Chicago ain't ready for reform in Her Honor Jane Byrne
Lookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race. "This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," declares Black Che (Robert Cornelius), a sort of griot of the housing projects in J. Nicole Brooks's Her Honor Jane Byrne, now receiving a rich, riotous, and soul-searching world premiere at Lookingglass Theatre. The play focuses s…