Much Chicago theater this fall is focusing on the concerns of the moment: battles over school reading lists and old friends being ripped apart due to their standing on the opposite sides of the all-American political divide.Some shows look at historical events to explore the reality of the present: the history of the contraceptive pill, a brilliant World War II prank from British intelligence, and one of the very few plays in the world that honors the mores of Chicago journalists, a weird crew in the 1920s and still bizarre today. We’ve focused our list heavily on new work, of...