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• Lovely Little Girls drop a dazzling new album of grotesque, theatrical prog rock

  15-08-2023 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2016, Reader music editor Philip Montoro profiled local progressive-rock weirdos Lovely Little Girls upon the release of the album Glistening Vivid Splash, describing their “absurd and jarring contrasts” and “knotty, intricate songs” that “heave and dance and skitter, sometimes gracefully dexterous and sometimes grotesquely lumpy.” The band have been steadily evolving since their confrontationally […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: The opposite of Stockholm syndrome 

  15-08-2023 15:00
  Vintage illustration represents the emancipation of Southern slaves at the end of the American Civil War. This image contrasts the life of a slave and that of a free man’s life. Getty Images Stock Illustration
  After Florida issued its new social studies academic standards for 2023, the following lesson was opposed: Students will examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves. The instruction will include how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for
  
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• Hometown hip-hop hero Chance the Rapper headlines the United Center

  15-08-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Damn near every rapper has aspirations of “changing the game,” selling out arenas, and dominating hip-hop, but Chance the Rapper has already done that and then some. What could I possibly write about the three-time Grammy winner that hasn’t already been written? What has Chance done that hasn’t gone viral? Even his supposed failures—the canceled […]
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• Fani Willis: 5 Things To Know About The Black DA Prosecuting Trump

  15-08-2023 09:34
  
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is in the national spotlight for her racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 of his associates for attempting to reverse the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia.
  Though Willis’s case is the fourth that levies criminal charges against the former President, it is seen as potentially the most potent and compelling. 
  One former Fulton County prosecutor said this about Willis and her office: “I think p
  
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• Mayor Johnson Introduces Chief Larry Snelling as CPD’s Top Cop

  15-08-2023 01:56
  
  Chief Larry Snelling, the pick to be the next Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, was introduced by Mayor Brandon Johnson during a Monday press conference.
  The appointee to be CPD’s top cop appears to be in lockstep with Mayor Johnson’s vision of public safety and police reform.
  “The police department and our community members are not two separate institutions because they can’t be. We have to work together by listening and learning from each other,” sa
  
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