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• U.S. REP. DANNY DAVIS ENDORSES COMMISSIONER BRANDON JOHNSON FOR MAYOR

  06-03-2023 23:44
  
  CHICAGO – Standing outside the Harold Washington Library, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (IL-07) on Monday announced his endorsement of Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson for mayor of Chicago, joining his Congressional colleagues Rep. Jonathan Jackson and Rep. Delia Ramirez in backing Johnson’s surging campaign. 
  Commissioner Johnson’s campaign has picked up major momentum since qualifying for the mayoral run-off election last Tuesday, earning the backing of the Chicago
  
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• Vallas Endorsed by Mayoral Candidate and Alderman Roderick Sawyer

  06-03-2023 23:24
  Sawyer is First 2023 Candidate to Endorse in Runoff Election
  CHICAGO, IL — Paul Vallas was endorsed today by Alderman Roderick Sawyer, the first candidate in the 2023 mayoral election to make his support known in the runoff. The son of former Mayor Eugene Sawyer, Alderman Sawyer was elected in 2011 to represent the 6th Ward, which includes the South Side neighborhoods of Chatham, Chesterfield, Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing, Park Manor and Auburn-Gresham.
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• Meat Moot smokes low and slow, and its cleaver-flipping ‘butchers’ steal the show

  06-03-2023 22:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fedora’d men in butchers aprons hoist hunks of wobbling flesh aloft like sacrificial offerings. Stationed before a bank of smokers—meat vaults loaded with parchment-and-tinfoil-swaddled briskets, beef ribs, and lamb shoulders—they slowly tug glistening bones from steaming muscle, smiling as it collapses. The meat smacks against wooden cutting boards, quivering under downpours of salt and spice […]
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• Geoffrey Baer finds ‘gems all over Chicagoland’

  06-03-2023 21:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Emmy Award-winning host and producer Geoffrey Baer takes folks on an adventure in a program premiering Tuesday, March 7, at 7 PM on WTTW called The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago. 
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• Avant-garde cellist Lia Kohl builds resplendence with radio static on The Ceiling Reposes

  06-03-2023 19:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I interviewed experimental Chicago cellist, composer, and improviser Lia Kohl last year for the Reader’s People Issue, she talked about using radios in her solo work. “Something I really like about the radio is that I’m responding,” she said. “You turn on the radio, and someone could say pretty much anything—except, like, a select […]
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• Chicago-born underground MC Skech185 returns to town behind the new He Left Nothing for the Swim Back

  06-03-2023 19:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago native Willie Lee McIntyre Jr., who raps as Skech185, relies on vivid, thoughtful bars, not on big, repetitive hooks. Skech can plant a flag in your memory the same way a hook would just by thickening his verses with detail. On “Nights and Weekends” he applies his rich, husky voice to a seesawing monologue […]
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• Foundation For Culinary Arts Awarded Grand from Million Dollar Round Table Foundation

  06-03-2023 18:48
  
  CHICAGO, IL (March 6, 2023) – Foundation For Culinary Arts (FFCA) is thrilled to share that it has been awarded a $5,000 grant from The Million Dollar Round Table Foundation (MDRT). MDRT is fa global, independent association of more than 86,000 of the world’s leading life insurance and financial services professionals whose mission is to raise funds to give back to their communities.
  This grant will assist FFCA in continuing its mission to inspire and empower socially and e
  
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• Proposed fee hikes on U.S. visas will hurt independent music and inhibit tours from abroad

  06-03-2023 17:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Now that COVID shutdowns are receding into memory, being a live-music lover in Chicago is once again like being a kid in Candyland. But the concert industry in the city—and in the rest of the country—could be significantly harmed by a proposed rules change from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). If the […]
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• Black Bourbon Society Honors Chicago LegacyMakers With Jack Daniels

  06-03-2023 17:02
  Over 100 attendees gathered in  Chicago at NYCH GALLERY (2025 South Laflin Street Chicago, IL 60608) for  Black Bourbon Society’s Salon  Legacy Awards event series, sponsored by Jack Daniel’s.Inspired by the salon gatherings of The Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and 30s, Salon 7 is an intimate event featuring a panel discussion, signature cocktails and a whiskey tasting. The event acknowledged local Black leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are breaking barr
  
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• Attorney Ben Crump and Minority Lawyers to Lead Hair Relaxer Litigation

  06-03-2023 16:21
  
  CHICAGO, Ill. –– Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and attorney Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmerman of DiCello Levitt were named co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in litigation against L’Oreal USA and other companies for selling hair relaxers that caused cancer and other health problems. This marks the first time that a Black man and a Black woman have been appointed as co-leads of multidistrict litigation in fede
  
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