied on the soundtrack by a clip-clop rendition of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Mack the Knife” and linked onscreen by the image of an audio waveform moving with the music. Only a few seconds long, these wordless blackouts are flawlessly executed and show Kovacs’s wild sense of humor in its purest form: A businessman touches a pointer to a painting of a dam and the dam bursts, releasing a torrent of water onto the conference table. A

weight lifter trying to pick up a barbell stands up straight and his arms stretch like rubber bands. A woman enjoying a bubble bath is startled when a periscope rises from the water.

In a shooting gallery the wooden profile of a duck pivots to reveal a tiny cannon that fires back at the contestant. A man at a masquerade party pulls off his rubber caveman mask to reveal an identical mask underneath. Submerged in a tank of water, Kovacs takes a drag from his cigar and expels a mouthful of white smoke (actually milk). No idea was too elaborate: he once blew $12,000 on a six-second gag that showed a used-car salesman slapping the hood of an automobile and the auto crashing through the pavement.

The ABC specials also guaranteed Kovacs’s reputation as not just a comedy craftsman but a genuine video artist. His professional partnership with Edie Adams, who sang pop and classical numbers on his NBC shows, had reinforced a lifelong love of music, and in 1959 he’d created a special called Kovacs on Music that combined musical performances with musicthemed sketches. The ABC specials took this a step further with a series of fanciful montages that visualized instrumental pieces. These “sound to sight” segments could be whimsically funny—like “Kitchen Symphony,” which showed sardines, a cooked turkey, and various kitchen appliances dancing in time to Juan Esquivel’s “Cherokee.” They could also be darkly serious—like “Street Scene,” a noirish urban nightmare set to Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. Incredibly, these elaborate segments were taped live, which required meticulous planning and flawless execution. Though Kovacs will forever be identified with television, his real dream was to make his own movies, and the montages make you wonder what he might have done with the resources of a movie shoot.

Ironically, the last project Kovacs completed was a half-hour pilot episode for a TV series pairing him with Buster Keaton, whose work he’d always admired. Medicine Man would star Kovacs as the Old West huckster of the title and Keaton, then 66, as his Indian sidekick. But it was never to be: in January 1962, driving home from a party at Billy Wilder’s house, Kovacs apparently took his hands off the wheel to light a cigar and the car spun out of control on the rain-slicked street, going over an embankment and hitting a telephone pole. He died almost instantly, ten days shy of his 43rd birthday. Keaton attended his funeral; it should have been the other way around, but for Ernie Kovacs, past, present, and future had a strange way of trading places. v Care to comment? Find this review at chicagoreader.com/movies.

continued from page 45 Fast Five Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return for this sequel to The Fast and the Furious. Justin Lin directed.

PG-13, 130 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Gardens 1-6, Gardens 7-13, Lake, New 400, Niles Showplace 12, Norridge, River East 21, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Fast Five: The IMAX Experience Crown Village 18, Navy Pier IMAX Forget Me Not The streets and skyline of London provide a scenic backdrop for this maudlin, meandering tale of bittersweet romance (2010). The excellent Tobias Menzies (Brutus on HBO’s Rome) plays a depressed musician whose suicide attempt is interrupted by a phone call from a free-spirited but lonely barmaid at the pub where he’s just abandoned his guitar. As their casual encounter turns into a long night of soul searching, they fall in love and realize how short their time together may be. Alexander Holt and Lance Roehrig directed; with Genevieve O’Reilly and Gemma Jones. —Albert Williams 93 min. Fri 4/29, 7 and 9 PM; Sat-Sun 4/30-5/1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 PM, and MonThu 5/2-5/5, 7 and 9 PM. Facets Cinematheque Frankenstein Simulcast live from the UK’s National Theatre, this is a stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours). Sat 4/30, 2 PM, and Wed 5/4, 7:30 PM. Music Box German Provinces A screening of four documentary shorts from Berlin: Bielefeld 52N01 8E32 (2009), Already Afternoon (2009), Tattooed Prisoners (2007), and Demontage (2011). Artist and photographer Ines Meier will introduce the screening. Fri 4/29, 7:30 PM. DANK-Haus F Henry’s Crime In this genial screwball comedy a depressed working stiff (Keanu Reeves) gets suckered into driving a getaway car for some bank robbers, then takes the rap for their bungled job. After being released from prison he decides to rob the same bank by way of an abandoned tunnel underneath the building, but in order to access it from a nearby theater he must first land a part in its production of The Cherry Orchard. Reeves often displays moderate to little affect onscreen; here his reserve suits the story, as the experience of acting helps the reticent loser find himself. Vera Farmiga crackles as the feisty star of the play, while James Caan, as the hero’s accomplice, proves a most charming rogue. Malcolm Venville (44 Inch Chest) directed a screenplay by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil). —Andrea Gronvall R, 108 min. Landmark’s Century Centre How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?

Carlos Carcas and Norberto Lopez directed this 2010 British documentary about the rise of architect Norman Foster and his “unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.” 78 min. Screening as the opening-night program of the Architecture and Design Film Festival, which continues through May 9; see next week’s issue for more. Thu 5/5, 8:15 and 8:30; also at 8:45 PM at the Wit Hotel (201 N. State). Gene Siskel Film Center Incendies See Reader Recommends on page 47. R, 130 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark’s Century Centre, Renaissance Place The Kids Grow Up An awful movie by an awful father, this 2009 documentary draws on countless hours of video footage in which director Doug Block (51 Birch Street) invaded the privacy of his teenage daughter. The movie also touches on his relationships with his parents, siblings, and wife (the latter dealing with clinical depression), but none of them is unique or compelling enough to justify Block’s exploitation of them. The consumer-grade video looks terrible too. —Ben Sachs 90 min. Sun 5/1, 1 PM. Chicago Filmmakers Lunchfilm: Film Before Food A challenge posed by film programmer Mike Plante—to make films for the cost of a lunch—yields this screening of 13 shorts, which cost a collected total of $449.03. Filmmakers include Azazel Jacobs, Braden King, the Zellner Brothers, and others. Plante will attend the screening. Thu 5/5, 7 PM.

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Northwestern University Block Museum of Art Madea’s Big Happy Family Another bizarre outing for Tyler Perry’s foul-mouthed, two-fisted, 70-something drag matriarch, who solves various family problems with homey advice, threats of violence, and motormouthed profanity. Madea’s sweet niece (Loretta Devine) assembles their clan for dinner so she can announce that she’s dying of cancer, but the family members won’t stop squabbling long enough for her to break the news. Like most of Perry’s movies, this one oscillates wildly and shamelessly between raunch and pathos, leaving plenty of room for the performers to work. The lively ensemble includes a scene-stealing Cassi Davis as pothead Aunt Bam. —Michael Wilmington PG-13, 106 min. Chatham 14, Gardens 7-13, New 400, Norridge, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Mars, or War Huh Yeah What Is It Good for Absolutely Nothing Say It Again Short works with a global theme, including the Single Spark Film Collective’s Winter Soldier (1971), John Smith’s Frozen War (2002), and Bruce Conner’s Crossroads (1976). Sun 5/1, 7:30 PM. Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport My Heart Is an Idiot Davy Rothbart, who edits Found magazine and contributes to This American Life, embarks on a cross-country road trip to solicit advice on love from Zooey Deschanel, Ira Glass, Newt Gingrich, and others. David Meiklejohn directed this 2010 documentary. 98 min. Meiklejohn and Rothbart will attend the screening. Sat 4/30, 7 PM. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee A Perfect Soldier Deminer Aki Ra has become famous in his native Cambodia for his work removing the still-deadly landmines he and others planted across the country as child-conscripts for the army of the Khmer Rouge. In this 2010 documentary, director John Severson shows Ra’s work and the opening of his Cambodia Landmine Museum, which doubles

as a home for children wounded by landmines. 56 min. Severson and producer Jonathan Lacocque will attend the screening. Sat 4/30, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Pipe Citizens try to keep a proposed oil pipeline out of their small Irish fishing village in this 2010 documentary by Risteard O’Domhnaill. 80 min. Fri 4/29, 8:30 PM. Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Prom Joe Nussbaum directed this new comedy about a group of kids getting ready for the big dance. With Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, and DeVaughn Nixon. PG, 103 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Lake, Niles Showplace 12, Norridge, Pickwick, River East 21, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Rock My Religion Made between 1982 and 1984, this “video essay” by Dan Graham looks at the historical relationship between rock music and religion. 55 min.

Sun 5/1, 8 PM. Monument 2 Gallery, 2007 N. Point F A Second Knock at the Door A documentary by Christopher Grimes on friendly fire in Iraq and Afghanistan. 100 min. Grimes will attend this preview screening. Fri 4/29, 8 PM. Portage Shout: The Story of Domestic Violence An examination of the wide-reaching effects of domestic violence as represented by the story of Sam, whose family has been affected. 60 min. A panel discussion on domestic violence follows the screening. Sun 5/1, 5 PM. Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Space and Structure Doc Films continues its series of 60s avant-garde films with a screening that includes Michael Snow’s Wavelength and [Back and Forth] and Joyce Wieland’s Hand Tinting. 110 min.

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7:40, and 9:50 PM; Mon-Tue 5/2-5/3, 5, 7:40 and 9:50 PM, and Wed 5/4, 7:40 and 9:50 PM. Music Box Uncle Kent I never thought I’d be watching a movie about a three-way and muttering, “God, when is this gonna be over?” But Uncle Kent, the latest lowbudget talkfest from local indie hero Joe Swanberg, is so tedious that even its climactic scene of erotic experimentation fails to lift it out of the doldrums.

The story involves a chunky, 40-year-old animation artist in Los Angeles (Kent Osborne) who invites the sexy young nerd he’s met online (Jennifer Prediger) to stay with him; upon arriving, she reveals that she’s got a boyfriend, yet host and housemate eventually go on Craigslist to make a date with a bi-curious woman (Josephine Decker). Swanberg has carved out a little mumblecore niche for himself by adding young skin and purporting to chronicle modern sexual mores, ground that was covered 40 years ago by movies like Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). Like Swanberg, the people who made those movies captured a scene, but they also knew how to light one. —J.R. Jones 72 min.

Fri 4/29, 8:45 PM; Sat 4/30, 6:30 PM; Sun 5/1, 3 PM; Mon 5/2, 6 PM; Tue 5/3, 8:45 PM; Wed 5/4, 6:15 PM; and Thu 5/5, 6:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Veins in the Gulf Documentarians Ted Hardin and Elizabeth Coffman collaborated with Louisiana poet Martha Serpas for this examination of recent environmental disasters that have befallen the gulf area, including Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. 87 min. Hardin, Coffman, Serpas, and wetlands scientist Nancy Tuchman will attend the screening.

Wed 5/4, 6 PM. Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Water for Elephants Adapted from the popular novel by Sara Gruen, this romantic drama set during the Depression features a credible and sympathetic performance from Robert Pattinson as an orphaned veterinary student who joins a traveling circus. Yet the film otherwise suffers from a lack of showmanship: Reese Witherspoon is too cool and brittle as the glamorous equestrian rider who captures the veterinarian’s heart, and Christoph Waltz, playing her suave but brutal ringmaster husband, radiates little of the charisma he brought to Inglourious Basterds. Neither the lush imagery of cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto nor the ungainly screenplay by Richard LaGravenese manages to convey the harshness or desperation of the times.

Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) directed. —Andrea Gronvall PG-13, 120 min. Chatham 14, Davis, Gardens 1-6, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, Lake, Norridge, Pickwick, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan The Winner A talented young pianist whose personal life is falling apart (Pawel Szajda of Under the Tuscan Sun) gets a boost when he meets a retired math teacher (Janusz Gajos). Wieslaw Saniewski directed.

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Arthur The puerile Dudley Moore comedy from 1981, about a poor little rich boy on a perpetual bender, has been turned into a vehicle for the tighttrousered, impossibly beautiful British comedian Russell Brand. His snotty, improvised quips are good for a few laughs, though three decades of skyrocketing income inequality have soured the comedy of Arthur’s astronomically expensive selfindulgences. Improv Olympic alumnus Jason Winer directed; with Jennifer Garner, Luis Guzman, Nick Nolte, and Helen Mirren, inheriting the John Gielgud role as Arthur’s long-suffering servant. —J.R. Jones PG-13, 110 min. Crown Village 18 Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 Paul Johansson directed this first installment in a planned three-part adaptation

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PG-13, 102 min. New 400 Barney’s Version Barney Panofsky, producer of a longrunning soap opera in Montreal, seethes at the recent publication of a true-crime book fingering him as the murderer of his dissolute old pal Boogie (Scott Speedman); this situation frames an extended series of flashbacks that chronicle his heedless pursuit of, life-altering marriage to, and anguished separation from the calm and ethereal Miriam (Rosamund Pike).

R, 132 min. Wed 5/4, 7:30 PM. Beverly Arts Center Cedar Rapids Ed Helms, enjoying a career bounce after The Hangover (2009), stars as an uptight insurance agent who leaves his small Wisconsin town to attend a professional conference in the big, bad metropolis of the title. Miguel Arteta (Youth in Revolt) directed; with Sigourney Weaver and Alia Shawkat. R, 87 min. Logan, Pipers Alley The Conspirator Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, founded the American Film Company to produce historical dramas that actually stick to the facts, and the facts are more than enough in this somber, engrossing drama about the Lincoln assassination. James McAvoy stars as Frederick Aiken, a young attorney and former Union officer who reluctantly agrees to defend alleged conspirator Mary Surratt in a military trial and eventually concludes that she’s being framed. The trumped-up case against her and the courtroom drama at the center of the movie are heavily reminiscent of Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant (1980), but producer-director Robert Redford also notes the parallels between the Surratt case and our current military tribunals for terror suspects. He’s assembled a strong cast—Robin Wright (as Surratt), Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney—though the real standout is Kevin Kline as secretary of war Edwin Stanton, who wants Surratt to hang for political reasons. —J.R. Jones PG-13, 121 min. Crown Village 18, Landmark’s Century Centre Hall Pass Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson star as long-married suburbanites who persuade their wives to grant them a therapeutic week off from their vows so they can chase other women. With Richard Jenkins. R, 105 min. Brew & View at the Vic Hanna In a thriller variation on the old feral-child premise, young Hanna (Saoirse Ronan of Atonement) has been raised in the snows of Finland and mercilessly drilled in survival tactics by her father (Eric Bana), a rogue CIA agent. Her mother was executed years earlier by a ruthless Agency bigwig (Cate Blanchett), who now needs to destroy Hanna.

Joe Wright directed, and the Chemical Brothers contributed the sizzling electronica score. PG-13, 111 min. Crown Village 18, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Hop In this new animated feature, the Easter Bunny’s teenage son goes to Hollywood to join a rock band.

Tim Hill directed; among the voice talent are Russell Brand, James Marsden, and Elizabeth Perkins. PG, 95 min. Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Gardens 1-6, Lake, Norrdige, Showplace ICON I Am Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor) produced this philosophical documentary. With Noam Chomsky and Desmond Tutu. 76 min. River East 21 In a Better World Danish writer-director Susanne Bier (Brothers, After the Wedding) is rightly respected for her pointed ethical dramas, though sometimes they can be a little too pointed. That’s pretty much the case with this 2010 feature, an Oscar winner for best foreign film: it contemplates the problem of evil and the limits of pacifism so baldly that I began to wonder if there would be a catechism afterward. The pivotal character is a compassionate doctor who divides his time between a small Danish town, where his son is trying to figure out how to handle a school bully, and an African refugee camp, whose inhabitants are being terrorized by a merciless warlord. —J.R. Jones R, 119 min. Pipers Alley, Renaissance Place Insidious Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell, creators of the Saw franchise, target the junior high market with this PG-13 picture about

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With Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey. —Ben Sachs PG-13, 101 min. Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Logan, Norridge, Showplace ICON Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s heroine has been played by some pretty drippy actresses over the years, but this British adaptation of the 1847 Gothic novel is elevated by a flinty and finely detailed performance from young Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right). Jane Eyre, the orphaned girl who grows into a formidably selfpossessed young woman, is repeatedly described in the book as plain-looking, which movie producers usually do their best to ignore. Wasikowska is credibly ordinarylooking, and she’s internalized the peculiar mix of willfulness and watchfulness, defiance and modesty, that allows Jane to survive as a lower-class woman without losing her soul. With Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, and Sally Hawkins. —J.R. Jones PG-13, 118 min. Landmark’s Century Centre, Renaissance Place Limitless The protagonist of this little gem by Neil Burger is a ratty would-be novelist (Bradley Cooper of The Hangover) who gets his hands on a neuro-enhancing wonder drug and begins to access 100 percent of his brain capacity; after dashing off a best seller, he turns his dazzling mental powers to the stock market and comes to the attention of a scheming corporate titan (Robert De Niro). With Abbie Cornish. —J.R. Jones PG-13, 97 min. Crown Village 18, Logan, Showplace ICON, Tivoli The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughey stars as a slick, heavily booked criminal defense attorney in LA, who operates out of the back of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Continental. Most of his clients are probably guilty, and that includes the arrogant Beverly Hills playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who’s been accused of sexual assault—and who may have committed an earlier crime for which a previous client (Michael Peña) went to jail.

Brad Furman directed. R, 119 min. Crown Village 18, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, Logan, Showplace ICON Paul Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the inspired British duo who spoofed horror movies in Shaun of the Dead and cop thrillers in Hot Fuzz, star as scifi fanboys who arrive in the U.S. for a comic-book convention and, piloting their RV through Area 51, pick up an escaped space alien with the voice of Seth Rogen. This is the first big Hollywood feature for Pegg and Frost, and their two prior successes seem to have functioned as a supermagnet, attracting not only the skilled comedy director Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) but a supporting cast that could sustain two or three movies on its own (Kristen Wiig, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Sigourney Weaver). —J.R. Jones R, 104 min. Brew & View at the Vic, Logan Poetry A shy old woman—shy enough and old enough that her fine, flowery outfits have become integral to her sense of self—discovers that her callow grandson has participated in an awful crime and only she can protect him from prosecution. In Korean with subtitles. 139 min. Fri 4/29, 6 PM; Sat 4/30, 3:30 PM; Sun 5/1, 4:30 PM; Mon 5/2, 7:30 PM; Tue 5/3, 6 PM, and Wed 5/4, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Funny, informative, and at times outrageously cheeky, this documentary by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) examines the questionable marketing tactic of movie product placement, whereby companies pay filmmakers to show their merchandise onscreen. —Michael Wilmington 90 min. Landmark’s Century Centre Potiche Moody Francois Ozon (Under the Sand, Swimming Pool) enjoyed his biggest commercial success with 8 Women (2002), a delightful comedymystery-musical that brought together such beloved French screen veterans as Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, and Isabelle Huppert.

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In French with subtitles. —J.R. Jones R, 103 min.

Landmark’s Century Centre, Renaissance Place Rango Johnny Depp gives voice to a chameleon who fibs his way into becoming sheriff of a desert outpost; the eccentric residents are plagued by a long drought and assorted predators, the most menacing of whom is a two-faced, water-hoarding mayor (Ned Beatty, channeling John Huston in Chinatown). PG, 107 min. Logan Rio A pet bird from Minnesota is swept into a Brazilbound adventure in this new animated feature by Carlos Saldanha; Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, and George Lopez provide the voice talent. G, 96 min. Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, New 400, Norridge, Pickwick Rio 3D Crown Village 18, Gardens 1-6, Lake, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Scream 4 Wes Craven returns to the franchise that resurrected his career, and this third sequel may be for him what Operation Shylock was for Philip Roth: a hall-of-mirrors narrative in which the artist tries to reconcile his artistic intentions with the misinterpretations of his most bloodthirsty fans.

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All-day admission is $10, $5 for kids. Sat 4/30, Portage Win Win Thomas McCarthy was a busy character actor before turning that experience to his advantage as writer-director of The Station Agent (2003) and The Visitor (2007); both movies profited from his patient character development and adroit casting. Those virtues are evident in this third feature too, though McCarthy falters in creating some key performances. The leads couldn’t be better: Paul Giamatti is a failing small-town attorney who coaches a high school wrestling team on the side, and Amy Ryan is his tartly judgmental wife. But the story, which turns on the lawyer’s ethical cornercutting, introduces three supporting characters that don’t quite click: a demented old man who pays the attorney a handsome stipend to be his legal guardian (Burt Young); the man’s estranged and drug-addicted daughter, who wants the money for herself (chipper Melanie Lynskey, miscast here); and her runaway son, a championship wrestler (Alex Shaffer, too affectless to justify the love his character supposedly inspires). Those flaws notwithstanding, this is still a thoughtful and admirably nuanced moral drama. —J.R. Jones R, 106 min. Landmark’s Century Centre, Renaissance Place Your Highness Unwatchable—and, thanks to its highdecibel action sequences, barely listenable—this misbegotten medieval fantasy/stoner comedy marks

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Robert Ryan stars as a rancher who’s about to start a gunfight over land when a motley gang of outlaws led by Burl Ives ride in and take over the town.

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The underrated Dudley Murphy directed; with Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, and Fredi Washington.

—Jonathan Rosenbaum 72 min. 16mm. Tue 5/3, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Fantastic Planet A 1973 Czech animated feature, directed by a Frenchman (Rene Laloux) and scripted by a Pole (Roland Topor). It tells of a race of 39-foottall giants with red eyes—called Draags—and their eventual war and conciliation with a subjugated race: tiny humanlike pets of the Draags, called Oms. In French with subtitles. 72 min. Instrumental rockers Del Rey perform a live score to accompany the film. Also on the program: a short by experimental filmmaker Alexander Stewart, accompanied by drone duo White/ Light. Thu 5/5, 9 PM. Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Greenberg A young personal assistant (Greta Gerwig of Hannah Takes the Stairs) house-sitting for her vacationing boss finds herself sharing the place with his neurotic brother (Ben Stiller), who’s on the mend—or not—from a nervous breakdown. With Rhys Ifans, Mark Duplass, Chris Messina, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. R, 107 min. Sat 4/30, 7 and 9 PM, and Sun 5/1, 3:15 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Heart o’ the Hills Mary Pickford stars as 13-year-old girl seeking revenge against the gang that killed her father. Joseph De Grasse and Sidney Franklin directed this silent 1919 melodrama. 87 min. Sun 5/1, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), whose halfhearted, half-assed sex change at least got her out of Berlin, fronts the Angry Inch, an obscure rock band playing gigs in small clubs while the rock superstar who dumped Hedwig years earlier plays the stadiums next door.

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—Jonathan Rosenbaum 27 min. Also on the program: 12 Monkeys (see separate listing). Thu 5/5, 9 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Kandahar Started in 2000 near the Afghan border in Iran and completed the following spring, this is one of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s strangest films. An Afghan woman (Nelofer Pazira), exiled to Canada, goes home to look for her sister, who still suffers under the Taliban and has threatened to kill herself during a forthcoming solar eclipse. This may sound like a setup for action and suspense, but the narrative is much more splintered than that, combining poetry, black comedy, social protest, and a sharp sense of actuality. In Farsi with subtitles; also known as The Sun Behind the Moon. —Jonathan Rosenbaum 85 min. Thu 5/5, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films The Leopard Cut, dubbed, and printed in an inferior color process, the U.S. release of Luchino Visconti’s epic didn’t leave much of an impression in 1963; 20 years later, a restoration of the much longer Italian version revealed this as not only Visconti’s greatest film but a work that transcends its creator, achieving a sensitivity and intelligence without parallel in his other films. In Italian with subtitles. —Dave Kehr PG, 161 min. Screening in a restored 35-millimeter widescreen print. Sat-Sun 4/30-5/1, 3 PM, and Mon-Tue 5/2-5/3, 6:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Long Day Closes The 1992 conclusion of Terence Davies’s second autobiographical trilogy may not achieve the sublime heights of parts one and two (which comprised 1988’s Distant Voices, Still Lives), but it’s still a powerful film, possibly even a great one—the sort of work that can renew one’s faith in movies. Part three chronicles his life in working-class Liverpool between the ages of 7 and 11, a period he compresses into the years 1955 and 1956, but Davies focuses less on plot or memory as they’re usually understood than on the memory of emotions and subjective consciousness.

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common recipes you can find online—that assertiveness almost completely disappeared.

It’s not gonna ward off any vampires. But urban forager Nance Klehm told me to wait a bit longer: with a few more hot dry days, it will get stronger. “I probably eat it casually a couple times a week,” she said. “It’s one of those kinds of weeds people are surprised and excited about. So it’s a pretty easy sell for the middle palate.” But for someone with more adventurous tastes, “I don’t think its very interesting,” she said. “It’s just one of many things out there to eat. ” It does have its fans. Food & Wine once published a recipe by Jean-Georges Vongerichten for black bass with burdock root and garlic mustard. The CWMA at Maryland’s Patapsco Valley and Heritage Greenway put together a collection that grew out of its garlic mustard recipe contest, including garlic mustard pineapple upside-down cake, venison garlic mustard sausage, and garlic mustard chipped beef.

Iliana Regan of One Sister, Inc., finds it all over her gardens this time of year, and she likes the greens too. “They are awesome in salads,” she wrote me in an e-mail. “They can be lightly sauteed, turned into pestos or vin-

aigrettes. They are best when young, as most foraged greens/weeds are.” She sent me recipes for garlic mustard compound butter, porkfat-braised garlic mustard with roasted garlic, and a “sponge” of sunflower, garlic mustard, and arugula she’s featuring on her current underground dinner menu (find the recipes on our blog the Food Chain). You can also check out a garlic mustard cocktail Sable bartender Mike Ryan devised for our new drinks feature, Cocktail Challenge (page 57).

If you want to try any of them out you needn’t go as far as Lake County or Midewin for your own supply of weeds. Right now, it’s coming up all over the place in the Cook County Forest Preserve. And I found it growing with abandon in a flower bed in front of a stately Ravenswood Manor home.

It’s a tenacious plant. Just make sure you take it out before it blooms. One week after I picked it with Allison Cisneros, a bowl of uprooted garlic mustard I’d left on my back porch began to blossom with tiny white flowers. v Care to comment? Find this column at chicagoreader.com/food.

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Gabe Klein, Rahm Emanuel’s pick for commissioner of the Department of Transportation, is one of the founders of On the Fly (ontheflydc.com), a D.C.-based fleet of ecofriendly electric “Smartkarts” and “Smartkafes” serving healthy food and ethnic fare.

On the Fly was started in 2008, after the D.C. Council changed its licensing laws in order to allow for mobile food vending. Alderman Scott Waguespack’s proposed food-truck ordinance remains in committee in Chicago.

Jim Graziano of the deli and grocery J.P. Graziano (901 W. Randolph, 312-666-4587) opened an outdoor patio just in time for the crappy April weather. But once it’s nice again he’ll be offering a salad and an antipasto plate in addition to his famous subs, sourcing ingredients from Green City Market vendors. Later on in the season, he says, he’ll have a few items made by Rob Levitt of the Butcher & Larder.

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Each spring the U.S. Forest Service promotes its Garlic Mustard Challenge, in which local groups across the country scour “Cooperative Weed Management Areas” for the pest and yank it up by the ton. Here at home, the Northeast Illinois Invasive Plant Partnership has already collected 10,800 pounds, and has pulls scheduled through the end of May in areas as wide-ranging as Midewin, the Lake County Forest Preserve, the Hegewisch Marsh, and Illinois Beach State Park.

Cisneros is the volunteer coordinator at Midewin, and in addition to marshaling frog monitors and seed cleaners, each spring she leads a few garlic mustard pulls on the 19,000 acres of the former Joliet Arsenal, where the U.S. Army and later the Honeywell corporation manufactured dynamite and artillery shells up until the 80s. Unlike invasives such as, say, Osage orange, garlic mustard has one attractive quality that plays at least a small part in its appeal to some volunteers. Its leaves and stems taste like garlic—which is why I asked Cisneros to take me out along the trail in advance of her first volunteer pull of the season last Saturday.

By most accounts, unspecified “early European settlers” take the blame for bringing garlic mustard to North America for use as a culinary herb with alleged medicinal purposes (according to one Columbia University researcher it was used to treat gangrene and ulcers). Here it doesn’t have any competitors, and nothing— apart from humans—will eat it, which helps it flourish. But workers at Midewin face an additional problem in that bulldozing larger invasive bullies like Osage orange, autumn olive, and honeysuckle disturbs the soil—which actually encourages garlic mustard to take root before native species can be introduced.

As we walked along a mile-and-a-half-long trail, we found lots of the stuff, both in isolated bunches and larger patches. Once we walked off the path and deeper in the woods it became more scarce. Tom Smith, the stewardship coordinator of the Lake County Forest Preserve, says it always comes back first in Ryerson Woods near where some cabins were built in the 40s. In some areas it’s so entrenched that the challenge is simply holding back wider infestation rather than eradicating it.

Neither Cisneros nor Smith eats it much.

“After pulling it for like five hours it really gets up your nose,” he told me. “You smell it for a long time afterwards.”

