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CHI CA GO ’S The Triibe visits Anya Davidson delivers FREE WEEKLY SINCE Queen Key at home a comics report from the with her cousins 24 Women’s March to the Polls 18 19 71 | OC TO BER THE 18, 2018 LONG DEATH OF JEAN LALIME A classic tale of Chicago corruption, and also of rabbinical law, frontier justice, and the city’s first murder By PAUL DAILING 9 THIS WEEK CHICAGO READER | OCTOBER 18, 2018 | VOLUME 48, NUMBER 3 TO CONTACT ANY READER A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR FEATURE EMPLOYEE,E-MAIL: (FIRSTINITIAL)(LAST NAME) @CHICAGOREADER.COM IT JUST FEELS like whiplash most days, doesn’t it? We’ve barely wrapped our The bones of Jean Lalime heads around how Brett Kavanaugh’s moving soliloquy on drinkin’ won him a Chicago’s first murder victim has a stunning tale to tell seat on the Supreme Court and then Elizabeth Warren takes a seat at the table PUBLISHER TRACY BAIM about the corruption, nepotism, and falsehoods that EDITOR IN CHIEF ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE for President Trump’s weird new birtherism game. It’s sunny and frigid and helped shape the city. MANAGING EDITOR, DIGITAL autumn in Chicago, and Chance the Rapper isn’t running for mayor but maybe KAREN HAWKINS DEPUTY EDITOR KATE SCHMIDT should since Toni Preckwinkle’s security chief appears to have abandoned an BY PAUL DAILING 9 CREATIVE DIRECTOR VINCE CERASANI SUV in a ditch under increasingly mysterious circumstances. What is even DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JAMIE RAMSAY happening right now? MUSIC FEATURE CULTURE EDITOR AIMEE LEVITT It’s October. I usually spend the month watching a horror movie a day in the MUSIC EDITOR PHILIP MONTORO RaisedVoices ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMIE LUDWIG #31HorrorFilms31Days challenge, a project of local boy-gone-horribly-wrong SENIOR WRITERS DEANNA ISAACS, Daniel Kraus (writer of the novel The Shape of Water and the upcoming The BEN JORAVSKY, MIKE SULA Our intrepid comics SENIOR THEATER CRITIC TONY ADLER Living Dead, cowritten with the late, great George Romero). This year’s differ- journalist interviews STAFF WRITERS ent, of course: I spent all my horror-movie-watching time reading this issue’s MAYA DUKMASOVA, LEOR GALIL supporters, detractors, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR RYAN SMITH cover feature on Chicago’s very first murder. The way that recently unearthed and everyone else at the GRAPHIC DESIGNER SUE KWONG details of interpreter and fur trader Jean Lalime’s death forecast a terrifying MUSIC LISTINGS COORDINATOR Women’s March to the LUCA CIMARUSTI future for Chicago politics is chilling. (You’ll also see shimmers of it behind Polls in Grant Park. FILM LISTINGS COORDINATOR Ben Joravsky’s remembrance of the late alderman Bill Henry.) PATRICK FRIEL BY ANYA DAVIDSON 18 CONTRIBUTORS LUCA CIMARUSTI, But the issue isn’t all fear-inducing. We’re introducing something new in ANYA DAVIDSON, ISA GIALLORENZO, these pages—a regular comics journalism feature. I’ve been working in the JOHN GREENFIELD, ANDREA GRONVALL, JUSTIN HAYFORD, JACK HELBIG, form for the last seven years, and I’m excited to share what I’ve discovered MUSIC FEATURE IRENE HSIAO, DAN JAKES, MONICA KENDRICK, about graphic nonfiction narratives during that time. Local creator Anya Da- STEVE KRAKOW, MAX MALLER, BILL MEYER, vidson kicks us off with two pages from Saturday’s Women’s March to the Polls SCOTT MORROW, J.R. NELSON, Queen Key’s MARISSA OBERLANDER, LEAH PICKETT, called “Raised Voices.” It’s a thoughtful, hilarious, and extremely true peek at JAMES PORTER, BEN SACHS, very recent and very local events. I hope you love it. KATHLEEN SACHS, DMITRY SAMAROV, confidence sends BRIANNA WELLEN, ANNA WHITE, We did make some regrettable errors in last week’s issue. An article on the ALBERT WILLIAMS, IZZY YELLEN Jeff Awards has been revised and is currently available in an updated form INTERNS EMMANUEL CAMARILLO, a message to MARISSA DE LA CERDA, JULIA HALE, online at chicagoreader.com. Apparently we misspelled “Jastin Timberluk” BRITA HUNEGS, MARYKATE O’MEARA as well. Certain staff members will happily take him to dinner to personally black women ---------------------------------------------------------------- apologize for the egregious error if he wants to get in touch. SALES MANAGER PATTI FLYNN SENIOR ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE Anyway, I’ll be getting my chill fill next week at a Music Box midnight The rapper demands what AMY MATHENY screening of Jennifer’s Body. Look for me in the hand-Sharpied “I’d die for she wants—and inspires ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVES HORACE CLARK, Karyn Kusama” T-shirt and we can high-five about horrors both entertaining young fans to do the same. LENI MANA-HOPPENWORTH, and not. —ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE NATHANIEL SMITH BY THE TRIIBE 24 CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGER TED PIEKARZ DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL JOHN DUNLEVY ---------------------------------------------------------------- D IST RI BUTION CONCERNS IN THIS ISSUE [email protected] STM READER, LLC BOARD PRESIDENT DOROTHY R. LEAVELL CITY LIFE 14 Theater Frankenstein, Bunnicula, 21 Movies Ike Barinholtz’s The Oath CLASSIFIEDS TREASURER EILEEN RHODES 3 Joravsky | Politics New podcast and 14 more stage shows for the is part political satire, part get-me- 36 Jobs SECRETARY JESSICA STITES The City tells us how Chicago’s spooky season outta-here. 36 Apartments & Spaces CONSULTANT CAROL E. BELL always gotten things done. 16 Theater Eclipsed, Black and Blue, 22 Movies Beautiful Boy, The Hate 36 Marketplace 6 Dukmasova | Politics A voter’s and five more new plays, reviewed by U Give, and five more new releases, 37 Savage Love What’s a boss to do ---------------------------------------------------------------- guide to voters’ guides—and more in our critics reviewed by our critics when an employee shows up at his R E A DER (ISSN 1096-6919) IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY STM READER, LLC advance of the 2018 midterms 17 Lit Transparent creator Jill Soloway favorite masturbation party? 2930 S. MICHIGAN, SUITE 102 comes to town with the new book She MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE 38 Early Warnings Art Garfunkel, CHICAGO, IL 60616 FOOD & DRINK Wants it: Desire, Power, and Toppling 27 Record review Jazz bassist Matt Macy Gray, New Kids on the Block, COPYRIGHT © 2018 CHICAGO READER 7 Restaurant Review A homey new the Patriarchy. Ulery reinvents his sound—again—on and more shows to look for in the PERIODICAL POSTAGEPAID AT CHICAGO, IL Cuban spot opens in Logan Square. 20 Visual Art Humboldt Park’s Time his forthcoming album, Sifting Stars. weeks to come ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CHICAGO READER, READER, Being Tattoo brings its founders’ DIY 28 In Rotation Family-friendly trap 38 Gossip Wolf Jenny Pulse drops a ARTS & CULTURE spirit to a storefront setting. records, the album Bad Religion tried danceable new album, local rapper 13 Theater Raven Theatre and 21 Comedy The stand-up revue to forget, and more Calid B brings his second AfroBang ON THE COVER: HISTORICAL PHOTO American Blues Theater offer two Serenity Now! shows that sober 30 Shows of note Robbie Fulks and mixtape to the stage, and more. FROM THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL perspectives on the lives of black people can still be funny. Linda Gail Lewis, Amy Rigby, Swearin’, SOCIETY 1856-1956 BY PAUL M. ANGLE women, written by black women. and more of the week’s best 2 CHICAGO READER - OCTOBER 18, 2018 ll Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show on WCPT, 820 AM, Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 PM. CITY LIFE THE MEXICAN 1967 celebrating POLITICS City of the 51 quid pro quo New podcast The City brings back YEARSYEARS memories of Alderman Bill Henry and dealmaking in Chicago. ! ! Thanks to Ya ’ll By BEN JORAVSKY just steps fromthe Dempster “L”stop Tue-Sat 10 -6 847-475-8665 801 DempsterEvanston Bill Henry at age 26, when he was still a foot soldier in the 24th Ward é THE CITY ore than 30 years ago, I heard a and dreams of hundreds of thousands of black relatively unknown west-side residents. politician make a passionate Conversely, he epitomized the worst fears M declaration about dealmaking in of many white residents that somehow giving Chicago that’s been ringing true more political power to Washington meant for me ever since. taking power away from them, as though The politician was 24th Ward alderman Wil- Washington would do to them what white pols liam “Bill” Henry. His declaration came amid had been doing to black residents for decades. the chaos and cacophony of the special City These were fears that never came close to Council meeting on December 2, 1987, when being true. Chicago’s white power brokers in aldermen came together to elect an interim the council wanted to elect a white successor mayor in the aftermath of the death of Harold to Washington. But they couldn’t come up with Washington just a few months into his second enough votes to pull that off. So they came up term. with the next best thing—a black successor My memories of Henry come back stronger who would be more or less amenable to their than ever thanks to The City, USA Today’s en- white constituents. They settled on Sawyer. tertaining and enlightening ten-part podcast Meanwhile, most members of Washington’s created by Robin Amer, my old friend and coalition went with Evans, Washington’s floor editor from right here at the Reader. leader. In retrospect, it’s hard to see much I’ll get into The City in a little bit. Back to difference between Evans and Sawyer—both that fateful council meeting. of them had come up through the ranks of the The choice for interim mayor came down to Democratic machine. But in the immediate aldermen Eugene Sawyer or Tim Evans (now aftermath of Washington’s death, it was easy Timothy C.