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• City of Chicago Partners with Biden-Harris Administration to Tackle Homelessness

  18-05-2023 23:38
  
  Chicago is one of six sites selected for new initiative
  On Thursday, Mayor Brandon Johnson; Deputy Mayor of Education, Youth, & Human Services Jennifer Johnson; the Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS); and All Chicago Making Homelessness History announced a partnership with the White House and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to participate in ALL INside, a first-of-its-kind initiative to address unsheltered homelessness.
  As part of ALL INside, the City will
  
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• Producer Thelonious Martin keeps hip-hop’s old wisdom alive

  18-05-2023 21:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sitting under the warm blue lights of his home studio, Chicago producer Thelonious Martin reflects on his musical influences as he studies a set of shelves completely stacked with obscure vinyl. On the shelves’ top right corner rest thick biographies about two of the greatest innovators in their respective genres: jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and […]
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• Black high school lacrosse is here to stay

  18-05-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Black teenagers can view lacrosse as a healthy outlet and a new gateway to seek athletic or academic scholarships. It’s very understandable that Chicago wants to send a clear message that this sport is for everyone. 
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• Worlds collide with DaNang Kitchen’s Vietnamese brunch

  18-05-2023 19:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s no such thing as brunch in Vietnam. . . . Nevertheless, Argyle Street’s DaNang Kitchen recently started offering a “Vietnamese brunch,” featuring a few relatively uncommon dishes that can address a Western appetite for hangover-mitigating egg skillets.
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• French coldwave legends Martin Dupont embark on their first U.S. tour

  18-05-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Martin Dupont was one of the most enigmatic and exhilarating coldwave bands of the 1980s. The group was founded in 1980 in Marseille, France, by songwriter and bassist Alain Seghir, who wanted to explore new wave after spending time in rock and jazz bands. Over the next few years he linked up with several musically […]
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• ‘That’s movie magic to me’

  18-05-2023 17:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Neal O’Bryan founded Workshed Animation, which specializes in stop-motion horror shorts and features, with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Chad Thurman in 2019.
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• A refreshing October Storm

  18-05-2023 17:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Expertly written, exquisitely performed, steamy, and hilarious, The October Storm at the Raven Theatre offers a warm slice of south-side Chicago life in the 1960s. Joshua Allen’s play, the second in his Grand Boulevard Trilogy (the first was The Last Pair of Earlies, produced by Raven in 2021) is refreshing in that it explores the […]
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• Unleashed moms

  18-05-2023 16:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mother’s Day weekend provided the perfect time to open this irreverent, boisterous look at three women’s journey from two blue lines on a pee stick to graduation day. Running at Mercury Theater Chicago’s Venus Cabaret, the musical by Julie Dunlap and Sara Stotts features first-time mom Rachel (Tafadzwa Diener), second-time mom Angie (Jacquelyne Jones), and […]
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• Academic fireworks

  18-05-2023 16:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You don’t have to be a sucker for love-hate romances among the literati to fall in love with Rehana Lew Mirza’s Hatefuck, but it helps. Then again, Lew Mirza’s play, now in its local premiere with First Floor Theater under Arti Ishak’s clever direction, provides a lens not usually implemented in tales of professional and […]
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• The Gender Play‘s the thing

  18-05-2023 16:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  All of the world is a stage, and Will Wilhelm knows it. Their new production at About Face (cocreated and directed by Erin Murray), Gender Play, or what you Will, is the perfect platform for them to explore their gender journey while also expressing their more dramatic side via monologuing with a side of dissertation. […]
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• One City, One Love: Joakim Noah’s New League Aims to Unify City

  18-05-2023 16:00
  
  By Jonathan James
  When the Chicago Bulls drafted Joakim Noah with the 9th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, they knew they would be getting a winner.
  Noah was a major piece of the Florida Gators team that captured back-to-back National Championships in 2006 and 2007.
  His passion, commitment to defense and overall leadership would capture the hearts of Chicagoans, forever cementing his place as one of the Bulls’ all-time greats. However, Noah not only looked to impact games but also for ways to i
  
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• IRS Confirms Black Taxpayers Are Morely To Get Audited

  18-05-2023 14:30
  
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  The IRS has admitted to auditing Black taxpayers at a higher rate than other Americans, confirming a previous study that found Black people were up to five times more likely to have their federal tax returns audited.
  On Monday (May 15), the tax agency shared its findings from an internal investigation into its auditing processes, per CBS News.
  “[O]ur initial findings support the conclusion that Black taxpayers may be audited at higher rates than would be expected given
  
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• ComEd Connects Record Number of Customers with Bill-Assistance Programs in First Quarter of 2023

  18-05-2023 14:00
  
  During the first quarter of 2023, ComEd helped connect more than 87,000 eligible customers to more than $26 million in bill assistance.
  This is both the largest amount of assistance provided – and second-largest number of customers supported – for any first quarter dating back to at least 2019. In all of 2022, ComEd connected 211,000 eligible customers to nearly $129 million in assistance.
  These results come after ComEd has introduced new financial assistance options that were inform
  
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• Bristol duo Giant Swan bring relentless techno chaos to the Empty Bottle

  18-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since the 2010s, a crop of artists have shifted and contorted electronic dance music into new levels of aggression and experimentation, challenging as well as rewarding their listeners. Bristol duo Giant Swan, who create raw and pummeling industrial techno with meticulous attention to detail, are at the vanguard of this sound. They collide clattering synths […]
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• This Week In Black History May 17 – 23, 2023

  18-05-2023 05:22
  
  LORRAINE HANSBERRYMAY 181896—The United States Supreme Court issues its infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The decision declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” was constitutional. By doing so it, in effect, approved all Jim Crow or segregationist laws designed to degrade Blacks or keep them separate from Whites. The ruling would stand until the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.1955—Legendary educator Mary McLeod Bethune dies at 79 in Daytona Beach, F
  
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• Aréanah Preston Remembered as ‘A Ray of Light’

  18-05-2023 00:55
  
  Days before Aréanah Preston was tragically murdered, she awaited a final interview in hopes of joining the FBI, revealed former Interim Police Supt. Eric Carter, who spoke at her funeral on Wednesday.
  Carter, along with Preston’s family members and fellow officers, remembered the fallen officer as an energetic, hardworking and ambitious dynamo of a woman.
  Preston’s mother, Dionne Mhoon, led off her remarks with descriptors about her daughter. She used words like confident
  
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