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• Review: Our Body

  14-09-2023 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The political is found firsthand to be personal, here through an assemblage of intimate vignettes, and thus it becomes all the more impactful when the director joins the ranks, a stand-in for our collective body.
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• Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

  14-09-2023 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In spite of its third-film shortcomings, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 has some genuine laughs and a healthy dose of heart.
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• Review: El Conde

  14-09-2023 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Power and money will scoop out your soul, and fascism is very hard to kill. The real Pinochet died in 2006, but those particular truths, unfortunately, live on.
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• Review: Dumb Money

  14-09-2023 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Any cash and time moviegoers choose to spend on Dumb Money will be well invested, indeed.
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• UNCF Chicago Hosts 40th Annual Walk for Education at Burnham Park on Saturday

  14-09-2023 18:17
  
  Cook Country Board President Toni Preckwinkle to serve as Honorary Chair of the 2023 UNCF Chicago Walk for Education.
  Radio personalities Ramonski Luv from Omni-Channel and Trey White from WGCI FM will be co-emcees. They will step out for students at the organization’s 40th Annual Walk for Education on September 16, 2023 in Chicago at Burnham Park, Grove 7, DuSable Lake Shore Drive @ 39th Street. As in previous years, participants can choose to walk, run, bike or skate.
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• Petty lives of desperation

  14-09-2023 18:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When The Beauty Queen of Leenane first premiered with Galway’s Druid Theatre in 1996, it marked its author, Martin McDonagh (then just shy of age 26) as an exhilarating new voice in Celtic drama. The story of lonely 40-year-old spinster Maureen Folan and her hypochondriacal and controlling mother, Mag, cut like a chainsaw through any […]
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• God Willin

  14-09-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• A superb View

  14-09-2023 16:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When it’s directed wrong, Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge comes off as a dated melodrama about the unthinkability of incest. Fortunately, director Louis Contey at Shattered Globe understands it’s actually a piece about self-deception leading to self-destruction and thus is as much of a punch in the gut as it was when it […]
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• Ring of Fire lacks dramatic heat

  14-09-2023 16:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let’s begin with what this 2006 jukebox musical is not. It is not a rich, textured, nuanced, moving, memorable musical biography of Johnny Cash. It does not attempt to do onstage what the rousing, Academy Award-winning 2005 movie, I Walk the Line, did on the silver screen: bring us Cash in his power and glory […]
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• A tale of two poets

  14-09-2023 16:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Water People Theater’s last full-length production was The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon, presented in September 2019 as part of the Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, written and starring artistic director Rebeca Alemán under the direction of Iraida Tapias. Alemán’s story of a Venezuelan human rights reporter struggling to regain her memory after […]
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• Camp carnage

  14-09-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Several years before they struck Disney gold with Beauty and the Beast, the musical team of composer Alan Menken and book writer and lyricist Howard Ashman stuck their toes into campy cult waters with 1982’s Little Shop of Horrors, adapted from Roger Corman’s 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. The film is famous, among […]
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• The love language of dance

  14-09-2023 15:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s incredibly ambitious for a Chicago company to choose A Chorus Line, because although the city has a strong dance community, it’s not one with a tradition of crossing over into theatrical dance. So director Wayne Mell and choreographer Susan Pritzker have done a creditable job in staging a show that’s all about theatrical dancing. […]
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• Dark comedy goes nuclear in Cat’s Cradle

  14-09-2023 15:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Heather Currie directs John Hildreth’s laugh-a-minute adaptation Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s satire about the U.S. nuclear program and all-around ignorant hubris. The story is told in flashback by a writer, possibly named Jonah, or maybe John (Tony Bozzuto), trying to write a book about the end of the world while perhaps living through said event. […]
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• Chicago’s 2024 Budget Projected to Have a $538 Million Shortfall

  14-09-2023 15:30
  
  On Wednesday, Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled the City of Chicago’s Budget Forecast for the forthcoming 2024 fiscal year, revealing a projected budget shortfall of $538 million. 
  A significant portion of that shortfall is being attributed to the city’s ongoing migrant crisis. A third of that estimated shortfall, around $200 million, will be needed to support new arrivals.
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• Chicago Takes Bold Step Towards Municipal Grocery Store to Tackle Food Inequity

  14-09-2023 15:30
  
  On Wednesday, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to pave the way for a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago. The Economic Security Project, a national nonprofit that aims to build economic power for all Americans, is lending its assistance in establishing the grocery store to improve food accessibility and equity for all Chicagoans.  
  If this initiative advances, Chicago will become the first major city in the country to have a munici
  
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• Georgetown University, Jesuits Donate $27 Million For Slave Descendants

  14-09-2023 14:30
  
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  Georgetown University and the Jesuits have donated $27 million to a fund for descendants of enslaved people who were sold to pay off debts at the school in the 19th century.
  On Wednesday (September 13), Georgetown University announced $10 million in new funds and the Jesuits $17 million that will go toward the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation, per Daily Mail.
  The foundation was established in 2021 to support “the educational aspirations of descendants o
  
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• President Preckwinkle Announces Launch of Cook County Reconnect Program

  14-09-2023 14:00
  
  Cook County announced the launch of Cook County Reconnect: Rental Assistance and Services for Returning Residents.Cook County has designated $23 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding for this initiative which provides rental assistance and services to residents returning to Cook County from periods of incarceration. Cook County Reconnect launched in August with a successful pilot phase.
  “In Cook County, we recognize the many challenges associated with reentry and we are committed to
  
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