Frankly, I was surprised at how mild the stuff I picked up was. Eaten raw in a salad its garlicky flavor was slight but certainly noticeable, with a touch of bitterness. Cooked or pulsed into a pesto—which is one of the most

The Butcher & Larder (1026 N. Milwaukee, 773-687-8280) is also the site of a bake sale to benefit Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit dedicated to ending child hunger. Organized by local food blogger Michael Stashwick, it will feature more than 50 kinds of goods and a raffle with loads of prizes. It’s on Saturday, May 7, from 10 AM until it sells out (the store closes at 7 PM).

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n a recent Monday evening, the otherwise underpopulated dining room in the Sofitel hotel was inhabited by French speakers at no fewer than five tables.

Our extremely capable server, himself a native of Lille, said it was an anomaly—that week for mysterious reasons he’d attended to an unusual number of diners hailing from the Basque regions of France and Spain. Was there a separatist shepherds’ convention in town?

Cafe des Architectes In any case, a 20 E. Chestnut Street 312-324-4063 quorum of Eucafedesarchitectes.com ropean tourists skipping over Chicago’s entire anointed Michelin class for a relatively low-profile hotel restaurant would seem only a little less strange if they were coming to eat the food of former chef Martial Noguier—but he’s cooking around the corner at Bistronomic now. I can’t imagine what this says about the reach and reputation of new guy Greg Biggers, who was born in Alabama and has worked no further abroad than Philadelphia (at Morimoto) between stints at Tru and the late Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood.

Biggers eased in gradually in January, only last month introducing a new menu that’s already changing with the season. Last week he greeted spring with a sumptuous rampand-green-garlic veloute. Poured hot around a scoop of lemon verbena sorbet and served with a maple-flavored cracker on the side, it presented a sweet-ascendant formula that repeats itself across much of the menu, with

varying degrees of success. I like it a lot as applied to a fat seared scallop plopped on a measure of duck confit in a thick pool of curried cauliflower puree with golden raisins. It also works in a balsamic-dressed Bibb lettuce salad with crispy planks of gingerbread offset by rich shavings of foie gras.

These dishes work in spite of a lack of acidity that throws off the balance of others, such as a plate of west-coast Kumomota oysters drowned by cloying pomegranate granité or a slightly bloody seared foie gras with muffinlike black pepper financiers, syrupy blackberry jam, and braised pear.

But it’s not that Biggers isn’t capable of creating perfectly harmonious dishes like a nicoise salad with tiny purple potatoes, green beans, and pureed salsify every bit as rich as the scallop’s cauliflower bed or the stuffed Guinea hen on cheesy thick polenta, garnished by chewy, coffeelike black garlic cloves and a floret of mitaki mushroom (which really does taste like chicken). So far it’s among my favorite fowls of the year.

Some things haven’t changed much.

Among my favorite things here under Noguier were the desserts, and pastry chef Meg Galus (also a Tru vet) has maintained the standard. And after all that, Cafe des Architectes remains the kind of service-oriented place where your choices are likely to be met with an approving “Formidable!” —Mike Sula Care to comment? Find this review at chicagoreader.com/food.

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To inaugurate our new drinks feature, Mike Sula gifted Sable head bartender Mike Ryan with a bunch of mustard garlic, the invasive plant he writes about in this week’s Omnivorous. Ryan devised a surprisingly palatable cocktail from the pernicious weed.

Plan 9 Creme de Moutard: (1) Place 1 cup cleaned garlic mustard leaves into 1 cup pure grain alcohol. Let sit 18 hours, then strain and set aside.

(2) Chop 1 cup garlic mustard roots, cover with 1 cup water, and bring slowly to a simmer, but do not boil. Add 1 cup granulated sugar and stir to combine. Let cool one hour and strain.

(3) Combine the alcohol infusion with 1 cup 2 oz of the syrup. Let sit overnight to allow the flavors to marry.

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The most unfortunate name, Browntrout (see urbandictionary.com), in fact commemorates a simply prepared rod-and-reel-caught fish that sustained chef Sean Sanders and his wife while they honeymooned in remote New Zealand. Sanders, a Bin 36 vet, doesn’t have that particular species on his menu, but his signature golden trout is done “New Zealand style,” a crispy crushed-walnut armor protecting the luscious fillet, pan-seared in brown butter and served with fresh peas and mint. It’s an incredibly satisfying piece of fish, and emblematic of nearly everything I’ve sampled on Sanders’s simple and easily navigable menu, which you can expect to change with some frequency.

Simple salads, like one of superfresh pea shoots and pea leaves gilded with an outstanding house-made ricotta, were as refreshing as morels and ramps with French breakfast cheese, and potato gaufrettes were rich and intense. Sanders’s preference for simplicity doesn’t rule out unorthodox presentations. The menu features a “pasta of the moment,” which on one visit was a light, feathery pappardelle rolled upon itself with meatballs made of beef and pork and served with wild mushrooms—more like a messy dumpling than a plate of noodles, but very tasty. —Mike Sula 4111 N. Lincoln, 773-472-4111, browntroutchicago.com. Dinner: Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat. Sun brunch. Open late: Fri & Sat till 11.

ChalkBoard | North CeNter | $$$

Walking into the airy, elegant Chalkboard space, it’s hard to believe it was formerly the gloomy Tournesol.

But classy as the room is, the menu is decidedly friendly, offering dressed-up versions of classic American comfort food. Daily specials are listed on the restaurant’s namesake, a giant chalkboard, but often also on a paper menu that includes chatty asides from chef-owner Gilbert Langlois. Comfort-food constants include fried chicken with buttermilk mashed potatoes and greens. The menu changes frequently, but seasonal vegetables featured prominently at my last visit: the chips in the fish-and-chips were made from sunchokes, a pile of Swiss chard accompanied a pink seared duck breast, and tortellini were stuffed with roasted celeriac. On Saturdays and Sundays there’s high tea from 2 to 4 PM. —Kathie Bergquist 4343 N. Lincoln, 773-477-7144, chalkboardrestaurant. com. Dinner: Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat. Sun brunch.

Girl & the Goat | West Loop | $$$

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Stephanie Izard never had anything to prove to Chicago. Long before she conquered Top Chef, she was mistress of her domain at Bucktown’s Scylla. Still, during the interminable two-year wait between her Season Four win and the opening of Girl & the Goat, she rode the rapids of a relentless if entertaining hype stream punctuated by tweets, blog posts, and innumerable public events, which only served to heighten the anxiety: would Steph really pull it off?

But the second you spin through the revolving doors of her Randolph Row restaurant, you’re blasted with a besotting roasty meatgust issuing from the wood oven at the back of the room. And there in the rear, backlit by kitchen light and open flame, is the Top Chef herself, sweating in front of the exposed line and expediting orders. The only indication she’s anything more than a hardworking chef is the occasional snapshot break with grinning fans. The menu of rustic, shareable small plates, broken down into vegetable, fish, and meat categories, is strongly seasonal.

Unorthodox but not off-putting combinations are Izard’s thing: shaved root vegetables and blueberries

in anchovy-buttermilk dressing, smoked goat pizza with sour cherries. She’s particularly fond of mammalian garnishes on fish dishes; on one visit, a hiramasa crudo sprinkled with crispy lardons and drizzled with Peruvian chile aioli was one of the most delicate things I put in my mouth. Most everything else was simply and appealingly arranged: snails and goat meatballs with romesco and bagna cauda nestled in a crock, shisito pepper roulette (one in ten will burn your face off) played out in a bowl, drizzled with creamy Parmesan-miso sauce. Committed restaurant-goers are by now comfortable with the whole beast, but Izard’s efforts with the fifth quarter are truly original—the already notorious roasted pig face, slabs of luscious head meat stacked like pancakes with a fried egg on top and potato stix, being the exception. Though it’s won most of the attention, the braised beef tongue with masa, salsa verde, and rough sauteed greens deserves more—like a Vietnamese banh mi, it’s a beautiful orchestration of taste, texture, and temperature. The offal changes quite a bit: one night a dollop of deceptively light smoked, whipped fatback with biscuits and boubon-soaked onions appeared.

Similarly, big goat rib roast and roasted veal legs come and go, and so does the changing bread service— which will cost you. This is one of those rare instances where the hoopla is entirely justified. —Mike Sula 809 W. Randolph, 312-492-6262, girlandthegoat.com.

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Green ZeBra | West toWN | $$$

It’s been seven years since chef Shawn McClain transformed a dilapidated East Village storefront known to me and my neighbors as the “pigeon palace” into a sleek haven for vegetarian dining, but I’m still impressed with the number he did on the space, all cool earth tones, warm low lights, and bursts of greenery. The seasonally changing menu is currently featuring dishes such as hearts of palm and somen noodles with papaya, edamame, and ginger-soy dressing and heirloom yellow hominy succotash with fava beans and caramelized cipollinis. After-dinner options include French-press coffee and exotic teas— for example, one that according to the menu was once harvested by monkeys. In honor of its anniversary, Green Zebra is offering seven dishes and cocktails for $7 through Thursday, April 28. —Martha Bayne 1460 W. Chicago, 312-243-7100, greenzebrachicago. com. Dinner: daily. Sun brunch.

lula Cafe | LogaN square | $$$

At this point I’ve taken dozens of people to Lula Cafe, and I don’t say this lightly: it may be the best neighborhood restaurant in Chicago. One side of the menu is dedicated to cheap, surprising, delicious sandwiches and entrees almost exclusively in the $8-$13 range, like the Moroccan tagine, a great roast turkey sandwich, and the Tineka sandwich—spicy peanut butter with veggies and Indonesian sweet soy sauce.” Then there’s a more expensive menu, as if the owners just thought, “What the hell, this’ll be fun too.”

These items change constantly but have included a scallops appetizer that makes vegetarians very sad to be vegetarians, a roast leg of lamb with sherry-braised mission figs and cippolini onions, and an ocean trout served with brandade-stuffed peppers. I brought a friend who’s a professional chef in New York, and he stuck around for hours to order nearly everything on the menu. And then we came back the next night.

There’s a prix fixe farm dinner every Monday.

—Ira Glass 2537 N. Kedzie, 773-489-9554, lulacafe. com. Breakfast, lunch, dinner: Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat. Sat & Sun brunch. Open Late: Fri & Sat till 11.

Markethouse | river North | $$$$ The header on the menu of the Doubletree Hotel’s Markethouse promises a marriage of “heartland basics with new cooking styles and ingredients, so you’ll find surprising twists to otherwise well-known dishes.” I assume that refers to eyeball grabbers like the goat cheese nougat with apple and beet salad, the pistachio brittle with squash soup, or the pickled Asian pear with diver scallops. In execution,

I’m not sure those represent anything more radical than creative applications of classic techniques, but chef Scott Walton’s steering of the seasonal/local bandwagon ought to pack in the hotel guests, if not necessarily locals, who have an increasing number of similarly driven chefs to follow. One surprising twist not detailed on the menu is the caul fat wrapped around the meat loaf. It works—and it shows that Walton should be taken seriously. So do dishes like juicy honey-cayenne rotisserie chicken with fingerlings topped by sweet candied lemon and the white cheddar mac ’n’ cheese gratin, made with al dente penne, larded with bacon bits, and topped with a crown of browned melted cheese. —Mike Sula 611 N. Fairbanks Ct., 312-224-2200, markethousechicago. com. Breakfast, lunch, dinner: daily.

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It’s a testament to the Lula talent trust of Jason Hammel, Amalea Tshilds, and chef Jason Vincent, in tandem with designer Kevin Heisner, that Nightwood is a lot more than just Lula south. Heisner’s sleek design, simultaneously spare and luxe, sets the tone, from the clean cubism of the outdoor patio to the surprisingly comfortable modern squiggles of the chairs. The main dining room is both warm and airy, its dark walnut and iron tones set off by lightcolored ceiling beams and floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides. Behind it, a long counter runs the length of the open kitchen, where the kitchen crew, clad in casual gray T-shirts, tends the wood-fired grill that anchors the ever-changing menu. The simple yet sophisticated seasonal food mirrors the elegant surroundings. I went with a party of five, so we managed to eat our way through half of that night’s handwritten list. Some standouts included delicate grilled Wisconsin trout, half a juicy roast chicken complemented by peppery mustard greens, devastating pork belly, and a duck potpie whose rich flavors were teased out with a restrained, confident hand. There’s a roster of creative house cocktails and craft beers, though Pabst Blue Ribbon (“Wisconsin, lager”) also makes the cut. The extensive wine list is weighted toward sustainable and/or biodynamic small producers and, like the menu and the restaurant design, demonstrates an abundance of taste, consideration, and savvy planning. —Martha Bayne 2119 S. Halsted, 312526-3385, nightwoodrestaurant.com. Dinner: MonSat. Sun brunch. Open late: Mon-Sat till 11.

Vie | West suburbs | $$$$

Located in Western Springs (well within the known universe, 30 minutes from the Loop), Vie is a restaurant on a kind of a mission, and part of that mission is educational (the menu has a glossary).

One theme of this instruction is that there’s great food grown nearby and you should eat it whenever you can. After working at places like Blackbird (an influence reflected in Vie’s elegant black-whitesilver interior design), chef Paul Virant struck out on his own, getting the very first liquor license in his hometown. Virant and his staff “put by” a larder of vegetables and herbs for use during the winter and early spring, and pickles play a supporting role in many presentations, providing a pleasantly tart counterpoint to rich meats and cheeses. My marinated quail was studded with pickled garlic and onions, and the bird was cooked as little as possible to keep it moist and juicy. Brined pork—center cut, wood-grilled and splayed into rich slabs—was luscious, carrying a phyllo purse of subtle housemade choucroute. Lamb was done three ways: slowcooked leg, roasted loin, and a crepinette pressed through an antique sausage maker passed down

by Virant’s grandmother. Preserved strawberries with ice cream were fabulous: deep red and much sweeter and more dense than many fresh-picked berries. Beginning this spring, Virant will be doing double duty at Vie and the forthcoming Perennial Virant in Lincoln Park. —David Hammond 4471 Lawn, Western Springs, 708-246-2082, vierestaurant.com. Dinner: Mon-Sat. Closed Sun.

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GReAt Studio. WeLL maintained building. 4220 Ashland. Ravenswood neighborhood. Carpeted, cable ready, laundry, bike storage, parking.

No pets. $625 includes utilities.

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Nice MiNi-Studio iN Edgewater with stove, refrigerator, bath and glossy wood floor. Near shopping and transportation. Elevator, laundry. Senior discount. $106/ week and up. 773-275-4442.

HuMBoLdt PARK. 1114 N Kildare. Studio $495 includes heat.

Great location. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Jose, 773-415-4911. www.hunterprop.com

Studio $500-$599 MoNtRoSe ANd cLARK $580, 1.5 room studio. Walk to Red Line. All utilities included except electric. Laundry and bike room. No dogs, please. Call 773-784-3635.

4521 NoRtH MALdeN. $590.

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Carpet, great closet space. Laundry, cable ready, bike room. Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com No SecuRitY dePoSit. Large 2.5 room studios. Spacious and sunny layout, hardwood floors, with heat, cooking gas and water included. Cable, Internet ready. Located minutes from Red Line, buses and shopping at 1421 Farwell.

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LARGe Studio NeAR lake and Red Line. 1339 W Estes. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Laundry on site. Cats OK. $575/ month.

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505 WeSt BeLMoNt, wonderful location just steps from the lake, walk to shopping and el train.

New bathrooms and new kitchens, miniblinds, laundry. $550-$695, heat separate. Gabriella, 773-8182161. oLd iRViNG PARK. 4142 N Keystone. Studio $595 including heat and cooking gas! One block Blue Line. Laundry, Hunter Properties, 773-477-7070. Sally, 773-4076452, www.hunterprop.com.

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Well-maintained building. Updated kitchen. Carpeted. Cable/ Internet. Near beach, shopping.

El downtown: 20 minutes. No pets. $625. 773-769-0217.

RoGeRS PARK. 1357 W Greenleaf. Huge studios starting $550 including heat! Hardwood. Laundry.

Small dogs OK. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Samir, 773-6274894, www.hunterprop.com.

1234 WeSt LoYoLA. Studio apt. Rent is $580. Heat and cooking gas included. Minutes from Loyola’s campus and public transportation. Unit offers oak floors, large newer kitchen and spacious closet.

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SHeRidAN PARK, 4717 N Winthrop. Studio $575, all utilities included! Laundry. Near el. Hunter Properties, 773-477-7070. Celio, 773-396-1575. www.hunterprop.com.

LiNcoLN SQuARe, 4829 North Damen. Studios from $590 including heat and cooking gas!

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fans, laundry and storage on premises, one block to Blue Line. Available now. $595 heated. 773-5067060.

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4350 NoRtH ASHLANd. Studios for $550. Hardwood floors, ceiling fans, new windows, cooking gas and heat included. Laundry in building. Close to transportation. Available immediately. If interested, contact 773-472-8469. Cats OK. SHeRidAN PARK, 4845 N Magnolia. Studio $595 including heat! Laundry. Hardwood. Near transportation. On-site manager on site. Hunter Properties 773-4777070. Celio, 773-396-1575, www. hunterprop.com. EHO. RoGeRS PARK Studio apartment, heat included. New hardwood floors/ windows. On-site laundry. Cats OK. Only $575. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www. apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 21981.

SHeRidAN PARK, 4554 N Malden. Studios $595 including heat. Hardwood. Laundry. Near el. Small dogs OK. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Draga, 773-7879140. www.hunterprop.com.

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Even though temperatures are on the rise, warmer weather is not the factor preventing Chicago homeowners from installing attic insulation or energy efficient heating equipment. The Chicagoland Natural Gas Savings Program recently announced the results of a consumer survey, which showed that homeowners hesitate to make energy efficient improvements to their home because of the perceived higher cost of “green” equipment. However, findings also revealed that these hesitancies can be overcome through financial incentives and the potential of greater comfort.

Survey results showed that if consumers can save or earn money as a result of making energy efficient home improvements, they are more likely to take action. In fact, nearly 75 percent of survey respondents said they keep their homes cool during the winter to save money, but more than 95 percent of homeowners would consider installing an energy efficient product if they could receive a

financial incentive. Although only 44 percent said they plan to replace a heating element during 2011, respondents overwhelmingly agreed that it is better to be prepared with a newer, high efficiency furnace, boiler or water heater than to risk older equipment failing.

“We found that people hesitate to make energy efficient improvements to their home because they think energy efficiency costs more,” said Meena Beyers, Chicagoland Natural Gas Savings Program representative. “But we want homeowners to know there are financial benefits such as reduced utility bills and cash incentives available for installing attic insulation or more energy efficient heating equipment.”

The Chicagoland Natural Gas Savings Program provides up to $850 in rebates for these home improvements, depending on the project. To take advantage of the program, visit www.ChicagolandRebates.com to select a qualifying project or natural gas Energy Star equipment, find a contractor who can oversee the install and submit a rebate application online.

Strategic Intent, LLC conducted the online survey on behalf of The Chicagoland Natural Gas Savings Program. The survey utilized a sample of 339 homeowners throughout Chicago neighborhoods from March 10-14, 2011, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.3 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.

Since its inception in 2008, the program has provided more than $6 million in rebates. The program has also saved more than 2 million therms of natural gas and prevented more than 10,800 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere for more than 14,000 projects.

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64 ARtiSt iN ReSideNce, Edgewater. Starting at $525. Some all utilities! 6161-6165 N Winthrop.

Free on-site facilities including performance areas, workshops, darkroom, computer lab. Parking. Laundry. Near Loyola, el. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Sergio, 773983-5001. oLd iRViNG PARK. 4130 N Keystone. Studio from $590, includes heat, cooking gas! One block Blue Line. Laundry. Short-term available! Hunter Properties, 773-4777070. Sally 773-407-6452, www. hunterprop.com.

SPRiNG FeVeR! oNe month rent waived. Must move in by June 1, 2011. Rosemont Apartments, 1061 West Rosemont. Contact Camille at 773-764-3270. Studios from $530 per month. 1 br from $700 per month. Free utilities, laundry facilities on premises, parking lot and minutes from lakefront and public transportation. Professionally managed by Holsten Management Corporation.

RoGeRS PARK, 7455 N Greenview. Studios from $525-$550 including heat! Hardwood. Laundry, bike room. Near el, lake. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Samir, 773-627-4894. www.hunterprop. com Habalamos Espanol.

LAKeVieW, 3812 NoRtH Pine Grove. Sunny studios include ceiling fans, ceramic tile bath and kitchen, hardwood floors, new windows, near lake and park, near Red Line, $575-$650, cooking gas and heat included. Dogs accepted on garden level. Call 773-244-8326.

ALBANY PARK, 3355 W Eastwood. Studio $550 including heat!

Near el. Laundry, on-site manager.

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Sherry, 773-463-7989. www.hunterprop.com.

RoGeRS PARK, 1624 W Morse.

Studio $550+, including heat and cooking gas! Laundry. Close to el.

Small dogs OK. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Fatima, 773-7328436. www.hunterprop.com.

LoGAN SQuARe StudioS, $585. Utilities included! Laundry; exercise room, bike room. Income restrictions apply. Ask us about our move-in special. 773-862-2500! www.therenaissancecompanies. com. EHO. SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. DePaul District. 2901 North Seminary. Available July 1. Cabinet kitchens and updated baths. Heat and appliances included. Studio $580. For appointment call 312822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Sat-

urdays till 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

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edGeWAteR, 6133 NoRtH Kenmore. Studios $550 including heat and cooking gas. Remodeled.

Near el. Laundry. On-site manager. Call Victor 773-629-3536. Hunter Properties, 773-477-7070, www. hunterprop.com. EHO. edGeWAteR/ LoYoLA, 6214 North Winthrop. From $525 includes heat, cooking gas! Laundry, bike room. Near el. On-site manager. Hunter Properties, 773477-7070. Edwin, 773-218-3424. www.hunterprop.com. EHO. ALBANY PARK, 3349 W Ainslie. Studio $585 includes heat!

Hardwood. Laundry. On-site manager. Near el. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Jay, 773-835-1864. www.hunterprop.com. edGeWAteR, 1055 WeSt Catalpa. Studio from $550 including heat, cooking gas! Hardwood.

On-site manager. Elevator. Laundry, bicycle room. Parking available. Hunter Properties, 773-4777070. Millie, 773-561-7070. www. hunterprop.com.

LooKiNG to “StASH extra cash for spring?” Waive your 2nd month rent! Must move in by June 1, 2011. Bryn Mawr Apartments, 5550 North Kenmore. Contact Marica, 773-275-3703. Studios from $565 per month. Enjoy lake views, laundry facilities, exercise room, parking and doorman. Restaurant, grocery store in building. Professionally managed by Holsten Management Corporation. tRANSPoRtAtioN! SHoPPiNG! LAKe! Utilities included, $525. Totally rehabbed studio. Efficiency kitchen. Cable/ Internet ready. Excellent manager. Laundry room. No pets. Parking available.

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Studio $600-$699 tHRee BLocKS FRoM park! $670. Heat and electric included.

No deposit! Lakeview, 620 W Surf, off Diversey and Clark. Walk-up, carpet. Hasan, 773-617-6649. Pictures and floorplans at http://www. realtymortgageco.com JeFFeRSoN PARK Studio, 5502 W Lawrence. Gleaming hardwood floors, modern kitchen and tile bath. Across from Jefferson Park! Walk to Blue Line. $695 includes heat and gas. Laundry and storage on site. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com

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oNe BLocK FRoM park! $640. No deposit. Lincoln Park, 2616 N Hampden Ct, off Diversy and Lakeview. Walk-up, carpet, ac. Al, 773-617-2616. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lincolnpark/2616nhampden oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $675.

Ac, no deposit! Lakeview. 3616 N Pine Grove, off Addison and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Marlena, 773-248-3636. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/3616npinegrove 424 WeSt oAKdALe. Studio for $685. No security deposit! Heat included. Hardwood floors, laundry, large closets, parking available. Call Anvar 773-491-2337, http://www.realtymortgageco.com oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $660, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview. 420 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet.

Admir, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/420wmelrose oNe BLocK FRoM the lake! $675. No deposit! Lakeview, 546 W Briar. Off Belmont and Broadway. Walk-up, hardwood floor.

Baya 773-617-2727. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/544wbriar oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $685. No deposit! Lakeview. 549 W Aldine. Off Belmont and Broadway. Walk-up, carpet, ac. Ziggy, 773-617-6527. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/549waldine oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $620.

Ac, no deposit! Lakeview. 3941 N Pine Grove, off Irving Park and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Nermin, 773-617-0702. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/3941npinegrove oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $685.

Ac. No deposit! Lincoln Park, 444 W St James, off Fullerton and Lakeview. Elevator, carpet. Mike, 773-617-6444. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lincolnpark/444wstjames oNe MoNtH FRee! 5300 N Sheridan Road studio. Hardwood floors, new tile kitchen and bath.

Free window acs. Walk to park and beach. Bus at door. New Dominick’s across the street. Laundry on site.

Parking available. $695 heated. No

security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www. dimensions-apts.com

edGeWAteR/ LoYoLA AReA. 6041 N Kenmore. Studios from $625 including heat! Hardwood.

Near el. Laundry, bike room. Dogs OK! Hunter Properties, 773-4777070. Victor, 773-629-3536, www. hunterprop.com 635 WeSt BARRY, hardwood floors, ceiling fan, miniblinds, laundry room. Pets welcome. Walk to everything! Great location. $630$825, heat separate. Call Adrian 312-451-3183.

711 WeSt BeLMoNt. Hardwood parquet floors. Separate dressing area and large closet, miniblinds. Laundry room. $630$800 includes heat. Call Gabriella 773-818-2161.

WeSt edGeWAteR BeAutiFuL studio. No deposit. New kitchen, dining room, oak floors, walk-in closets, laundry. $695 heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com LiNcoLN SQuARe/ RAVeNSWood. 4641 North Paulina.

Studios from $675 including heat!

Close to el. Hunter Properties 773477-7070. Draga, 773-787-9140. www.hunterprop.com.

FRee HeAt/ iNteRNet! Cat friendly Wrigleyville studio with microwave. On-site roof deck, laundry, gym. $675. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773248-8800, www.apartmentpeople. com. EHO. Building ID 29012. eASt RoGeRS PARK. Gut rehab two room studio, hardwood floors, new kitchen, on-site laundry.

6954 N Sheridan. $650/ month.

Parking available, includes heat and cooking gas. 773-665-0103. www. dlgmanagement.com. EOH. 4038-46 NoRtH HARdiNG. Lovely updated studio and one bedroom apartments. Heat included. Hardwood floors. Near transportation. Miles, 773-396-7405. Gilbert Realty Co. No dogs. $650-$790.

1313 oAK. SePARAte dining room and separate living room, hardwood floors, miniblinds, laundry room. $850-$990, separate heat. Call Daniel 847-714-7807.

1347 NoRtH deARBoRN. Gold Coast 4 story elevator building. Hardwood floors, large closet, ceiling fan. Laundry room. $695$1025, separate heat. Call Seada 773-732-5498.

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kitchens and baths, refinished hardwood floors, freshly painted, basement laundry and storage. $670$695, heat included. 5248 North Glenwood. 773-728-4448.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Heart of DePaul. 2300 North Sheffield. Available May 1.

Right in the middle of the DePaul campus across from the student center at Belden & Sheffield. Super studio $690. Heat and appliances included, air conditioned.

Hardwood floors, near bus, el, everything. For appointment call 312822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times phone 773-8788835 till 9pm.

ing, miniblinds, laundry room. One block to el. $645-$840, separate heat. Call Hal 773-563-3245.

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$685 StudioS, BRoAdWAY and Briar, all utilities included. Close to the Red Line and great bars, restaurants, and shops in Lakeview!

Parking available. No move-in fees.

No security deposit. Hurry and call Water Tower Realty today! 773-2489936 or www.wtrm.com.

4407 NoRtH WoLcott (Wolcott/ Montrose). Studio with kitchen dining area. Walk-in closets, miniblinds, laundry room, back porch, storage, close to el. $675$775, heat separate. Call Sal 312835-3222.

BeLMoNt ANd BRoAdWAY studio, 3204 N Broadway. Great location! Hardwood floors, modern kitchen and bath. Central heat/ ac.

Steps to shopping and transportation. $775. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464. www.dimensions-apts.com

RoGeRS PARK. 7713 N Sheridan. $675 studio, includes heat, cooking gas. Hardwood floors, free wifi, laundry. Nonsmoking preferred. Sublease available for $660.

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e d G e WAt e R FA N tA S tic Studio. No deposit. 3-1/2 rooms, new kitchen, dining room, oak floors, walk-in closets, laundry, CTA. $650-$675 month heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com

WRiGLeYViLLe/ 606 WeSt Cornelia. Studio from $675. Heat, cooking gas included! Laundry.

Parking. Near Red Line. On-site manager. Hunter Properties 773477-7070. Stanley, 773-456-4094, www.hunterprop.com.

LARGe Studio NeAR Metra and Warren Park. 1904 W Pratt.

