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• Rev. Jesse Jackson Stepping Down as President of Rainbow PUSH

  14-07-2023 19:24
  
  Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is stepping down as president of the pioneering civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH, which he founded more than 50 years ago. 
  A successor has yet to be named. This announcement comes as the 57th annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention is set to occur this weekend. A spokesperson said his successor would be named at this weekend’s convention.
  News of Rev. Jackson’s departure from the organization he founded in 1971 drew national reaction, most notably
  
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• Elastic Arts and Hey Nonny receive Music in Action grants

  14-07-2023 18:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Adam Zanolini, executive director of the Elastic Arts Foundation, first heard about Live Music Society last year from friends at Experimental Sound Studio, a like-minded institution in Edgewater. Live Music Society is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting small venues and listening rooms, and ESS wanted to be sure Elastic learned about its new Music in […]
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• Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

  14-07-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise is back with the seventh installment of a series that somehow manages to increase the stakes yet again. The narrative of the film is relatively simple: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is tasked with capturing a key that allows the control of a sentient AI system […]
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• Review: Love, Deutschmarks and Death

  14-07-2023 16:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When West Germany began to invite guest workers from Turkey to fill the lower echelon positions in the country’s growing economy in 1955, the newcomers brought along their own music to remind them of the home they left behind. Seamlessly blending archival footage with talking heads and pithy informational intertitles, director Cem Kaya tells the […]
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• Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Should be Impeached

  14-07-2023 16:30
  
  Detroit native and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, is calling for change to the nation’s highest court following its recent ban on race-based college admissions in relation to Affirmative Action use and other recent controversial decisions.
  Ellison calls for term limits for justices on the Supreme Court and the imposing of new ethical rules due to some of the conservative justices he calls out for “swimming in money by special interests.” He believes if there were eno
  
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• Illinois City Begins Paying Reparations to Black Americans

  14-07-2023 16:20
  
  Checks and vouchers in the amount of $25,000 have been sent this week to eligible residents, a move that backs up the city’s 2019 promise to pay as much as $10 million over the next decade in reparations.
  By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia
  Reparations have finally arrived for some Black Americans.The city of Evanston, Illinois, began its historic reparations program by providing compensation to its many of its Black residents.Checks and vouchers i
  
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• Boy

  14-07-2023 16:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Review: Insidious: The Red Door

  14-07-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After two prequels, the fifth film in the Insidious franchise picks up nine years after the events of Chapter 2, with now-18-year-old Dalton (Ty Simpkins) heading off to college and still in the dark (ha) about the truth of his childhood coma (he and dad Josh had their memories wiped under hypnosis). Josh (Patrick Wilson) […]
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• 10 Fun Things to Do This Weekend, July 14-16

  14-07-2023 16:00
  
  We are past the July 4 weekend and staring down the barrel of a dwindling Summer. Even still, a city like Chicago never blinks. Why? Because there is still too much fun to get into, whether within the city limits or without.
  Some intriguing events beyond the city include the Festival of the Lakes in Hammond, Indiana, the Campfire Music Festival in St. Anne and the Eric Roberson and Chrisette Michele concert in Country Club Hills. And if you want to stay local, you have options, my friend.
  Here a
  
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• Review: The Quince Tree Sun

  14-07-2023 15:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the fall of 1990, the Madrid-based realist painter Antonio López García set himself the seemingly humble task of painting the quince tree in his yard that he’d planted four years before. Known for his exacting fidelity in depicting the seen world, he uses a plumb line, puts posts in the ground to make sure […]
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• Veruca Salt’s Louise Post comes home with her debut solo record, Sleepwalker

  14-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s been nearly a decade since Louise Post played at Lincoln Hall. At that time the guitarist and singer was in good company, alongside her longtime Veruca Salt cohorts Nina Gordon, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro during a stop on the band’s 2014 reunion tour. Chicago’s musical landscape has continuously changed since it birthed the […]
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• Search for Chicago Police Superintendent Down to 3 Finalists

  14-07-2023 15:00
  
  The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability announced three finalists for the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
  On Thursday, the Commission recommended Madison, Wisconsin Chief of Police Shon F. Barnes, CPD Chief of Constitutional Policing and Reform Angel Novalez and CPD Chief of Counterterrorism Larry Snelling for the post.
  “The City has reached an important milestone in our search for a new superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. After dili
  
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• Process is the metaphor

  14-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Experiencing Elnaz Javani’s solo show, “Dwelling Places,” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid is like plunging into a sea of turquoise and dusty pink; swimming through convoluted seagrass, shadows of the past, and specters of near-forgotten selves; and, in the end, emerging to the surface of the water, a bit disoriented, but resolved. Hanging textile-based works barely […]
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• Insurers Are Assisting Chicago Residents Recover from Tornado Damage

  14-07-2023 14:00
  
  Damaging tornadoes ripped through Chicagoland on Wednesday, and the insurance industry has mobilized and is assisting residents in the recovery process.
  “Our thoughts are with those who have been impacted by the violent weather,” said Brooke Kelley, assistant vice president, state government relations for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA). “Anyone who experienced damage should contact their insurance company or agent to get the recovery process starte
  
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• Chicago Reader announces three new hires

  14-07-2023 00:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which operates the Chicago Reader, announces recent staff hires. Diane Pascal, who previously worked as a consultant for RICJ, is our new chief development officer. Pascal (she/her) has more than 25 years of experience as a nonprofit fundraiser and marketing executive. She worked for seven years as senior […]
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