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• Justin Fields: Georgia Roots to NFL Stardom – The Bigs Exclusive Interview

  10-09-2023 16:30
  
  Interview by Herb Howard
  Justin Fields will embark on the most consequential season of his professional career. Before he took the field Sunday against the Green Bay Packers, the 24-year-old quarterback sat down with Herb Howard, Chicago Bears beat reporter for The Bigs.
  In this one-on-one interview, Fields talks about growing up in Georgia, dealing with critics, the importance of having good people around him and the pressure of being the face of the Bears franchise. 
  As for his criti
  
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• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Vision for a Better Chicago: An Exclusive Interview

  10-09-2023 15:00
  
  Photos Provided by Kouri Marshall
  I recently had the honor of sitting down with Mayor Brandon Johnson at his office in City Hall. 
  We covered a lot of ground during our conversation. We discussed the mayor’s background and familial upbringing, which inspired and prepared him for this moment. We touched on his time in the organizing movement and how it gave him the tools he needed to build the diverse, energized base that propelled him to victory earlier this year. 
  I asked him ab
  
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• Nearly Half of NFL Teams to Start a Black QB in Week 1 of New Season

  10-09-2023 14:00
  
  Photos: Wikimedia Commons
  Nearly half of all NFL teams are expected to start a Black quarterback in Week 1 of the new season for the first time in history.
  Fourteen of 32 teams will have a Black signal caller projected to start, breaking the record of 11 from last season.
  The Black quarterbacks expected to start for their teams include Justin Fields of the Chicago Bears, Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles, Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens, Russell Wilson of the Denver Broncos, Dak Presc
  
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• A city of sanctuary: Chicago’s role in the 1973 Chilean coup

  10-09-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hortensia Bussi held back tears as she addressed a crowd of more than 2,000 people gathered at DePaul University on a December afternoon in 1973. She was in Chicago because, on September 11, 1973, with spring in the air and Chile’s national holiday on the horizon, military aircraft launched from the port city of Valparaíso […]
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