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• City Council Unanimously Confirms Larry Snelling as CPD Superintendent

  27-09-2023 21:38
  
  Larry Snelling is the new Chicago police superintendent. During a special meeting on Wednesday, the Chicago City Council unanimously confirmed him as the city’s top cop. 
  The City Council vote was 48-0. Two aldermen were absent. 
  “I’m grateful for the City Council’s confirmation of Superintendent Larry Snelling today, marking a step forward in our journey to create a better, stronger, safer Chicago,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement. “Superi
  
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• City Council Unanimously Approves Larry Snelling as CPD Superintendent

  27-09-2023 21:38
  
  Larry Snelling is the new Chicago police superintendent. During a special meeting on Wednesday, the Chicago City Council unanimously confirmed him as the city’s top cop. 
  The City Council vote was 48-0. Two aldermen were absent. 
  “I’m grateful for the City Council’s confirmation of Superintendent Larry Snelling today, marking a step forward in our journey to create a better, stronger, safer Chicago,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement. “Superi
  
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• Little orphan Annie meets Dracula

  27-09-2023 20:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Director Christopher Alden is back at Lyric Opera for the first time since his racy production of Rigoletto created an uproar there back in 2000. The Alden project onstage now—his take on Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman—is of the same approximate vintage, debuting at Canadian National Opera in 1996. And yes, on opening night last […]
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• Review: The Creator

  27-09-2023 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Gareth Edwards’s The Creator is a movie about AI that is hammered, welded, and spackled together from a whole lot of other better and more coherent films.
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• Review: The Continental (Miniseries)

  27-09-2023 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Though it pales in comparison to its parent films, The Continental maintains the classic John Wick house style and is sure to sate the appetites of franchise devotees.
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• Review: Dicks: The Musical

  27-09-2023 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ultimately, Dicks: The Musical’s desire for cult-classic status is its biggest downfall, because that’s not how a movie procures that title.
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• Woman Killed Weeks After TV Interview on Violence Against Black Women

  27-09-2023 16:00
  
  According to prosecutors, a Black woman named Sierra Jamison was strangled by a romantic partner she had known for years.
  Incidentally, Jamison also interviewed Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM-TV in a segment on Black women being the target of violent crime before her death. 
  The accused killer, Lawrence Boyle, was in court over her murder recently. Prosecutors said that though the 63-year-old Boyle had known the 30-year-old Jamison for 10 years, he strangled her to death weeks after the two beg
  
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• Look but don’t touch

  27-09-2023 15:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.” So begins Valerie Solanas’s incendiary, prophetic SCUM Manifesto, SCUM of […]
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• Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, Dead At 43

  27-09-2023 15:30
  
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  Zoleka Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, has died, according to ABC News. She was 43.
  On Monday (September 25), Zoleka died “surrounded by friends and family” following recent struggles with cancer, according to a statement posted on her Instagram.
  “On Monday, September 18th, Zoleka Mandela was admitted into hospital for ongoing treatment for metastatic cancer to the hip, liver, lung, pelvis, brain and spinal cord,” the statement read. &ld
  
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• The Carr Report: Help! My Sister Married a Bum!!!

  27-09-2023 15:00
  
  Help! My sister married a bum!!! How can I help?
  He started off good. Military man and good provider for his family. He got kicked out of the military.  When he got kicked out of the military, he, my sister, and their two children moved in with my parents.  Neither one has had a job in the two years they have been living with my parents.  Yet, they’re still making babies. Now, it’s three children and them living with my parents.
  I have zero respect for dude! I want to
  
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• Youth Employment Up 19 Percent From 2022 Through One Summer Chicago

  27-09-2023 14:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson recently announced that over 24,000 young people were employed through the One Summer Chicago program during the summer of 2023, representing a 19% increase from the previous year.
  The OSC program is a partnership between the Mayor’s Office, the Department of Family and Support Services, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Transit Authority, City Colleges of Chicago, community-based organizations, corporate partners, and l
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Sept. 27

  27-09-2023 14:00
  
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• Black Victims Of Secret Cold War Testing In St. Louis Seek Compensation

  27-09-2023 14:00
  
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  Residents of the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1950s and 60s are seeking compensation after allegedly being subjected to secret government testing, the Associated Press reports.
  According to reports, the U.S. Army used blowers on the top of buildings and the backs of station wagons that sprayed a carcinogen into the air close to the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, which were predominately Black.
  Congress insisted that the substance, zinc cadmium sul
  
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