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• Nurtured in two great jazz cities, the Instigation Festival celebrates the tradition’s adventurous offshoots

  18-09-2023 22:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Instigation Festival is a semiannual transcontinental series that unites improvising musicians and other artists from Chicago and New Orleans. As it makes its eighth return to the city, it’s become such a tradition that it could just as easily be called the Continuation Festival. Instigation’s programming is split between New Orleans and Chicago, and […]
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• What You Need to Know About the Pretrial Fairness Act

  18-09-2023 18:53
  
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  Illinois is now the first state in the country to eliminate the cash bail system under the Pretrial Fairness Act, which is part of the SAFE-T Act. This new law went into effect on Monday morning. Here’s what you need to know about this new controversial law.
  What does the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act do and not do?
  The Pretrial Fairness Act eliminates the use of the money bond. It also makes it that anyone is eligible for pretrial release.
  After an arrest, individ
  
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• Sweetgreen Sued By Employees Alleging Racial Discrimination

  18-09-2023 15:30
  
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  Nearly a dozen Sweetgreen employees are accusing the salad chain of racial discrimination across seven of its New York City locations.
  On Thursday (September 14), a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the employees alleging that their Sweetgreen co-workers subjected them to daily use of the N-word and racist comments, per CNBC.
  According to the suit, managers also declined to hire and promote qualified Black employees, giving preferential treatment to Hispanic workers. Store manag
  
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• Duckworth Urges Biden Admin for State Flexibility in Job Growth & Worker Support

  18-09-2023 14:57
  
  On Friday, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with Representative Greg Casar (D-TX-35), led 59 of their colleagues in sending a bicameral letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calling on the Biden Administration to empower states and cities with more flexibility to tackle their local economic challenges when carrying out federally-funded projects—allowing them to expand diverse job growth and community hiring, support workers and grow their economy.
  In their letter, t
  
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• Denny’s Waiter Fired After Allegedly Calling Cops On Black Truckers

  18-09-2023 14:00
  
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  A South Dakota Denny’s employee was fired after allegedly calling the police on two Black men who say they were denied service at the restaurant, per the Atlanta Black Star.
  Truckers Damon Whitfield and Hector Madera said they were visiting a Denny’s in Sioux Falls on August 13 when they were discriminated against by staffers who refused to serve them and asked them to leave.
  In newly-released 911 audio, Mike Fletcher, Denny’s regional manager, told dispatch
  
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