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• Let’s make Marshall Vente a star

  30-08-2023 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I discover subjects for the Secret History of Chicago Music lots of different ways—I might see an unfamiliar artist mentioned in passing during an interview with somebody better known, or spot a name I don’t recognize in the credits of a well-loved local LP. Sometimes a musician simply contacts me directly, or a friend or […]
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• Attorney Ben Crump, Roseburg Forest Products to Announce $250,000 Scholarship Fund for Weed High School Students Pursuing Higher Education

  30-08-2023 17:16
  Crump represented several victims of the 2022 Weed Mill Fire in which two people were killed and three injured in the Mill Fire, which started on Sept. 2, 2022, and burned nearly 4,000 acres in Siskiyou County. The fire damaged or destroyed 144 structures.
  Nationally renowned civil rights advocate and personal injury attorney Ben Crump, Weed mayor Ken Palfini, and Matt Lawless of Roseburg Forest Products will join other local leaders on Wednesday, Aug. 30 to announce a $250,000 scholarship fund
  
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• Artemisia and Congo Square celebrate Inda Craig-Galván

  30-08-2023 17:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Writer, performer, and Second City vet Inda Craig-Galván has been away from Chicago for a dozen years. But she’s having a homecoming celebration of sorts with two shows—both set in the Chicago area—opening on local stages.  This week, Artemisia Theatre opens Craig-Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler at the Den Theatre. Next week, Congo Square […]
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• Toya Wolfe on Her 15-Year Odyssey to Become an Acclaimed Novelist

  30-08-2023 16:30
  
  Toya Wolfe‘s journey to produce her critically acclaimed novel began when she lived on 81st and Cottage Grove on the South Side around 2005. 
  She juggled life, multiple jobs and a manuscript she would tinker with on the side.  
  It would take years — 15 to be exact — which included a sojourn to Southern California to become a pastor and a reluctant return back to Chicago to complete a graduate creative writing program, and more years of writing, burnishing and wor
  
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• Disaster Recovery Centers Open Across Cook County

  30-08-2023 14:00
  
  FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers opened Tuesday, Aug. 29 in four Cook County locations to help residents kickstart their recovery after the June 29 – July 2 storms and flood. Specialists from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration will be at the centers to help survivors apply for federal disaster assistance, upload documents, learn about ways to make their property more disaster resistant, and get their questions answered in person.
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