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• NASCAR’s DuPage County connection

  30-06-2023 23:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Chicago’s NASCAR events take over downtown streets in July, people may either leave town to avoid the spectacle or stay and curiously catch sight of something never seen in the city.  One person watching with great interest will be Fred Lorenzen, who will see the NASCAR events through the eyes of a guy who […]
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• Lorraine and Cognac

  30-06-2023 19:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Doesn’t anyone fuck anymore?

  30-06-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Will No Hard Feelings revive the sex comedy? Probably not. Has it at least revolutionized the subgenre, bringing something heretofore unseen to the summer slate? Maybe . . .
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• RXK Nephew and DJ Rude One merge their distinct styles on the sinister The ONEderful Nephew

  30-06-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a meeting of generations, rising New York-based rapper RXK Nephew and Chicago underground legend DJ Rude One join forces to make magic on The ONEderful Nephew. Rude One is a student of the old school with cosigns from 90s hip-hop royalty (including Kool G Rap and Doom, who appear on his 2016 record, ONEderful), […]
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• Brandon and Kristina Smith on Black Love and ‘Love & Marriage: Detroit’

  30-06-2023 16:45
  
  Black Love
  Black love is a forever bond between two individuals who choose each other despite life’s obstacles, challenges and even joys. Black love is sacred, hopeful and on display on every social media page, docuseries, movie and reality television show.
  Brandon and Kristina Bowman Smith decided to take a leap and showcase their black love on screens for the newest “Love & Marriage” spinoff in Detroit. The couple has been married for 11 years and have two beautiful daugh
  
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• We are nature

  30-06-2023 16:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Polish American artist Olga Ziemska about her exhibition “Of the Earth,” on view at the Morton Arboretum, and the nature of environmental artworks. In her latest exhibition, artist Olga Ziemska installed five large-scale, site-specific sculptures around 1,700 acres of the Morton Arboretum. Constructed with natural materials collected and reclaimed […]
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• It’s a brand-new, late summer schedule for Monday Night Foodball

  30-06-2023 15:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you haven’t binged the second season of The Bear yet, skip ahead to the fifth paragraph for news of the new late summer schedule for Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. If you have seen it, you know it’s full of a lot of the same white-knuckled, barely controlled […]
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• Square Roots showcases local artists and sounds from around the world

  30-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s outdoor entertainment season arrived this year amid more questions than usual: Why NASCAR, and why here? Why did the Chicago Park District extend the C3 Presents Lollapalooza contract in Grant Park for another ten years, when residents in Pilsen, North Lawndale, Belmont Cragin, and other neighborhoods are still duking it out with independent promoters […]
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• 15 Best Sugar Baby Websites and Apps to Meet Sugar Babies (2023)

  30-06-2023 07:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Finding the right sugar baby can be a challenge. Here are the 17 best sugar dating sites and apps for sugar babies and sugar daddies to meet.
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• Homegoing: Dr. Martin Luther King’s surviving sibling Christine King Farris dies at 95

  30-06-2023 05:12
  Christine King Farris, the only living sibling of Dr. Martin Luther King, died today, June 29, at the age of 95. She was the last surviving sibling of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  Much like her brother, the accomplished King family matriarch was intensely involved in developing civil rights philosophy and policy and was a stellar and admired advocate for justice.
  Farris sat faithfully very Sunday morning in the front pews of Ebenezer Church -old and new, she wielded impactful influence over the Ki
  
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• Dr. Martin Luther King’s surviving sibling Christine King Farris Dies at 95

  30-06-2023 05:12
  
  Christine King Farris, the only living sibling of Dr. Martin Luther King, died today, June 29, at the age of 95. She was the last surviving sibling of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  Much like her brother, the accomplished King family matriarch was intensely involved in developing civil rights philosophy and policy and was a stellar and admired advocate for justice.
  Farris sat faithfully very Sunday morning in the front pews of Ebenezer Church -old and new, she wielded impactful influence over the Ki
  
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• Style invades Navy Pier

  30-06-2023 04:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In April, a peculiar crowd descended upon Navy Pier, not quite blending in with the spot’s usual and more conventionally dressed clientele. Tourists and local visitors sporting accidental normcore shared the looong path to Festival Hall with EXPO Chicago attendees, who never disappoint in serving the latest fashions.  Celebrating its tenth anniversary, it is fair […]
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• Prominent Illinois Leaders React to Supreme Court Decision

  30-06-2023 02:50
  
  The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to strike affirmative action from college admissions drew a flurry of criticism from prominent Illinois democratic leaders. All condemned the ruling by the conservative majority court, pointing out that it effectively rolls back decades of progress and unfairly targets people of color. 
  U. S. Representative Danny K. Davis
  In his statement, Rep. Davis said the decision will only help to perpetuate “systemic inequalities.”
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