There are also several regional and special-interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ), Draugas ( the Lithuanian daily newspaper ), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times.

" However, in his review for the Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr, wrote " it fails to satisfy – it gives us too little of too much.

" Conversely, Pat Graham of Chicago Reader disliked the mix of horror and comedy, writing in his review that " The pop-up humor and smirkiness suggest Raimi's aspiring to the fashionable company of the brothers Coen, though on the basis of this strained effort I'd say he's overshot the mark.

Writing for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film " generic " and " standard issue ", stating that the audience shouldn't " expect to remember it ten minutes later ".

Other critics like Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader said " the acting and editing have such original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping ".

* Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See, excerpt Chicago Reader.

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader, " To be sure, The Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a result is pretty entertaining.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

* Mayor Richard M. Daley archive at the Chicago Reader

* Former City Hall Reporter Ray Hanania's online look at the City Hall Press Room and the Byrne Administration, published in the Chicago Reader and later online

Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader observed that " Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though The Quick and the Dead is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn't come across as very convincing.

Hill, who wrote for the paper from 1992 until 1993, acknowledged to the Chicago Reader that she had written the diatribe originally for the Internet, and that the piece eventually was edited for Newcity.

Writing years later for The Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr wrote " Malick's 1973 first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn.

by Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader

Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader saw it as " marred by cut-rate techniques and a shapeless screenplay ".

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

Dave Kehr, in the Chicago Reader, wrote, " Richter seems to have invented an elaborate mythology for his hero ... but he never bothers to explicate it ; the film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke ".

* Chicago Reader Review

Whatever You ’ re Looking For You Wont ’ Find It here, published by the Kunsthalle Wien to accompany Pettibon ’ s exhibition in 2006 ; Turn to the Title Page, an artist book that was specially created as a part of Pettibon ’ s one-artist exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 2005 ; Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick published by MACBA in Barcelona, Spain in 2002 ; Raymond Pettibon, published by Phaidon Press, Inc. in 2001 ; Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978-98, edited by Roberto Ohrt and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig and DAP, New York in 2000 ; and Raymond Pettibon: A Reader, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1998.

Cecil Adams is a name, possibly a pseudonym, designating the American author of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader since 1973.

" Of Rotten Tomatoes ' " top critics ," only Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader disliked Absence of Malice, writing that " the picture has a smug, demoralizing sense of pervasive corruption.

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum gave the film a mixed review in the Chicago Reader.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a three star rating ( out of four ) describing it as " a fairly sophisticated satire.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

Hawks encountered a minor amount of censorship when the film was banned in Chicago, which would deal with even further on his next film.

In 1930 Howard Hughes hired Hawks to direct Scarface, a gangster film loosely based on the life of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

In 1994, he made his Broadway debut, as a replacement cast member playing the Devil in a revival of the baseball musical, Damn Yankees, choreographed by future film director Rob Marshall ( Chicago ).

Compassion !, Dunston Checks In, Love and Action in Chicago, The Last Supper and psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

" Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote " film stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most particularly Penelope Cruz as Silvia.

In the film version, Kimble was a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon rather than a small-town pediatrician.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association named Salò the 65th scariest film ever made.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times chided theater owners and parents who allowed children access to the film.

The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 5th scariest film ever made.

The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema.

What would become the influential Poetry Magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune.

" She was a graphic artist and a painter, and — under the name " Alice Bradley Davey " — an art critic for the Chicago Sun between 1941 and 1942.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones, noted in his review of the Broadway musical, " Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson " that the hybrid had become the most viable of the contemporary formats.

Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert put the film on his " Great Movies " list in 2007, calling it "... modern, lean, and honest.

Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert ranked it as one of Allen's best.

The load of graduate school and being a film critic proved too much, so Ebert left University of Chicago to focus his energies on reporting.

Ebert began his professional critic career in 1967, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

In 1957 he won the lead role opposite Debbie Reynolds in the romantic comedy Tammy and the Bachelor, which, as a Chicago Tribune critic wrote in 1998, made people consider Nielsen as both a dramatic actor and a handsome romantic lead.

The demotion occurred after Siskel and longtime Chicago film critic colleague Roger Ebert decided to shift the production of their weekly movie-review show — then known as At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and later known as Siskel & Ebert & The Movies — from Tribune Entertainment to The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Television unit.

Roger Ebert, the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film critic selects films for the festival which in his opinion are excellent, but have been overlooked by the public or by film distribution companies.

" The Chicago Tribune assigned three writers to cover the film's Chicago premiere: society columnist Harriet Pribble ; film critic Mae Tinee ; and music critic Edward Barry.

At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, " The plot of Working Girl is put together like clockwork.

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote a positive review of the film, enjoying the story as well as the animation.

Roger Ebert, a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out of four and wrote, " The movie has an undercurrent of seriousness, and it is not happy about the chaos that we are helping to subsidize.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, liked the film and the acting, and wrote, " This is one of Denzel Washington's great performances, on a par with his work in Malcolm X .... Washington as Hurricane Carter is spare, focused, filled with anger and pride ....