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• Brandon Johnson Elected As Chicago Mayor

  05-04-2023 23:38
  
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  Progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson will be Chicago’s next mayor.
  On Tuesday (April 4), Johnson, a Cook County Commissioner, garnered 51 percent of the vote, defeating his opponent and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, who garnered 49 percent of the vote with 99 percent of precincts reporting, per ABC7 Chicago.
  During his victory speech, the Bernie Sanders-endorsed Democrat promised to usher in a new chapter for the city as mayor.
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 13

  05-04-2023 20:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 13. April 6, 2023
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• Too soon?

  05-04-2023 18:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It feels early to stage a play set during, and concerning the effects of, the early days of COVID-19 on its characters. We can still feel those days intimately, given the short passing of time, and the degree of veracity required to make this a world we want to and can meaningfully revisit is high. […]
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• Protected: 2022 Arts & Culture poll winners

  05-04-2023 18:12 via chicagoreader.com
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• Review: El Jardín

  05-04-2023 18:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It effectively highlights Chicago's labor union history, and the struggles of a neighborhood and Chicagoans in general feel authentic and full of heart, especially to this part of the city.
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• Silly swan song

  05-04-2023 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Barbara Gaines started her tenure as artistic director for Chicago Shakespeare Theater (then called Chicago Shakespeare Workshop) in 1986 by staging Henry V on the rooftop of the Red Lion Pub. She’s closing it out with a production of The Comedy of Errors that contains a sly homage to that debut in the form of […]
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• Cultural storms

  05-04-2023 17:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A production with a promising premise is especially disappointing when it falls short. Unfortunately, that’s the case with Uprising Theater’s Decolonizing Sarah: A Hurricane Play.  Amidst the chaos of a category three hurricane and the COVID-19 pandemic, exes Waleed (Kal Naga) and Sarah (Maren Rosenberg) find themselves isolated in an Airbnb. Sarah, a white woman, […]
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• Miirrors’ shining debut reflects the kinship of the band’s members

  05-04-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Miirrors’ sound is as smooth as their name suggests. The Chicago outfit’s debut album, Motion and Picture (Pravda), is filled with giant, radio-ready alterna-rock meticulously designed and arranged for earworm bliss. Formed by singer Brian McSweeney and drummer Shawn Rios, who can trace their friendship back nearly 25 years, Miirrors originally focused on recording, but […]
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• White saviorism: the musical!

  05-04-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Book of Mormon is back in Chicago, slightly rewritten since it last played here in 2018 but still the same wildly irreverent take on that most quintessential of homegrown white American religions: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After the hit musical opened on Broadway in 2011, it played in Chicago four […]
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• The Carr Report: You might be ‘Broke’ or end up ‘Broke’ if…

  05-04-2023 14:00
  
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  I liken social media to stand-up comedy. You can test various jokes or ideas and get instant feedback.  When I returned to writing, my first published article was, “How can you be Bored and Broke.” I shared the article on social media.  Article did numbers. I’ve shared several articles and memes since then.  I have yet to duplicate those numbers.  Recently I shared a meme on social media. It was titled, “Why some people stay Broke.”&
  
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• Double negative

  05-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Unlike a regular scar, a keloid grows far beyond the original wound. Through the buildup of collagen, the body slips under its own cover and piles up, over, and around a loss—a powerful metaphor for Katherine Simóne Reynolds, whose solo exhibition at the Graham Foundation, “A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing,” […]
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• C4 and Hartgrove Hospital Now Enrolling Patients as Part of Innovative Collaboration to Close Gaps in Behavioral Health Services on West Side of Chicago

  05-04-2023 14:00
  
  A reimagining of healthcare delivery around people and communities is taking shape on the West Side of Chicago. It’s called Collaborative Bridges.
  Two of the six organizations in the collaborative, Hartgrove Hospital and Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), are now enrolling patients into this unique program of end-to-end support with local, customized support.
  C4 has been the provider of crisis assessment and stabilization services for Hartgrove hospital for decades through the s
  
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• Medicaid Unwinding May Leave Millions of Children Without Coverage

  05-04-2023 13:00
  
  By: Protect Our Care
  As we enter the 5th annual Medicaid Awareness Month, millions of children and families are at risk of losing coverage.
  Protections put into place by Congress to keep people enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency will expire on April 1. States have up to a year to complete the “unwinding” process to determine who is still eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  A record 91.8 million Americans rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Progr
  
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• Chicago ska evangelist Chuck Wren throws a 30th birthday party for his Jump Up label

  05-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Any music community would be lucky to have an advocate as tireless and devoted as Chuck Wren. This Chicago DJ and label head has been evangelizing for ska (and its related Jamaican sounds) throughout the midwest for more than three decades, uninfluenced by all the pop trends that’ve come and gone. He founded Jump Up […]
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• Why Brandon Johnson Is Chicago’s Next Mayor

  05-04-2023 08:47
  
  The people of Chicago have spoken: They have elected Brandon Johnson to be the city’s next mayor.
  The Cook County Commissioner for Chicago’s 1st District defeated his opponent, former Bridgeport Public Schools Superintendent and Chicago Schools CEO Paul Vallas, by a margin of 51.42% to 48.58% as of this writing. The Associated Press, NBC News, and other outlets officially called the race on Tuesday night, with 99% of precincts reporting.
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