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• Clue: A Walking Mystery misses local color

  01-08-2023 23:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  July 27, 4:58 PM, in the sweltering afternoon of a hothouse week, my friend Jeff and I arrived at a kiosk between a shuttered Starbucks and a Cash4Gold stand on the pedway level of Block 37. We were reporting for duty as Detectives Peacock, among the first set of Chicago players to officially experience Right […]
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• Globe-trotting groove wizards Magic Carpet drop their FPE Records debut

  01-08-2023 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than 20 years, Chicago ensemble Magic Carpet have blended jazz, funk, reggae, and various flavors of African, Indian, and Middle Eastern music into a cosmically psychedelic brew. They’ve given dancers and fans of heavy-ass jams a good reason to lose their minds at all sorts of venues around town: the Chicago Jazz Festival, […]
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• Port of Entry offers an exhilarating journey

  01-08-2023 22:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Long recognized as Chicago’s most diverse neighborhood, Albany Park has also served for generations as the destination for immigrant families. As the University of Chicago’s Chicago Studies program noted, “From the 1970s onward, Albany Park became a community of immigrants. By the 1990s, the neighborhood had the highest numbers of Filipino, Guatemalan, and Korean immigrants […]
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• Amped-up oligarchy

  01-08-2023 21:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s not clear that there’s anything funny about the life story or legacy of John D. Rockefeller, which raises the question of Corn Productions’ attraction to the material and goal in presenting it. Unfortunately, although clever bits appear throughout this satirical history lesson, Ryan Stevens’s production of his own play relies on the actors’ shouting […]
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• Come out, Come out

  01-08-2023 21:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• The waves

  01-08-2023 21:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The elements water and air both seem to possess an aloof quality. They lurk until they want their presence known, like a hurricane. Water drips through our synapses and air expands our lungs like bellows. We’re beings of water and air, held aloft by the systems we create to corral waves and tame winds. This […]
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• Schneider Deli returns to the next Monday Night Foodball—just because it can

  01-08-2023 21:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Arthur Salk loved a good burger. I mean, he probably did. I can’t say for sure, because the renowned architect behind the midcentury masterpiece that is the Ohio House Motel passed on last November at the ripe old age of 97.   I’m certain he’d be delighted that its attendant but frequently vacant diner, the former […]
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• Murder, she sang

  01-08-2023 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The last episode of Murder, She Wrote aired on May 19, 1996. Yet, 27 years later, the Internet bristles with fan sites. There’s Murder, She Watched, and two rival sites that both use the name Murder, She Blogged (though one of those is actually a site about true crime, not the television series).  And on […]
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• Fani Willis Says She Ready for Trump, Judge Smacks Down Removal Request

  01-08-2023 15:47
  Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis said she is “ready to go” in her ongoing grand jury probe into former president Donald Trump’s interference in Georgia’s 2020 election results and falsify votes to maintain control of the White House by discrediting the election process … basically using the state to perpetuate the “Big Lie.”“Some people may not be happy with the decisions that I’m making,” Willis told Atlanta news outl
  
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• Sheriff Dart’s Anti-Carjacking Initiative Becomes Law

  01-08-2023 14:30
  
  Legislation pushed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart to help police more quickly locate carjacked vehicles is now law.
  Automakers that sell vehicles within the state will be required to create a 24/7 hotline to relay location information on vehicles involved in a carjacking or kidnapping to law enforcement if the information is available. The measure includes safeguards to protect consumers, ensuring that such data is only released to police when the vehicle owner consents, when there is a w
  
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• Tropa Magica embrace “chunti” culture on their third album

  01-08-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tropa Magica’s psychedelic cumbia contains some of the happiest, most upbeat grooves I’ve heard in years. The four-piece emerged from East Los Angeles’s magical musical cauldron in 2017, evolving out of a band called Thee Commons, who combined cumbia with elements of metal and surf rock. The brothers behind Tropa Magica, guitarist and vocalist David […]
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• Storm Damage Assessments in Cook County Warrant FEMA Disaster Declaration Request

  01-08-2023 14:00
  
  After a rigorous assessment conducted by ten Preliminary Damage Assessment teams, compelling evidence has been gathered to warrant a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Federal Disaster Declaration. The assessment, which has occurred since Tuesday, involved a coordinated effort of local, state and federal officials braving the sweltering heat and humidity to evaluate the damages caused by flash flooding in Cicero, Berwyn, Stickney and the west side of Chicago on July 2.
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• Lessons from Harold and Rob

  01-08-2023 01:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Robert Mier (1924-1995) was a professor of urban planning and public administration at University of Illinois Chicago and a leading expert on urban economic issues. Mier founded the University of Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development in 1978. During Mayor Harold Washington’s first term, Mier became the City of Chicago’s director of economic […]
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• Ajike Owens’ Family Demands DOJ Investigate Her Killing As Hate Crime

  01-08-2023 01:19
  
  Photo: Ajike Owens’ Facebook
  The family of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black mother who was fatally shot by her white neighbor, wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case as a hate crime. According to ABC News, the family also requested Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to review the shooting, which happened on June 2 in Ocala, Florida.
  Susan Lorincz, 58, opened fire through her front door, killing Owens in front of her 9-year-old son. According to authorities,
  
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• Black Republicans Rebuke DeSantis Over Florida Rules On Teaching Slavery

  01-08-2023 01:14
  
  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fl.) (left) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Photo: Leigh Vogel / Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
  Several Black Republicans and conservatives are speaking out against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after his state released revised African American history school standards suggesting slavery benefitted Black people.
  “It raises eyebrows,” Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Federation that’s backing Donald Trump‘s reelection, told POLITICO. &ld
  
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• Photos: Ariel Zetina and friends glitter up Pitchfork

  01-08-2023 00:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last weekend, Ariel Zetina kicked off the Pitchfork Music Festival’s Sunday program. Instead of simply spinning a DJ set, Zetina worked with a Chicago-based team to put on a theatrical and “cunt” live performance focused on her 2022 album, Cyclorama.  A week before the festival, I went behind the curtain to get an inside look […]
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