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• Raoul: Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused Nearly 2,000 Minors in Illinois

  23-05-2023 23:30
  
  Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a bombshell, comprehensive report revealing that 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers abused almost 2,000 children across Illinois dioceses.
  At almost 700 pages, Raoul’s report results from a multi-year investigation into child sex abuse by clergy members from all six Illinois dioceses. He released the report at a Tuesday morning news conference in Chicago.
  “I was raised and confirmed in the Catholic church and sent my children to
  
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• Lemming city

  23-05-2023 22:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Quick—name Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first chief of staff! You probably can’t—unless your name is Mick Dumke. I mention Mick (a Block Club Chicago editor and my former writing partner here at the Reader) because he actually knew the answer when I asked him about it the other day. Then he sort of apologized, apparently a […]
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• Elijah Montez and Kaitlyn Murphy of Daydream Review decamp for the west coast

  23-05-2023 19:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It doesn’t seem possible that only five years have passed since Elijah Montez arrived in Chicago and started creating psychedelic pop as Daydream Review. He’s had a devil of a time making the finances of post-COVID touring work, but here in Chicago we haven’t had to wait around for Daydream Review to bring their shoegaze-style […]
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• Southland RISE awards $150,000 to 19 South Side Community Organizations

  23-05-2023 15:45
  
  Collaboration between UChicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care has awarded $650,000 since 2019
  Southland RISE (Resilience Initiative to Strengthen and Empower), a collaborative between the trauma recovery programs of the University of Chicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care, is awarding 19 South Side community organizations with a total of $150,000 for their summer youth programs.These programs will provide more than 5,000 community members with opportunities to participate in a variety of a
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Needless Jordan Neely narratives

  23-05-2023 14:00
  
  In public discourse, there are two forms of narrative. The standard narrative is a detailed account of an incident; the viewpoint narrative presents a situation in a way that promotes a political position.
   The public first learned that a mentally ill homeless Black man named Jordan Neely died on a New York subway train after Daniel Penny, a White military veteran, restrained him through the account of Juan Alberto Vázquez, who witnessed the incident.
   Vázquez told police
  
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• Forging new architectures

  23-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Collaging invites us to manipulate our worlds. This surrealistic technique synthesizes the remnants of our reality into an alluring, illusory vision. But to create these new worlds, we must deconstruct the old ones. This is the collage’s paradox. Artist and architect Marshall Brown emphasizes this evocative contradiction in his Western Exhibitions show, “Remasterisér.” The show […]
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• Florida Is ‘Openly Hostile’ To Black Americans, NAACP Travel Advisory Warns

  23-05-2023 00:52
  
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  The NAACP is advising against traveling to Florida as the state has become “hostile to Black Americans.”
  On Saturday (May 20), the civil rights group released a travel advisory in response to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ latest attacks on Black history, education, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), per CBS News.
  “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please
  
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• That One Time Carmelo Anthony Almost Joined the Bulls

  23-05-2023 00:41
  
  Carmelo Anthony almost joined the Bulls back in the Summer of 2014. 
  As a 30-year-old firmly in his prime, Anthony was this close to joining a feisty Chicago roster that featured Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, and a young Jimmy Butler. 
  On Monday, Anthony announced his retirement, which brought back a flurry of highlights from his storied NBA career, most notably with the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks.  
  But after the Knicks’ 2014 season ended in a disappoi
  
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