Hardwood floors. Heat included.

Laundry on site. Cats OK. $605/ month. Available 6/1. 773-761-4318. www.lakefrontmgt.com

HeAt iNcLuded! LiNcoLN Park studio on Fullerton. Cat friendly. Updated kitchen, laundry on site.

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HeAt iNcLuded! RAVeNSWood studio near Brown Line.

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1022-24 WeSt cAtALPA. Heat included! Newly renovated studios for $680. Hardwood floors throughout, window treatments, wall ac units, on-site laundry, controlled access and parking (at additional cost). Call Ramo at 773-8751846 to schedule your visit. $670 StudioS AVAiLABLe at prime Lakeview location on Aldine and Broadway. All utilities included! No deposit, move-in fee or security deposit. Hurry up and call us today at 773-248-9936 to take advantage of this great deal. For more pics, visit www.wtrm.com. deALS iN HuMBoLdt Park! $0 deposit. Heat included. Laundry on site. Pet friendly. Heat included. Studios $625 and up. One bedrooms $725, 2 bedrooms $775 and up. 3 bedrooms $995 and up. 773661-0111 or www.mfishmanco.com.

837 WeSt WoLFRAM. Near Halsted/ Diversey. Hardwood floors, newer kitchen, air condition-

2844 NoRtH oRcHARd Avenue. Lincoln and Diversey. Studios with separate kitchens $650 monthly. West of Century Mall. Two blocks to Diversey el. Laundry in building. Bob, 773-540-5596. Paul J. Quetschke & Company, 773-2818400 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm). eVANStoN. 825 MAiN Street.

Large, charming studios, free utilities, newly decorated, elevator building, excellent transportation/ shopping. Completely furnished. $615-$720. Bill, 847-328-1833, Gilbert Realty Co. WeSt RidGe Studio. No deposit. New kitchen, carpet, air conditioning, walk-in closets, laundry. $625 heated. 773-743-4141. www. urbanequities.com 3600 NoRtH LAKe Shore Drive. Very large studio. 24 hour doorman, fitness room, cleaners, laundry, and parking available. Heat, air, cable included. $695/ month.

Call 1-312-545-0076. tHeRe iS SoMetHiNG amazing happening at Hermitage building! Studios are going for $625 with all utilities included! A total bargain in Ravenswood. Laundry on site and bike storage available, this place is perfect. No move-in fees. No secu-

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815 WeSt coRNeLiA. Courtyard building, ceiling fans, miniblinds, close to el and lakefront.

Laundry room. $695-$775 (separate heat). Call Don, 630-702-9264. eASt RoGeRS PARK: 6825 Sheridan. Studio for $625 and one bedroom for $745. Close to Loyola University and transprotation.

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Call Lela, 773-814-4349.

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Heat and electric included! No deposit. Lincoln Park, 530 W Arlington. Off Fullerton and Clark. Elevator, carpet. Aner, 773-617-6530. Pictures and floorplans at http://www. realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/lincolnpark/530warlington oNe BLocK FRoM park! $750.

Heat and electric included. No deposit! Lincoln Park, 500 W Fullerton, off Fullerton and Clark. Elevator, carpet. Suzanna, 773-617-6500, Pictures and floorplans at http:// www.realtymortgageco.com RidGe/ MAGNoLiA. AVAiLABLe 5/1 for $710. Heat and water included. hardwood floors, ceiling fan, outdoor porch, modern kitchen and bath, bike room and on-site laundry. Pictures and floorplans available at www.realtymortgage. com. Call George at 312-735-3249 or Vi at 312-735-3251 for your visit. No agents. oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $835, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview. 451 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet.

Admir, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/451wmelrose SeVeRAL BLocKS FRoM the lake! $810. No deposit. Lakeview. 727 W Briar, off Belmont and Halsted. Walk-up, hardwood floor.

Baya, 773-617-2727. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/727wbriar 2048 NoRtH cLeVeLANd studio, hardwood floors, modern kitchen and bath. Steps to everything! Laundry/ storage/ bike room on site. $795-$815 heated. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com

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66 3550 NoRtH LAWNdALe. Addison and Cicero. One bedroom. $750 monthly. Heat included. George, 773-443-0344 or Paul J. Quetschke & Company, 773-2818400. Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

RoGeRS PARK, 2408 W Lunt/ 7000 N Western. One bedroom, $725-$760, includes heat! Hardwood. Laundry. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Fatima, 773-7328436, www.hunterprop.com.

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oLd iRViNG PARK. 4130 N Keystone. One bedroom $725 includes heat and cooking gas! Near Blue Line. Laundry. Hunter Properties, 773-477-7070. Sally, 773-4076452. www.hunterprop.com

ARtiSt iN ReSideNce, Edgewater. From $700. One bedroom. Some all utilities! 6161-6165 N Winthrop. Free rehearsal space, darkroom, computer lab. Parking available. Laundry. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Sergio, 773983-5001.

SPAciouS PoRtAGe PARK Garden apartment. Remodeled kitchen, modern bath, new windows, hardwood floors, laundry on premises. Close to Metra transportation and Six Corners shopping district. $750 plus utilities. Garage parking extra. Available now. 630766-7262.

SHeRidAN PARK, 5050 North Kenmore. 1 bedrooms from $725 including heat and cooking gas! Near el. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070.

Celio, 773-396-1575. www.hunterprop.com RoGeRS PARK. 1417 W Sherwin. One bedroom with wood floors, updated kitchen, eat-in kitchen or separate dining room, one block to Red Line, beach and restaurants, V-Tone, most pets OK, laundry on site, $700-$725 heat included. No deposit. Acorn Property Management, 773-858-2161, donna@acornpm.com, or Irena 773443-4454.

RoGeRS PARK, 1620 Farwell. Spacious one bedroom, wood floors, dining area, new windows, good closet space, updated kitchen and bath, laundry on site, most pets OK, no deposit. $725, all heat and cooking gas included. Acorn Property Management 773-858-2161 or donna@acornpm.com.

NeAR MetRA ANd Warren Park. Large one bedroom unit.

Hardwood floors. Laundry on site.

Cats OK. $730/ month, heat included. 6804 N Wolcott. Available 6/1. 773-761-4318. www.lakefrontmgt.com ANdeRSoNViLLe, 5549 NoRtH Magnolia. Large one bedroom $725-$795 including heat! Hardwood, laundry, on-site manager. Bike room. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Jay, 773-8351864. www.hunterprop.com

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iRViNG PARK: SPAciouS garden apartment, four rooms and one bedroom. Newly remodeled with walk-in closet and laundry available. $700. Available May 1st. 312-787-4753.

3823 NoRtH FReMoNt. Hardwood floors, ceiling fan, laundry room. Close to transportation, Wrigley Field and lake. $885-$1080, heat separate. Julia 773-507-2654.

oNe MoNtH FRee! East Edgewater one bedroom, hardwood floors, new kitchen and bath. Includes window acs. Walk to park and Foster Beach. Steps to CTA and Dominick’s. Laundry on site. Parking available. $795-$825 heated. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www. dimensions-apts.com

oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $805, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview. 420 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet.

Admir, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/420wmelrose

MoNtRoSe/ cLAReNdoN. oNe bedroom, sunny and bright, across from park. Heat/ gas included. Walk-in dressing closet, hardwood floors, free laundry, block Montrose Harbor. $775. 773-9733463. eVANStoN oNe BedRooM. 800 sq ft, great kitchen, oak floors, new windows, walk-in closets, laundry. $795 heated. No deposit. Parking available. 773-743-4141. www. urbanequities.com uPtoWN oNe BedRooM 6/1! $0 deposit. Hwfl, laundry on site, dishwasher. $795. No pets, please. 773-661-0111 or www.mfishmanco.com. diSHWASHeR/ MicRoWAVe! LiNcoLN Square one bedroom has hardwood floors, eatin kitchen, central air, thermo windows. On-site laundry. $775. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www. apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 37945.

LARGe oNe BedRooM (790 square feet) near lake and Red Line. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Cats OK. 1337 W Estes. Available 6/1. $750/ month. 773-761-4318. www.lakefrontmgt.com HoRNeR PARK. oNe bedroom at 2849 W Berteau. Updated kitchen and bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, laundry and storage on premises. Available 5/1. $775 heated. 773-506-7060. $750 1-1/2 BedRooM, 1st floor, wood floors, clean, sunny. Updated bath, open porch and patio, pets considered. 3 blocks SE Humboldt Park, 60622. John 630-7096148 evenings after 4:30pm.

SHeRidAN PARK, 910 West Lawrence. One bedroom, $725 including heat, cooking gas! Laundry.

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WRiGLeYViLLe oNe BedRooM, 750 W Irving Park. Gleaming hardwood floors, big bright sun room, modern kitchen and bath.

Laundry on site. Walk to park, lake and CTA! No security deposit. Parking available. $825-$895 heated.

Dimensions Management, 773281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com oLd iRViNG oNe bedroom, 3955 N Lamon. Hardwood floors, modern kitchen and bath. Steps to shopping and CTA. Laundry and storage on site. $825 heated. Dimensions Management, 773-2814464 x1. www.dimensions-apts. com oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $830, heat included. No deposit. Lakeview. 451 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet.

Admir, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/451wmelrose 4407 NoRtH MALdeN. $825.

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Hardwood, laundry on site. Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $860 heat included. No deposit! Lakeview, 520 W Stratford, off Addison and Lake Shore. Walk-up, carpet.

Mario, 312-933-1660. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/520wstratford LiNcoLN SQuARe/ RAVeNSWood. 4641 N Paulina from $875 including heat! Near el, eat-in dining. Call Hunter Properties 773477-7070. Draga, 773-787-9140. www.hunterprop.com RAVeNSWood oNe BedRooM at 1959 W Foster. Updated kitchen with dishwasher, formal dining room, updated bathroom, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, central heat, new windows, laundry and storage on premises. Available 5/1. $895. 773-506-7060. edGeWAteR/ LoYoLA, 6041 North Kenmore. One bedroom $850 including heat! Hardwood. El one block. Laundry, bike

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WeSt edGeWAteR SPectAcuLAR one bedroom. 950 sq ft, great kitchen, new appliances, fdr, gleaming oak floors, walk-in closets, laundry, CTA. $895 heated.

No deposit. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com edGeWAteR MAGNiFiceNt oNe bedroom. No deposit. Great kitchen, dw, grand formal dr, gleamng oak floors, walk-in closets, laundry. $850-$895/ heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com 1400 edGeWAteR. AVAiLABLe 5/1. $890. One bedroom, heat included, renovated walk-up, oak floors, newer windows, newer porch, most with dining area.

Pictures and floorplans available at www.realtymortgage.com. Call George at 312-735-3249 or Vi at 312735-3251 for your visit. No agents.

701 WeSt BRoMPtoN. Steps from the lake. Hardwood floors, miniblinds, close to el, grocery store, laundry in building. $865$1025, heat separate. Call Dex, 847852-7051. $875. oNe BedRooMS. Amenities include newly remodeled units with hardwood flooring and views of the park and lake, on-site fitness center, 24 hour emergency maintenance, laundry room with new washers and dryers. Make your appointment today. They won’t last! 773-248-9936 or leasing@ wtrm.com. See pictures, floorplans at www.wtrm.com 1728 WeSt AiNSLie Ave. Renovated one bedroom in beautiful courtyard bldg. Updated kitchen and bath. Hwfl. Back porch. No dogs. $825 with heat. Available 5/1/11. 847-581-0082.

NARRAGANSett ANd iRViNG Park. Lovely deluxe one bedroom apartments. Heat included.

Close to everything. beautiful space.

Laundry in building. $800 plus security deposit. 773-777-9325. oLd iRViNG oNe bedroom.

3955 N Lamon. Bright and sunny.

Gleaming hardwood floors. New bathroom and lots of closets! Near shopping and transportation. No security deposit. $825 heated. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com WoNdeRFuL oNe BedRooM across from fantastic Winnemac Park’s jogging paths, tennis/ basketball courts, soccer fields! 2124 West Foster. Wall to wall carpeting, great closet space, eat-in kitchen with terrific cabinet counter space! $845 heat included. 1/2 month free rent and only 1/2 month security deposit! 773-381-0150. www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com.

LARGe oNe BedRooM in Lincoln Square. Free heat, hot water, laundry. Enclosed porch, yard, video cameras, intercom, hardwood floors. Near el. $850-$1000, deposit. 773-728-1583.

1/2 MoNtH FRee plus no security deposit! Wonderful sun filled one bedroom! Shopping/ public transportation one block south on Irving Park Road! 3154 West Belle Plaine: lovely hardwood floors, china cabinets, new microwave. $835 heat included. $300 move-in fee required. 773-381-0150. www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com 511 WeSt MeLRoSe, steps from the lake. Beautiful, quiet street, walk to grocery store, el train. Laundry room. $840-$960, separate heat. Gabriella 773-818-2161.

LoVeLY SuN FiLLed four room, one bedroom with wonderful backyard garden! Quiet neighborhood/ good parking! One block to excellent public transportation.

2434 West Fargo: hardwood floors, great closet space, beautifully remodeled kitchen! May 1. $875, heat included. 1/2 month free/ only 1/2 month security deposit! 773-3810150. www.1st-chicago-apartmentrentals.com

LAKeVieW. 4518 NoRtH Greenview. Cute one bedroom with wood floors, eat-in kitchen, new windows, good closet space, near Ravenswood line, most pets OK, laundry on site. $830, heat included.

Acorn Property Management, 773858-2172. marti@acornpm.com RAV e N SWo o d ( L A N d MARK PAuLiNA) sun filled one bedroom. No deposit. Great kitchen, huge fdr, oak floors, spacious closets, laundry, walk to Brown Line. $875-$925 heated. 773-7434141. www.urbanequities.com 3720 PiNe GRoVe. Two bedroom in courtyard building. Hardwood floors, miniblinds. Laundry room, steps from the lake, train. $895-$940, heat separate. Amir 773-510-0842.

1255 WeSt BRYN Mawr will have available one bedroom corner unit for $870, heat/ electric included in rent, newer windows, condo quality carpet, most with walk-in closets, built-in dressers, separate kitchen and dining. No dogs! Call George at 312-735-3249 or Vi at 312735-3251 for your visit. No agents.

6166 NoRtH SHeRidAN. Large 1 bedroom/ 1.5 bath duplex.

Great southeast views from the 20th floor. Heat/ ac/ cable included. $825. enuss314@yahoo.com, 312-502-0122.

St. BeN’S oNe bedroom plus office: first floor. Close to el, bars, restaurants. Hardwood floors. $850/ month plus utilities. Available May 1st, 4102 North Leavitt. Call Ken, 773-841-2532.

RAVeNSWood FANtAStic oNe bedroom. No deposit.

Great kitchen, fdr, oak floors, laundry, walk to Brown Line. $875-$950 heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com HoRNeR PARK. oNe bedroom at 2839 W Cullom. Updated kitchen and bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, laundry on premises, walking distance to the park. Available 5/1. $850 heated. 773-506-7060.

2153 NoRtH BeLL. Webster and Damen. One bedroom plus den, $835 monthly. Water included.

773-332-7653. Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. eASt RoGeRS oNe bedroom, sunny corner apt in beautiful elevator bldg. New kitchen, new carpet, ac, new windows, huge closets, walk to lake, laundry. $800 heated.

773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com edGeWAteR oNe BedRooM steps to Loyola/ lake. Updated kitchen, dishwasher, hardwood floors, fitness room, on-site laundry/ maintenance, elevators.

6040 North Sheridan. $885. Call Stacie, 773-529-7200 ext 106.

2900 NoRtH MiLdRed, east of Sheffield. Large one bedroom.

Kitchen dining area. Walk-in closet, laundry room, storage. Walk to el. $845-$1225, heat separate. Call Hal 773-563-3245. iNdiAN BouNdARY PARK one bedroom apartment $835.

Large four room, four large closets, Laundry/ storage. No dogs. Heated $835. 847 763-1627.

GReAt eASt LAKeVieW one bedroom, gleaming hardwood floors, modern kitchen and bath.

Big, bright sun room. Steps to park, lake and CTA. No security deposit! $825-$895 includes heat and cooking gas. Parking available. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com eASt RoGeRS PARK. Gut rehab one bedroom, hardwood floors, new kitchen with microhood, dw,

on-site laundry, parking available.

6954 N Sheridan. $800/ month incl heat and gas. 773-665-0103. www. dlgmanagement.com. EOH.

RoGeRS PARK. 7701 N Sheridan. One bedrooms from $825, includes heat, cooking gas. Hardwood, free wifi, laundry. Nonsmoking preferred. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Samir, 773-6274894. www.hunterprop.com.

WicKeR PARK. ViNtAGe building. Four rooms, hwfl, sunny, beautiful landscaping, new appliances, electronic security, pets negotiable. Quiet. Near Blue Line, IMD. 5/1. $800. 773-772-8159, 773430-7512.

BueNA PARK. SPAciouS one bedroom, #2F, large living room and sun porch, hardwood floors. Private back yard. Laundry/ storage. Close to lake. 921 Cullom. $850. June. 773671-1289.

L i N co L N S Q uA R e A R eA. Sunny, one bedroom, formal dr. Leaded glass bay window, oak flooring. Laundry, shed. Landscaped backyard, patio. Nonsmoking. 5801 North Rockwell. $825 heated! 773-315-6490.

GReAt oNe BedRooM. Well maintained building. 4222 Ashland. Ravenswood neighborhood. Carpeted, cable ready, laundry, bike storage. No pets. $850 includes utilities. Near Brown Line. 773-477-3487.

813 WeSt WAVeLANd, near Wrigley Field. Close to the el. Dining room, hardwood floors. Laundry room. Some units renovated! Great location. $845-$1045, heat separate. Julia, 773-507-2654.

RAVeNSWood/ LiNcoLN SQuARe. 4500 North Winchester. One bedroom from $895 including heat. Ac, garage parking available. Near Brown Line. On-site laundry and manager. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Almir, 773220-2488. www.hunterprop.com 6814 NoRtH GReeNVieW. Huge one bedroom. Separate dining room. Hardwood floors. Freshly decorated, updated kitchen. 1st floor. Enclosed porch. Quiet private owner building. $875 heated. 847251-3459. No dogs.

1 Br $900-$1099 424 WeSt oAKdALe. One bedroom available for $920. No security deposit! Heat included. Hardwood floors, laundry, large closets, parking available. Call Anvar 773491-2337, http://www.realtymortgageco.com LiNcoLN SQuARe GoRGeouS one bedroom for June 1!

One block to Western el stop, great shopping and restaurants. 2245 West Eastwood. 1/2 month free rent/ only 1/2 month security deposit! Decorative fireplace/ built-in bookshelves. Formal dining room, loads of sunshine. $1095, heat included. 773-381-0150, www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com FiRSt FLooR oF Ravenswood coachhouse! 1918 West Ainslie. Overlooks professionally landscaped side yard. Two blocks to Metra and Damen Avenue. Brown Line. Neat floor plan. June 1: $1025, heat included. 1/2 month free rent/ only 1/2 month security deposit!

773-381-0150. www.1st-chicagoapartment-rentals.com BueNA PARK oNe bedroom, 808 W Junior Terrace. Hardwood floors, panoramic views. New appliances/ dishwasher! Walk to park, lakefront and CTA. No secri-

ty deposit. $925-$1025. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com

BueNA PARK oNe bedroom, 808 W Junior Terrace. Gleaming hardwood floors, granite countertops! Sparkling new bathroom and kitchen/ dishwasher. Bus at door.

Laundry on site. Window acs included. No security deposit. $925$1025. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $930, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview. 440 W Barry, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Mrs Papa 773-619-0288. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/440wbarry RoScoe ViLLAGe oNe bedroom garden. Gleaming hardwood floors. Modern kitchen and bath.

Great location, steps to stores and CTA. New laundry in building. $925.

No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464. www. dimensions-apts.com tWo BLocKS FRoM park! $910. Ac, no deposit, Lincoln Park, 536 W Grant, off Webster and Lincoln, walk-up, carpet. Andy 773-617-0706. Pictures and floorplans at www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lincolnpark/536wgrant GoRGeouS eNGLiSH tudoR courtyard building! 2 blocks to Irving Park el. Beautiful 1 bedroom. Hardwood floors, built-in bookshelves, great closet space!

On-site laundry. 4237-1/2 North Hermitage. 1/2 month free rent, no security deposit! $1020, heat included. $300 move-in fee required.

June 1. 773-381-0150, www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com.

BRiGHt ANd SPAciouS one bedroom in Lincoln Square. Hardwood floors, living room, dining room, decorative fireplace. $950 heated! No deposit. 4812 North Oakley. 773-617-0329, 773-5332900.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. DePaul District. 2901 North Seminary. Available July 1, August 1 and September 1. Cabinet kitchen and updated baths. Heat and appliances included. Large 1 bedroom $1065-$1080 including all leasing incentives. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Saturdays till 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours phone 773486-2553 till 9pm.

GoLd coASt oNe bedroom apartment. Private building. High ceiling, fireplace. Parking included in rent. Small pet allowed. Available immediately. Rent $1295. 773-3984317, 773-301-4489.

RoGeRS PARK! StePS to Loyola! Updated one bedroom available 6/1. Hwfl, updated kitchen, spacious rooms, lake views, fitness room, doorman, on-site management. 6415 N Sheridan Rd. $955.

Call Stacie, 773-529-7200 ext 106.

536 WeSt ARLiNGtoN. Air conditioning, laundry room, close to el and lakefront. Blocks from DePaul. $940-$1140, heat separate.

Call Lela 773-814-4349.

BARRY/ SHeRidAN, oNe bedroom, $1095, includes heat, no deposit or move in fees Vintage building with modern apartments.

Variety of sizes. Hardwood floors, cable ready. On-site engineer security 24x7, laundry and bike rooms.

Great public transportation. No dogs. 773-248-9936 or leasing@ wtrm.com. See pics, floorplans at www.wtrm.com.

428 WeSt BeLdeN, beautiful courtyard, 3 blocks from DePaul. Hardwood floors, laundry room. Security intercom. $1055$1230, heat included. Call Cornel, 773-418-2908.

GeoRGe ANd MiLdRed. 1-1/2 bedroom/ one bath, graystone.

67 Heat included, dishwasher, new kitchen, laundry, near Brown Line.

Available June. 312-372-2209, ustriallawyers@hotmail.com. $1050.

ANdeRSoNViLLe, 1230 WeSt Carmen. One bedroom starting at $925 includes heat. Near el, shops, restaurants. For showing call Holly 504-579-6484, Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. www. hunterprop.com.

BeAutiFuL VieW oF lake.

1051-1055 W Pratt. Extra special location. First building off the lake and beach. Newly decorated, heated, hardwood floors. Immediate occupancy. One bedroom $1055.

To view apt call Zlatko 773-4150035, Hallmark and Johnson 773545-6160.

KicKiN’ coAcHHouSe! cHARMiNG Lincoln Park one bedroom near Halsted/ Schubert.

Hardwood, central air. On-site laundry, dogs negotiable. $1000. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www. apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 30268.

LAKeVieW, 3100N-1100W. oNe bedroom. Hardwood floors.

Heat and cooking gas included.

Laundry in building. Near el. No pets. $955 to $990. Quality Real Estate Management Co. Call Mike, 773-501-8200.

RAVeNSWood, 4325-36 HeRMitAGe. One bedrooms from $995. Hardwood floors, updated kitchen and bath. Storage/ laundry facilities on site. Heat included. Jackie, 773-401-1515.

LiNcoLN PARK oNe bedroom, gleaming hardwood floors.

Modern kitchen and bath. Laundry on premises. Steps to park, lake and CTA. $975 heated. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com LiVe StePS to the lake! Hardwood floors, granite, ss, ample closet space, spacious rooms, steps to Argyle Park, lake. Fitness room, onsite laundry, 24 hr maintenance, pet friendly. $995. No security deposit!

901 W Argyle. Call Stacie, 773-5297200 ext 106.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 510 West Addison. Available May 1, June 1, July 1 and September 1. Magnificent apartments, super light and airy, set off by a beautiful courtyard. Private laundry room, storage lockers. Steps from the lake, steps from transportation and steps from shopping and recreation. Resident engineer.

4 rooms, 1 bedroom. $1070-$1200 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours call 773-857-3191 till 9pm.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 516 West Briar Place. Available June 1, July 1 and August 1. $1080-$1130 including all leasing incentives. The small highrise with super sized rooms. Only 4 apartments per floor. Mint condition. Carpeted and air conditioned.

Heat and appliances included. Resident engineer. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and other hours call 773975-8237 till 9pm.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park. 2804 North Cambridge. Available August 1 and September 1. The quietest street in Lincoln Park. The friendliest, trendiest part of town. Large sized 1 bedroom, $1075-$1130. Near lake, transportation and shopping. Heat and appliances included. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours phone 773-549-6862 till 9pm.

uKRAiNiAN ViLLAGe. 2251 W Thomas. One bedroom from $900. Huge rooms. Close to shops and restaurants. For showing call Hunter Properties 773-477-7070.

Jolanda, 773-489-7404. www.hunterprop.com cLARK ANd FuLLeRtoN one bedroom, no deposit or movein fees. One of the best addresses in the city. Newly remodeled, beautiful one bedrooms from $1050, include heat. Carpet or hardwood flooring, cable ready. On-site engineer, new laundry machines, bike and storage rooms. Close to public transportation. No dogs. 773-248-9936 or LPW2140@wtrm.com. See pics, floorplans at www.wtrm.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Evanston. 818-24 Forest Ave. Stately building on quiet street near Sheridan Road. Sedate residential area. Near Main Street, shops, restaurants and transportation. Heat and appliances included.

We will fax floorplans upon request.

1 bedroom. Available Sept 1. $1040$1065 including all leasing incentives. For appointment call 312822-1037 weekdays til 5:30pm, Saturdays and Sundays til 2pm. Other times 847-866-9459.

HeAt/ cooKiNG GAS included! Lincoln Park one bedroom features modern kitchen, air conditioning. On-site laundry, cats OK. $900.

Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www.apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 17324.

LiNcoLN SQuARe, 5054 North Leavitt. Large one bedroom, $995 includes heat! Hardwood.

Laundry. Four rooms across from park. Hunter Properties 773-4777070. Fatima, 773-732-8436. www. hunterprop.com SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. DePaul District. 2901 North Seminary. Available July 1, August 1 and September 1. Cabinet kitchen and updated baths. Heat and appliances included. Large 1 bedroom $1065-$1080 including all leasing incentives. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Saturdays till 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours phone 773486-2553 till 9pm.

GeM oF tHe neighborhood!

Beautifully renovated building sits on quiet, tree-lined street in Avondale community. Apartment features many amenities, including spacious bedroom, large closets, hardwood floors, exposed brick, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, 42” cherry cabinets, ac, security system, laundry in unit,ample storage. Pets welcome. $950/ month, available 4/15. 708660-9122.

BueNA PARK! uPdAted one bedroom available for 5/1! Granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, dishwasher, balcony, hardwood floors, fitness center, courtyard deck/ garden. 4242 N Sheridan. $1025. Call Stacie, 773-5297200 ext 106. $995 oNe BedRooMS! 3510 Pine Grove: heart of east Lakeview!

Spacious layouts, updated kitchens, new carpets, excellent closets, parking available, heat included, one block to lake. ppmapartments. com, 773-831-4103. eASt RoGeRS PARK. 1000 sq ft one bedroom, walk to beach, bring the dog, great kitchen, fdr, French windows, huge sun room, gleaming oak floors, laundry. $950 heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com 1101 WeSt WeLLiNGtoN. One bedroom. Closets and storage. Ceiling fan, hardwood floors, miniblinds. Laundry room. Close to el. $940-$1250, heat separate. Call Dan at 773-988-5074. oNe BedRooM. GReAt location. Very convenient, stores, 94, easy parking, garage spot, com-

pletely rehabbed. Fans, vaulted ceilings, skylights, deck/ balcony, yard.

847-845-8009 Patrick. $1050.

WRiGLeYViLLe/ 606 WeSt Cornelia. One bedrooms $925 including heat, cooking gas. Hardwood. Laundry. Parking available.

On-site manager. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. Stanley, 773456-4094. www.hunterprop.com. cLARK ANd coRNeLiA. Wrigleyville large one bedroom garden unit, plenty of closet space, laundry in building. Walk to restaurants, shops, public transportation, etc. $900 heated. Available May 1.

Call Alan at 312-607-9412 or John at 773-908-2597, AP Gold Realty.

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WRiGLeYViLLe oNe BedRooM apartment with parking. 1-1/2 blocks from the ballpark.

2-3 blocks from either of 2 L train stops. Hardwood floors, carpeted bedroom and walk-in closet. Newer kitchen. Coin laundry, storage in basement. Parking spot included in rent. Deck exclusive to renter. Utilities not included with rent. Immediate availability. Call 773-392-0268 for viewing.

