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• CD Top 6 Stories of the Week: City-Owned Grocery Store, Hamilton’s Return, Karyn White Performs and more…

  17-09-2023 16:00
  
  Here are the top stories from the Chicago Defender for the Week of Sept.11-16:
  Chicago Takes Bold Step Towards Municipal Grocery Store to Tackle Food Inequity
  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. If this initiative advances, Chicago would become the first major city in the country to have a municipally-owned grocery store to address food inequity.
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• ABC 7 Celebrates 75 Years of Broadcasting in Chicago

  17-09-2023 15:00
  
  ABC 7, the Most Watched Television Station in Chicago, Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary Sept. 17, 2023During a time when milk was 34 cents a gallon, the average cost of a home was $1,250 and 1% of American households had televisions, the ABC station WENR-TV/Channel 7 made its television debut in Chicago on Sept. 17, 1948. In 1968, the station changed its call letters to WLS-TV, an acronym for the “World’s Largest Store,” after its sister radio station’s previous owner, Sea
  
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• Clark Atlanta Students Face Massive Flooding In Residence Halls, Streets

  17-09-2023 14:00
  
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  A massive flood has destroyed the streets and residence halls at Clark Atlanta University, WSB-TV reports.
  Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said parts of the CAU campus received three hours’ worth of rain in 15 minutes. Water from the torrential downpour took over the dorms and streets of the HBCU.
  “People were literally kicking through water,” Xzavier Boykin said. ”It was extremely scary because it was a hazard. There are a lot of electrical devices going
  
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• No Charges for Man Accused in Shooting Death of Assistant Principal

  17-09-2023 02:45
  
  Update: No criminal charges have been filed against the concealed-carry license holder accused of fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in a Loop high-rise on Thursday night. 
  On Thursday after 7:30 p.m., Abnerd Joseph was shot multiple times after an altercation with another man, a 45-year-old CCL holder, on the first block of East Monroe Street. Joseph died shortly after at Northwestern Hospital.
  What led to the confrontation and Joseph’s fatal shooting remains unknown. 
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