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• Trevian Kutti: 6 Things About the Chicago Woman Booked in Election Fraud Case

  25-08-2023 22:55
  
  Chicago-based publicist Trevian Kutti, one of the defendants accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election results along with former President Donald Trump, surrendered at Fulton County Jail on Friday.
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Kutti with violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, influencing a witness and conspiring to solicit false statements. 
  Kutti’s charges stem from a 2021 encounter with Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. She
  
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• Chicago Reader’s 2nd Annual UnGala Celebration

  25-08-2023 18:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at Epiphany Center for the Arts
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• Meet Katanya Raby, the New Chair of CTA’s Citizens Advisory Board

  25-08-2023 16:30
  
  Photos: Lee Edwards
  At their first quarterly meeting of the year, the ten newly selected Chicago Transit Authority’s Citizens Advisory Board members named Katanya Raby as their chairperson by unanimous decision.
  Raby said she was “shocked” to be selected as chair because three other board members were considered for the position. 
  “I think that the board is comprised of some really amazing people from across the city,” said Raby. “So, I’m just reall
  
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• Trump Mugshot: Social Media Reacts to Former President’s Moment of Infamy

  25-08-2023 15:00
  
  On Thursday, the 45th President of the United States surrendered at Fulton County Jail on charges he attempted to reverse the 2020 Georgia election results, earning him a booking number, mugshot and a place in history as the first President ever to have both.
  Donald Trump, whose estimated net worth is $2.5 billion, took a private jet to Atlanta and was escorted via a motorcade to get booked at the same facility where an inmate was allegedly eaten alive by bed bugs and is under federal investigat
  
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• New Life Covenant Church SE and Life Without Limitations Host UNLEASHED 2023

  25-08-2023 14:30
  
  Life Without Limitations and New Life Covenant Church Southeast’s Identity Teens have joined forces to organize an event for over 100 teens between the ages of 12 and 18 in Chicago.
  The news is often filled with stories of teens gathering in chaos or being gunned down in our city. That’s why we’re hosting an in-person event on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at 7522 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619.
  We believe that young minds have the power to create positive change, and t
  
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• The Scorched Tundra festival hits its lucky 13th year with a diverse battery of heavy sounds

  25-08-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This summer marks lucky 13 for Scorched Tundra, the smartly curated metal festival that Alexi Front launched in 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in 2016 began running in parallel in Chicago, which he considers Gothenburg’s metal-and-beer sister city. Though the pandemic clipped Scorched Tundra’s wings, it returned last year with a spectacular three-day lineup, and […]
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• Donald Trump Booked Into Fulton County Jail, Mugshot Released

  25-08-2023 02:56
  Donald Trump has been arrested and booked into the Fulton County Jail. Shortly after 7:30 p.m., Trump arrived to the facility on Rice Street with a motorcade in tow. Several surrounding streets were blocked off, creating a traffic headache for nearby residents. 
  He was allowed to give his own weight, height and eye color. 
  Following his release, Trump spoke to reporters before boarding his private jet. 
  “I did nothing wrong,” Trump claimed. “This is their wa
  
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• Donald Trump Isn’t the First President to Be Arrested

  25-08-2023 00:14
  Upon turning himself into Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail, former President Donald Trump will become the second person in U.S. history to serve as president and be arrested.
  Trump will be booked on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results. Specifically, Trump asked former Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a phone call to help him secure over 11,000 votes, the amount in which he trailed Joe Biden in Georgia. During a record
  
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• Review: The Eternal Memory

  25-08-2023 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the remarkable documentary The Eternal Memory, director Maite Alberdi brings us one of the most heartfelt renditions of life, love, and memory in recent years of cinema.
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• Review: Red, White & Royal Blue

  25-08-2023 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Those who desire mere fluff will be satisfied, but the reason the book became a sensation in the first place was its real awareness of the risks it took to truly build a better world. This groundbreaking love story deserved better.
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• Review: Perpetrator

  25-08-2023 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A girl walking home alone is such a classic beginning for a horror film that it’s a trope (and title) in itself. This particular opening lends itself to endless continuations and explorations, and when you have a director like Jennifer Reeder, an old story can get retold like no other. 
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• Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand

  25-08-2023 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Once you get past the aliens' appearances, it’s easy to be mesmerized by the film at large, which is a sweeping and heartfelt examination of colonization, voyeurism, capitalism, and humanity.
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• Review: Fremont

  25-08-2023 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Packaged in unsuspecting monochrome and monotone, Babak Jalali embeds Fremont with a cunning, melancholic charm.
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