515 WeSt BRiAR: Dog friendly, all utilities included, lots of vintage character, bay windows, heart of east Lakeview, no security deposit, from $1050. ppmapartments.com, 773-831-4103.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park. 2804 North Cambridge. Available August 1 and September 1. The quietest street in Lincoln Park. The friendliest, trendiest part of town. Large sized 1 bedroom, $1075-$1130. Near lake, transportation and shopping. Heat and appliances included. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours phone 773-549-6862 till 9pm. oNe BedRooM PLuS den.

Wd in unit. $975. 2930 West Nelson Street, Chicago, IL. Features: In-unit laundry, living room, huge closets, kitchen with eating area, den, central ac. 312-450-2348. o u t S tA N d i N G W R i G LeYViLLe couRtYARd! Dog friendly, gleaming hardwood floors, back porches, updated kitchens and bathrooms, heat included. From $1050. 638 West Addison. 773-8314103, ppmapartments.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 516 West Briar Place. Available June 1, July 1 and August 1. $1080-$1130 including all leasing incentives. The small highrise with super sized rooms. Only 4 apartments per floor. Mint condition. Carpeted and air conditioned.

Heat and appliances included. Resident engineer. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and other hours call 773975-8237 till 9pm.

3900 NoRtH JANSSeN, vintage courtyard, hardwood floors, miniblinds, laundry in building.

Great Lakeview location! $900$1115, separate heat. Call Sal 312835-3222.

ANdeRSoNViLLe, 1226 WeSt Winona. One bedrooms starting at $1050+ includes heat, free T1 internet. Near el, shops, restaurants. For showing call Holly 504-579-6484, Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. www.hunterprop.com.

RAVeNSWood LARGe oNe bedroom at 2419 W Sunnyside. Updated kitchen with dishwasher, updated bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, large deck, laundry and storage on premises. Available 6/1. $935. 773-506-7060.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 510 West Addison. Available May 1, June 1, July 1 and September 1. Magnificent

apartments, super light and airy, set off by a beautiful courtyard. Private laundry room, storage lockers. Steps from the lake, steps from transportation and steps from shopping and recreation. Resident engineer.

4 rooms, 1 bedroom. $1070-$1200 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours call 773-857-3191 till 9pm.

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RAVeNSWood oNe BedRooM at 4523 North Paulina. Updated kitchen and bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, miniblinds. Close to Brown Line. Laundry and storage in building. Available now. $950.

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PeRFect LiNcoLN PARK one bedroom, steps to park, lake and CTA. Hardwood floors, modern kitchen/ dishwasher and tile bath.

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Heat included. No deposit! Streeterville, 860 N DeWitt, off Michigan and Chicago. Elevator, carpet, doorman. Nancy, 312-642-2860.

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Heat included. No deposit! Lincoln Park, 523 W Fullerton, off Fullerton and Clark. Walk-up, hardwood floor.

Suzane 773-617-6500. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lincolnpark/523wfullerton PRiNteRS RoW oNe bedroom, 537 S Dearborn. Hardwood floors, central heat/ ac, new granite countertops. New kitchen/ dishwasher. Track lighting, parking available. $1280. No security deposit. Available now! Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com tWo BLocKS FRoM park! $1125. Ac, no deposit, Lincoln Park, 532 W Grant, off Webster and Lincoln, private entry, carpet/ hwfl. Corey, 773-729-8590. Pictures and floorplans at www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lincolnpark/532wgrant LiNcoLN PARK oNe bedroom, sparkling new kitchen/ dishwasher and tile bath. Central heat/ ac.

Hardwood floors, granite countertops, laundry on site. $1325. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com $1350 SoutH LooP 1br., and storage spaces, balcony facing lake; gas, other amenities included; indoor parking additional $50/ month. Available June 1st. Call Shereen 773-619-5430 or shereen_y@ yahoo.com, more info.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park. 545 West Arlington Place, 2450 North. Available August 1 and September 1. Courtyard building set off by our gorgeous Japanese motif. Exposed brick hallways, oak floors, modern kitchens and baths. Resident engineer. Large 1 bedroom $1140 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours phone 773-549-6862 till 9pm.

1425 NoRtH deARBoRN. Modernized vintage building. High ceilings, air conditioning, great closets, hardwood floors. $1400-$1510, heat separate. Parking available.

Call Seada 773-732-5498.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park landmark.

455 West Belmont. Available June 1 and August 1. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchen, burnished oak floors. Res-

Located in the heart of Old Town, this three story English Tudor style walk up is absolutely charming. 100% remodeled, this property features large walk-in closets with builtin drawers. Lincoln Park, the Lakefront, and great Old Town shopping are all at your doorstep. The Clark and Lincoln Ave. bus stops are only one block away, and the Stockton Dr. stop is just two blocks away.

To schedule a viewing, contact Mike at 773-617-0706.

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68 ident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 4 rooms, 1 bedroom $1105-$1150. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and weekends after hours call 773-404-5229 till 9pm.

and bath, hardwood floors. $1150, heat included. Call 773-929-7050 or www.hayesproperties.com.

SuNNY LARGe oNe bedroom. Lakeview. 2815-25 North Mildred. Dine-in kitchen, dishwasher, pantry. Dining room, beautiful breakfront. Hardwood floors. Ample closets. Laundry.

Storage. $1250. Heated. 773879-8400.

3001-3017 NoRtH BRoAdWAY/ 600-606 West Surf, one bedroom apartments. Vintage charm, hardwood floors, miniblinds, laundry room in building.

Walk to everything at this great location! $1330, heat separate. Call Art, 773-494-1055.

88 WeSt ScHiLLeR, Gold Coast, large one bedroom, L-shaped living room, hardwood floors, totally remodeled/ mint condition, heat, water, cable included, underground parking available, southern city view, no pets, $1400, 262325-0329. $1500. HeAt, eLectRic, cooking gas, cable included! Gut rehabbed garden level one bedroom, one bath unit. Cherry cabinets, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, washer/ dryer in unit. No pets. 500 West Barry (Lakeview). catalina@waldmanagement.com, 773-929-7000, www. waldmanagement.com.

1551 NoRtH WeLLS, #3R. 750 sq ft, one bedroom, one bathroom, hardwood floors, high ceilings, heat is included in rent, laundry in the building. Pet friendly for an additional $20 per month per pet. $1200 month with 1-1/2 months deposit. Please call 312-787-9400 for viewing and other info.

ModeRN oNe ANd two bedroom condominiums in art deco building style by Foster Beach.

Custom kitchen, granite countertops, stainless appliances, stone on bathroom walls and floors with Jacuzzi. Combo washer/ dryer machine. Hardwood floors throughout. Transportation on front door.

Rent $1100-$1190. Call John 773271-7557.

1255 WeSt BeLdeN has a one bedroom with a private patio off the 17’ bedroom, fireplace, dw, ac, exposed brick walls, laundry facilities and parking included. $1325/ mo. Call 773-248-8420.

H i G H - R i S e , u P dAt e d KitcHeN/ bath, great closets, 24 hour doorman, pool. Includes heat, air, basic cable. Near restaurants, shopping. Available 5/15 or 6/1. 312-821-3049.

BeLMoNt HARBoR, LARGe one bedroom (approximately 1000 sq ft) with formal dining room in small owner occupied building. Private front and rear porches, hardwood floors, Laundry in building.

No pets. $1350 a month plus security deposit. Parking available for extra fee. Call Anita at 312-391-7644.

1255 NoRtH SANdBuRG. One bedroom, high floor, many amenities. 24 hour desk, heat, water, gas, basic cable included. Indoor parking available. $1375. Available May. 773-718-1713.

LiVe oN LAKe! 3130 Lake Shore Drive: new designer kitchens. Jawdropping Belmont Harbor view!

Dog friendly, gym, business center, great open floor plans, huge windows, new upgraded carpet. From $1340. 773-831-4103, ppmapartments.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Evanston. Near Lake Michigan.

609 Sheridan. Available May 1, August 1 and September 1. Manicured grounds, great engineer, one block to the lake. New laundry, bright, airy and quiet. Updated for your pleasure. Heat and appliances included.

One bedroom $1100-$1105. 35 lb pets OK. For appointment call 312822-1037 weekdays til 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Other times call 847-866-9459.

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SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Heart of DePaul. 2300 North Sheffield. Available May 1 and July 1. Right in the middle of the DePaul campus across from the student center at Belden & Sheffield.

Super one bedroom $1195-$1235 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included, air conditioned. Hardwood floors, near bus, el, everything. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times phone 773-8788835 till 9pm.

GReAt oNe BedRooM condo for rent in high-rise. 445 Wellington near lake and transportation. Free basic cable. $1200 per month. 773-418-3701.

GReAt BRidGePoRt coNdo. One bedroom/ one bath, elevator building, garage parking, wd in unit, hardwood floors, walk to Red Line. Gas included. $1100 per month. 773-771-4016. Available now!

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park. 545 West Arlington Place, 2450 North. Available August 1 and September 1. Courtyard building set off by our gorgeous Japanese motif. Exposed brick hallways, oak floors, modern kitchens and baths. Resident engineer. Large 1 bedroom $1140 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours phone 773-549-6862 till 9pm.

1533 NoRtH WieLANd, 3B rear. 750 sq ft, one bedroom, one bathroom, hardwood floors, heat is included in rent, in-wall ac, lots of closet space. Elevator building, laundry in building. Kitchen appliances. Pet friendly. Cats only $20 per month additional. $1200/ month, 1-1/2 month deposit. Please call 312-787-9400 for viewing and other info. eLeGANt ANd coZY garden apartment. Two blocks from Rockwell el, Oak floors, newly remodeled kitchen and bath. Storage and laundry. Newly remodeled building. New windows, landscaping, concrete, with barbeque/ patio. 5/1, 6/1. $900/ month. Call Bill, 773-583-5257.

WicKeR PARK WoW! One bedroom plus office $1595 and up.

Three bedroom, two bath rehab, $2095. Stainless steel and more. $0 deposit. Pet friendly. 773-661-0111 or www.mfishmanco.com. oNe BedRooM/ oNe bath condo in Buena Park. $1350/ month includes washer/ dryer, cable TV, ac unit, dishwasher, storage space.

Parking additional $125/ month.

For more info: http://condo.judgedice.com/ 2780 NoRtH KeNMoRe. Diversey/ Kenmore. One bedroom plus office, $1175 monthly. Heat included. Bob, 773-540-5596. Paul J. Quetschke & Co., 773-281-8400.

Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

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from lakefront, hardwood floors, laundry room, great location, close to el. $1120-$1370, heat separate.

Call Amir 773-510-0842.

BeAutiFuL coRNeR PeNtHouSe loft. Spacious, bright living space with 12’ ceilings, gas fireplace, large balcony, hardwood floors, laundry. Heated parking included, $1975. 312-375-3676, hsiemail@yahoo.com. doG FRieNdLY ReHABS! 2756 Pine Grove, heart of Lincoln Park: New designer kitchens, great rooftop deck, business center with free WiFi, lots of vintage charm!

One bedrooms from $1195. 773-8314103, ppmapartments.com.

537 SoutH deARBoRN, one bedroom. Hardwood floors, central heat/ ac, new granite countertops.

New kitchen/ dishwasher. Track lighting. Monthly parking available. $1280. No security deposit. Immediate occupancy. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com BucKtoWN, 2202 HoMeR. Sunny top floor one bedroom plus office plus finished back porch room, great large kitchen with dw and microwave, laundry on site, pet OK with deposit, near train/ metro/ 90/94. July 1. $1325 plus utilities.

Acorn Property Management, 773858-2172, marti@acornpm.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park landmark.

455 West Belmont. Available June 1 and August 1. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchen, burnished oak floors. Resident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 4 rooms, 1 bedroom $1105-$1150. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and weekends after hours call 773-404-5229 till 9pm.

LiNcoLN PARK ReHAB! 440 West Diversey: refinished hardwood floors and updated kitchen, walk to zoo, park, lake and express buses. $1145. ppmapartments.com, 773-831-4103.

SPAciouS oNe BedRooM in prime location features hwfl, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, dishwasher, spacious rooms, on-site laundry, fitness room. Steps to Metra/ Brown Line. No security deposit. 1907 W Wilson. $1295. Call Stacie 773-529-7200 ext 106.

HuGe oLd toWN one bedroom garden apartment. Woodburning fireplace, hardwood floors, backyard, wd free on premises, dogs/ cats OK, $1250/ month includes heat. Available 6/1. Call Lee, 312-580-0001 x18, 312-266-0116, weiszlaw@aol.com.

BeAutiFuL LuxuRY coNdo with 21st floor lake views.

One (huge) bedroom/ one bath.

Brand new walk-in California closets. Washer/ dryer in unit. Stainless steel appliances. Indoor heated parking available. 312-933-4132.

MAGNiFiceNt oLd toWN one bedroom, Historic Gated Gaslight Courtyard. Brick, high ceilings, tall windows, hwfl, granite, washer/ dryer, massive patio! Includes storage. $1675. May 1st. One month deposit. Details: gaslight1E@ gmail.com.

LAKeVieW/ WRiGLeY, 1521 W Henderson. Fully remodeled, sunny, top floor one bedroom, wood floors, dw, good closet space, laundry on site, storage locker, most pets OK, near train. $1200 heated.

Acorn Property Management, 773858-2172, marti@acornpm.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Heart of DePaul. 2300 North Sheffield. Available May 1 and July 1. Right in the middle of the DePaul campus across from the student center at Belden & Sheffield.

Super one bedroom $1195-$1235 including all leasing incentives. Heat and appliances included, air conditioned. Hardwood floors, near bus,

el, everything. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays till 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times phone 773-8788835 till 9pm.

RoScoe ViLLAGe ModeRN loft, 1148 sq ft. One bedroom plus den, overlooking park. Hardwood floors, fireplace, whirlpool, washer/ dryer. Shared rooftop deck, skyline views. Near public transportation.

Parking included. June 1. $1649/ month. 708-819-2229.

SuBLet LiNcoLN PARK. 534 West Addison #125. Available May 1.

Magnificent apartments, super light and airy, set off by a beautiful courtyard. Private laundry room, storage lockers. Steps from the lake, steps from transportation and steps from shopping and recreation. Resident engineer. 4 rooms, 1 bedroom. $1130 including air conditioner and microwave that are yours to keep. Heat and appliances included. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and other hours call 773-857-3191 till 9pm.

SoutH LooP coNdo for rent: 1464 South Michigan! Laundry, balcony, theater room, workout, available May 15! Parking included. 708870-4972.r oNe BedRooM, deLuxe, near Water Tower Place. 850 sf, bright, walk-in closets, exercise room, 24 hour friendly doorman, heat/ gas, more. $1263/ month.

May 1st. 847-404-0747.

1 Br other 7522 WeSt HARRiSoN, Forest Park. Lovely 1 bedroom apartment with hardwood floors. Heat included. Across from park. Gilbert Realty Co. Call Mario, 708-415-7376.

No pets.

4103 NoRtH KedVALe. Lovely one bedroom apartment in walkup building. Near excellent transportation. Wood floors. Ismet, 773290-9021 or 773-290-9020. Gilbert Realty Co. No pets.

4901 NoRtH dAMeN. Lovely, deluxe one bedroom apartments.

Heat included, hardwood floors, great area. Ismet, 773-290-9021 or 773-290-9020. Gilbert Realty Co. No dogs.

2 Br under $900 HuGe oNe BedRooM apartment available now for $875 at 529 Michigan in Evanston. Lots of closet space, huge living room and separate dining room.Just a few blocks from the South Boulevard Purple Line stop, close to Lake Shore Drive, perfect! Heat is included. Laundry in building. No move-in fees. No security deposit. Hurry, this wont last.

Call Water Tower Realty today.

773-248-9936 or visit http://bit. ly/9C2Rov www.wtrm.com.

LiVe StePS FRoM beach in sunny, vintage building with remodeled units, elevator, laundry, on-call janitor. CTA bus and el stop a short walk. Two bedroom for $895 at Sherwin and Ashland. No application fees, move-in fees or deposit.

Call us for more information at 773248-9936 or at www.wtrm.com.

NoRtH/ KedZie tWo bedroom, excellent condition. Available immediately. $695, possibly lower.

Call Edward, 773-202-9302. $795 tWo BedRooM. Nice, quiet apartment in popular California Corridor. 15 minutes to downtown. Updated with new appliances and refinished hardwood. Garage parking included. Call 847404-2268 or email. oLd iRViNG. tWo bedrooms.

Very bright. Newly rehabbed. Wood floors. Ac. Huge yard. Free laundry.

No smoking. Available soon. $890, excluding utilities. 773-575-6454.

Architect owned. $760. eNGLeWood tWo bedroom. No animals. 6715-17 South Stewart, Chicago, IL 60621. Fantas-

tic two bedroom, carpet, utilities not included, one month security.

Contact 312-217-3354.

er Properties 773-477-7070, or Sally 773-407-6452. www.hunterprop.com

GReAt NeAR WeSt location.

Two bedroom apartment with hardwood floors near Chicago Avenue and Kennedy Expressway. $875/ month includes water. On-site coin laundry. 773-292-1710.

uPtoWN: LARGe ReModeLed garden apartment, two bedroom, central air, new fixtures and equipment, great 8 unit building with on-site laundry and parking available. $885 and security.

847-446-8910.

AddiSoN/ PuLASKi ViciNitY. Totally renovated 4 room, 2 bedroom/ 1 bath garden unit, carpeted floors, granite kitchen with ss appliances, central ac, in-unit laundry. Convenient to I-90/94, CTA Blue Line and Metra Northwest Line. $795 plus utilities. Available May 1.

Call Alan at 312-607-9412, AP Gold Realty. Ref YG391.

LoGAN SQuARe $820, Heat Included. Newly decorated/ Laundry Facility/ Appliances/ Miniblinds and more! Available for May 7th or June 1st. Sorry, no pets. Call 773645-0209. www.therenaissancecompanies.com. EHO. 7621 NoRtH SHeRidAN. Two bedroom, 1-1/2 bath apt, secure building near lake. Pay only electric. Laundry, lots of closet and storage space. Available assigned parking extra. Minutes from Loyola and Northwestern. No pets. $850/ $900. Call 847-498-8988 anytime, or 773-763-4904 evenings. tWo LARGe BedRooMS in brick four flat. Carpeted, dishwasher, air, oak trim, cedar closets. South Logan. Laundry, storage.

Tenant heats. $865. Security deposit. 847-732-1379. tWo BedRooM/ FouR room apartment near Wilson and Pulaski. Enclosed porch, big closets, hwfl. $850/ month. Leave voicemail at 773-704-5126, name times you’re available for showing.

HeARt oF BucKtoWN/ Wicker Park. Milwaukee/ Ashland/ Division. Two blocks to Blue Line.

Four rooms, two bedroom garden apartment. Remodeled. $720. First floor coachhouse $800. 773-7103634, 773-764-6113.

ALBANY PARK. tWo bedroom at 3151 W Argyle. Updated kitchen with dishwasher, updated bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, central heat, close to North Park College and Northeastern University, laundry and storage on premises. Available 5/1. $850. 773-5067060.

7621 NoRtH SHeRidAN. Two bedroom, 1-1/2 bath apt, secure building near lake. Pay only electric. Laundry, lots of closet and storage space. Available assigned parking extra. Minutes from Loyola and Northwestern. No pets. $850/ $900. Call 847-498-8988 anytime, or 773-763-4904 evenings.

WeSt uKRAiNiAN ViLLAGe. Hip area near Black Beetle. Spacious two bedroom garden. Eat-in kitchen. Laundry. Yard with garden.

Cats welcome. $750 plus utilities.

312-310-3904.

FoSteR/ KiMBALL. 5200N/3400W. Two bedroom, spacious five rooms. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Near el, schools and shopping. Laundry in building. No pets. $850 to $895.

Quality Real Estate Management Co. Call Mary, 773-463-3800.

LARGe, SuNNY ReHABBed Andersonville two bedrooms, new windows, laundry, some hardwood floors, porches. Close to transportation and shopping. $895-1050.

Available May/ June. One bedrooms available $775-875. All units include heat. 773-719-7708.

ANdeRSoNViLLe: PAuLiNA ANd Catalpa, two bedrooms garden apartment for rent. Tile floors, laundry in building. $750 includes heat. Available immediately. 773769-0886 or 773-423-9815.

ALBANY PARK, 3051 W Gunnison. Huge two bedroom $825$850 includes heat. Hardwood floors. Close to Red Line. Call Hunt-

N e W LY R e M o d e L e d , cLeAN, enclosed porch, stove and refrigerator included. Available immediately, close to transportation, tenant pays own utilities, landlord pays water. $750 a month plus security deposit. smolina97@hotmail.com or 309-428-8816.

Carpet or hardwood; patio or covered porch. Heat, laundry included.

Garage available. $900/ $1000. Cal 312-287-8392.

BRYN MAWR/ cALiFoRNiA: Sunny, newly painted, clean 1000+ sq ft two bedroom; second floor of two flat in quiet area; hardwood floors throughout; eat-in kitchen and separate dr; large lr, built-ins, working wbfp; sun porch, free laundry, good closets, easy street parking, fenced yard; pet friendly (with deposit), no smoking. Near NEIU. Available May 1. $975/ month plus 1 month security. References/ credit check. To view call 773-573-9252 between 10am-6pm.

2 Br $900-$1099

RAVeNSWood tWo BedRooM at 1959 W Foster. Updated kitchen with dishwasher, updated bathroom, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, central heat, new windows, laundry and storage on premises.

Available 5/1. $995. 773-506-7060.

oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $1080, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview. 451 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet.

Admir, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/451wmelrose

BueNA PARK tWo bedroom with panoramic city views! Granite countertops. Hardwood floors, new appliances/ dishwasher. Walk to park, lakefront and CTA. No security deposit. $1095-$1250. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com

MoNtRoSe ANd cLARK $1000, 2 bedroom. Walk to Red Line. All utilities included except electric. Laundry and bike room. No dogs, please. Call 773-784-3635.

oLd iRViNG, 4310 N Keystone.

Beautifully renovated luxury two bedroom. $1075 includes heat, ss appliances, granite, marble baths, hardwood. Call Jay 773-835-1864 or Hunter Properties, 773-477-7070, www.hunterprop.com

FouR RooM tWo bedroom in Old Irving Park, $750 plus deposit.

New windows, free heat, hot water, laundry, intercom. 773-728-1583.

4521 NoRtH MALdeN. $925.

No security deposit! Heat included.

Carpet, great closet space. Laundry, cable ready, bike room. Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com QuAiNt RAVeNSWood tWo bedroom in beautiful Victorian building! Close to Damen Brown Line. Hardwood floors, onsite laundry. 1/2 month free rent and no security deposit! $1075, heat included. 2108 West Ainslie. $300 move-in fee required. 773381-0150, www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com. eASt RoGeRS PARK. Updated 2 bedroom, 1 bath, hardwood floors, separate dining and living rooms, large kitchen, dw and microwave, pet friendly, on-site laundry and bicycle room. 1161 W Lunt. $1050-$1100/ month plus hvac.

773-665-0103. www.dlgmanagement.com. EOH. $950, tWo BedRooMS, heated. Newly renovated, first floor. Hardwood floors, ample closet space, nice rear porch and yard.

773-301-7640 (voice mail) or 773262-5360, pets?

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 516 West Briar Place. Available June 1, July 1 and August 1. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a second bedroom. $1080-$1180 including all leasing incentives. The small highrise with super sized rooms. Only 4 apartments per floor. Mint condition. Carpeted and air conditioned.

Heat and appliances included. Resident engineer. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and other hours call 773975-8237 till 9pm.

LAKeVieW, 3100N-1100W. tWo bedroom. Hardwood/ carpeting floors. Heat and cooking gas included. Laundry in building. Near el. No pets. $1020 to $1170. Call Mike, 773-501-8200.

BucKtoWN/ LoGAN SQuARe: Newly painted two bedroom, 1/2 block to boulevard, central air, nice yard, close to Elston Corridor. $900 plus utilities. 773929-5275.

LAKeVieW iRViNG/ dAMeN: near el, vintage two flat, two bedrooms, five rooms, hardwood floors, laundry, enclosed porch, garage extra. No smoking or pets. $995/ month plus heat. 847-256-4544. eASt HuMBoLdt tWo bedroom. (x2) Near North and Western.

tWo BedRooM coNdo, hardwood floors, in-building laundry, stainless and granite kitchen, elevator, Jacuzzi includes heat. 2115 West Farwell. Call Marla, 312-8351511. Agent owned. $975.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 516 West Briar Place. Available June 1, July 1 and August 1. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a second bedroom. $1080-$1180 including all leasing incentives. The small highrise with super sized rooms. Only 4 apartments per floor. Mint condition. Carpeted and air conditioned.

Heat and appliances included. Resident engineer. To see call 312-8221037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm.

Evenings and other hours call 773975-8237 till 9pm. tWo BedRooM APARtMeNt, Rogers Park, 2020 West Farwell, from $980 per month, includes heat and water! Building located on quiet side street, on-site laundry and maintenance man. Call Larry 773-627-4647 or The Landman Group LLC 847-204-0658. eASt RoGeRS PARK. 19’x20’ lr, exposed brick. Separate dr. Totally remodeled. Heat, cooking gas included. Laundry, storage, parking facilities. Near lake, Loyola, Red Line. $1050. 847-924-3547.

WeSt RoGeRS PARK (California/ Peterson) two bedroom, two full bath garden apartment. Recently remodeled, hardwood and pergo floors, laundry on premises. Easy parking. 312-944-3189.

LoGAN SQuARe, LiVe on boulevard. First month rent free!

Completely rehabbed, vintage three story red brick building, sunny two bedrooms, one bathroom, new kitchen, dishwasher, garbage disposal, hardwood floors, new appliances, formal dining room, large closets, ceiling fans, miniblinds, cable ready. Approximately 1200 sf, laundry in building, one block from O’Hare el. Pets OK. 3120 West Logan and 2401 North Kedzie. 312857-1024. $1025-$1250. www.lrg3. net LocAted NeAR BeLMoNt and Central two bedroom. Separate living room and dining room both big and spacious kitchen with walkin pantry! Hardwood floors, on-site laundry, backyard. Walk to everything, close to bus. Heat included for only $950. 773-777-9325.

WeSt RoGeRS tWo bedroom. No deposit. Sunny, 1100 sq ft corner unit, great kitchen, dw, new carpet, ac, walk-in closets, laundry, parking. $1050 heated. 773-7434141. www.urbanequities.com NARRAGANSett ANd iRViNG Park. Two bedroom, living room and spacious kitchen, hardwood floors, on-site laundry, walk to everything, close to bus. Heat included for only $925. 773-7779325. eASt HuMBoLdt PARK two bedrooms (2 available). Near North/ Western. Heat, laundry included. $900/ $1000, garage also available. Available May 1st. Call Brian, 312-287-8392.

LAuNdRY iN uNit! Heart of Lincoln Square two bedroom has eat-in kitchen, deck. Cat friendly. $925. Apartment People, info@ apartmentpeople.com, 773-2488800, www.apartmentpeople.com.

EHO. Building ID 32337.

808 WeSt JuNioR Terrace, two bedroom with panoramic city views! Granite countertops. Hardwood floors, new appliances/ dishwasher. Parking available. Walk to park, lakefront and CTA. No security deposit. $1095-$1250. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com eASt RoGeRS PARK 2 bedroom. No deposit. Walk to lake, sun filled new kitchen, fdr, French windows, gleaming oak floors. $1075 heated. 773-743-4141. urbanequities.com HuMBoLdt/ LoGAN. 3024 W Wabansia. Sunny, remodeled 2 bedroom with dining room, back deck, fireplace, wood floors, laundry on site, most pets OK, easy street parking. $1025 plus utilities.

Acorn Property Management, 773858-2172, marti@acornpm.com.

BucKtoWN. SPAciouS, SuNNY, great location, two bedroom, hardwood floors, new appliances, everything’s close. 90/94, Metra, CTA, Blue, shopping, dining, entertainment. $950 plus security, utilities. 773-489-3266. e VA N Sto N t Wo B e d RooM, sunny, 1200 sq ft, no deposit, great kitchen, new appliances, oak floors, walk-in closets, laundry. $1050, heat included. 773-7434141. www.urbanequities.com RoGeRS PARK tWo bedroom: $925 per month. 6900 North Clark Street. One month deposit or $400 rental fee. Call Derreck at 312-5239859. Utilities included. eASt RoGeRS PARK, steps to the beach at 1240 West Jarvis, five rooms, two bedrooms, two bath, dishwasher, ac, heat and gas included. Carpeted, cable, laundry facility, elevator building, parking available, and no pets. Price is $900 monthly.

Call 773-764-9824.

2 Br $1100-$1299 312 WeSt WiScoNSiN two bedroom garden, modern kitchen and bath. Steps to park, lake and CTA. Laundry/ bike room on site. $1195 heated. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com 4407 NoRtH MALdeN. $1100.

No security deposit! Heat included.

