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• Celebrate four years of Mom’s greatest hits at the next Monday Night Foodball

  09-05-2023 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Your Mom’s so old she turns four the day after Mother’s Day. Come on. I would never disrespect your moms like that. I’m talking about Mom’s Chicago, chef Kelly Ijichi’s Japanese American comfort food pop-up, which has been slinging katsu sandos, smashburgers on furikake milk bread, and coconut butter mochi for four turns around the […]
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• Mayor Lightfoot Issues Declaration of Emergency in Response to Influx of New Arrivals

  09-05-2023 21:44
  
  Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot issued an emergency declaration in response to the surge of new arrivals since last month, with large numbers of people, mostly families, arriving to Chicago and following the arrival today of 48 individuals and families inhumanely bussed to Chicago by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Since August 2022, the City has coordinated a multi-departmental, city-wide strategy in partnership with the State and Cook County for receiving and providing emergency care for over 8,000 new ar
  
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• Heavyweight saxophonist Mars Williams needs help fighting cancer

  09-05-2023 20:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago saxophonist Mars Williams has been a key part of the international avant-garde jazz community for decades, but he’s arguably even better known as a pop musician—he played with cheeky new-wave band the Waitresses in the early 80s, and he’s recorded and toured with the Psychedelic Furs on and off since 1983. His jazz gigs […]
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• Debra Lee Shares Thoughts On Tyler Perry, Byron Allen And The Battle To Buy BET

  09-05-2023 16:29
  Debra Lee stood at the forefront of BET’s growth in terms of business and content during her tenure as the network’s CEO. Although she’s moved on from her previous role, she remains an important part of BET’s legacy. 
  With several heavyweight media moguls in the running to purchase BET, Lee took a moment to share thoughts with Real Times Media.
  Lee revealed that she initially thought about purchasing BET. 
  “A couple of people called me and asked me if was
  
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• How White Vigilantism Contributed To Jordan Neely’s Chokehold Death

  09-05-2023 16:15
  
  Many are calling the New York chokehold death of Michael Jackson impersonator Jordan Neely another example of white vigilantism that has led to killings of Black Americans over the past several years, NBC News reports.
  Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with a history of mental illness, was choked to death by a 24-year-old man on a New York City subway after a witness said he was acting aggressively toward other passengers.
  “The man got on the subway car and began to say a somewhat aggressi
  
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• National Stroke Awareness Month – Know the Signs & Understand the Risks

  09-05-2023 15:00
  
  (NewsUSA) – By the time you read this article, three people will have had a stroke and one will die. Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability in the United States, impacting nearly 800,000 people each year, with a quarter experiencing another stroke within five years. Despite the prevalence of stroke, 80% are preventable with a combination of medication and healthy habits.
  This May, during National Stroke Awareness Month, knowing the signs, symptoms and treatment option
  
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• Phi Beta Sigma, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Renew Partnership

  09-05-2023 14:00
  
  Phi Beta Sigma is proud to renew once again is partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The renewed memorandum of understanding was initially signed in 2014.
  The partnership helps increase “awareness of and participation in wildlife conservation, wildlife-associated recreation, and educational and career opportunities among its membership,” according to a Fish and Wildlife news release.
  The agreement once again provides members of Phi Beta Sigma opportunities to for inter
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Culture war casualties aren’t ‘cancel culture’ battles

  09-05-2023 14:00
  
  Five years ago, The College Fix reported “11 times campus speakers were shouted down by leftist protesters” between 2017 and 2018. Ever since pundits debated whether cancel culture actually existed. Ernest Owens, a journalist, attempted to settle the dispute in his 2023 book, The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All. Owens not only confirmed the existence of cancel culture, but also declared its necessity. He described cancel culture as when a pe
  
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• Interrogating the body

  09-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Prosthesis,” a group show that runs through June 17 at Haynes Court, invites you to experience sculpture with your whole body, even as the show questions exactly what makes our bodies whole. Jillian Mayer’s Slumpie 75 – vertebrae, part of her series of utilitarian objects designed to support bodies that are using technology, is an […]
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• Greg Puciato embarks on his first-ever solo tour, and anything could happen

  09-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s busy, and then there’s Greg Puciato busy. In the thick of his 16-year tenure fronting metalcore act the Dillinger Escape Plan, he got involved in several other endeavors, including wide-ranging postmetal project Spylacopa, alt-metal supergroup Killer Be Killed, and synthwave act the Black Queen. Since the band’s dissolution in 2017 he’s continued to carry […]
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• Lori Lightfoot Delivers Emotional Farewell Speech

  09-05-2023 02:21
  
  Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what any outgoing elected official would in a farewell speech: tout her accomplishments, thank her team and key stakeholders and highlight how her constituents benefited from her programs.
  Yet, in her last week as mayor of the nation’s third-largest city, she also revealed the enormity of her challenges in guiding Chicago through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, something no other mayor in modern history had to face.
  “There were certainly times when the sheer n
  
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• Lori Lightfoot Delivers Emotional, Contented Farewell Speech

  09-05-2023 02:21
  
  Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what any outgoing elected official would in a farewell speech: tout her accomplishments, thank her team and key stakeholders and highlight how her constituents benefited from her programs.
  Yet, in her last week as mayor of the nation’s third-largest city, she also revealed the enormity of her challenges in guiding Chicago through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, something no other mayor in modern history had to face.
  “There were certainly times when the sheer n
  
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• Lori Lightfoot Delivers Emotional and Contented Farewell Speech

  09-05-2023 02:21
  
  Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what any outgoing elected official would in a farewell speech: tout her accomplishments, thank her team and key stakeholders and highlight how her constituents benefited from her programs.
  Yet, in her last week as mayor of the nation’s third-largest city, she also revealed the enormity of her challenges in guiding Chicago through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, something no other mayor in modern history had to face.
  “There were certainly times when the sheer n
  
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