Illinois news

• Open your eyes to Science on Screen

  08-02-2023 23:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The limitations of human perception and human existence, and the longing to extend both, are at the center of the Block Museum’s latest exhibit, “The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto.”
  The post <strong>Open your eyes to Science on Screen</strong> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Run to the Annual Festival of Films from Iran

  08-02-2023 23:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Amir Naderi’s The Runner, there’s a recurring motif where the young protagonist sprints toward the cargo ships he sees in the water and the planes that fly overhead the Iranian port city of Abadan, where he lives.
  The post <strong>Run to the Annual Festival of Films from Iran</strong> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Soul opera

  08-02-2023 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s been said that the soul of opera is its music, so in the case of The Factotum—Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s original piece that is a loose take on Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville—hip-hop is at its beautiful core.  The MTV generation, or hip-hop fans of a certain age, can recall the […]
  The post Soul opera appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 9

  08-02-2023 20:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 9. February 9, 2023
  The post Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 9 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Black Belt Eagle Scout reconnects with her ancestors through The Land, the Water, the Sky

  08-02-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The early months of the COVID pandemic left many of us settling into wherever we happened to be living, but Katherine Paul, who makes music as Black Belt Eagle Scout, hit the road. Journeying from Portland, Oregon, north to the Swimonish Indian Tribal Community on Washington’s Puget Sound, Paul returned to the home of her […]
  The post Black Belt Eagle Scout reconnects with her ancestors through <i>The Land, the Water, the Sky</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Infatuation and identity

  08-02-2023 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When The Revival theater opened its doors in 2015 at the corner of 55th Street and University Avenue, its intent was to pay homage to improv’s earliest roots. Paul Sills formed the Compass Players in that exact spot, bringing his knowledge of his mother Viola Spolin’s theater games (outlined in her seminal work Improvisation for […]
  The post Infatuation and identity appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Mr. Sonny Knows

  08-02-2023 17:49
  
  The post Mr. Sonny Knows appeared first on Chicago Defender.
  
  Read more

• First Chick-fil-A and Protein Bar & Kitchen Landing at O’Hare

  08-02-2023 17:42
  Chicago-based Owners Grow Business Diversity, Enhance Dining Lineup at Terminal 5 
   
  The Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA), in partnership with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Airports, is excited to announce the arrival of the first Chick-fil-A, Protein Bar & Kitchen and Evolve by Hudson in a Chicago airport. Evolve recently opened in the newly-expanded Terminal 5 at O’Hare International Airport, and the other restaurants will be coming to the terminal in the summer of 20
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Good guy with a gun

  08-02-2023 17:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  John Mossman has a scary new movie, but he’s not just trying to scare us. Good Guy With a Gun (not to be confused with a 2020 short with the same title) is a feature-length drama/thriller slated for a regional premiere February 27 as part of the Midwest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film […]
  The post Good guy with a gun appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE RESPONDS TO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

  08-02-2023 17:28
  
  National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s State of the Union address:
  “The President used the State of the Union address to make a powerful case for transforming the relationship between police and the communities they serve, reminding the nation that the anguish of Tyre Nichols’ parents is an ever-present specter for Black families.
  “The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act represents
  
  Read more

• Mayoral debate was a poor night for Chicago

  08-02-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The mayoral candidates need to remember that hope is political.
  The post Mayoral debate was a poor night for Chicago appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• THE CITY OF CHICAGO ANNOUNCES NEW PILOT TO IMPROVE FOOD ACCESS FOR CHICAGO RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

  08-02-2023 17:17
  
  The Vivery Idea Lab pilot is a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office of People with Disabilities, Community Safety Coordination Center, and the Thierer Family Foundation creating in-home delivery and technology solutions removing barriers to food access
  CHICAGO — The Mayor’s Office of People with Disabilities (MOPD), Community Safety Coordination Center (CSCC), and the Thierer Family Foundation, an organization helping nonprofits increase their impact through techn
  
  Read more

• Mare Ralph, board member at Girls Rock! Chicago

  08-02-2023 17:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago native Mare Ralph has been a board member at Girls Rock! Chicago since 2021 and a camp organizer since 2019. From 2014 till 2018 they lived in Louisville, where in 2015 they began working with Rockshops, a weekend-long music camp that had launched the year before as part of the festival Louisville Outskirts. In […]
  The post Mare Ralph, board member at Girls Rock! Chicago appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Support Special Olympics Illinois with your purchase of Illinois Lottery’s “Fat Wallet” Instant Ticket

  08-02-2023 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2014, the Illinois Lottery launched the nation’s first specialty lottery ticket benefiting the Special Olympics, the world’s largest sports organization for individuals living with intellectual and physical disabilities. While funds raised from most Illinois Lottery specialty tickets are distributed through grants awarded to numerous organizations working in a specific area, such as veteran’s relief […]
  The post Support Special Olympics Illinois with your purchase of
  
  Read more

• In praise of pickup basketball

  08-02-2023 16:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “We go to the playground in search of our fathers. We didn’t find them but we found a game and the game served as a daddy of sorts,” the novelist John Edgar Wideman wrote in his book Hoop Roots. This quote is a fitting epigraph for Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game: A Book about […]
  The post In praise of pickup basketball appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• The YWCA and Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline support Chicagoland’s sexual assault survivors

  08-02-2023 16:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Volunteer as a sexual assault victim advocate, and make a difference in people’s lives when they need it the most. Sexual violence impacts every age group, gender, and community, but for survivors of sexual assault, harassment, or other abuse, finding support can be challenging and, at times, unsafe. That’s where organizations like the YWCA can […]
  The post The YWCA and Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline support Chicagoland’s sexual assault survivors appeared first on Chicago
  
  Read more

• The Gage Park Latinx Council nurtures community and identity 

  08-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The queer, DACA-led southwest-side group addresses community needs around food, health and public space.
  The post The Gage Park Latinx Council nurtures community and identity  appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• The Carr Report: How do I prioritize paying off debt?

  08-02-2023 14:00
  
  by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  How should I prioritize paying off my debt? Should I prioritize paying off the lowest balance first or paying off the one with the highest interest rate?
  ~ Josuha
   
  Damon says:
  There are three methods that are taught in regards to best practices to eradicate debt. They are: Debt Avalanche, Debt Snowball, Debt Domino. 
  The Debt Avalanche prioritizes debt based on highest to lowest interest rates. You write down each debt and its corresponding in
  
  Read more

• Memphis hip-hop sensation GloRilla plays her second big Chicago show in three months

  08-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Twenty-three-year-old Memphis rapper Gloria “GloRilla” Hallelujah Woods caught lightning in a bottle for her 2022 crossover sensation “F.N.F (Let’s Go),” and she shows every sign of being able to do it again and again. Memphis producer Hitkidd combines nasty percussion with a simple, stentorian piano loop on “F.N.F,” and GloRilla makes the brooding, menacing instrumental […]
  The post <strong>Memphis hip-hop sensation GloRilla plays her seco
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsIllinois_ on Twitter!