Hardwood, laundry on site. Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com LAKeVieW, NeAR LiNcoLN and Irving. Five rooms, heated, with dishwasher, enclosed back porch and storage. 1200 sq ft. Minutes walk from Brown Line/ Metra and shopping. $1225 plus $900 security deposit. No pets. Call 773-348-7797 after 5pm.

MAY 1St. ViNtAGe two bedroom. Great location, Seeley at Addison. Newer kitchen with dw, full dr. $1295/ heat included. hayesproperties.com, 773-929-7050.

69 eVANStoN, 2619 PRAiRie. Two bedroom $1150. Available 7/1.

First amenities. completely remodeled, dishwasher, very close to transportation. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 or Mike for showing 847-271-7014.

LeLANd/ ARteSiAN, tWo bedroom, $1150/ month plus deposit. Heat included. Large apartment. Near Brown Line, shopping.

Available June 1. No smoking, dogs.

847-357-1435.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park landmark. 455 West Belmont. Available July 1 and August 1. The charm of the old and the ambience of the new. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchens, full dining rooms, burnished oak floors. Resident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 2 bedrooms, $1100-$1465 including all leasing incentives. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours call 773-404-5229 till 9pm. diViSioN ANd dAMeN. Top floor two bedroom/ one bath, hardwood floors, high ceilings, woodburning fireplace, pass-through kitchen with dishwasher, front balcony, laundry in basement. Available May 1. $1250 plus utilities. Call Alan at 312-607-9412, AP Gold Realty. Ref YG963. eASt RoGeRS PARK. 1400 sq ft 2 bedroom, walk to beach, great kitchen, fdr, French windows, huge sun room, gleaming oak floors, laundry. $1100 heated. 773-7434141. www.urbanequities.com doVeR SuNNYSide tWo bedroom with terrace. Newer kitchen with dishwasher, large bedrooms, newly tiled bath. Laundry, storage and parking available. $1195 includes heat. 312-943-0192.

Available 5/1.

NoRtH SoutHPoRt BeAutiFuL, 1500 sq ft 2 br. Bring the dog. Great kitchen, dw, formal dr, oak floors, deck. $1250 plus utilities. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com 1734 WiLMot, HeARt of Bucktown, central air, dishwasher, huge bedroom 12.5x14, second 7x9, laundry on site, no pets, May 1st. $1295. Ben, 773-259-0417.

SPRiNG SALe. SPeciAL. Reduced rates. Act now before it’s too late. Buena Park landmark district.

Available July 1. Trendy/ traditional ambience. 4000 N Sheridan Road.

Exceptionally large apartments.

High ceilings, burnished oak floors, Tiffany fixtures, food bar, butler pantries, built-in buffets, ornate mirrors, etc. Laundry on premises, great transportation and shopping steps away. Heat and modern appliances included. 5 rooms, 2 full bedrooms, $1170-$1240. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times phone 773-878-8835 till 9pm.

614 WeSt oAKdALe. 2900 North. Two bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, laundry in building. Available June 1. $1100 per month. 847-392-2896.

SHeFFieLd/ WeLLiNGtoN. tWo bedroom/ one bath. Ac, dishwasher, fireplace, deck, skylight, laundry. On Brown Line. 312372-2209, ustriallawyers@hotmail. com. $1175. Available June.

SuNNY, ViNtAGe tWo bedroom plus den. Living room. Sun porch. Newer kitchen and bath.

Large bedrooms. 5 closets. Laundry. June 1. $1270 plus utilities. 773484-7243.

WRiGLeYViLLe tWo BedRooM, free parking, pet friendly. No deposit. Magnificent 1200 sq ft, new kitchen with deck, fdr, oak

floors, huge closets. $1275 plus utilities. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com

H u G e u P toW N L A K e FRoNt: Enormous sunny two bedroom/ two bath. Hardwood floors, wbfp, central air, large eatin kitchen. Laundry and parking on site. $1225 plus security. Also two bedroom/ one bath garden unit. $885 plus security. 847-446-8910.

NeAR NoRtH deLiGHt! Vicinity of Orleans and Oak, remodeled 2 bedroom/ 1 bath, brand new appliances, central ac, decorative fireplace, original built-ins, fantastic city views. Available May 1. $1225 plus utilities. Call Alan at 312-6079412, AP Gold Realty. Ref YG621.

LoGAN SQuARe. tWo bedrooms, hardwood floors, 9’6” ceilings. Includes heat, water, and appliances. Laundry on site. Two blocks from Blue Line. $1100. Call 773-914-8576.

AddiSoN MALL tWo bedroom sun filled apartment with yard, hardwood floors and separate office. Updated kitchen and porch. Near shopping, transportation, entertainment. Heat included.

312-391-8114.

LiNcoLN SQuARe, FiRSt floor of two flat, 4745 North Campbell. $1200 per month plus heat. No dogs. Owner occupies 2nd floor.

773-561-7292.

WALK to LAKe, 7200N, 2 bedroom. No deposit. Sunny, 1500 sq ft, great kitchen, formal dr, French windows, gleaming oak floors. $1150 heated. Pets welcome. 773-7434141. www.urbanequities.com tWo BedRooM, LARGe kitchen with granite, ss appliances, in-unit wd. Spacious, lots of natural light, big closets and extra storage. Red Line/ Sheridan express. chrlub@gmail.com.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too

late. Lincoln Park landmark. 455 West Belmont. Available July 1 and August 1. The charm of the old and the ambience of the new. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchens, full dining rooms, burnished oak floors. Resident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 2 bedrooms, $1100-$1465 including all leasing incentives. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours call 773-404-5229 till 9pm.

teRRiFic SuNNY LAKeVieW two bedroom. 1305 West Melrose. Dine-in kitchen with pantry. Hardwood floors, porch, side yard. Laundry, storage. $1250 plus utilities. Call 773879-8400.

5.5 RooMS, tWo bedrooms plus sun porch, heated, laundry, storage. Rogers Park. Security deposit. Carpeted and hardwood. Big closets. Dw, ceiling fans. Cats OK. Transportation. 773-350-9500.

2246 WeSt ARMitAGe. Large two bedroom close to everything.

Beautiful space. Laundry in building. $1100. Available 5/1/11. Call Tony, 773-870-1550.

WRiGLeYViLLe tWo BedRooM, spacious top floor, pet friendly dog, huge kitchen, gleaming oak floors, formal dr, deck. $1275 plus utilities. Parking available. 773743-4141. www.urbanequities.com SPRiNG SALe. SPeciAL. Reduced rates. Act now before it’s too late. Buena Park landmark district.

Available July 1. Trendy/ traditional

ambience. 4000 N Sheridan Road.

Exceptionally large apartments.

High ceilings, burnished oak floors, Tiffany fixtures, food bar, butler pantries, built-in buffets, ornate mirrors, etc. Laundry on premises, great transportation and shopping steps away. Heat and modern appliances included. 5 rooms, 2 full bedrooms, $1170-$1240. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times phone 773-878-8835 till 9pm.

bedroom. Close to excellent transportation. 1255 West Waveland: $1475, tenant heated. $300 movein fee required. 773-381-0150. www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com

tWo BLocKS FRoM lake! $1425. No deposit, Lakeview, 649 W Oakdale, off Broadway and Belmont. Walk-up, hardwood floor.

Hasan, 773-617-6649. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/neighborhoods/ lakeview/649woakdale

LiNcoLN PARK tWo bedroom, gleaming hardwood floors.

Modern kitchen and bath. Laundry on premises. Steps to park, lake and CTA. $1125 heated. No security deposit. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensionsapts.com

2264 NoRtH LiNcoLN. Two bedroom available for $1425. No security deposit. Heat included. Carpet, separate dr, laundry. Call Anvar at 773-491-2337. http://www.realtymortgageco.com HeAt iNcLuded! dePAuL two bedroom on Montana/ Racine. Pet friendly. Hardwood floors, on-site laundry. $1440. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople. com, 773-248-8800, www.apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 2456.

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SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Evanston. 820 Forest Ave. Stately building on quiet street near Sheridan Road. Sedate residential area. Near Main Street, shops, restaurants and transportation. Heat and appliances included. We will fax floorplans upon request. 2 bedrooms. Available May 1 and September 1. $1300. For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays til 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times 847-866-9459. $1395. 2 BedRooM facing the lake! Amenities include newly remodeled units with hardwood flooring and views of the park and lake, on-site fitness center, 24 hour emergency maintenance, laundry room on site. Make your appointment today. It won’t last! 773-248-9936 or leasing@wtrm.com. See pictures, floorplans at www.wtrm.com SPAciouS tWo BedRooM/ one bath in lovely graystone. Wood floors. Blue Line close. Beautiful yard, parking, washer/ dryer, storage. Available June 1st. Pets OK. Phil, 309-268-9974.

SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park, 510 West Addison. Available September 1. Magnificent apartments, super light and airy, set off by a beautiful courtyard.

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SPAciouS LAKeVieW tWo Bedroom. 1609 Barry.

New dine-in kitchen, dishwasher.

Large living room. Dining room.

Ample closets. Air conditioning.

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2 Br $1500 and over oNe BLocK FRoM lake! $2290.

Heat included. No deposit! Streeterville, 860 N DeWitt, off Michigan and Chicago. Elevator, carpet, doorman. Nancy, 312-642-2860.

Pictures and floorplans at http:// www.860dewitt.com PRiNteRS RoW tWo bedroom, two bath. 537 S Dearborn.

Bright, open layout with high ceilings and track lighting, hardwood floors and central heat/ ac. Modern kitchen/ dishwasher. Laundry/ storage on site. No security deposit. $1650-$1725. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www. dimensions-apts.com 2042 WeSt SHAKeSPeARe. $1600. Two bedroom, one bath.

Central ac, granite countertops, ss appliances, dw, carpet, microwave, in-unit wd. Call Michael at 312914-7932, http://www.realtymortgageco.com GReAt tWo BedRooM/ one bath, Ravenswood courtyard condo. Updated, re-painted; central air, in-unit laundry, wood floors, stainless/ granite kitchen, pets welcome. $1500/ month. theloneson@ gmail.com.r

PRiVAte BeAcH FoR rent: two bedroom/ two bath. $1600/ month, parking $100+. Rogers Park: city and lake views, hardwood in living and kitchen. Utilities and cable included. descobar@ccc.edu.

eVANStoN. MuSt See spacious, sunny, two bedroom plus office. Three unit brick vintage. Ac, hwfl, dishwasher, free laundry, large backyard. 6/1. $1525 includes heat.

847-733-1406.

315 WeSt NoRtH Ave, 2nd floor. 750 sq ft, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, central heat, hardwood floors, kitchen appliances and cabinets, close to transportation, laundry in building. Pet friendly additional $20/ month. $1550 month with 1-1/2 month deposit. Please call 312-787-9400 for viewing and other info.

GoLd coASt duPLex! 1133 North Dearborn: large bedrooms, two bathrooms, heat and air included! Doorman, outdoor pool, fitness center, business center. $2050. 773831-4103, ppmapartments.com.

PooL, dooRMAN, GYM! Full amenity Gold Coast high-rise: 1120 North LaSalle; split level layout, floor-to-ceiling windows, heat and air included, parking available.

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LAKeVieW. uPdAted tWo bedroom, two bath, hardwood floors and carpet, huge bedrooms with spacious living room, eat-in kitchen, dw, microwave, back deck, pet friendly, parking available. 912 W Belmont. $1850/ month plus hvac. 773-665-0103. www.dlgmanagement.com. EOH. 2904 NoRtH BRoAdWAY. Vintage charm, hardwood floors, miniblinds, laundry room, walk to everything, great location! $1530$1725, heat separate. Call Art, 773494-1055. doWNtoWN LiViNG, oHio and State: two bedroom/ two bath, $3099. Outdoor pool, clubhouse, lounge, doorman luxury living and dining foot steps from your door.

Property Consultants, Pola Jaramillo, Leasing Consultant, 312244-3780.

WeSt BucKtoWN HuGe 1650 sf. Two bedrooms, one office.

Hardwood floors. Near all transportation $1600 includes all utilities.

No dogs. See web for info. Call 773805-0839.

2714 NoRtH MiLdRed. Two bedrooms, three level town house, 1-1/2 baths, private patio, dw, ac, laundry facilities and parking available. $1850/ month. Call 773-2488420. $2100 FoR BeAutiFuL two bedroom, two bath furnished or unfurnished high-rise condo in the heart of Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

Many building amenities. Contact 773-914-7454 or pglowacki@ ameritech.net. coNdo NeAR LAKe/ Wells!

Contemporary two bedroom includes heat. Dishwasher, central air, deck. On-site laundry. $1550.

Apartment People, huron@apartmentpeople.com, 312-335-8802, www.apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 43418. doG FRieNdLY GoLd Coast: 1000 North LaSalle, private dog park, doorman, fitness center, business center, heat and air included, condo quality! $1949. ppmapartments.com, 773-831-4103.

W i c K e R PA R K / B u c KtoWN. Two bedroom, central ac, in-unit laundry, dishwasher, wood floors, ceiling fans, deck, close to el, Kennedy, Division and Wood. Available May 1. $1500. 773-410-0820.

ARcHitect deSiGNed. LARGe loft style. Two master suites with separate entrances!.

40’ great room. Great views, very bright. Faces south. Four blocks Michigan Avenue. 2 blocks el. $1650.

773-772-1909.

MASSiVe tWo BedRooM/ two bath apartment at Sheridan and Surf. Views of lake from all rooms. Owner rented condo. $1550 (heat, basic cable included). Call 312-450-4121.

LAKeVieW. uPdAted tWo bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, dw, microwave, back deck, pet friendly, parking available.

3230 N Clark. $1500/ month plus hvac. 773-665-0103. www.dlgmanagement.com. EOH. 1400 SQuARe Foot two bedroom condo located in convenient North Center. In-unit washer/ dryer. Four blocks to Brown Line. Garage parking included. Call Cathy, 773-398-2842.

2804 NoRtH HALSted. Huge two bedroom with deck. Great location walk to Wrigley, zoo, Lincoln Park. $1700. Available immediately.

Call Tony, 773-870-1550.

SPAciouS, cLeAN, AWeSoMe layout. 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. North side, elevator,laundry, dishwasher, central air, balcony, hardwood, easy transportation. $1550, garage parking extra. 312804-0074.

537 SoutH deARBoRN, two bedroom, two baths. Hardwood floors, central heat/ ac, modern kitchen with dishwasher, sparkling tile baths. Great open layout. No security deposit. $1650-$1725. Dimensions Management, 773-281-4464 x1. www.dimensions-apts.com LiNcoLN PARK, 2500 North, Two bedrooms, six spacious rooms on Roslyn Place, large closets, hardwood floors, dinning room, 1 bathroom, dishwasher, pantry, ceiling fans, gas fireplace. No pets. Heat and water included. $1570 and up; for June 1 and July 1. If interested, please call 773-248-7419.

1220 NoRtH LASALLe. 2 baths. Central air, laundry room, high ceilings, roof deck with view.

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Parking available. $1535-$1760, separate heat. Call Stone 312-7355454.

eNtiRe coAcHHouSe tWo bedroom plus office, 1.5 bath, private laundry, central air, 1st floor hardwood floors, carpet in bedrooms and office, dishwasher, dining room, small yard with patio, 3 blocks to el, available 6/1. $2100 plus utilities. 312-203-2000, 312206-4673.

1525 NoRtH WieLANd, 1st floor, 846 sq ft, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, wooden floors, central air/ heat. Pet friendly additional $20/ month. Washer and dryer in apartment. Close to transportation. $1600/ month, 1-1/2 month deposit.

Please call 312-787-9400 for viewing and other info.

639 WeSt oAKdALe. Walk to everything from this vintage walkup close to the lake. Hardwood floors, laundry. $1525, separate heat.

Call Amir at 773-510-0842.

No SecuRitY dePoSit! Large six room, two bedroom with den. Open kitchen, breakfast bar, hardwood floors, ca, dishwasher, laundry, yard, free parking! $1595.

Available 6/1. 773-704-0600 or 773-704-4704.

SuNNY 2/1 WRiGLeYViLLe top floor loft. 14’ ceilings, skylight, updated bath/ kitchen with granite, fireplace, in-unit laundry/ dishwasher. Pet friendly with additional deposit. Block to el/ bus, Zone 383 parking/ rental options nearby.

Available 7/1. 773-852-9663. tWo BedRooM iN East Lakeview features dine-in kitchen with dishwasher, in-unit washer/ dryer, deck, lots of closet space and separate storage unit. One parking spot included! Call 773-315-9918! dePAuL, HALSted/ ARMitAGe. Six rooms, 2 bedrooms plus den, gfa/ ac. Laundry in unit. Hardwood floors. Victorian rehab. Small dog OK. Available 6/1/11. $1650 plus utilities. 773-871-4276.

WicKeR PARK tWo bedroom, central ac, dishwasher, washer/ dryer in unit, hardwood, skylights, top floor, walk to el and Blue Line. 1280 sf. $1600/ month. Available 6/1. Call 847-445-0428.

LAKeVieW tWo BedRooM, Halsted/ Diversey area. Classic Chicago style, hardwood floor, brick fireplace, 1-1/2 bathroom, dishwasher. Includes heat, water, basic cable.

May rent free, $1500. Call Paul, 630965-9879.

1251 WeSt BeLdeN is a two story house with 1.5 baths, 2 huge bedrooms, ac, woodburning fireplace, laundry facilities and parking included. $1995/ mo. Call 773248-8420. tWo BedRooM/ tWo bath apt minutes to the downtown and Grant Park. Sublet from June 1st to Aug 31st from $2200/ month.

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3 Br or More under $1200 LARGe, LoVeLY tHRee bedroom in three flat. One bath. Landlord pays heat. 1 free parking. Free laundry. $1150 per month. Call 773387-6286 or 553-298-1556. Abuts Warren Park.

HeARt oF BucKtoWN 6 ROOMS, 3 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH, HARDWOOD FLOORS, RECENTLY REHABBED, LAUNDRY FACILITIES, STORAGE, 2224 N. LEAVITT, $1,100.00, RON, 847 494-9976, AVAILABLE JUNE 1st cHicAGo ANd dAMeN Remodeled 4 bedroom, 3 bedroom, and garden aparments with Jacuzzi. $1290, $1190, and $790 plus deposit. 773-802-8228.

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ment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www. apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 45554.

3 Br or More $1200-$1499 SPAciouS tHRee BedRooMS, two baths, dishwasher, dining room, pantry, hardwood floors, off Logan Boulevard, walking distance to restaurants, el train. $1400. Call Polly: 847-840-3934, pvinograd@aol.com.r NeWLY ReModeLed Six room, three bedroom apartment.

Hardwood floors, sun deck, laundry, garage available. $1200 plus 1 month deposit. Available May 1st.

312-787-4753 NoRtHeASteRN uNiVeRSitY/ HoLLYWood Park.

Spacious, sunny, 2/ 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, remodeled, hwfl, laundry, storage, parking available. Excellent transportation. $1050-$1295.

All utilities included. Owner occupied. 773-588-8736.

NeAR MetRA ANd Warren Park. Large 3 bedroom duplex, 2 full baths. Private storage area. Laundry on site. Cats OK. $1350/ month, heat included. Available 6/1. 6806 N Wolcott. 773-761-4318. www.lakefrontmgt.com LAuNdRY iN uNit! Rogers Park three bedroom condo. Hardwood floors, granite/ stainless, balcony. Pets welcome. $1350. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773-248-8800, www. apartmentpeople.com. EHO. Building ID 45567.

RAVeNSWood tHRee BedRooM at 4355 North Hermitage.

Updated kitchen and bath, hardwood floors, central heat and air.

One block to Brown Line. $1350.

704-302-6367.

AddiSoN/ PuLASKi ViciNitY. Totally renovated courtyard building, 3 bedroom/ 2.5 bath, hardwood floors, granite kitchen with ss appliances, great room, master suite with walk-in closet, central ac, in-unit laundry. Convenient to CTA, Metra, I-90/94. $1495 plus utilities. Available immediately or May 1. Call Alan at 312-607-9412, AP Gold Realty. Ref YG391. eASt RoGeRS PARK. Updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, separate dining and living rooms, large kitchen, dw and microwave, pet friendly, on-site laundry and bicycle room. 1149 W Lunt. $1400/ month plus hvac. 773-6650103. www.dlgmanagement.com.

EOH. RoGeRS PARK: 6624 Ashland, three large bedrooms, eat-in kitchen, bookshelves/ fireplace, carpeting, clean, secure, laundry, bike storage, cats only, near Loyola and transportation, $1225 plus $900 deposit. 773-391-1653.

LAKeFRoNt (7000N) MAGNiFiceNt 3 bedroom/ 2 bath, 2000 sq ft, new kitchen, grand fdr, gleaming oak floors, new windows, private deck and yard. $1400 heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com

apartmentpeople.com, 773-2488800, www.apartmentpeople.com.

EHO. Building ID 2965.

PeteRSoN ANd cALiFoRNiA, three bedroom, sunny, large rooms, dining room, 1-1/2 baths, back porch, fenced backyard, laundry, school, grocery, transportation, heat included, owner occupied. $1150. 773-764-1801.

LARGe tHRee BedRooM unit. 4423 N Paulina. Hardwood floors. Private front porch. Cats OK. Laundry on site. $1430/ month, heat included. Available 6/1. 773-7614318. www.lakefrontmgt.com LocAted NeAR BeLMoNt and Central Three Bedroom, separate living room & Dining room both Big and spacious kitchen with walkin pantry! hardwood floors on site laundry, back yard, walk to everything, close to bus Heat included for only $1200.00 773-777-9325 WeSt RoGeRS PARK, 6525 N Richmond. Three bedrooms plus, 1.5 baths, parking. $1250. Only three units in the building. Spacious rooms, quiet street. Close to Devon shops. Close to major bus lines. Call Fatima for a showing 773-732-8436 or Hunter Properties 773-477-7070, www.hunterprop.com.

LAuNdRY iN uNit! Condo quality Avondale three bedroom.

Granite/ stainless kitchen, hardwood floors, patio, central air. Pets OK. $1350. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773248-8800, www.apartmentpeople. com. EHO. Building ID 38318.

LARGe ViNtAGe tHRee bedroom. Great location! Approximately 1700 sf; oversized rooms everywhere. Good closet spaces and walk-in pantry. Near Foster/ Damen. $1295 (heat included). Call Tony, 602-757-0479.

3 Br or More $1500-$1799 SPRiNG SALe SPeciAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park landmark.

455 West Belmont. Available August 1 and September 1. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchen, full dining room, burnished oak floors. Resident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, $1570-$1710 including all leasing incentives. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours call 773404-5229 till 9pm.

SPAciouS tHRee BedRooM plus den. Lincoln/ Racine/ Diversey. Large living room, separate dining, washer/ dryer in unit, central ac, bath, kitchen, dishwasher, appliances. $1650. Available June 1. 773-988-5667.

RAVeNSWood: JuMBo tHRee bedroom/ two bath! Granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, dishwasher, hardwood floors, lake views, sky deck, spacious rooms, on-site laundry, steps to transportation. $1595. Call 773529-7200 ext. 106.

L A K e F R o N t V i N tAG e BRicK three flat, new interiors, clean, quiet, secure, garden unit, Jacuzzi bath, in-unit washer/ dryer, fireplace, fenced backyard, patio, beach, shopping, transportation. $1295/ month. 773-206-8391.

HuGe, BRiGHt Gut rehabbed corner unit three bedroom/ two bath condo home. Living space includes a big living room, separate dining area and additional sun room, perfect for an office or reading room. Kitchen is open with all granite, ss appliances and breakfast bar. Hardwood floors throughout, laundry in unit and ac. Two pretty stone baths include a master bath with Jacuzzi tub, separate shower and double sinks. A huge deck in back is ample space for grilling and entertaining. You are just steps from Brown Line and shops. Available June 1st (unit is nonsmoking).

Anne Rief, 773-382-4373.

SPAciouS, toP FLooR Rogers Park three bedroom. Hardwood, closets galore, dining room, central air. On-site laundry, backyard. $1350. Apartment People, info@

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Back deck and side yard. May or June. 312-613-9344. cddell@gmail. com.

air, two car garage, small fenced yard. No pets. $2000 month plus utilities. 630-466-4608.

SPRING SALE SPECIAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Evanston. 818-24 Forest Ave. Stately building on quiet street near Sheridan Road. Sedate residential area. Near Main Street, shops, restaurants and transportation. Heat and appliances included. We will fax floorplans upon request. 3 bedrooms. Available August 1. $1510.

For appointment call 312-822-1037 weekdays til 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Other times 847-866-9459.

EDGEWATER, 1309 WEST Thorndale. Brick two flat. Second floor owner’s unit, enormous double-sized chef’s kitchen, three bedrooms, two baths, plus office. Front roof deck. Gfa/ heat. Rehabbed.

Garage spaces available. Pets OK. $1650. 312-848-9209, maialis@aol. com (inquire by email for quickest response).

QUALITY DUPLEx! SPACIOUS newer rehab, hardwood, 3 marble baths, 4 bedrooms, inunit laundry, fireplace, large family room, first floor. $2000 plus utilities, 6/1. Albany Park/ Ravenswood Manor. Call 773-414-3971.

WRIGLEYVILLE THREE BEDROOM (4100N). June 1st. No deposit. Pet friendly, sun filled, 1800 sq ft, great kitchen, formal dr, huge deck, sun room and backyard, laundry. $1500 heated. 773-743-4141. www.urbanequities.com

105 EGAN, STREAMWOOD. Four bedroom, beautiful wood floors, newer appliances, windows, siding, ac, deck, large backyard! Woodfield Mall, dining, great schools! $1500. Call Raul, 847-2931316.

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499

WAY COOL SWIMMING pool. $1600/ month. 4159 North Oakley.

Two floors, eight rooms, ac, wd, deck, fenced-in front and backyard. Available May 1st. 312-9615679, Jeff.

PERFECT LINCOLN PARK SPOT. Available 7/1. 3 br, 1 bth, ac, hwf,dw,2 blocks to El,w/d, modern kitchen, high ceilings, deck,bright/ spacious. $1925/mo. Email jodwyer@uhc.com

SPRING SALE SPECIAL. Reduced rents. Act now before it’s too late. Lincoln Park landmark.

455 West Belmont. Available August 1 and September 1. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Super sized rooms. Large kitchen, full dining room, burnished oak floors. Resident engineer. Heat and appliances included. 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, $1570-$1710 including all leasing incentives. To see call 312-822-1037 weekdays to 5:30pm, Saturdays to 3pm and Sundays to 2pm. Evenings and weekends after hours call 773404-5229 till 9pm.

SUPER THREE BEDROOM condo for rent. Call Joe, 847-8154248. 917 West Agatite Avenue. Includes one parking space and extra storage. Walk to LSD, close to Wrigley.

WRIGLEYVILLE THREE BEDROOM/ one bath. Beautiful treelined street near Byron and Marshfield. Close to el, Southport shops, restaurants. Pets OK. Parking spot included. Free laundry/ storage.

WICKER PARK THREE bedroom. 2000 sf, free laundry, yard, heat included, parking available.

Vintage building near Blue Line.

Hwfl, 2 bathrooms. $1800. 312343-9666.

ROSCOE VILLAGE THREE bedroom/ two bath condo only 2 years old, modern elevator building, balcony, wd in unit, deluxe. J. Frank, 773-771-3547.

R I V E R F O R E ST TOW N HOME. Spacious, three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, living room, dining room, wbfp, family room, laundry, central

WICKER PARK NEW sunny three bedroom, gorgeous street.

Ca, dishwasher, laundry, deck, yard.

Three blocks: el, restaurants. $1900.

2141 West Potomac. 312-925-1964.

TOWN HOUSE FOR rent June 1! Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, laundry in unit, dishwasher, private garage parking, central ac, close to el. $2300/ month. 773-368-5982.

LAKEVIEW, LARGE THREE bedroom: rehab in brick three flat.

2 full baths, 10 rooms (large TV/ den, enclosed porch, new kitchen, big bedrooms). Ac, free laundry, and rooftop deck. Garage available.

Kenmore and Wellington (1 block to el). $2300/ month. Heat included.

June 1st. 773-415-6784.

PARKING INCLUDED! LINCOLN Park three bedroom/ two bath. Huge living space. Hardwood floors, dishwasher, dining room. $2000. Apartment People, info@ apartmentpeople.com, 773-2488800, www.apartmentpeople.com.

EHO. Building ID 28620.

L A K E V I E W. U P DAT E D THREE bedroom 1-1/2 bath, hardwood floors, large living room with separate dining room, dw, microwave, laundry in unit, pet friendly.

802 W Belmont. $1850/ month plus hvac. 773-665-0103. www.dlgmanagement.com. EOH. BEAUTIFUL MODERN THREE bedroom, two bath duplex, Lakeview. Big rooms, closets. Low utilities.

Two lr, cac, wbfp, dishwasher, laundry. Walk-out patio. Agent owned.

