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• TheGr8Thinkaz elevate as teachers, healers, and artists

  19-04-2023 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It was a cloudy March day when I walked into Classick Studios to conduct my next interview for this series on Chicago artists impacting their communities. I was greeted by one of the purest forms of hip-hop: a bevy of rappers freestyling together, rhyming to the classic instrumentals of Mike Jones’s “Still Tippin’” and the […]
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• The Gr8 Thinkaz elevate as teachers, healers, and artists

  19-04-2023 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It was a cloudy March day when I walked into Classick Studios to conduct my next interview for this series on Chicago artists impacting their communities. I was greeted by one of the purest forms of hip-hop: a bevy of rappers freestyling together, rhyming to the classic instrumentals of Mike Jones’s “Still Tippin’” and the […]
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• Whisper no more

  19-04-2023 23:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In June 2020, Raeghn Draper and Leah Ball founded the CHAAD Project, which stands for Chicago Hospitality Accountable Advocacy Database.
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• Visceral Dance Chicago turns ten

  19-04-2023 22:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Entering Visceral Dance’s new venue, a visitor is struck by its size and the care taken to design a space that suits the company that built it. Tucked away on Rockwell Avenue and nestled up against the North Branch of the Chicago River, the performance space is painted a stark black, with soaring ceilings and […]
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• London Road centers voices of survivors

  19-04-2023 22:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  British imports are common enough on Chicago’s stages. The plays of Simon Stephens regularly appear at storefront theaters; Court Theatre will revive Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead next season; and Six continues its Broadway reign following its 2019 North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. But it’s safe to say that Chicago audiences […]
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• At NEIU: a painful lesson in mission creep

  19-04-2023 16:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A welcoming committee armed with signs and slogans gathered outside Northeastern Illinois University’s iconic El Centro building last Thursday, an hour before the university Board of Trustees was scheduled to meet there. “UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT BUSINESSES,” one sign read. “How much money have you spent hiring outside people to fire our own?” asked another. Buoyed […]
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• STS Logistics LLC – Seaport Transportation Services LLC: Making Waves

  19-04-2023 16:32
  by Santura Pegram
  It is often said that when starting most business ventures, the brains behind any potential endeavor should first consider two critical questions: what is there a need for in the world, and how to address it? For Jeffery Jones, CEO of STS Logistics LLC – dba – Seaport Transportation Services LLC and his partners behind the rising Fort Lauderdale-based company, it was common sense that compelled them to jump into the ocean of business.
  Launched in 2014, STS Logistics
  
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• In Motion: Deeply Rooted Dance Theater reveals itself as Chicago’s “best kept secret” as it looks toward expansion

  19-04-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I keep saying, in this moment, I think we may be one of the best-kept secrets,” says Nicole Clarke-Springer, the artistic director of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater.  The critically acclaimed Chicago-based dance company is beloved for its spectacular storytelling and world-class performers, but still, it’s often flown under the radar. In 2019, WTTW theater critic […]
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• Mayor Lightfoot and City of Chicago Finance Team Present Mid-Year Budget Forecast

  19-04-2023 15:00
  
  City projects $85M budget gap in FY2024 and lowest sustained budget gaps in decades for FY2024-2026
  Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, with Chief Financial Officer Jennie Bennett, Budget Director Susie Park, and Comptroller Reshma Soni, released the 2022-2026 Mid-Year Budget Forecast, which provides a comprehensive, forward-looking analysis of the City’s year-end estimates, future revenues, expenditures, and budget process.
  The Mid-Year Budget Forecast shows the sustained financial progress that May
  
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• Bronzeville’s ‘43 Green’ Set Re-energize Historic Neighborhood

  19-04-2023 15:00
  
  A gleaming tower adjacent to the 43rd Street Green Line station in Bronzeville represents the promise of revitalization for a corridor starved for development and activity.
  The name of this project is called 43 Green. On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined city officials, developers and other stakeholders for a joint ribbon-cutting and groundbreaking for the innovative, mixed-use project in the historic Southside community.“We expect 43 Green to provide jobs and spur economic activity, to
  
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• The Carr Report: You need a budget!

  19-04-2023 14:00
  
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  Several years ago, I wrote an article titled, “I’m talking to YOU.” In that article I wanted to be very clear who I was talking to.  I was talking to YOU!
  I wrote that particular article after observing people tell me, so and so can use my advice. It was their mother, father, sibling, uncle, aunt, grandparent, cousin, friend. Never themselves. Let me state for the record, no one is exempt from sound financial advice. NO ONE! When I say “You need a budget
  
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• An ode to Black women

  19-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At first glance, Gio Swaby’s artwork can be deceptively simple. Her portraits are marked by thin, black lines that sketch the images of beautiful, confident Black women. But looking closer, you are drawn into a complex composition of stitched, knotted, and dangling threads and colorful appliqued fabric on a raw canvas background.  Simplicity and complexity […]
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• Low-cost, high-quality public transportation will serve the public better than free rides

  19-04-2023 13:00
  
  Chicago’s Washington-Wabash station opened in 2017 – the first new stop on the city’s elevated rail system in 20 years. Youngrae Kim/The Washington Post via Getty Images
  by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
  Public transit systems face daunting challenges across the U.S., from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and pressure to keep rides affordable. In some cities, including Boston, Kansas City and Washington, many elected officials and advocates se
  
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• Congolese street-party alchemists Kokoko! pressurize the Empty Bottle with upcycled dance music

  19-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Kokoko!’s first and only Chicago visit till now, the Congolese group put on the most bonkers fun show of the 2019 World Music Festival. Decked out in their signature yellow jumpsuits, they moved like they were sunk in trance or electrified by emergency, and their bracingly cosmopolitan junkyard beats—which they call “hot temperature music”—had […]
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• Andrew Lester Taken Into Custody For Shooting Of Black Teen Ralph Yarl

  19-04-2023 00:34
  
  Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old Kansas City homeowner charged with shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who mistakenly went to his home, is now in custody.On Tuesday (April 18), the Clay County Sheriff’s Office announced that Lester, who is white, surrendered and was taken into custody at the county detention center, per NBC News.
  The announcement comes after Lester was charged on Monday (April 17) with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action in the shooting of Yarl.
  Yarl, 16
  
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