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• Former Bulls Player Joakim Noah Will Launch Basketball League in Chicago

  01-05-2023 22:14
  
  Throughout his NBA career, Joakim Noah distinguished himself as a guy who played with unbridled passion and heart. He continues to display those qualities for the city where he spent most of his NBA career, particularly in violence prevention.
  On Monday, the former Bulls player announced that he is launching the “One City Basketball League” in Chicago this month with 28 violence prevention groups.
  “The city is divided in a lot of ways,” said Noah in an interview 
  
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• Chicago indie-rock duo OK Cool pack big tunes into a short time on Fawn

  01-05-2023 20:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In summer 2020, during one of my routine Bandcamp searches for new music tagged “Chicago,” I found OK Cool’s Anomia EP, and it convinced me of the local indie-rock duo’s potential. With that EP, guitarist-vocalist Bridget Stiebris and bassist Haley Blomquist proved that they know all the obscure flavors of indie and emo that precede […]
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• The HIRS Collective uses noise and grindcore to celebrate diversity and fight hate

  01-05-2023 20:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The HIRS Collective is an amorphous grindcore punk group whose anonymous members first came together in Philadelphia in 2011 to uplift and defend people targeted by marginalization, oppression, and violence, including queer and gender-diverse people, BIPOC, and outsiders of all kinds. In the intervening years, the American right has escalated its campaign of bigotry and […]
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• Chicago hip-hop duo defprez reinforce each other in a powerful circuit on It’s Always a Time Like This

  01-05-2023 19:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I first listened to the new collaborative album from Chicago rappers Defcee and CRASHprez, It’s Always a Time Like This (Closed Sessions), I lost track of how many times I replayed a passage to catch an ingenious turn of phrase that’d I’d missed when it zoomed by the first time. In “Safer,” Defcee rounds […]
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• Review: Alam

  01-05-2023 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Writer/director Firas Khoury’s Alam is an affecting and effective film firmly fixated on contradictions and how we navigate them to create a sense of self.
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• Time to Fight Back Against Censorship

  01-05-2023 15:15
  
  By Svante Myrick
  Every year, the American Library Association unveils its list of the top ten most-challenged books for the previous year. And this year, Number One is the same as last year’s Number One: the book “Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe. Other books that achieved this distinction were Toni Morrison’s classic “The Bluest Eye,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, and other titles dealing with race, gender identity, sexuality and
  
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• Chicago Public Library Will Open New Branches in Woodlawn, Back of the Yards and Humboldt Park

  01-05-2023 15:00
  
  Chicago Public Library (CPL), in collaboration with Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD), announced today two new libraries will be part of mixed-use developments planned for the Back of the Yards and Humboldt Park communities. The Library also announced that it will leverage $18 million in capital bond funding for a new library branch serving the Woodlawn community. These investments are a testament to the city’s ongoing efforts to pr
  
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• Mayor Lightfoot Sends Letter Urging Texas Governor to Stop Bussing Migrants to Chicago

  01-05-2023 14:30
  
  City remains at maximum capacity of shelter space, services, and resources
  On Sunday, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott urging his administration to stop the inhumane and dangerous action of bussing migrants to Chicago. The City is aware that the State of Texas is planning to resume bussing individuals and families to cities throughout the United States, including Chicago next week. Since August 2022, the City has welcomed more than 8,000 men, women, and childre
  
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