773-348-2466.

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HEAT INCLUDED! EAST Lakeview three bedroom features modern kitchen, dishwasher, air conditioning. On-site laundry, cats OK. $1875. Apartment People, info@apartmentpeople.com, 773248-8800, www.apartmentpeople. com. EHO. Building ID 2926.

2720 NORTH MILDRED. Three bedroom town house, two full baths, fireplace, dw, ac, laundry facilities and parking available. $2100/ month. Call 773-248-8420.

1255 WEST BELDEN has a three bedroom duplex with two fireplaces, ac, balcony, dw, laundry facilities and parking included. $2195/ mo. Call 773-248-8420.

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AnD OvER INCLUDES TWO PARKING spots! Exquisite West Bucktown four bedroom/ three bathroom gut rehab. Laundry, fireplace, granite/ stainless, two decks. $3400. Agent owned. Apartment People, info@ apartmentpeople.com, 773-2488800, www.apartmentpeople.com.

EHO. Building ID 38649.

WRIGLEYVILLE: 3510 NORTH Fremont, #2. Three bedroom/ three bath, plus den. Granite kitchen/ baths. Wd in unit. Two floors, great light. Approximately 2500 sq ft. $3100. Pets OK. 773203-9801.

LAKEVIEW BETWEEN DIVERSEY and Belmont next to the park and lake. Beautiful 3 bedroom, 21/2 bath condominium on 15th floor overlooking the city. Contemporary kitchen and baths. Heat, air conditioning, and 1 parking space included. $2,500/month immediate occupancy or May 1. Call Sharon at 312-335-5645.

2 LEVELS, 2,400 sq. fT. 3bd/ Den or 2bd/office/Den. LvgRm, DngRm, Den, 2 fireplaces, Washer/Dryer, Stainless Steel applianc-

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es, garage. Only serious inquiries will receive photos. Utilities not included

experience, A+ BBB rating. Apartment People, 773-248-8800, apartmentpeople.com.

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VETERANS: GUARANTEED APPROVAL. PTSD or Disability?

We can help! Any credit. Call 773305-4820. My Place Apartments.

DLG MANAGEMENT HAS buildings in Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Ravenswood and East Rogers Park ranging from studios to 4+ bedrooms. Call 773-665-0103. www.dlgmanagement.com. EOH. WILMETTE: THE GOOD Life!

5th and Linden. Studios from $700, one bedrooms from $850. Available now. Lake, Loop transportation/ Pace. Joe 847-251-2760 or 847-324-8926.

GUARANTEED APPROVAL. LINK, Disability Income OK. Fast and easy. Any credit. Eviction, Bankruptcy, Repo, Foreclosure OK. Make at least $1400 per month or SS Recipients with SSI Payee accepted! Call 773-305-4820. My Place Apartments.

EAST ROGERS PARK: 6825 Sheridan. Studio for $625 and one bedroom for $745 available now.

Close to Loyola University and transprotation. Heat and water included. Andy, 847-343-5933.

Smoke-Free THE SMOKE-FREE SECTION of the Chicago Reader promotes rental properties that prohibit smoking any form of tobacco product in all units and areas of the building, including interiors of individual units. For resources or questions, contact the Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project at (312) 2296180 or www.lungchicago.org.

EAST ROGERS PARK. 1740 West North Shore: One bedroom for $900, two bedroom for $915 and three bedroom for $1115. Courtyard building featuring large one, two and three bedroom apartments with separate dining rooms, hardwood floors, updated kitchens. Water and heat included for most units (all one and two bedrooms). The three bedrooms are duplexes and have central heating and ac; renter pays for heat for these units. Laundry room on site. Marian, 708-4172444, will show apartments.

PARC HURON, CHICAGO’S first LEED-Gold apartment highrise, in River North. Homes feature high-end finishes; hotel style amenities: spa, gym, wine storage.

Rents from $1840/ month. www. parchuron.com.

BELAIR HOTEL, 424 West Diversey Pkwy, Chicago (at Sheridan Road). Furnished rooms; 2 room suites, private baths. Access to CTA, el, Lake Shore Drive. Near best restaurants and shopping in Lincoln Park. No security deposit required.

773-248-4000.

ALTA AT K Station offers Studios, 1, and 2 bedrooms with great amenities & pet friendly. Rents starting at $1377. Call 1-855-728-7601 or visit www.altaatkstation.com.

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THE MORGAN, FEATURING smoke-free apartments in our new Silver LEED community, has apartments available now starting at $1350. Visit www.morganatloyolastation.com or call 773-465-9400 for more information.

MDA CITY APARTMENTS, Chicago/ Loop smoke-free property. Furnished apartment styles include studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms soft loft apartments. www.leadingapartments.com, 773-577-9734.

THE STREETER, HEART of Streeterville! Smoke-free property.

Furnished apartment styles include studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms apartments. www.leadingapartments. com, 773-577-9734.

THE BERNARDIN. PRIME River North location! Smoke-free property. Furnished apartment styles include studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms apartments. www.leadingapartments.com, 773-577-9734.

ENV, RIVER NORTH’S newest highrise. Rooftop pool and fitness center. Units feature bamboo floors, granite/ stainless kitchens. Rents start at $2054/ month. Visit envchicago.com or call 312-854-1700.

AMLI 900 IN South Loop offers studio, 1 br and 2 br soft loft or classic smoke-free apartments. Rents start at $1280. Visit www.amli. com/900 for more information.

DES PLAINES 1 and 2 br apts.

Heat/ gas included. 10056 Holly Lane. 1 br, 1st floor, new carpet throughout, $750. 2 br, ground floor, tiled throughout, $850. Call Bob, 773-485-7729.

For SALe WRIGLEYVILLE TWO BEDROOM/ two bath with parking!

Hardwood floors and balcony that looks into center field of ballpark.

Don’t miss out in this one! Call Ryan at 773-612-1433.

ROGERS PARK TWO bedroom, two bathroom duplex on the lake.

Parking, two decks, office, three months assessments paid for contract through May. Ryan Stavros, Jameson Sotheby’s, 773-251-3324.

MILLER BEACH: MID-CENTURY ranch, cathedral ceiling, three bedrooms, 1.75 baths, culde-sac location backs up to wooded duneside. $99,900. Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188. See virtual tour at MillerBeach.com. While in town drive past our historic bath house,

“The Aquatorium” and consider renting it for a beach front event (219-938-1986).

3726 NORTH ALBANY. Two story home with finished basement, four bedrooms, three baths, two car garage, perfect for large family or work/ live. clean and ready to move in. Motivated, asking $335,900.

Hunter Properties, J. Frank, 773771-3547 cell number.

3 BEDROOM HOME. $5000, brick, 925 East 43rd Place, Gary, IN. 1200 sf, lot is 6800 sf. House is 47 years old, aluminum siding and brick. Call 602-903-1844.

ROUND LAKE, DOWAGIAC, MI. Lakefront living in fully remodeled 5 bedroom home on all-sports lake. Sleeps up to 12. Lots of special features. Call Jim Fisher of Core Real Estate at 269-930-9191.

FHA APPROVED. HARDWOOD floors. Granite countertops, 42” maple cabinets, ss appliances. Private deck. Parking space included. Washer/ dryer. Wired for sound including in-wall iPod port.

773-820-0188.

LINCOLN SQUARE REMODELED two flat. Walk everywhere.

First floor, two bedroom; second floor, three bedroom. Ss appliances, granite, hwfl. Large backyard.

Lot 25x150. $730K. 630-292-0771.

NoNreSideNtiAL 2ND STORY CORNER office with three rooms. Approximately 800 sq ft. 2nd office available May 1st. Perfect for board or training room. 400 sq ft. Albany Park next to Brown Line. Call Mike at 773-2674600 9am-4pm.

PERFECT FOR GENERAL office work! 1/2 month free; 1/2 month security deposit! First floor of two story office building. 6 offices plus additional large conference room, kitchen and storage areas. Re-

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72 served parking in rear. 1700 sf (approximately): Excellent location: 7344 North Western. $1800 (percentage of heat reimbursed). 773381-0150. www.1st-chicago-apartment-rentals.com.

We’Re MAKiNG deALS Diversey/ Western 250’-15,000’ multitenant near expressway. Photographers, artists, light manufacturing, warehouse, office, short-/ longterm, docks, drive-in doors, on-site management. Gold Chicago Realty 773-267-2300, Iris x201, iris@goldchicagorealty.com. uNiQue oPeN SPAce, curved walls, high ceiling, full kitchen/ office/ photo space for photographer, designer/ creative sorts. No buildout needed. $1175Onemonthsecurity, utilities extra. 312-909-2001.

FRee ReNt: tWo months! Art and office spaces. Free WiFi and free utilities, 24 hour access, parking, video security. Lease or monthto-month. $200-$360. West Roscoe Village. 773-368-9700.

ARt StudioS: FRee rent for two months. Free WiFi, electricity and water. Quiet street, ample parking, secure building. Lease or month-to-month. $200-$360, Belmont/ California. 773-368-6452.

FRee ReNt: FuRNiSHed office space. Free WiFi and free utilities, 24 hour access, parking, video security. Lease or month-to-month. $500. 450 sf. West Roscoe Village.

773-368-9700. oFFice Suite AVAiLABLe: 2 room suite on Lincoln Avenue/ DePaul area, great window line, sec-

ond floor. $625/ month. Contact Norman Ross/ Arthur J. Rogers, 847-541-3600.

proximately 1296 sq ft. Base rent $1925 per month. Available now.

Call 312-822-1037.

W Jarvis, One year rent free, own buildout. 312-613-6120. Rogers Park.

One year rent free.

LAKeVieW StoReFRoNt. 1430 West Belmont at Southport. 1400 sf. Professional office. $2000 base rent. Ken Baldwin, 312860-6555.

NoRtH ceNteR ARtiSt/ Light industrial workspace. Approximately 950’ concrete floor, work sink, double door to alley. $1095 plus utilities. Call Hayes Properties, 773-929-7050.

WAReHouSe/ StoRe/ oFFice/ retail space. 900, 1600, 2500, 3300, 3500, 4500 and 8500 sq ft. North/ northwest side, close to Kennedy, el/ train, DID, truck dock, parking. Aggressive spring rates. No better landlord than Lichter Realty, Inc, 773-463-0501.

LiNcoLN SQuARe oFFiceS, 2334 W Lawrence. Offices available now from 504 sq ft to 584 sq ft. Reasonable rents from $650/ month to $810/ month including heat and air. Near el, bus, transportation, elevator. Available now. Call 312-822-1037 to see. eVANStoN LoFtS: deLuxe finishes in these open artistic spaces designed and zoned for creative office or live/ work. 600-5200 sf. $975-$5200. Tour at www.evanstonlofts.com, 847-475-5120, 847858-6066. dAMeN/ iRViNG/ KedZie basement storage space with bathroom. Parking and freight elevator.

1100, 1500, 2000, 2600 and 3100 sq ft. Cheap. Lichter Realty Inc, 773463-0501.

BeLMoNt/ cALiFoRNiA, exceLLeNt condition, 600 sf with 800 sf heated base immediately behind store. Live/ work, office, restaurant? Just move: nothing to do, even painted. $895. 312296-2600.

LiNcoLN SQuARe StoReFRoNt, 2330 W Lawrence, in the heart of the square and perfect for professional office. Near el, bus, transportation. Heat and air. Ap-

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8215 SoutH KedZie. Retail space. 3910 sf, $3599 per month plus utilities. Call Dave, 630-6270606 x2417.

MedicAL BuiLdiNG oR other, 3550 W Peterson Ave, 500 to 14,500 sq ft or great for fitness, ample parking. 312-613-6120. Any use, etc.

ReStAuRANt FoR LeASe. Hot Edgewater. Ready to go, all buildout done. Hood etc, some equipment, 2600 sq ft with basement. 6338-40 N Clark St. French doors open. 312-613-6120. Liquor available.

SeLF StoRAGe ceNteRS. Two locations to serve you. All units fully heated and humidity controlled with ac available. North: Knox Ave, 773-685-6868. South: Pershing Ave, 773-523-6868.

ANdeRSoNViLLe, 5756 NoRtH Ridge, unfurnished ground floor office suite, available 5/1, $490, electric and heat included in rent. 100% new construction. Approximate size 12’x15’, 24/7 access, alarm system, pictures and floorplan. Call George at 312-735-3249 or Vi at 312-735-3251. No agents. cLYBouRN/ SoutHPoRt. GReAt location, prices! Office space. 900 sf, $1249/ month gross.

2028 sf, $12.95 psf plus utilities.

Suites can be combined. Dave 630627-0606 x2417.

SHeRidAN PARK, StoRe or office space, 910 West Lawrence. $800 month. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070, www.hunterprop.com.

ARtiSt/ LiGHt iNduStRiAL workspace: 950’ North Center, ground level-double doors to alley, work sink, concrete epoxy floor. $1095/ month plus utilities. hayesproperties.com, 773-929-7050.

LiNcoLN SQuARe oFFiceS, 2334 W Lawrence. Offices available now from 504 sq ft to 584 sq ft. Reasonable rents from $650/ month to $810/ month including heat and air. Near el, bus, transportation, elevator. Available now. Call 312-822-1037 to see.

PuB, ReStAuRANt SPAce, C zoning, 1200 sq ft, hot area. 1547

cLYBouRN/ SoutHPoRt/ WeBSteR. Retail space. 1438 sf, $2583 per month plus utilities! Dave 630-627-0606 x2417.

LiNcoLN SQuARe StoReFRoNt, 2330 W Lawrence, in the heart of the square and perfect for professional office. Near el, bus, transportation. Heat and air. Approximately 1296 sq ft. Base rent $1925 per month. Available now.

Call 312-822-1037.

RAVeNSWood MANoR. LARGe 2 bedroom at 4632 N Francisco. Updated kitchen with island, dishwasher, modern bath, hardwood floors, ceiling fans, half a block to the Brown Line, laundry and storage on premises. Available 5/1. $1325 heated. 773-506-7060.

1000 NoRtH HALSted. Near Kendall College. Office space. 1260 sf, $9.95 psf plus utilities. 2455 sf, $9.95 psf plus utilities. Call Dave, 630-627-0606 x2417.

LiNcoLN/ BeLMoNt/ ASHLANd: Deluxe office space. 400 sf. Also 900 sf work/ studio, own washroom, two private offices.

Great rent. Imperial, 773-736-4100.

GARAGe PARKiNG: LAKeVieW and Lincoln Square. 1443 West Belle Plaine $100, 1415 West Cuyler $100, 4844 North Bell $125.

Call 312-802-3568.

PARKiNG At BRiAR and Broadway, $175 month. Limited availability, get a spot now! Call Water Tower Realty at 773-248-9936 or email leasing at wtrm.com.

PARKiNG/ iNdooR GARAGeS North side. Chicago & Maywood, just off Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways. Heated, secure, good rates monthly/ annually. 773736-6540.

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RAVeNSWood MANoR. StoReFRoNt at 4634 North Francisco with 500 sf of room. Hwfl, and bathroom in storefront. $1000 per month, heated. R1-1 zoning.

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From $500/ month, bright, exposed brick and wood, high ceilings, central air, elevators, parking.

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$475, tWo RooMMAteS. 6/1 and 8/1, includes heat, electric, cable and WiFi, washer/ dryer, deck.

2 blocks from Central Park Pink Line and 26th Street. Fully furnished lr, kit, and bathroom. Easy street parking. Email: mchave9@yahoo.com.

2814 NoRtH cALiFoRNiA sale/ lease. 2500’ building plus 2000’ fenced parking, adjacent expressway exposure at Diversey/ California. $250,000 obo or $2500 rent. Gold Chicago Realty: 773504-1200, michael@goldchicagorealty.com.

LoGAN SQuARe oFFice Loft, Hayes Properties. Approximately 900’, 2nd floor, hardwood floors, exposed brick, central ac, skylights, $900 plus utilities. For details/ appointment: 773-929-7050. oFFice RetAiL: dePAuL area, 2768 North Lincoln, 2300 sf street level, 30 ft glass front, partial 20 ft ceiling and mezzanine. $2800/ Mo Gross Norm Ross, Arthur J. Rogers & Co. 847-541-3600.

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GooSe iSLANd/ NoRtH Branch, 150-1526 sf office lofts/ warehouse, 1 delux designer decorated space, 1450 sf. Convenient to expressway and downtown. Completely restored, exposed timber framing and ductwork. High ceilings, operable windows. Intercom security. Free use of conference area, rooftop deck with view of Chicago skyline. Secured parking available. Rents begin at $350. Call 312266-0600.

RooMMAte WANted FoR fully furnished 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo in Oak Park. $700/ month utilities included. 20 mins from Loop, across the street from Oak Park Blue Line and I-290. Call 312315-6400, e-mail iskcapital@gmail. com. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5029&id=100002212 030195&l=72417527de LAKe SHoRe dRiVe high-rise condo, balcony, lake and harbor view, 24 hour doorman, exercise room, laundromat, DirecTV. Single white male seeks professional female condomate, $499, completely furnished private bedroom, parking extra, no pets. myspace.com/cutebob33, 773-390-0298.

FRee RooM ANd board, plus small salary and benefits in exchange for living with and working with 2 women with disabilities in their home in Chicago. Call 773486-6070 for more information.

ALBANY PARK. RooM for rent, private home. One block from Brown Line and bus. $75/ week.

312-218-1565.

BucKtoWN MALe SeeKiNG friendly, responsible male roommate to share two bedroom apartment with me and my two dogs. $400 plus utilities. Available May 16. Call Dan: 773-384-9448.

Quiet MAtuRe RooMMAte needed to share luxury Lincoln Park town house. Parking included. If you party nightly, smoke, like loud music, please don’t respond. Available June 1. $1500/ month. 1/2 utilities. sandcastle22@aol.com or 312504-6652.

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HuMANitieS diViSioN At University of Chicago seeks Manager, Administrative Services to plan, organize, direct and control the divisional business administration and portions of the academic appointment processes within and among the departments of the Division and the Divisional administrative units. Applicants should apply online at http://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/ Central?quickFind=210828, or http://jobs.uchicago.edu; Univ Job Opportunities; Search Postings; enter Requisition #086893; click view.

PRoPeRtY MANAGeMeNt AdMiNiStRAtiVe Assistant (south side of Chicago) We are seeking a detail oriented, dynamic individual with an outgoing friendly personality, who has a strong sense of urgency and follow through, a great work ethic, high intellect and willingness to learn new things.

Must be a self starter with the ability to work independently and possess the ability to work in team environment. Responsibilities will include receptionist, customer service and administrative duties which may include but will not be limited to the following responsibilities and skill sets. Responsibilities: Maintain Office Calendar; Tenant Relations; Answering phones; Administrative support for leasing agent, property manager, accounts payable/receivable clerk and owners; Managing special projects; Ensuring office efficiency. Skills: Understanding of iCal and Daylite; Customer service; Written and verbal communication skills; Telephone etiquette; Organizational; Time management; Follow up; Computer (excel, word, powerpoint); Understanding of office equipment (fax, scan, copier); Filing; Inventory of office supplies. A background in property management with Yardi experience a plus!

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AStHMA cLiNicAL ReSeARcH study. The American Lung Association and physicians at the University of Chicago Hospitals are conducting a clinical research study to determine if adding a FDAapproved medication for rhinitis/ sinusitis in patients with asthma will improve asthma control. Qualified participants will be asked to make up to 7 visits over a 26 week period.

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SeeKiNG cAReGiVeRS, coMPANioNS and CNA’s: assist the elderly and disabled with nonmedical, in-home care and help ensure their quality of life. Positions located in north side and south side Chicago neighborhoods. Rewarding and flexible schedules: PT/ FT, hourly and live-in. 773-334-9865.

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MotoR coAcH & Trolley Drivers. Charter & Trolley Tour Drivers: CDL required. Local city tours & charter. Email: chicagograyline@ aol.com or fax 312-251-3108. exPeRieNced dRiVeRS ANd Maintenance Staff wanted to work for an established catering company. Drivers must have a valid state of Illinois Drivers License and a superior driving record. Familiarity with Chicago streets needed. Must be willing to work flexible and extended hours. Must be bilingual and able to pass a background check and drug test. Fax resumes to 773-684-8423 or email to melonexpress4food@sbcglobal.net. exPeRieNced MoVeRS ANd drivers needed for Skokie based moving company. Apply in person at: Joey’s Movers, 7333 Ridgeway, Skokie, IL; Monday through Friday 9am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm. dRiVeRS ANd HeLPeRS needed. Apply Wednesday, 4/27 between 10am-5pm at 4557 West Diversey. No calls. No experience necessary, will train. Experience a plus.

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G R e At o P P o R t u N i t Y FoR the right person. Great environment, schedule, lucrative bonus program and base pay. Chicago based collection agency looking for two account reps to handle multiple clients. You must be a selfstarter with a willingness to learn.

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eARLY cHiLdHood teAcHeRS - GYMBOREE Outgoing individuals needed to lead parent child movement/music classes plus provide great service. PT. Training provided. gymboreecareers@gmail. com fax 847-905-0218

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teAcH eNGLiSH oVeRSeAS: TEFL Institute has over 1600 graduates annually. We provide: TEFL training, job placement assistance, and practicum advice. info@teflinstitute.com, www.teflinsitute.com, or 773-880-5141. tHe uPWARd BouNd Program at Columbia College is accepting applications for summer PT Tutors. All applicants must apply online at: https://employment. colum.edu (Job ID 100056).

VocAtioNAL ReHABiLitAtioN couNSeLoR: Provide vocational rehabilitation counseling and services to disabled individuals. Required: 2 years experience.

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QuALitY ASSuRANce eNGiNeeR for Vibes Media in Chicago, IL. Develop test plans & cases; define, develop, plan, schedule & execute testing for mobile marketing programs; direct development & implement QA metrics; follow QA best practices; work with product, development & client services issues. Bachelor’s of Engineering plus 5 years of experience in job offered required. Respond VV/Vibes Media, P.O. Box 4241, NYC 10163. eLeMeNt115, LLc (cHicAGo, IL) seeks Sr. Software Engineers (multiple openings) with Master’s plus 1 year experience or equivalent. Experience must include: Fatwire Content Management Server, Java, & Application Servers. Apply online only at www. element115.net. No calls. EOE. cAPGeMiNi FiNANciAL SeRViceS USA Inc. (Rosemont, IL), a global systems integrator providing solutions to financial services industries, is seeking experienced professional consultants for the following positions: Managers (ref. #24A) & Lead Consultants (ref. #24B) to manage consulting teams & client relationships. Also seeking Sr. Consultants (ref. #24C) to design and develop test & implement business systems software apps. Email resume to: georgeann.bosco@ capgemini.com & reference appropriate job#. No calls. EOE. tRAdiNG tecHNoLoGieS iNteRNAtioNAL, Inc. seeks Chief Technical Officer, Executive Vice President, for Chicago IL location. Master’s plus 4yrs exp. req d.

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ANiMAL HoSPitAL NeedS veterinary assistant/ receptionist, full-time. Must be reliable. Apply in person to: McKillip Animal Hospital, 2867 North Clark, Chicago 60657, between 1:30pm and 2:30pm (except Thursdays and Saturdays).

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LiVe ANd WoRK Buddhist center northern CA. Positions in book bindery, land work, kitchen. Incl housing, meals, living allowance, classes. Must have Buddhist interest. Details contact@nyingmavolunteer.org

WoMeN PAid StudY Have you had an unwanted sexual experience since age 14? Did you tell someone about it? Women ages 18+ will be paid to complete a confidential research survey by mail for the Women’s Stress and Support Study. Contact Dr. Sarah Ullman at ForWomen@uic.edu, 312-9965508, or University of Illinois at Chicago, Criminal Justice Department, 1007 West Harrison Street MC141, Chicago, IL 60607. Protocol #2001-0156. cASHieR FoR SuPeRMARKet. Experience preferred, but not required. Apply Big Apple Finer Foods, 2345 North Clark Street, Chicago.

SiGN Studio iNc. looking for graphic artist. Photoshop and Illustrator. Full- or part-time. Call George, 773-719-3833. 3653 West Irving Park Road. exPeRieNced coLLectoR Needed for a growing national advertising company in Chicago’s North Side. Must have one year’s experience, be aggressive, organized and a hard worker. Computer experience a must. Call Mike at 773478-0800 ext 203.

FLoRAL deSiGNeRS, PARttiMe, freelance. Downtown/ Loop. E-mail resume to rdanielsflorist@sbcglobal.net or fax 312332-0506. We will contact you for an interview.

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WeNdeLLA BoAtS, cHicAGo’S Original Boat Tour Company is hiring for all positions. Desire to provide excellent customer service to visitors from throughout the US and the World a must. Full and Part-time available. Apply by sending an email to jobs@wendellaboats.com.

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New, used and unusual items at shoppingathome.co LiNcoLN SQuARe - COME SHOP BIG RUMMAGE / PERENNIAL / BAKE SALE & ENJOY LUNCH! Luther Memorial Church of Chicago, 2500 W. Wilson Ave., Sat., April 30, 9 am - 3pm. More info.: visit www. luthermemorialchicago.org or call 773/539-3018.

HuGe YARd SALe: Everything must go! All proceeds go to breast cancer research! Saturday, May 7, 2011, 7am-5pm, 5600 North Newark (and Bryn Mawr), Chicago. Clothes, shoes, furniture, and more. Raffling pair of Cubs Tickets.

HANd StitcHed, FoLK art cross stitch sampler. Jewel tones on 14 ct ivory Aida cloth. Matted and framed. Includes bird, butterflies, and tree motifs. Signed and dated, 1996. 19”x22”. $60. Pictures on Web ad. 708-309-0657.

ViNtAGe ALPHABet BABY dishes. One is marked Germany and shows children riding in a vintage car, $65; Another is a rare tin Mary Had a Little Lamb, $75. See web pictures. 708-309-0657.

WiLLitS SANtA cLAuS carousel figure. Wood base is four by six inches. Pole is slightly loose, but otherwise in good condition. See web pictures. $5. 708-309-0657.

ANtiQue oAK RocKeR with pressed leather seat, detail on the backrest, no armrests, height of the seat approximately 13”, height of the backrest approximately 36”, $300. 773-763-1399. oVeR 1000 45 records for sale.

Over 100 picture sleeves and 14 record cases. All genre for ‘50s to ‘90s all in playable VG condition. Rock ‘n roll, easy listening. $350 obo. 630377-6870. oRiGiNAL “FRee WiLLY 2” movie poster. 25”x40” Framed in blue metal frame. Obtained from theater during poster sale when movie was current in 1995. Excellent condition. See web picture. $40. 708-309-0657.

WHite WicKeR RectANGuLAR flower box, original metal liner, legs, excellent condition $150. Small white wicker table, $50.

Coffee grinder. Coffee mill. Floorstanding metal candlesticks, best offer. Lots of vintage household, art, miscellaneous little things. 773763-1399.

LeNox PoLAR BeAR mother and cub. Eight inch wood base.

Eight inches tall. Lynn Chase for Lenox 1985 Manx sculpture. Four by eight wood base. Both in excellent condition. See web pictures. $50 each. 708-309-0657.

ViNtAGe WoodeN RocKiNG horse, original finish, excellent condition, sturdy, $300. 773763-1399.

ViNtAGe PRiNted tABLe linens, fingertip towels, various sizes and colors. Fifties Liberace towel, $15. Printed blue pup and yellow flower fingertip towel. Handkerchief assortment. Fabric and sewing notions, old buttons. Serving trays.773-763-1399.

HoLidAY decoRAtioNS. cuRReNt seasonal wreaths.

Miscellaneous collection from as far back as 1945. Old Hawaiian decorations, records. Paper window decorations, posters, blotters. Eight 1945 laminated placemats of Claymation art of gay nineties songs, $80. 773763-1399.

14K YeLLoW GoLd diamond bangle bracelet. Channel set with 23 diamonds. Approximately 1.61 carat. Color grade 3-4. Perfection grade 3. Two and one quarter inches across. 16.55 grams. $2,250 See web pictures. 708-309-0657 ViNtAGe FuR StoLe. Elegant white rabbit stole (think prom, wedding time). Fur collars. Fur pieces.

Add them to other sweaters, coats, jackets, garments. 773-763-1399.

SeVeNtieS RuSt Suede knee-high boots, laces up front, size 6-1/2, leather inners, very soft, wear year round, $50. Grey small lederhosen, piping trim, bib, $100.

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PiNK ANd WHite size 5 seamstress sewn classic vintage formal suitable for prom, wedding, or otherwise. May be worn with or without the fabric flower and bow in the back. $75. Simple, elegant. 773763-1399.

FReNcH RABBit 3/4 coat, size medium, excellent condition, $200.

Warm and beautiful. 773-763-1399.

SeVeNtieS ViNtAGe WeddiNG dress, cream color, lace, few pearls around the neckline, empire high-waisted, no train, long sleeves, floor length, size 5, $75.

