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• LT. Gov. Stratton Joins Pres. Biden and VP Harris for Emmett Till National Monument Proclamation

  25-07-2023 23:28
  
  On Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton joined President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the signing of the National Monument Proclamation to honor the life of Emmett Till and the brave advocacy of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
  As a resident of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood — the home of the church where Emmett Till’s funeral was held — Lt. Governor Stratton recognizes deeply that we must uplift their legacies as we continue the work to build
  
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• Cook County Opening Three Additional Cooling Centers During Excessive Summer Heat

  25-07-2023 22:33
  
  Cooling centers available to all residents across County
  Hot, humid and potentially stormy weather conditions will move across Cook County starting on Wednesday and ending Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Peak afternoon heat index values of between 95 – 105 degrees are expected.
  Cook County is increasing the number of cooling centers open to residents to include the County’s Skokie, Maywood and Bridgeview Courthouses Wednesday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 4
  
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• Two former Electric Eels show up to celebrate an obsessively curated new compilation

  25-07-2023 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cleveland protopunk band the Electric Eels existed for just three years in the early 70s, playing all of five gigs, and didn’t release a record till long after they’d broken up. But the legend of this notoriously self-destructive band keeps growing—maybe because founding guitarist Brian McMahon published a masterfully cantankerous memoir, Jaguar Ride, via HoZac […]
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• Maman Zari has the only fine-dining Persian tasting menu in the country

  25-07-2023 20:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last November, chef Matteo Lo Bianco took a crash course in Persian food. Each day he’d show up at Farzad Shahsavarani’s house and begin cooking under the eye of his former boss, and his sister Farideh. They made all the classics: the intensely herbaceous lamb and bean stew, ghormeh sabzi; the fruity egg-stuffed meatballs, kofte […]
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• Galaxy Francis leans into community to reinvent himself

  25-07-2023 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Our current understanding of how galaxies form is that they’re shaped by the clumping together of dark matter, which makes up the invisible scaffolding of the universe. Clouds of gas and dust gather along this scaffolding, slowly collapsing into stars that evolve and then die in supernova explosions. These explosions create clouds of gas that […]
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• Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD Foundation Empowers Businesses for Prosperity

  25-07-2023 16:30
  
  We live in a world where inequality and injustice sometimes overshadow the potential for prosperity. The BeyGOOD Foundation, founded by the globally-acclaimed artist Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, stands as a beacon of hope and inspiration.
  BeyGOOD is a public charity foundation that firmly believes in creating a society where everyone has the opportunity to prosper. With a mission to transform communities into places of economic prosperity, generosity and justice, the foundation has embarked on
  
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• The Silver Room Block Party says farewell

  25-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I understand why people are sad that this year’s Silver Room Sound System Block Party will be the last. When Silver Room owner Eric Williams started the block party in 2002, he did so in part to address the fact that neighborhood street festivals routinely overlooked the Black musicians and artists in his community—if no […]
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• Tender thresholds

  25-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  “Manifesto for Mutualistic Tendencies,” a highly collaborative exhibition by Chicago-based artists Kayla Anderson and Dao Nguyen, opened at Comfort Station on a stormy Sunday afternoon. With a splash of clairvoyance, a song sings “Drip. Drop. It’s raining so hard . . . ” in Anderson’s video, Arion Vulgaris: Notes on a Species (2023)—an experimental short […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Affirmative Action, statute of limitations, and historical burdens

  25-07-2023 13:00
  
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  In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld Affirmative Action in college admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger. The Court ruled 5-4 that admission processes that benefited “underrepresented minorities” did not violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause as long as race was only one component of a holistic admissions strategy.
  According to the Court, a diverse student body increased educational benefits for all who sought higher education. However, the Court stated tha
  
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• ‘Just trying to help him stay alive’

  25-07-2023 01:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sheila Haennicke was woken up around 2 AM on November 16, 2021, by an Oak Park policeman who informed her and her husband that their 29-year-old son was found unresponsive and his body was at Ascension Resurrection Hospital. In the hours before, Sheila Haennicke’s son, David Haennicke, died of an accidental overdose on the CTA […]
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• Biden To Establish National Monument Honoring Emmett Till

  25-07-2023 01:19
  
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  President Joe Biden plans to create a national monument honoring Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, a White House official said.
  On Tuesday (July 25), Biden is set to sign a proclamation on what would have been Till’s 82nd birthday, per BBC News. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be established and include three different sites in Illinois and Mississippi.
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• Carlee Russell Confesses to Fabricating Kidnapping; No Charges Filed Yet

  25-07-2023 00:44
  
  As it turns out, Carlee Russell made up the whole kidnapping story after all.
  On Monday, Russell confessed to fabricating the story of her reported abduction earlier this month via a statement by her attorney.
  “There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13. My client did not see a baby on the side on the road,” according to a statement provided by attorney Emory Anthony. Hoover Police Chief Nicholas Derzis read the statement at a Monday news conference.
  “My client did not leave
  
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