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• A procession of clowns

  30-05-2023 21:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let’s all take a minute to welcome back big circus. It’s been awhile since it rolled through our little town. In fact, Cirque du Soleil coming back to the Chicago area is a big deal when you consider how the company shut its doors (and shut down 40 shows) in 2020 due to COVID, shortly […]
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• Red Bull Dance Your Style brings the national spotlight to Chicago

  30-05-2023 21:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Street dance enthusiasts crowded a stage at the Salt Shed on all four sides at Red Bull Dance Your Style’s national final on the evening of Saturday, May 20. Audience members judged 15 dance battles, using color-changing light-up bracelets to indicate whether they were pro blue or red side. Los Angeles-based Sean Lew’s moonwalk-fluid moves […]
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• Logan Square’s Middle Brow Beer is now a winery, naturally

  30-05-2023 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Middle Brow’s Pizza Wine has the dark ruby-red color of a Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, like something you’d want to drink with a thick porterhouse: jammy, tannic, boozy. With that on your mind, your first sip might come as a surprise. Sure enough, it has a rounded, full body, but it’s simultaneously ethereal, with a […]
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• ‘I didn’t come here to make blankets’

  30-05-2023 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chelsea Billingsley, better known as Chelsea B, always knew she’d be an artist. With her latest collection, “Give Them Their Flowers,” the crochet streetwear designer pays tribute to her great-grandmother and great-uncle, both of whom have left a lasting impact on her life in different ways. Pauline Winters, her great-grandmother, was also an avid crocheter, […]
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• ‘Prayer On The Nine’ March Calls Out City Violence

  30-05-2023 16:00
  
  All photos and video by Tacuma R. Roeback
  By the close of the Memorial Day Weekend, 45 people were reported shot and 11 killed across Chicago. Victims ranged in age from two to 77 years old. In fact, there were two separate incidents where two year old children were shot by guns that were accidentally discharged.
  Those tallies served as a grim reminder of the relentless issue of gun violence in Chicago, particularly in the Summer. However, one annual city wide demonstration from over the weekend
  
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• Cook County Pension Funding Fix Approved by Illinois General Assembly

  30-05-2023 14:00
  
  Legislation to fully fund pensions, fix Tier 2 pensions and expand veteran eligibility heads to Governor
  Last week, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle applauded the Illinois General Assembly on its recent passing of fiscally responsible and sustainable pension reform legislation to ensure the County can fully fund its pension obligations.
  “This is a financially prudent step toward confronting our pension challenges,” said President Preckwinkle. “I am very proud of our
  
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• Stuck fuel their tightly wound postpunk with our society’s anxieties

  30-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stuck became one of my favorite new Chicago bands during the worst of the pandemic. Their taut, bracing postpunk is exactly the kind of music I love to see played in rooms so cramped that the walls sweat—and that’s exactly the kind of environment I’ve avoided since COVID-19 arrived. I find this irony alternately funny […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Has Daniel Penny turned conservatives into social justice warriors?

  30-05-2023 13:00
  
  When an accused person goes through the judicial process, we use the phrase “brought to justice.” According to this viewpoint, the fact that the accused had their day in court defines justice, not the verdict.
  Social justice advocates have a different perspective. The powerless and the vulnerable should be favored in judicial decisions.
  Law-and-order types on the right typically uphold the process, while their counterparts on the left are more concerned with socially just outcomes. T
  
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