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74 StRAW BoAteR HAt. Five vintage summer straw boater/ Gondolier hats for sale with variety of striped hatbands $45 each. Excellent condition. 773-763-1399.

decoRAted SPRiNG/ SuMMeR artificial yellow floral heart shaped wreath, $28. Did you ever think of using this for a bridal shower gift? 773-763-1399.

ViNtAGe 1950 cHiLd’S pink lace party dress, not sure of the size (6?-8?), $25. Few very tiny tears in the netting, not in obvious, visible places, very good condition, a classic. 773-763-1399.

S e A S o N A L W R e At H : SPRiNG lavender and blue color artificial floral wreath, $28. Also assortment of Christmas wreaths various sizes and price range. Makes a great bridal shower gift. 773-7631399.

SiZe 5 ViNtAGe Jackie O style gown, $75; wedding gown, $75; small charcoal gray sheepskin coat; hankies, gloves, purses, vanity set, ladies’ hats (red, purple), costume hats, antique ladies hats, vintage, fur pieces, collars. 773-763-1399.

SHeePSKiN NAtuRAL coLoR jacket, size medium, $200.

Sheepskin long gray coat, size small, $200. Warm and beautiful.

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GRASSHoPPeRS WoMeN’S cANVAS sneakers, size 10 narrow. New in box, beige Grasshoppers with rope trim. $15. White Grasshoppers by Keds with navy trim; seldom worn years ago. Free with purchase of beige pair. 773761-6512.

FAMiLY cLotHiNG, MediuM-LARGe for kids, small women’s, medium men’s, all seasons, $1 up. Purses, vintage handkerchiefs, hats, long dresses, etc. Men’s Levi jeans $15,suits, sportcoats, shorts, Bugle Boy, gal’s jeans. Lederhosen.

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NAVY LeAtHeR SHoeS, size 10 slim. Low heels with gold trim; California Magdesians brand made in USA in 1980s. Worn once or twice; soles are barely scuffed.

Original price, $69; buy them for $15. 773-761-6512. coLuMBiA 2-WAY RAdio.

Set of two. Brand new. GMRS/ FRS Frequencies. Price $20 obo. Call 773-355-4888.

WANt oLd ReK-o-Kut turntable, accessories or parts. Any condition, as I also need parts. Mike at 630-933-9801, or send an e-mail to EsotericTT@aol.com.

KodAK duAFLex iV Camera, flash, leather camera bag, Bell & Howell Super 8 movie camera, Smith Victor Corp. Q1U movie camera light. Harwood XR1 lamp, 35mm point and shoot camera. Barbie camera. Best offer. 773-763-1399.

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75 she confided in me that she’s participated in needle play in dungeon-party situations. I’m not someone who’s turned off by kinkiness just ’cause it’s kinky, but it seems like even “safe” needle play is a recipe for STI transmission unless you’re playing with trained medical professionals. She says she gets tested regularly, but still, would it be really risky for me to sleep with her? —Enthusiastic Reader

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I’m a young heteroflexible guy who’s been a “sugar baby” for a handful of wealthy older guys. I love it! I get money, I have fun being with them, and the guys seem to like having me around. The problem is that I just got with a new guy who’s really great except for one thing: he’s HIV positive. He says that his doctors predict he won’t have a shortened life span and may not even have any symptoms that would make his life uncomfortable. I like the fact that he told me, and I’m open to being with him sexually even though I’m HIV negative and want to stay that way.

He’s very submissive—he wants to be used and abused sexually, physically, and mentally. My question is, what kinds of sex acts are OK to do with this guy? I read on one site that him rimming me is fine, and on another that him giving me a blow job with a condom is safe too. But I can’t find a site that specifically explains which sex acts are safe and which ones aren’t when one person is positive and one person is negative. —Help in Virginia

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It’s pretty simple, HIV: Sex acts that expose you to his semen and/or blood are definitely unsafe, and sex acts that expose him to your semen and/or blood are mostly safe. Rimming you, blowing you (even without a condom), getting fucked by you (with a condom)—all very low risk for HIV transmission. If he’s on a drug regimen and his viral load is undetectable, HIV, your already-low risks of being exposed while, say, accepting a blow job (and a check) are even lower. The risks aren’t nonexistent— all sex acts carry some degree of risk—but if the risks were any closer to nonexistent, they’d be sitting on nonexistent’s lap.

And bear this in mind: odds are good that some of the other guys you’ve babied for—some of your previous daddies—were HIV positive and either didn’t know or didn’t have the decency to tell you. This guy’s willingness to disclose is evidence not just of his honesty and decency, HIV, but of his respect for you and his commitment to keeping you safe. This guy is less likely to ask you to engage in sex acts that are higher risk or unsafe than a guy who isn’t aware that he’s positive or is actively hiding the fact that he’s positive. And his interest in being “used and abused” creates lots of hot safe-sex-play options—letting him beat off while he licks your boots or jerking him off while he’s tied to the

bed with your jock in his mouth are no-risk sexual activities that he’s likely to enjoy immensely.

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I’m a 24-year-old straight guy. I’ve been with my girl for three years, and things are great—great sex life, great communication, etc. We have lots of sex, but for the last year or so she hasn’t been on birth control and we haven’t been using condoms. We’re not against the idea of a child, but we aren’t currently going for it. I was always told that pulling out was a 100 percent ineffective method of birth control. So my question is, I guess, could there be something wrong with one of us?

How could we have unprotected sex for a year without getting her pregnant? We both really want children eventually and are worried it might not happen. —Sent From My iPhone

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Withdrawal is a much more effective birth control method than most sex advisers are comfortable acknowledging. But facts are facts: a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at the Guttmacher Institute found that withdrawal was almost as effective a birth control option as condoms. According to “Better Than Nothing or Savvy Risk-Reduction Practice?

The Importance of Withdrawal,” in the June 2009 issue of Contraception: “If the male partner withdraws before ejaculation every time a couple has vaginal intercourse, about 4% of couples will become pregnant over the course of a year.” That compares pretty favorably with the 2 percent of straight couples who’ll become pregnant using condoms perfectly over the course of a year.

In the real world, of course, very few people do anything perfectly. When you take mistakes, leaks, and broken condoms into account, researchers estimate that 17 percent of straight couples who rely on condoms will become pregnant in any given year. Not all withdrawers use withdrawal perfectly, either—amazingly enough, some guys get distracted and forget to pull out as their orgasms approach—but the research shows that just 18 percent of straight couples who use withdrawal will get pregnant in any given year.

So odds are good that you’re not infertile, SFMi, just lucky.

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I’m a young lesbian. I recently met a girl who’s cute, and I think we’re on the likely-to-have-sex-soon track. The thing is,

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Every time I’ve watched needle play in a dungeon-party situation—watched with my hands clamped over my eyes, peeking through the small spaces between my fingers—no one was being stuck with rusty needles by dirtyhanded brutes. All the public needle-play scenes I’ve witnessed were ostentatiously sterile affairs: these kinksters, some of whom were trained medical professionals, made a big show of using alcohol wipes, cotton swabs, latex gloves, and clean sharps. I think it’s fair to ask this girl for more information about her blood and needle experiences, about the safety precautions that her partners took, and about how recently she was tested. But rest assured, ER, that the most effective STI transmission routes involve sticking dicks in people in completely vanilla situations, not clean needles in dungeon-party situations.

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Here’s some information for MILK, the man who’s aroused by the thought of being sprayed with his wife’s breast milk: it’s common for newly lactating women to experience strong “milk-ejection reflexes” during sex. This is induced by the hormone oxytocin, which is released during labor and orgasm, and when the milk “lets down” during breast-feeding. In other words: new mothers often spray milk when they get off.

Most women are embarrassed when this happens, but at least MILK’s wife will know the first time it happens that her husband isn’t going to freak out about it. —Breast-feeding Educator’s Sex Tips

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Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125821 on April 15, 2011, under the Assumed Name of King Catering with the place of business located at 3140 North Kenneth, Chicago, IL 60641. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Brendan Murphy, 3140 North Kenneth, Chicago, IL 60641.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was

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filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125724 on April 7, 2011, under the Assumed Name of The McNutt Group with the place of business located at 847 South Lyman Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304. The true name and residence address of the owner is: David McNutt, 847 South Lyman Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125694 on April 5, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Creative Day Photography with the place of business located at 4242 North Sheridan Road, Unit 303, Chicago, IL 60613. The true name and residence address of the owner(s) is: 1. Jose L. Uribe, 4242 North Sheridan Road, Unit 303, Chicago, IL 60613; 2. Sonia Stein, 3810 Fireside Court, Joliet, IL 60435.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125913 on April 21, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Ultimate Solutions of Construction with the place of business located at 590 Magnolia Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Jacek Mikowski, 590 Magnolia Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125789 on April 14, 2011, under the As-

sumed Name of I-Spy Data Service with the place of business located at 9449 South Kedzie Avenue, Suite 209, Evergreen Park, IL 60805. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Danielle Reed, 9108 South Saginaw Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125671 on April 5, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Evidence-Based Running with the place of business located at 1458 West Winnemac Avenue, #3S, Chicago, IL 60640. The true name and residence address of the owner(s) is: Cynthia Kuzma, 1458 West Winnemac Avenue, #3S, Chicago, IL 60640.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125743 on April 8, 2011, under the Assumed Name of 2 Good 2 Be 4Gotten with the place of business located at 2403 South Oakley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60608. The true name and residence address of the owner(s) is: 1. Erica Sanchez Mascio, 2345 South Leavitt Street; 2. Margarita Angela Sandoval, 2154 West Coulter Street, Chicago, IL 60608.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125904 on April 20, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Green River Group with the place of business located at

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Pete Berenc, 630 West Waveland, #3F, Chicago, IL 60613.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125842 on April 18, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Zen Massage Partners with the place of business located at 4125 North Broadway Street, Chicago, IL 60613. The true name and residence address of the owner(s) is: 1. Daniel P. Cook, 909 West George Street, Chicago, IL 60657; 2. Randi Levin Marier, 3130 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60657.

VeRiZoN WiReLeSS iS proposing to install new wireless telecommunications antennas on an existing 60 foot tall building located at 3800 North California Avenue, Chicago, Cook Co, IL. The new facility will consist of 12 pipe-mounted panel antennas and a GPS antenna collocated on the rooftop penthouse at a top height of 61 feet above grade in 3 sectors. A proposed generator will be placed at ground level within an 8x4 foot area NW of the building. Other associated equipment will be placed inside the penthouse. Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the potential effects the proposed facility may have on any historic property may do so by sending such comments to: Project 61111424-KJL c/o EBI Consulting, 6876 Susquehanna Tr S, York, PA 17403, or via telephone at 717428-0401.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name

in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125898 on April 20, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Le Thrift with the place of business located at 1754 West Division, Chicago, IL 60622.

The true name and residence address of the owner is: Christine Sanderson, 1719 West Superior, Chicago, IL 60622.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125824 on April 15, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Danni D’s Catering with the place of business located at P.O. Box 277, Matteson, IL 60443.

The true name and residence address of the owner(s) is: 1. Dana M. Cooksey, 4305 Oakwood Lane, Matteson, IL 60443; 2. Dionne A. Meeks, 4243 Oakwood Lane, Matteson, IL 60443.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125453 on April 6, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Orange Marigold Graphic Design with the place of business located at 718 Hinman Avenue, #3E,, Evanston, IL 60202. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Christie Boivin, 718 Hinman Avenue, #3E,, Evanston, IL 60202.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk

of Cook County, file no. D11125802 on April 15, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Lea Decor Online with the place of business located at 1456 West Wolfram, #2, Chicago, IL 60657. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Lyn Alsobrook, 1456 West Wolfram, #2, Chicago, IL 60657.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no.

D11125828 on April 15, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Suloco Sales with the place of business located at 5422 West Agatite Avenue, Chicago, IL 60630. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Susan Loew, 5422 West Agatite Avenue, Chicago, IL 60630.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125876 on April 18, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Rex Management with the place of business located at 3336 North Laramie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Fatmire Hotza, 2773 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125727 on April 7, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Charles J. Stewart Farmers Insurance Agency with the place of business located at 873 North Larrabee Street, Unit 310, Chicago, IL

60610. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Charles J. Stewart, 873 North Larrabee Street, Unit 310, Chicago, IL 60610.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no.

D11125806 on April 15, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Vida Y Alma with the place of business located at 5001 West George Street, Chicago, IL 60641. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Teresa Magana, 5001 West George Street, Chicago, IL 60641.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no.

D11125756 on April 8, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Kings Construction with the place of business located at 6054 North Oakley, Chicago, IL 60659. The true name and residence address of the owner is: Michael J. King, 6054 North Oakley, Chicago, IL 60659.

Notice iS HeReBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County, file no. D11125682 on April 5, 2011, under the Assumed Name of Stashcord with the place of business located at 1433 West Gregory Street, #01, Chicago, IL 60640.

The true name and residence address of the owner is: Miguel Cano, 1433 West Gregory Street, #01, Chicago, IL 60640.

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Gossip Wolf wonders what Will Butler of the Arcade Fire was really doing at Poetry magazine.

Whistler co-owner Billy Helmkamp on the arrival of spring and XTC’s Skylarking.

Three Beats: A revived Chicago label does right by late trumpeter Bill Dixon . . . and more.

Music editor Philip Montoro goes to bat for nerd-metal masters Slough Feg.

Nightlife snapshots: Before, during, and after the Black Lips show at Logan Square Auditorium.

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Jazz pianist Bill Charlap leads an all-star ensemble featuring vocalist Kurt Elling to explore music from the Roaring Twenties through bebop. In the second half of the program, accomplished singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega celebrates the folk music scene of the 1950s, 60s and beyond with Tom Paxton and Richard Julian.

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Directed by legendary folk singer Arlo Guthrie and featuring Vance Gilbert, Eliza Gilkyson and Chris Smithers, this performance showcases nostalgic songs inspired by America’s “Mother Road.”

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Celebrated saxophonist and CEO of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music Kirk Whalum leads an ensemble of Memphis legends including Stax/Volt pioneer William Bell and contemporary songstress Wendy Moten.

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Singer-songwriter and guitarist Marshall Crenshaw leads a Detroit super group featuring special guest Regina Carter, the great lady of soul Bettye LaVette, Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs, Wayne Kramer of MC5 and Amp Fiddler.

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Every week, one of our staffers shares three musical obsessions— then asks someone else (who asks someone else) to take a turn.

Kevin Warwick

Assistant Music Editor Magrudergrind at Reggie’s Rock Club, April 9: This all-ages show got bonkers once Magrudergrind tore into its 15-minute set of machine-gun blastbeats. What’s more entertaining than multiple security guards losing their shit as a frenzied mob of young ’uns bum-rushes the stage? Not too damn much.

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“We Got the System to Fight the System” by Maserati: These Georgia dudes’ chugging Krautrock makes a great jogging soundtrack. With its perfectly paced drumming and delay-laced, circling guitar riffs, “We Got the System to Fight the System” is the standout on 2010’s Pyramid of the Sun—and makes running Logan Boulevard at 7:30 AM a bit more bearable.

Skylarking

My collection of obscure screamo and hardcore records (circa 19992002): I balked at selling these when I could get 20-30 bucks a pop for ’em on eBay or Skylab Commerce. They’re steadily decreasing in value, but I’ll still relive old times with my Usurp Synapse/Rep Seki five-inch split picture disc or Pg. 99’s six-inch Document #4—for an average of 87 seconds per side.

Billy Helmkamp Co-owner of the Whistler and Whistler Records

This Is Cinema: I saw their first show in January at the Whistler.

On a friend’s recommendation, I stopped by the bar on my night off and was totally drawn in by this raw and intense band onstage. One short week later, This Is Cinema was the newest member of the Whistler Records family. This Is Cinema opens for Lord Huron Tue 5/3 at Schubas.

The theme song for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight: As any baseball fanatic will tell you, this is one of the greatest songs ever.

Those opening notes trigger a Pavlovian response: I start drooling for 100-mph fastballs, towering home runs, and pickles (of the baseball variety).

XTC’s Skylarking: It happens every year: spring arrives and my Skylarking LP goes into heavy rotation. The birds are chirping, Andy Partridge is singing about flowers blooming, Colin Moulding is reminiscing about eating ice cream cones and “things we did on grass.”

This year it sounds even better: I’m marrying the love of my life in July, and “Big Day” has taken on a whole new meaning.

Erik Hall

Member of Nomo and In Tall Buildings Deerhoof at Bottom Lounge, February 15: The set spanned their entire discography and came at a time when I was listening to them the most. These guys are one of my favorite bands with the most road cred. They use the smallest amps and drive themselves around Europe in a station wagon.

Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares: Amazing Bulgarian female vocal choir. I can’t put this record on without remaining still in front of my speakers listening until the side is up.

They remind me to work on my vocals.

StudioMultitracks.com: This site is ridiculous and dangerously addictive.

Someone has compiled YouTube videos of isolated audio channels from tons of great records. John Bonham’s drums are an obvious winner. But check Lindsey Buckingham singing “Go Your Own Way”! Or Kurt Cobain’s vocal track on “Territorial Pissings.”

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n Sunday evening Friends of the Gamelan, Chicago’s only ensemble dedicated to the traditional Indonesian percussion music, will premiere a new composition by ensemble member and local experimental composer Patrick Liddell. It’ll be the first time in four years that the 31-year-old group will debut an original work by one of its own.

Liddell’s “Cycle as Opposed to Line” employs the cyclical compositional structures of traditional Javanese gamelan as well as its two most common tuning systems (five-note and seven-note octaves, loosely speaking), but it has a distinctly American accent thanks partly to its Western use of meter. “It’s definitely more modern,” says

JAZZ | Peter Margasak

A revived label does right by late trumpeter Bill Dixon

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couple weeks ago a meticulously produced and packaged CD reissue of Intents and Purposes, a classic and incredibly rare 1967 album by trumpeter Bill Dixon, began turning up in record shops. International Phonograph, the Chicago label behind it, isn’t exactly new, but its only other release is an album by reedist Richie Beirach and bassist George Mraz that came out in 1981, when the imprint was based in Los Angeles. Label owner Jonathan Horwich, a Chicago native, returned here in 2006 after living for four decades in the LA area, where he cofounded and ran Revelation Records—a jazz indie that released great music by the John Carter-Bobby Bradford Quartet, reedists Warne Marsh and Anthony Ortega, and big-band leader and arranger Clare Fischer.

Most of the Revelation catalog is long out of print, but last year Horwich rounded up the Carter-Bradford material, including a bunch of unreleased music, for the essential three-

CD set The Complete Revelation Sessions (released by reissue specialists Mosaic Records), which he mastered and mixed in his Hyde Park studio. He plans to reissue another hard-tofind classic, Dogon A.D. by brilliant Saint Louis reedist Julius Hemphill, in June, and he’d like to license and reissue the two superb albums the Carter-Bradford Quartet cut for Flying Dutchman Records in 1969. Horwich is currently mixing and mastering a three-CD Mosaic set of previously unreleased big-band music by reedist Sam Rivers; he also hosts shows on WHPK and Web station robinhoodradio.com.

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t pleases me to launch this column on Chicago metal with news of an especially Chicagoan album: the self-titled debut from Bones, due May 2 on Planet Metal, the label of Dawnbringer mastermind Chris Black. Bassist and vocalist Jon “Necromancer” Woodring (who briefly played in Nachtmystium a few years back), guitarist “Carcass” Chris Svoboda (who used to have a solo project called Eternal Hatred), and drummer Joe “Warlord” Schaeffer have been friends for more than two decades, says Black. Woodring and Schaeffer helped found Usurper in 1993, and all three played in the band for several years in the aughts.

The art for Bones is by two Chicagoans,

Christina Casperson (who also did the cover for Dawnbringer’s Nucleus) and Matt “Putrid” Carr.

The band “pretty much recorded it live,” according to their Facebook page, working with Sanford Parker at Electrical Audio and Semaphore.

Jim Bresnahan of Kommandant has called Bones a “dirty bomb,” and the track Planet Metal has posted is frenzied, ragged death metal dripping with the filth and swagger of punk—no quantized typewriter drums or guitars compressed into bland, congested slabs. “Musically it’s influenced by their heroes growing up around here,” says Black. “Master, Impetigo, Devastation.” Bones have no release party planned, but they’re booking shows into the summer.

ensemble member April Camlin, who also drums and sings in experimental psych act Wume. “It reminds me a little bit of something Steve Reich would write.”

The new composition is one of ten pieces the 34-member ensemble will perform at Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn. Along with Liddell’s work and some traditional Javanese songs, the group will play “Shady Grove,” an American folk tune they’ve adapted for the gamelan—in part by adding musical saw and mountain dulcimer to their lineup of gongs, drums, bells, and metallophones. The concert starts at 6 PM; admission is a $15 suggested donation, $5 for University of Chicago students and children under 12. v

Dixon, who died last June at 84, enjoyed a wonderful flurry of late-career activity thanks in part to his collaborations with Chicago trumpeter Rob Mazurek, and the initial run of 1,000 copies of Intents and Purposes has almost sold out. A paradigm-shifting album, it took many years for most musicians to absorb, and Dixon’s distinctive sounds—terse blurts, whinnies, and cries—seem to have had their greatest impact on a generation of horn players (Mazurek, Axel Dörner, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley) who began maturing three decades after its release. v

It’s a big week for Black: he’s also bassist and vocalist for Superchrist (“the original beer metal bastards”), who celebrate the release of the live album Burn Again Sat 4/30 at the Red Line Tap, 7006 N. Glenwood. The show starts at 9 PM, and it’ll cost you $7 to hear “Electric Penis” and “Fucked in the Face (Again)” up close and in person.

Three Floyds has a history of brewing smallbatch beers in collaboration with metal bands (Bible of the Devil, Pelican), and when Amon Amarth played Bottom Lounge two weeks ago, the brewery tapped “Ragnarock”—cheekily referred to as an Æsir porter—at the show. At Dark Lord Day (Sat 4/30 at Three Floyds HQ in Munster, Indiana) it’ll debut a Lair of the Minotaur-themed imperial pilsner called Evil Power, named after the local band’s recent fourth full-length. Unlike Ragnarock, a draft-only beer, it’ll also be available in 22-ounce bombers. v APRIL 28, 2011 • CHICAGO READER B9

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Kevin Ford has been performing Afrobeat music in Chicago for nine years.

Femi Kuti is working to modernize the Afrobeat sound cultivated by his father four decades ago.

Femi Kuti to Kevin Ford: ‘I was reconfronted with the attitude of Lagos.’

For the first in our series of artists interviewing artists, Chicago Afrobeat Project keyboardist Kevin Ford spoke with Femi Kuti, eldest son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer and Nigerian human-rights activist Fela Kuti, about his new album, his doubts about democracy, and his efforts to protect his father’s legacy while carrying it forward. Femi Kuti plays with his band the Positive Force on April 30 at Metro (see page B21 for more).

Kevin Ford: Compared to your other albums, I’d say the messages on Africa for Africa are the most direct. I’m wondering if recording at Decca studio [in Lagos, Nigeria] affected the sound?

Femi Kuti: When we record in Lagos it’s like being on the battlefield. The electricity cuts off.

There is no central AC, and we are sweating like dogs. All the things we are singing about, we are confronted with them in the studio. When we record in France, we are very comfortable. In Paris, it’s very difficult to [express] yourself when you are singing about problems and you can’t really identify with those problems.

I think it comes through in the album. It sounds to me like you have even more power behind your messages.

I planned to do the songs that way. But probably the emotion you are hearing comes from the fact that I was reconfronted with the attitude of Lagos.

There were some things brought up in the album that kind of hint at a united Africa. Do you think there could be a pan-African union, kind of like the European Union?

That was Kwame Nkrumah’s [the nationalist leader who liberated the new nation of Ghana from British rule] dream. And I think we’re still a very long way from that because the leaders in Africa are very greedy. I don’t see any African country doing anything for its people. So I think it’ll probably take another 50 to 100 years for us to reach there. The fact is we have to keep on fighting. We have to remember that so many people have lost their lives fighting. If there wasn’t a Kwame Nkrumah, my father, Malcom X, Marcus Garvey,

or Mandela, people like me will be naive to the history of Africa. It’s very important that I play my part so that the children can always have a platform to continue the struggle.

You’ve talked in the past about democracy— that you have your doubts about democracy as a system.

Yeah, it’s a game, like you see with the Democrats and the Republicans in America. The Republicans always want to gain power so they will always do everything to sabotage the Democratic government, and vice versa.

So what kind of system of government is that, when it is broken down before it started? Even if the government in power is doing good things, the opposition always tries to find an excuse to bring it down, so that government never functions like it should.

The U.S. and Nigeria are obviously different places, but Afrobeat music is very strong in the U.S., even though we don’t have the same politics.

It’s becoming global. I don’t think we need to overcome the fact that it’s from Nigeria.

Do you feel like in Lagos there is more pressure to stick to the roots, to the “true” Afrobeat?

Africans just like dancing; so as long as you do a good song, they are very flexible. They can be critical as well. They think that you are using Afrobeat. They use my father to judge you and say this doesn’t sound like him. It doesn’t mean they don’t accept it, but they can be very critical.

A lot of people call it underground music in America.

It’s not underground. They made a mistake.

I don’t know why everybody’s always saying “underground.” My father said “on the ground.” v Next week: Experimental noise musicians Jon Cates and Jake Elliott of Dorkbot interview Captured! by Robots.

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Heavy Metal, Light Heart When you burn out on tuneless thrashing and slate gray vocal vomit, Slough Feg will be there for you.

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haven’t had much luck converting my metalhead friends to Slough Feg—the band’s flavor of metal is just too dorky, they say, or too obvious. So instead I’m going to go to work on all you people. Part of the difficulty here is that to explain Slough Feg’s appeal I also have to explain the appeal of Dungeons & Dragons, which remains fixed in the popular imagination as a game that causes pallid basementdwelling nerds Bible of the Devil, to worship Satan Slough Feg, Stone and murder each Magnum, Arriver other with cereThu 4/28, 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon, monial swords. I’ll 2401 N. Western, 773get back to that in 276-9730, $5 suggested a minute. donation, 21+.

First, though, what do Slough Dark Lord Day with Lair of the Minotaur, Slough Feg sound like? Do Feg, Sweet Cobra, a little googling Ponys, Bible of the and you’ll find Devil, and Sybris lots of compariSat 4/30, 10 AM, Three Floyds Brewing, sons to Judas 9750 Indiana Parkway, Priest and Iron Munster, 219-922-3565, Maiden—partly sold out, 21+. because Slough Fe g s h a r e t h e hard-rocking, grandly melodic style of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and partly because everybody has heard of those bands.

It’s pretty common to get into metal through the likes of Priest and Maiden, of course, but I never crossed paths with them in my formative years. I didn’t fall for Slough Feg because they reminded me of the music

I’d listened to in third grade. The closest I’d gotten to metal by the time I reached college in 1990 was Led Zeppelin, unless you count my younger brother’s Guns N’ Roses tapes and my dad’s old Iron Butterfly LPs. I drifted into heavy music along a path that led from one idiosyncratic band to another: the shamanic thunder of Neurosis, the towering nihilism of Swans, the perverted sludge of the Melvins. As late as 2003, when I wrote a feature about Pelican for the Reader, I didn’t consider myself a fan of metal. That’s since changed, of course, and as I’ve cultivated a taste for the devil’s music I’ve listened almost exclusively to subspecies of death and black metal: the alien locomotion of Meshuggah, the clotted howling of Gorguts, the stampeding histrionics of Absu.

If you recognize those three names, you know where I’m going with this. Extreme metal can be awesome, overwhelming, and cathartic, but one thing it’s generally not is fun.

So when Profound Lore released Slough Feg’s eighth full-length, The Animal Spirits, last fall, the timing was perfect, at least for me. Without knowing it, I’d been starving for metal with catchy choruses.

Front man and sole constant member Mike Scalzi founded the Lord Weird Slough Feg, as they were originally known, in central Pennsylvania in 1990, then moved to the Bay Area eight months later. In an e-mail last week, he told me that the current incarnation of Slough Feg—with guitarist Angelo Tringali, bassist Adrian Maestas, and drummer Harry

Slough Feg front man Mike Scalzi: teacher of philosophy, rocker of faces

Cantwell—is the “best lineup we’ve ever had,” but even if that’s true, it still pains me to think about how many years this band existed unbeknownst to me.

From day one Scalzi has been swimming upstream, and in a column for the blog Invisible Oranges last September he lamented that so many people’s idea of metal has devolved into “this formless wall of static noise with someone hacking up phlegm over top of it.” He’s tarring some of my favorite music with that brush, but point taken. Ever get an Inquisition song stuck in your head?

