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• Be our guest with Bad Johnny’s Wood-Fired Pizza at the next Monday Night Foodball

  07-06-2023 19:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On the day they met in Denver, Belle and the Beast got hitched and took off across the country. It was a wild ride, but they settled down quick—right here in Chicago—and began making beautiful pizzas together. Belle, as a mobile, restaurant-sized, wood-fired, brick pizza oven, gets pretty hot—around 950 degrees F. The Beast, as […]
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• Kenneth Douglas

  07-06-2023 18:29
  
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• Mean what you draw, draw what you mean 

  07-06-2023 16:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The room was filled with chatter as the awed crowd took in works by Esperanza Rosas, who is most known by her creative name, Runsy. “Plato o Plomo,” which translates to silver or lead, is the title of Runsy’s first solo exhibition, which took place at Franchise Gallery in Los Angeles. Now, Rosas brings a […]
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• Gwendolyn Brooks: From a Chicago Kitchenette to Literary Greatness

  07-06-2023 16:00
  
  In a 1945 Chicago Defender article, Gwendolyn Brooks said she was “merely writing about human beings” in response to the national acclaim she began receiving for her poetry.
  Yet, even then, few writers could match her ability to document Black people — her people — with piercing insight and clarity, selecting the surest word or verse to depict them and their world — however they felt and wherever they were.
  Because June 7 marks Mrs. Brooks’ 106th birthday, we
  
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• Meet Stephen Harris: A 2023 Men of Excellence Honoree

  07-06-2023 15:00
  
  For 2023 Men of Excellence honoree Stephen Harris, the foundation of his success is building relationships, striving for excellence, producing quality outcomes and serving others.
  It is a philosophy that has served him well throughout his career in healthcare leadership. Harris is president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL), where he is responsible for his company’s growth and financial stability.
  However, serving others in his role is critical to his job.
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• Inside Vivaldi’s all-female orchestra

  07-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As far as I can tell, no Chicagoan has written a novel about Italy since 1890, when Henry Blake Fuller’s queer-coded satire, The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani, was misinterpreted by critics to be an earnest heterosexual romance. More than 130 years later, I doubt readers will make a similar mistake with Julia Fine’s new novel. A […]
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• The Carr Report: How much income will you need during retirement?

  07-06-2023 13:00
  
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  When you think of your life in retirement, you imagine yourself traveling the world, spending quality time with family and friends, pursuing simple pleasures, and living the life of ease and luxury.   With the children gone and various bills paid, it’s easy to assume that you’ll have sufficient income coming in to maintain your desired standard of living during retirement. 
  The lifestyle of the majority of senior citizens is anything but a life of ease and
  
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• House producer Jayda G celebrates her father’s life on Guy

  07-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Canadian producer Jayda Guy, who makes music as Jayda G, was a child, her father began spending hours in a room with a specific goal: to record his life story. William Richard Guy had grown sick, and as his health declined he enlisted the help of Guy’s older sister to compile 11 hours of […]
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• Black CEOs Reach Record-Breaking High On Fortune 500 List

  07-06-2023 02:43
  
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  Eight Black CEOs lead companies that have landed on the 2023 Fortune 500 list, the most since the rankings’ debut in 1955, per the company’s website.
  Two of the eight Black executives joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time ever. Calvin Butler Jr. jumped up the ranks in December 2022 as the CEO of energy provider Exelon, which landed at No. 218 on the list. Christopher Womack, the CEO of Southern Company, an Atlanta-based gas and utility company, is also a
  
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• How the FBI used ‘Cop City’ protests to snoop on activists in Chicago

  07-06-2023 01:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.This article was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, where Adam Federman is a reporting fellow. Subscribe to their newsletters here. Last summer, a “Chicago Against Cop City” Twitter account was created and began sharing information about a campaign unfolding some 700 […]
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