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Prospect Heights resident Chris Kraszynski, who is a trans woman, has won a $2.5 million judgement against Rob Roy Country Club Village Condo Association after a 16 year-fight.

Kraszynski, who lives in one of 650 condo association units on Country Club Drive in Prospect Heights, took them to federal court over pesticide exposure, the lack of disability accommodatio...


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Nick Patricca

Few places in American cultural history have played as profound a role in the development of queer artistic life as Fire Island. During much of the 20th century—particularly from the postwar years through the onset of the AIDS epidemic—it became perhaps the nation’s most vital seasonal gathering place for queer women and men writers, painters, playwrights, d...


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In a major development, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state bans on transgender girls and women competing in girls’ and women’s school sports,


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SPOTLIGHT: Here are more Fast Foodie Facts, courtesy of Terri Schlichenmeyer and yours truly:

The chocolate-chip cookie was actually invented before the chocolate chip. In the late 1930s, Ruth Graves Wakefield 

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As stroke inducing heat, irritating dust storms and torrential rains bedeviled the Fourth of July celebrations in the nation’s capital, the opposite occurred at the 8th Annual South Side Pride Festival on the campus of  Dusable Museum at 750 East 56th Place.

Hundreds gathered for Love in Action, the official close of Pride Month on July 5 fo...


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