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Scalzi sings “clean,” in the parlance of the genre, and favors soaring, full-throated vocals— he sounds like he’s using every cubic centimeter of his lungs. The rousing tunes on The Animal Spirits abound with simple, giddy, galloping riffs and frisky flourishes of doubled-up lead guitar, and they’re structured to include at least one throw-the-horns solo apiece, plus scads of fruity chord changes. Slough Feg thumb their noses at the scowling gatekeepers of grimness by playing in major keys, an aesthetic choice that’s often enough to doom an act to the airbrushed-dragon ghetto of power metal. In a November interview APRIL 28, 2011 • CHICAGO READER B13

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There are lots of reasons Slough Feg can pull this off. Their sound is raw and straightforward, and they dig into their no-nonsense arrangements—sans keyboards, thank God— with rambunctious exuberance and punkish spunk. More important, they’re not just fun but funny. “I like silliness, and that’s one of the things that’s missing from a lot of metal,” Scalzi told the Bay Guardian. “Metal is inherently funny. No matter what! It’s funny. That’s one of the best things about it! It’s ridiculous, and it’s great because it’s ridiculous.”

On The Animal Spirits he puts his money where his mouth is. His verses on “Trick the Vicar” are pell-mell tumbles of barely sensical syllables: “Tricking the vicar / Puns in the papacy perplex the pontiff / Who bears the mark of the beast? / Dazzle the deacon / What unholy boister goes on in the cloister / While we’re disturbing the priest?” Four songs later he sings, “Dressed in rags, with rosaries / Covering the scars / Lycanthropic fantasies / Dancing with the stars.” If you can’t decide how funny those lines are, bear in mind that Dancing With the Stars has been airing on American TV since 2005.

Slough Feg songs are crowded not just with characters but with the alternate worlds they inhabit. The range and profusion of stories they refer to is fearlessly, hilariously, amazingly nerdy. The Animal Spirits has lyrics about Martin Luther’s 95 theses, Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 journey by raft from Peru to Polynesia, and possibly Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, a sci-fi series syndicated in the U.S. in the first half of the aughts; Edgar Allan Poe makes an appearance via the Alan Parsons Project cover “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Earlier albums touch on Teutonic mythology, the Odyssey, Celtic folklore (especially as interpreted by the comic series Slaine, in which the Lord Weird Slough Feg is the main villain), and Deathsport, a 1978 Roger Corman B movie about postapocalyptic combat on heavily armed motorcycles. Slough Feg’s 2003 full-length Traveller shares its name and subject matter with a sci-fi role-playing game released in the late 70s, from which it borrows its cover font and layout—adding a drawing of what appears to be a large, pointy-eared humanoid spaniel wearing powered battle armor.

The cover for 2000’s Down Among the Deadmen is by famous fantasy artist Erol Otus,

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whose illustrations are all over early D&D materials, most memorably the Monster Manual.

That’s not to say Scalzi uses these references to embed deep meaning in the songs— as he’s repeatedly insisted, there’s nothing to decode in his lyrics. They’re just a playground for your brain. On “Tiger! Tiger!” from 2007’s Hardworlder, he sings, “I’m trapped behind bars / On the gateway to Mars / But when all the stars expire will I still be here?” You don’t have to recognize this as a description of the plight of antihero Gulliver Foyle in the opening pages of Alfred Bester’s classic 50s sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination for it to set your mind in motion—in fact the main reason it works is because it doesn’t suggest one specific backstory but rather a quantum cloud of many possible backstories, all converging on that chorus. This open-ended quality—a side effect of almost any attempt to evoke an entire parallel reality with a handful of little bitty words—is a great virtue of many metal lyrics, though it tends to make them read like unfinished adolescent poetry when they’re orphaned on the page.

Here’s where Dungeons & Dragons comes back in. In high school, Scalzi tells me, he played D&D and its sister game Gamma World, among many others. I did too, at about the same time—he’s 41 and I’m 39— and we both played as dungeon masters, which is great for your storytelling chops but terrible for your prospects with the attractive sex. The games don’t tend to use visuals, so the DM has to give the players a sense for where they are and what’s hap-

pening by talking them through it, trusting their imaginations to do the heavy lifting.

Just as in a four-minute metal song, momentum is everything. Whether you’re leading a game or writing lyrics, you’ve got to evoke your milieu in a hurry, with an ear for which three details will help your audience fill in the rest. And if you’re part of that audience, it’s your job to put aside your skepticism and self-consciousness—not always the easiest task, given that the culture is saturated with messages telling you not to like role-playing games or goofball heavy metal in the first place—so that you can immerse yourself in the experience and have fun.

Yes, it’s silly to sit around a table with your friends pretending to be a halfling thief. It’s also silly to sing along to a metal song about the Protestant Reformation.

That’s beside the point. As Scalzi put it in that Bay Guardian interview, “This is inherently enjoyable. Are you willing to partake in it, or are you too cool for it?”

So yeah. Given that you’ve read this far, you should probably go see Slough Feg at Quenchers on Thursday. Sure, it’s a tiny room—but like the good book says, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). If you think it’s dumb, I’ll buy you a beer to make it up to you. I’ll be the blond guy with beginner’s metal hair. And I’m leaving the ceremonial sword at home. v Care to comment? Find this story at chicagoreader.com/music.

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Dee Alexander Quartet 10 PM, L26 at the South Loop Hotel, 11 West 26th Street, 312-225-4545 DePaul Big Band with Jeff Hamilton 8 and 10 PM, also Thu 4/28, 8 and 10 PM; Sat 4/30, 8 and 10 PM; and Sun 5/1, 4, 8, and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Bobby Lewis Quartet 5 PM, also Sat 4/30, 5 PM, Andy’s Moutin Reunion Quartet 9 PM, also Sat 4/30, 8 PM, Green Mill Alfonso Ponticelli’s Swing Gitan 9:30 PM, also Sat 4/30, 9:30 PM, Andy’s

INTERNATIONAL

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CLASSICAL

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BATTLES When Tyondai Braxton, who cofounded

Battles in 2002, announced his sudden departure in August, I admit I doubted the band had a future. Based partly on Braxton’s stylistically slippery 2009 solo album, Central Market, I assumed he’d been the guiding force behind the genre-averse sound the quartet created on 2007’s Mirrored. But the remaining members— guitarist Ian Williams, bassist Dave Konopka, and

drummer John Stanier—proved me wrong with Gloss Drop (due from Warp on June 7), pushing Battles further into turf all their own. The band wrote much of the material on the new record while Braxton was still aboard, but in a Pitchfork interview Konopka says the group reworked it all. They brought in guest vocalists to compensate for Braxton’s absence—techno producer Matias Aguayo, Blonde Redhead front woman Kazu Makino, new-wave relic Gary Numan, Boredoms kingpin Yamantaka Eye—but the instruments burst with so much personality, colliding daring ideas and unclassifiable sounds, that the music would sound great without any singing. There are clearly plenty of electronics and keyboards, but it’s hard to say where they leave off—trying to figure out which noise is coming from where is wonderfully puzzling. The pointillistic, chiming guitars sound like a cross between steel-pan drums and amplified kalimbas; Stanier’s jittery, punishing beats sound like a drum machine gone berserk. For me it counts as very high praise when I find music almost impossible to describe, so I’m very happy to be confounded by Gloss Drop’s irresistible grooves, ever-shifting textures, and gleaming melodic fragments that seem somehow lighter than air and heavier than an anvil. —Peter Margasak 10 PM, Lincoln Hall, sold out. 18+

DEAD MILKMEN Listening to The King in Yellow, the first album of new Dead Milkmen material since 1995’s Stoney’s Extra Stout, is a lot like catching up with one of your cooler, smarter, and funnier friends from high school who managed to grow up without losing all the qualities that made him your friend in the first place. Their jangled guitars, their bitingly witty lyrics, their snotty Philly accents, their playful and iconoclastic version of hardcore—a reminder of a time when it actually had a sense of humor—make it clear what you’ve been missing in the years since. “Don’t trust the happy / The happy are insane / If you see someone smiling / Run! Get away!” advise Rodney Anonymous and Joe Jack Talcum on the chorus of “Meaningless Upbeat Happy Song,” between verses about what a still-fucked-up world we’re living in. The Dead Milkmen remain best known for “Punk Rock Girl”—a song that became a left-field hit during the pop nadir of the late 80s—but albums like Big Lizard in APRIL 28, 2011 • CHICAGO READER B19

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Dead Milkmen My Backyard, Eat Your Paisley, Bucky Fellini, and Beelzebubba have held up better than much of the music of that time, both over- and underground.

Furthermore, I’m hard-pressed to find a song more prescient than “Right Wing Pigeons.” Since the band’s re-formation in 2008, with deceased bassist Dave Blood replaced by Dan Stevens (Joe Jack Talcum’s former bandmate in the Low Budgets), they don’t play out anywhere near as often as they used to; tonight’s show is a rare opportunity to see one of the greats of American punk rock. —Brian Costello The Lawrence Arms, Reaganomics, and Holy Mess open. 7:30 PM, Congress Theater, $18. A

GRAILS Portland-based instrumental quartet Grails

don’t tour very often as a unit, being in the habit of sharing members with numerous other groups (including Om, Holy Sons, and Harvestman, a side project of Neurosis guitarist Steve Von Till), but their live shows are nonetheless reliably powerful experiences. Originally cast in a sort of art-doom mold, on recent releases (including the fourth disc in their Black Tar Prophecies vinyl series) they’ve moved more eclectically through the quasi-genre of “soundtrack seeking film.” Many of the haunting, suspended moments on their new Deep Politics (Temporary Residence) seem designed to hang on visuals that exist only in the listener’s mind, in a way that reminds me a bit of recent Earth (though more intensely orchestrated) or what the score to Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man might have sounded like if it had been scored by Tony Iommi instead of Neil Young on solo guitar. Grails layer sounds with painterly care, but the final product stops just short of being “lush.” Their landscape is definitely a desert, but the sun’s gone down—it’s cool, dark, and thick with nocturnal hunters and night-blooming flowers. —Monica Kendrick James Blackshaw opens. 7 PM, Empty Bottle, $10.

FLORIAN HECKER Vienna-based electronic musi-

cian Florian Hecker must not worry about looking like an egghead—his work is often rooted so thoroughly in theoretical discourse that it might evaporate without it.

The cover art for his latest album, 2009’s Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Editions Mego), is nothing but the beginning of an impenetrable essay by philosopher Robin Mackay, which carries on inside for another 11 pages. The new work that Hecker will give its U.S. debut in Chicago tonight is allegedly a sonic exploration of the concept of “hyperchaos” as posited by French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux, though I can’t makes heads or tails of how. (You can take a stab by

reading a conversation among Hecker, Meillassoux, and Mackay at urbanomic.com/archives/Documents-1.pdf; Meillassoux never gets closer to a quotable definition of hyperchaos than, “It is not more disorder than chaos, it is order or disorder.”) Fortunately Hecker’s fiercely visceral strain of abstract electronic music is perfectly capable of working you over even if you don’t have a firm grip on the academic mumbo jumbo. He deals extensively in psychoacoustics and in the ways sound travels in a given environment, carefully modeling sounds to play tricks on the ears and on the brain’s sense of space—the label’s description of Acid at one point refers “an intense head related localization blur.” He creates most of his pieces using algorithmic computer software with a fair amount of randomness built in, but for Acid he fed sounds generated on an old-fashioned Buchla modular synthesizer through an equally old-school analog computer (a 1968 Comdyna GP-6). The results are of a piece with his usual output: suddenly morphing globs, squeals, and spears of sound that are as vividly physical as they are disorienting. —Peter Margasak 8 PM, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, free with RSVP to hecker. eventbrite.com. A

FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE It

doesn’t necessarily mean much to say that Femi Kuti has finally put some teeth in his music on his new album, Africa for Africa (Knitting Factory)—throughout his career he’s softened the bluntness of the seething Afrobeat pioneered by his father, Fela, for broader commercial appeal. He hasn’t exactly stripped down his style on Africa, but he does without the polish evident on nearly all of his previous work, and his lyrics recall his dad’s fiery political stridency. The songs indict his homeland’s widespread culture of corruption, excoriating both colonial greed and homegrown inefficiency. The title track is a cry for civic pride and social responsibility, and “Make We Remember” is a roll call of bygone leaders, from Malcolm X to Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela. The album summons a powerful charge of righteous indignation—something that’s more necessary than ever now that his father’s music is a smash on Broadway. —Peter Margasak DJ Warp opens. 9 PM, Metro, $25. 18+

JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS

Banjoist and singer Joe Mullins named Hymns From the Hills (Rebel), the second album with his band Radio Ramblers, after a gospel radio show that his father, DJ and bluegrass fiddler Paul “Moon” Mullins, launched in Middletown, Ohio, in 1964. The younger Mullins followed APRIL 28, 2011 • CHICAGO READER B21

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Grails his father’s twin vocations, playing in a local band called Traditional Grass while breaking into radio in 1982, and by 1990 he’d launched a version of his father’s program that even used the same name. He’s found success in both fields—he owns several Ohio stations—and before leading his own group he worked in the all-star band Longview.

Steeped in the conventions of bluegrass, the all-gospel Hymns From the Hills makes a fine addition to the repertoire, with high-profile guests (Doyle Lawson, Larry Sparks, Rhonda Vincent) adding extra flavor. In fact, Ralph Stanley saves the collection’s sole misstep, a spin through the Sunday-school standard “Jesus Loves Me” that includes a ragged children’s choir from Mullins’s church cloyingly delivering the chorus. The Radio Ramblers complement the traditional numbers with some decent originals, but one new tune jumped out at me: “O the Love of My Redeemer,” written by Chicago’s own Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes fame. A quick Google search indicates it’s become a modern gospel staple.

—Peter Margasak Long Journey Home opens. 8 PM, American Legion Hall, $20, $15 seniors and children. A

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MUSIC VENUES Abbey Pub 3420 W. Grace, 773-463-5808, abbeypub.com Allstate Arena 6920 Mannheim Rd., Rosemont, 847-6356601, allstatearena.com

Andy’s 11 E. Hubbard, 312-642-6805, andysjazzclub.com Arcada Theatre 105 E. Main St., Saint Charles, 630-587-

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Call 1.800.982.ARTS or visit ticketmaster.com

Mandel Hall University of Chicago, 1131 E. 57th, 773-702-

8068, chicagopresents.uchicago.edu Martyrs’ 3855 N. Lincoln, 773-404-9494, martyrslive.com Mayne Stage 1328 W. Morse, 773-381-4554, maynestage.com McAninch Arts Center College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., 630-942-4000, home.cod.edu/atthemac Memories 4358 N. Cicero, 773-286-8640, mpshows.com Metro 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-0203, metrochicago.com Metropolis Performing Arts Centre 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights, 847-577-2121, metropolisarts.com The Mid 306 N. Halsted, 312-265-3990, themidchicago.com Millennium Park Michigan & Randolph, 312-742-1169, millenniumpark.org Montrose Room 5300 N River Rd, Rosemont, 847-5445300, icohare.com/montrose_room Morseland 1218 W. Morse, 773-764-8900, morseland.com Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago, 312-2802660, mcachicago.org Music in the Loft 1017 W. Washington, 312-243-9233, musicintheloft.org Mutiny 2428 N. Western, 773-486-7774, themutinychicago. com Myopic Books 1564 N. Milwaukee, 773-862-4882, myopicbookstore.com Old Town School of Folk Music 4544 N. Lincoln, 773-7286000, oldtownschool.org Pancho’s 2200 N. California, 773-772-7811, mpshows.com Paramount Theatre 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora, 630-8966666, paramountarts.com Park West 322 W. Armitage, 773-929-5959, parkwestchicago.com Permanent Records 1914 W. Chicago, 773-278-1744, permanentrecordschicago.com Phyllis’ Musical Inn 1800 W. Division, 773-486-9862 Pianoforte Chicago Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan, suite 825, 312-291-0291, pianofortechicago.com Pops for Champagne 601 N. State, 312-266-7677, popsforchampagne.com Quenchers Saloon 2401 N. Western, 773-276-9730, quenchers.com Ravinia Festival Green Bay & Lake Cook, Highland Park, 847-266-5100, ravinia.org Reckless Records 3126 N. Broadway, 773-404-5080; 1532 N. Milwaukee, 773-235-3727; and 26 E. Madison, 312-795-0878, reckless.com Red Line Tap 7006 N. Glenwood, 773-274-5463, heartlandcafe.com/rl_index.htm Reggie’s Music Joint 2105 S. State, 312-949-0120, reggieslive.com/musicjoint Reggie’s Rock Club 2109 S. State, 312-949-0121, reggieslive. com/rockclub Rialto Square Theatre 102 N. Chicago St., Joliet, 815-7266600, rialtosquare.com Riviera Theatre 4746 N. Racine, 773-275-6800, jamusa.com Room 43 1043 E. 43rd, 773-285-2222, hydeparkjazzsociety. com Rosa’s Lounge 3420 W. Armitage, 773-342-0452, rosaslounge.com Saki 3716 W. Fullerton, 773-486-3997, sakistore.net Schubas 3159 N. Southport, 773-525-2508, schubas.com Sears Centre 5333 Prairie Stone Pkwy., Hoffman Estates, 847-649-2270, searscentre.com The Shrine 2109 S. Wabash, 312-753-5700, theshrinechicago. com Skylark 2149 S. Halsted, 312-948-5275, ratchetseries. blogspot.com Smart Bar 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-4140, smartbarchicago. com Sound-Bar 226 W. Ontario, 312-787-4480, sound-bar.com SPACE 1245 Chicago, Evanston, 847-492-8860, evanstonspace.com Spy Bar 646 N. Franklin, 312-337-2191, spybarchicago.com Star Plaza Theatre I-65 & U.S. 30, Merrillville, 219-791-1234, starplazatheatre.com Subterranean 2011 W. North, 773-278-6600, subt.net Symphony Center 220 S. Michigan, 312-294-3000, cso.org Toyota Park 7000 S. Harlem Ave., Bridgeview, 877-5988703, toyotapark.com UIC Pavilion 525 S. Racine, 312-413-5740, uicpavilion.com Uncommon Ground 3800 N. Clark, 773-929-3680; 1401 W. Devon, 773-465-9801, uncommonground.com Underground Wonder Bar 810 N. Clark, 312-266-7761, undergroundwonderbar.com United Center 1901 W. Madison, 312-455-4500, unitedcenter. com The Vic 3145 N. Sheffield, 773-472-0449, victheatre.com V Live 2047 N. Milwaukee, 773-489-5483, vlivechicago.com The Venue at Horseshoe Casino 777 Casino Center, Hammond, 219-473-6060, horseshoehammond.com Viaduct Theater 3111 N. Western, 773-296-6024, viaducttheatre.com Viper Alley 275 Parkway, Lincolnshire, 847-499-5000 Vision 632 N. Dearborn, 312-266-1944, visionnightclub.com, viper-alley.com The Whistler 2421 N. Milwaukee, 773-227-3530, whistlerchicago.com

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sale Fri 4/29, noon Parenthetical Girls 6/8, 8 PM, Against Me!, Screaming Females 6/17, Subterranean, 17+ 6:30 PM, Metro, on sale Sat 4/30, noon, all-ages Phish 8/15-17, 7:30 PM, UIC Pavilion, on Alela Diane 6/9, 9:30 PM, Empty sale Sat 4/30, 11 AM Bottle A Place to Bury Strangers 6/6, 9:30 Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea 7/1, Beat PM, Empty Bottle Kitchen, 9 PM Robert Plant & the Band of Joy 6/16, 8 Beausoleil 7/16, 8 PM, SPACE, PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Evanston, on sale Fri 4/29, 5 PM, Joe Satriani 7/14, 8 PM, the Venue at all-ages Horseshoe Casino, Hammond, on sale Fri 4/29, noon Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, She Wants Revenge, Nico Vega 5/29, Darkest Hour 8/8, 1:30 PM, House of 9 PM, Double Door, on sale Sat 4/30, Blues, all-ages noon Black Uhuru 6/8, 9 PM, Double Door, Sleepy Sun 8/25, 9 PM, Double Door, on sale Sat 4/30, noon on sale Sat 4/30, noon BoDeans 7/29, 7:30 PM, Ravinia J.D. Souther 7/1, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, Festival, Highland Park on sale Fri 4/29, 5 PM, all-ages Haley Bonar 7/2, 9 PM, Hideout Dave Brubeck & Sons 6/19, 7 PM, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj 7/8, 7 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park United Center, on sale Sat 4/30, 10 AM Buckethead 7/31, 7 PM, the Vic, on sale Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish Sat 4/30, 10 AM, all-ages 7/19, 5 PM, House of Blues, all-ages Lloyd Cole 6/24, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, on Tesla 7/22, 9 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 4/29, noon sale Fri 4/29, 10 AM, 17+ Deep Purple 6/18, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Tortoise 7/9, 9:30 PM, Empty Bottle Festival, Highland Park U.S. Royalty 6/10, 10 Tim Easton & the Freelan PM, Schubas, on sale Barons 6/23, 8 PM, Beat Fri 4/29, noon, 18+ VENUE INFO Kitchen, on sale Sat Jimmie Vaughan ON PAGE B21 4/30, 10 AM, 17+ featuring Lou Ann Sully Erna 5/26, 7:30 PM, Barton 8/25, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Sat 4/30, 10 AM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 4/29, 5 all-ages PM, all-ages Five for Fighting, Michelle Branch Donnie Vie Band 6/16, 9 PM, Martyrs’ 7/22, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Zeke, Antiseen 5/27, 9 PM, Highland Park Brauerhouse, Lombard, 18+ Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, Designer Drugs 6/11, 8 PM, Congress Theater, 17+ UPDATED Peter Frampton 7/5, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Brooke Fraser, Cary Brothers 6/20, Festival, Highland Park 6:30 PM, House of Blues, canceled Go-Go’s, B-52s 6/17, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Lollapalooza with Eminem, Foo Festival, Highland Park Fighters, Coldplay, My Morning Goo Goo Dolls, Michelle Branch 7/16, 7 Jacket, Deftones, Beirut, Ratatat, PM, Charter One Pavilion, on sale Fri Lykke Li, Sleigh Bells, Best Coast, 4/29, 10 AM Black Lips, and others 8/5-7, Grant Hall & Oates 6/26, 7 PM, Ravinia Park, lineup updated Festival, Highland Park Jennifer Hudson 7/16, 7:30 PM, Ravinia UPCOMING Festival, Highland Park A-Trak, Kid Sister, Gaslamp Killer 5/5, Michael Johnson 10/14, 8 PM, Mayne 9 PM, the Mid Stage, on sale Sat 4/30, noon Aesop Rock 5/19, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Judds 6/10, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Airborne Toxic Event 5/18-19, 7:30 PM, Highland Park Metro, 5/18 sold out, all-ages Junior Boys, Miracle Fortress 6/24, 9 Asia 5/13, 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ PM, Metro, 18+ Baby Dee 5/5, 9 PM, Hideout K.D. Lang & the Siss Boom Bang 6/23, Afrika Bambaataa 5/6, 10 PM, the Mid 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Suzy Bogguss 5/6, 8 PM, SPACE, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Pink Martini 7/10, 7 Evanston, all-ages PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Greg Brown 5/5, 8 PM, SPACE, Maroon 5 6/30-7/1, 8 PM, Ravinia Evanston, all-ages Festival, Highland Park Cake 5/14, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, all-ages Moody Blues 6/11, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Captured by Robots, White Mystery Festival, Highland Park 5/7, 8:30 PM, Abbey Pub Morning Teleportation, Colourmusic Cars 5/18, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ 7/29, 9:30 PM, Subterranean, on sale Converge, Trap Them, Burning Love Sat 4/30, 10 AM, 17+ 5/30, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, Musiq Soulchild 6/18, 7:30 PM, all-ages the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Elvis Costello & the Imposters 5/15, 8 Hammond, on sale Fri 4/29, noon PM, Chicago Theatre Old 97’s 7/18-19, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, on Destruction 5/5, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock

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5/14, 8 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont Sepultura, Belphegor 5/19, 5 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, all-ages Small Brown Bike, Casket Lottery 5/14, 9:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Surfer Blood, . . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, True Widow 5/7, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ TSOL 5/14, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, all-ages Tune-Yards, Buke & Gass 5/10, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Twilight Singers, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s 5/17, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ UFO 5/20, 9 PM, House of Blues Unsane, Indian 5/25, 8:30 PM, Abbey Pub Urge Overkill 5/20, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ David Vandervelde, the High Strung 5/7, 10 PM, Schubas Wildbirds & Peacedrums 6/7, 9:30 PM, Empty Bottle Wishbone Ash 5/6, 7:30 and 10 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Yacht, Light Asylum, Bobby Birdman 5/5, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Yelle, French Horn Rebellion 5/6, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Neil Young, Bert Jansch 5/6-7, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Young Widows 5/14, 9:30 PM, Beat Kitchen

SOLD OUT

Adele 5/24, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, all-ages Beady Eye 6/18, 8:30 PM, Metro, allages James Blake 5/15, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Bruce Cockburn 5/22, 7 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, all-ages Death Cab for Cutie 5/20, 7:30 PM, Metro, all-ages Face to Face, Strung Out, Darlings 5/5, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Foster the People 6/12, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Jethro Tull 6/26, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre Ted Leo, Scott Lucas 5/5, 9 PM, Schubas Lykke Li 5/23, 8 PM, Metro, all-ages Marked Men, Toys That Kill 5/28, 9:30 PM, Empty Bottle Jonathan Richman 5/8, 8 PM, Hideout Paul Simon 5/17, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre; 5/16, 8 PM, the Vic, all-ages Smith Westerns 5/11, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+v

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photos by AndreA bAuer

nightlife

So much iniquity at last week’s Black Lips show For a while now, we’ve run photos of what happens on stage at some of the more, um, interesting shows around town. No more. We now turn the camera to the green room, the afterparty, and everything in between.

So, the Black Lips at Logan Square Auditorium on April 22. Sure, there was crowd-surfing,

backstage boozing, and barely legal booty. But there were also adorable smirks from White Mystery’s Alex White, the extended cat claws of Vivian Girls goddess “Kickball” Katy Goodman, and a vodka-swilling Matt Williams (of the Empty Bottle and Black Lips tour-managing fame). And those are just the photos approved for print.

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Tom Waits Special: $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle and a shot of Old Crow whiskey,

$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, $4 Stoli flavors

$3 Miller Lite, $4 Makers Mark

$3 Coors Lite, $4 Jack Daniels

$4 Allagash, $3 Powers

$4 Bloody Marys, $4 Mimosas, $5 Corona

$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, $4 Jameson

$4 Bells (seasonal), $5 Templeton Rye

$5 Stella, $6 Tiki cocktails

$1 off Two Brothers

$4 Carlsberg drafts

$4 Carlsberg drafts

$4 Half Acre drafts

$1 off all Three Floyds drafts

$1 off all Lagunitas drafts

$4 Allagash White

$4 Absolut, $4 Sailor Jerry, $4 Jameson cocktails $3 Pabst / Goose Island 312

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$4 Absolut, $4 Sailor Jerry, $4 Jameson cocktails $3 Pabst / Goose Island 312

$4 Absolut, $4 Sailor Jerry, $4 Jameson cocktails $3 Pabst / Goose Island 312

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$5 Great Lakes Burning River, $5 Jack Daniels

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$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$4 pints of Pilsner

$6 12oz margaritas, $8 16 oz margaritas, $20 mix & match Mexican buckets

$6 Patron Silver Shots, $11 20oz "Lush Cup" margarita

$5 20oz drafts

$4 craft and import bottles

$3 craft and import drafts

$2 off all Sangria, $4 Mexican drafts

$4 Bombs, $5 Cabo Wabo, $4 Malibu cocktails, $5 Jack Daniels cocktails, $5 Moscow Mule, $2.50 Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboy cans, $5 Bacardi, $5 Absolut, $6 Grey Goose / Effen Black Cherry

1/2 price bottles of wine, $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater, $3 312 bottles, $7 Patron Shots, $5 Bacardi $5 Absolut, $6 Grey Goose / Effen Black Cherry

$3.50 Victoria bottles, $4 Bloody’s featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka, $5 Bacardi $5 Absolut, $6 Grey Goose / Effen Black Cherry

1/2 price all 25 draft beers on tap, $3 Finlandia Vodka Cocktails, $4 Maker’s Mark, $5 Bacardi, $5 Absolut, $6 Grey Goose / Effen Black Cherry

$4 Jim Beam cocktails, $5 Jameson cocktails, $4 Malibu cocktails, $5 Cabo Wabo, $3 Corona bottles, $2.50 Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboy cans

$4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco cocktails, $5 Long Island Iced Teas, $5 Herradura margaritas, $3.50 Stella & Hoegaarden drafts, $5 Bacardi, $5 Absolut, $6 Grey Goose / Effen Black Cherry

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$5 Schlitz & Old Crow shot

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$13 Buckets of Miller & Bud bottles (mix & match), $4 Guinness & Smithwicks drafts, $4 Bloody’s featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka, $2.50 Busch tallboy cans, $2.00 Blatz, Hamm’s, Old Milwaukee & Stroh’s cans

1321 W. Taylor 312-243-1577

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