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Settled within a literati-packed café in the heart of Chicago’s Andersonville hippiedom, Marc Smith--the city’s most celebrated bard and the grandfather of slam poetry—nibbles on a croissant sandwich before gruffly and rather unexpectedly declaring... full post »

Lincoln Park resident and furniture salesman James Calendar leaned back into his chair, searching for words. Outside the Thomas Moser storefront, traffic zoomed through River North, a neighborhood that Calendar once called home. After ten years in the ... full post »

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