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• Little Amal invites Chicago to walk a little closer together

  28-09-2023 22:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Although Amal, a towering 12-foot puppet representing a ten-year-old Syrian refugee girl, is silent, she speaks a universal language of empathy that has shifted countless perspectives, including in our Windy City. “From the very first journey, it was apparent that this was something the community was craving,” says associate artistic director Khadijat Oseni. A collaborative […]
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• Shaker Barbeque takes you down at the next Monday Night Foodball

  28-09-2023 21:15 via chicagoreader.com
  Shaker Barbeque ended its summerlong weekend stand at Ludlow Liquors last week, and the barbecue sauce smeared across my sticky gob hadn’t even dried before jefe Mike Shaker made a break for the nation’s capital to clean it out of shellfish and go swimming in a river of Aperol and Prosecco. By the time I’d […]
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• Editor’s note: we need each other

  28-09-2023 21:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In late August, the Chicago Sun-Times calculated that more than 13,000 immigrants had arrived in Chicago since August 2022, when Texas governor Greg Abbott started his busing scheme. While our city is navigating the care and feeding of all our people, and not always getting it perfect, we’ve received an influx of even more people […]
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• Charlique Rolle takes over at African American Arts Alliance of Chicago

  28-09-2023 20:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Charlique Rolle knows what it takes to keep a strong vision going in challenging times. The executive director of Congo Square Theatre Company came into that role in the summer of 2020, when nobody even knew when it would be safe to return to live performance. Rolle worked with artistic director Ericka Ratcliff and the […]
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• Debutantes and debacles

  28-09-2023 15:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pearl Cleage isn’t from Chicago, but she’s been produced enough here that she feels like an adopted playwright at least. Now-defunct Eclipse Theatre Company (dedicated to the one playwright, one season model) offered a season of Cleage plays back in 2007, and that same year, Court Theatre did a stunning revival of her 1992 frontier […]
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• How CPS Centered Student Opinion in Making Its School Menu

  28-09-2023 15:30
  
  Photos: Chicago Public Schools
  Chicago Public Schools Nutrition Support Services Director Jason Mojica and Chicago Public Schools Nutrition Program Manager Justine Britten shared how the school district prioritizes student voice when crafting meals, among other topics, in a 45-minute interview with The Chicago Defender.
  Nutrition Support Services is the department responsible for providing breakfast, lunch and after-school meals for more than 322,000 Chicago Public Schools students, according to
  
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• Purgatory in a dystopian disco

  28-09-2023 15:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Set in a place that is equal parts dystopian disco and minimal sci-fi torture dungeon (set and costumes designed by Natasha Djukic), Zeljko Djukic directs Adam Ranđelović’s adaptation from Daniel Gerould’s translation of Stanisław Witkiewicz’s tragicomic 1919 piece of existentialist hand-wringing. Plasfodor (Kevin Webb)—married to the mute Mamalia (Venice Averyheart), who dances her words rather […]
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• All about the Franklins

  28-09-2023 15:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a great show about a Founding Father onstage right now in Chicago who is not named Alexander Hamilton. And while it doesn’t feature an award-winning score by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mesmerized: A Ben Franklin Science & History Mystery at Chicago Children’s Theatre boasts its own fine collection of talent onstage and off. Adapted by Suzanne […]
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• Jack In The Box Worker Shot At Family Over Curly Fry Dispute, Lawsuit Says

  28-09-2023 14:30
  
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  A Jack in the Box employee in Houston is accused of shooting a drive-thru customer during a dispute over curly fries.
  On Tuesday (September 26), a lawyer for customer Anthony Ramos released footage of the 2021 incident after filing a lawsuit against the restaurant and employee, Alonniea Fantasia Ford, People reports.
  According to the suit, Ramos, his pregnant wife, and six-year-old daughter ordered two combo meals on March 3, 2021 at a Jack in the Box near Houston’s Bus
  
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• This Week In Black History Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2023

  28-09-2023 14:00
  
  O.J. SIMPSON
  September 27
  1817—Hiram R. Revels is born free in Fayetteville, N.C. Revels becomes the first Black to serve in the United States Senate shortly after the Civil War.
  1876—Edward Mitchell Bannister upsets racist Whites who believe Blacks have no artistic skill by winning a bronze medal for a painting he displayed at the American Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.In this June 1989 file photo, Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks holds a portrait of herself painted b
  
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• Local Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Hosts Carnival Book Fair

  28-09-2023 14:00
  
  The Glen Ellyn Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is hosting its annual Midwest Impact Day of Service on Saturday, September 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This innovative and exciting event has the potential to greatly benefit our communities by fostering a love for literature and reading.
  The Midwest Impact Day of Service Carnival Book Fair has all the fun of a traditional carnival but with the intellectual and cultural enrichment of a book fair, creating an engaging a
  
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