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• Hecho En Arts & Craft Fair, Mothers of Murdered Transpeople annual picnic, and more

  26-08-2023 23:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bounce the CitySat-Sun through 9/3 (individual timed entry from 10 AM-5:30 PM depending on day), 5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, $24, all-ages, bouncethecity.com As someone without a car, I do not make a habit of leaving the city, but Bounce the City at Schaumburg’s Woodfield Mall has me reviewing my transit options. Through Sunday, September 3, […]
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• THE ‘JERRY MAGUIRE’ SYNDROME: How about ‘showing the money’ to those in the past, like Terrelle Pryor?

  26-08-2023 16:00
  
  Remember the movie, “Jerry MaGuire”? “Jerry Maguire” was a 1996 film that was inspired by former super sports agent Leigh Steinberg. The movie was very popular and had almost everyone running around saying, “Show me the money.” It was supposed to depict an agent representing an amateur athlete and helping that athlete get the most money for his talent. The standing rule for well over a century has been that amateur athletes were not permitted to be paid or com
  
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• 60th Anniversary Of The March On Washington Celebrates Racial Unity & Collective Resistance To Extremism

  26-08-2023 14:15
  
  Photo: Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which he delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, calling for an end to racism.
  By Marc H. Morial President and CEONational Urban League
  “It is not merely sympathy and compassion for the Black people of America that motivates us. It is above all and beyond all such sympathies and emotions a sense of complete identification and solidarity born of our own painful historic ex
  
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• Twitter Reacts To Trump Claiming He’s 6’3 & 215 LBS In Booking Sheet

  26-08-2023 14:00
  
  Photo: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office
  Donald Trump’s recent booking at the Fulton County Jail has the Internet talking.
  On Thursday (August 24), the former President surrendered to be booked on charges brought against him for his alleged role in schemes to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Shortly after Trump’s mug shot hit the web, Americans turned their sights to 45’s booking sheet, where Trump’s hair is described as “Blond or Strawberry,”
  
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