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• 2023 Chicago Mayoral and Citywide Races: Election Results

  01-03-2023 19:55
  
  Yesterday, Chicagoans made some important decisions in a number of down-ballot races, including city clerk, city treasurer, city council, alderpersons in all 50 wards, and police district councils.
  They also narrowed down what was a 9-person race for mayor to a now two person contest: Between former Bridgeport Public Schools Superintendent and Chicago Public Schools CEO, Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner for Chicago’s 1st District, Brandon Johnson.
  Both Vallas and Johnson edged out
  
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• Rockin’ bluesman G.L. Crockett died right before he found his audience

  01-03-2023 18:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the world of visual art, it’s not too unusual for, say, a painting by a French artist who died a pauper to sell through a New York auction house for millions of dollars. Blues and soul artists from the States sometimes encounter a similar fate. After decades spent underpaid and underappreciated on their home […]
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• Perfection from the pieces

  01-03-2023 16:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’ve ever dabbled in woodworking, you probably have a sense of just how much scrap material can go to waste. Lumber is sold in predetermined sizes, like the ubiquitous 2×4, so once you have the cuts you need, you’re likely to end up with various odds and ends that are hard to put to […]
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• Obesity Care Week begins as report reveals that nearly 50 percent of African Americans are obese

  01-03-2023 14:17
  Obesity Care Week 2023 (OCW) kicked off on Monday, Feb. 27, with a focus on the disproportionate impact of obesity on communities of color.
  Health officials responsible for OCW said racial and ethnic minorities have a higher rate of chronic diseases. African Americans have the highest rate of chronic diseases.
  According to recent data, almost 50% of African Americans have obesity, and approximately four out of five Black women are overweight or obese.
  The causes of obesity are complex,
  
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• ‘Don’t Act Like You Forgot:’ Shonna Pryor’s ‘Fiscal Frontiers’

  01-03-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A portal can be a gate, a door, a website. A pathway is what exists beyond the gate, the door, the webpage. Portals are changed by the people who once occupied their ether, just as pathways are shaped by all those who’ve traveled their twists and turns.  This is good, this is how futures begin. […]
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• The Carr Report: Should I convert a college savings into retirement savings for my daughter?

  01-03-2023 13:00
  
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  by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  Hi Damon. I recently read an article in Forbes Magazine titled, “How A 529 Plan To Child IRA Conversion Can Turn Your Teen Into A Middle-Class Millionaire.” I think I understand this article but would you please simplify it for me?
  I thought this would be a great article for your audience as well. If what I understand from this article is accurate, this might be the best decision I made for my children. I have had 529 plans for m
  
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• Drummer Kendrick Scott scales down to a trio on Corridors

  01-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kendrick Scott’s long-running five-piece ensemble, Oracle, is unrelentingly contemporary in its sound, in part thanks to the inclusion of an electric guitar. But arranging music for a smaller contingent of players requires a different tack. On Corridors, Scott—a drummer whose credits include work with vocalist Kurt Elling and trumpeter Terence Blanchard—scales down to a trio […]
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