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November 1998 issue of Chicago Ink: The White Issue

  • I'm still waiting for Clinton to apologize by Lowell Thompson
  • The Whitest of Chicago

  • Chicago Marches Against Police Brutality by Rachel Rinaldo and Robert Wyrod
  • Reign of Terror at Area 2 by Kari Lydersen
  • Whose crime is it anyway? Supporters charge police with conducting vendetta against brutality victim Mearday by Chris Geovanis
  • Alert Citizens Stop Police Brutality interview with Mary Powers of Citizens Alert by Scott Pfeiffer
  • The Real Deal: John Hagedorn Focuses a New Lens on the Dope Trade by Kari Lydersen
  • Going Drug Crazy reviewed by Amy Traub
  • The 5% Solution: Religious Persecution Behind Bars by Michael Zimny
  • Keep Our Government Off Drugs "Dark Alliance" reviewed by Alex Zaitchik
  • Seeing Shadows "The Shadow University" reviewed by John K. Wilson
  • The Happy End of Brecht reviewed by Warren Leming
  • Dating Advice: Stay Away from the Writers reviewed by Kari Lydersen

    August 1998 issue of Chicago Ink

  • An interview with Adolph Reed by Danny Postel
  • Lockout: Cineplex Odious by Kari Lydersen
  • The Museum of Science or Industry? by John K. Wilson
  • The Truth about the Cassini Mission by John K. Wilson
  • An update on Cabrini by David Peterson
  • Slaughterhouse: a review by Kari Lydersen
  • Is Feminism's Time Up? by Eric Smith
  • Is Journalism a Joke? by John K. Wilson, David Peterson, and Leticia Cortez
  • Richie & Lenard by Lowell Thompson
  • Gutierrez by Leticia Cortez
  • The Ink Column and Corrections Page
  • The Chicagoland Action Bulletin by Ralph Suter

    May 1998 issue of Chicago Ink

  • Would you like fries with your dinosaur? by Kari Lydersen
  • Fascism at the Field by Warren Leming
  • A Fossilized Museum by John K. Wilson
  • In Love with a Food Hole by Jim Westrich
  • Whole Foods is Scared of the South Side, and South Siders Like it That Way by Kari Lydersen
  • Whole Foods Refuses UFW Pledge for Strawberry Workers by Kari Lydersen
  • An interview with anti-racism activist Tim Wise by Brian Brasel
  • Radio for the Rest of Us: A report from the Las Vegas Free Radio Gathering by Scott Pfeiffer
  • Welcome to Illinois' Prisons, From MCC to Supermax by Bonnie Jones
  • Life in a Political Prison: An interview with Rafael Cancel Miranda by Bonnie Jones
  • Political Prisoners in the US: A List
  • Spike Lee, Louis Farrakhan, and the Invisible Black Left by Jim Nadell
  • Containing the Past: a review of Rethinking the Cold War by Alex Zaitchik
  • Israel's Jubilee: A Time for Peace? by Andy Mager
  • the INK column
  • Letter to the Editor
  • The Chicago Tribune's Holiday Fund Industry

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    Mayor for Life: A Critical Look at Richie Daley

  • A Roundtable on the Daley Administration
  • Disinfecting the City by Neal Pollack
  • The Power of Richard II by Fran Tobin
  • Daley, the IMF, and Other MFs by Salim Muwakkil
  • Mayor Daley's Matching Socks by Larry Bennett
  • The City of Slooping Shoulders by Curly Cohen
  • Take the Daley Quiz

  • Red Scare by John K. Wilson
  • Caucasian Chicago by Lowell Thompson
  • Corporate Criminal of the Month: Waste Management by Eric R. Smith
  • Murder in Chiapas by Kerry Appel
  • Window to the Wallet by John K. Wilson
  • WTTW Program Warnings
  • Some of the Best but Least Discussed Books of the Years
  • Making Crime Pay, reviewed by Kari Lydersen
  • review by Brian Brasel
  • Danny Schechter's The More You Watch, The Less You Know, reviewed by Scott Pfeiffer
  • A Year in Music

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