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• Legal Notice: REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY OF NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS (“RTA”) INVITATION FOR BIDS (“IFB”) EVENT No. 220 (2024) FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIES AND ACCESSORIES

  01-03-2024 20:43
  
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• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum resurrect their chimerical ‘rock against rock’ after 13 years

  01-03-2024 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you aren’t still in thrall to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from their first go-round, then I can only assume you don’t know who they are—and now that they’ve reunited after 13 years, you have the enviable opportunity to see them for the first time. SGM play “rock,” in a certain sense, but their gloriously strange […]
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• Sid Sriram sees himself clearly on Sidharth

  01-03-2024 17:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With Sidharth, Sid Sriram is not asking to be seen. Born in Chennai and raised in the Bay Area, the 33-year-old has already spent a decade as a playback singer in the Indian film industry—Tollywood, Kollywood, Bollywood, and more. Now, with this English-language album, he chooses to witness himself as a complex, imperfect, and whole […]
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• Lætitia Sadier strives for a better world on Rooting for Love

  01-03-2024 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  French-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Lætitia Sadier might still be best known as front woman of the innovative, influential avant-pop band Stereolab (a role she shared with the late Mary Hansen). In the time since that group’s 2009 breakup—and through the years since they reunited in 2019—she has remained creatively restless, lending her talents […]
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• Japan’s Otoboke Beaver bring punk spirit to maniacal musical anarchy

  01-03-2024 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’d never claim to know every current music scene top to bottom, but I follow Japan’s noisy underground pretty closely. That’s partly because I’ve toured there a few times and booked or collaborated with lots of Japanese artists. But mostly it’s because I’ve happened upon so many Japanese musicians with an uncanny ability to tap […]
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• JACK Quartet returns to Chicago with a program that looks forward and backward

  01-03-2024 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last time JACK Quartet played in Chicago, in 2020, the group performed Georg Friedrich Haas’s epic String Quartet No. 9 as it was intended: in total darkness. The Austrian composer specifies that you shouldn’t even be able to see the outline of your hand a few inches from your face. JACK followed his instructions to […]
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• Composer Alessandro Cortini brings his elegantly uncanny synth sounds to Epiphany

  01-03-2024 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alessandro Cortini is a real head whose modular-synth collection would make Wendy Carlos weep. Some years ago, when the Italian-born multi-instrumentalist and composer was relocating from Los Angeles to Berlin, he was so protective of his instruments—an assortment of rare, vintage, and custom rigs that includes drum machines, computer monitors, effects pedals, and other odds […]
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• Review: Ordinary Angels

  01-03-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ordinary Angels takes the faith-based melodrama and injects it with the kind of empathetic energy that could wring tears from even the most godless among us.
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• Review: Dune: Part Two

  01-03-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In an age of ever-increasing runtimes, it’s a rare achievement that the film’s 166-minute length feels earned.
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• Big Love is a great kick-off for [producing body]

  01-03-2024 15:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Dramatists has been transformed into a realm where love clashes with tradition, liberation grapples with convention, and the echoes of ancient narratives resound in contemporary society. This theatrical journey comes courtesy of [producing body]’s revival of Charles L. Mee’s 2000 play Big Love, a riveting exploration of passion and rebellion. Big Love, adapted by […]
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• Sisters Sue Chicago Suburb Police Over Fatal Shooting of Man in His Home

  01-03-2024 15:30
  
  The sisters of a man who was shot and killed by police in his home near Chicago have filed a lawsuit in federal court. 
  They are accusing the officers and their department of causing the wrongful death of their brother Isaac Goodlow III and other counts. The lawsuit by Kyenna McConico and Kennetha Barnes targets the Carol Stream Police Department and unnamed officers. 
  They seek damages, though the police department and Chief Donald Cummings have not yet commented on the lawsuit.
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• Black Mother Found Dead After Texting Family She Was Being Held Hostage

  01-03-2024 14:30
  
  Photo: Courtesy of Gail Maddox (Facebook)
  Several people are facing murder charges after a missing Alabama mother who told her family she was being held hostage was found dead. Birmingham Police said the body of 20-year-old Mahogany Jackson was discovered under a mattress at an illegal dumping site in the 1700 block of Laurel Avenue early Monday morning (Feb. 26).
  According to AL.com, Mahogany sent text messages to her mother early Sunday (Feb. 25), writing, “Send the police apt 3 held ho
  
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• The paintings of Judith Dean are meditations on meaning-making

  01-03-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Judith Dean is a British artist who has long questioned what it means to be a writer and reader of images. Across decades, Dean has worked with installation, sculpture, performance, and digital mediums to interrogate how space complicates and expands one’s position to the image. She asks how our relationships to images can be transformed […]
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• Prominent Civil Rights Attorney Primed for Circuit Court Judge Race

  01-03-2024 14:00
  
  Prominent Civil Rights Attorney Deidre Baumann has organized an outstanding campaign team and platform in her quest to become the Judge of the 7th Judicial Subcircuit of Cook County.
  Baumann, who was the lead attorney on the Burr Oak Cemetery litigation case, is running for an open judicial vacancy in the March 19th, Democratic Primary Election.
  Attorney Baumann has been the most formable advocate of individuals who have been victimized by racial injustice and numerous other forms of discri
  
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• Black History 101: What You Weren’t Taught In School

  01-03-2024 03:51
  
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  With Black history books being systematically removed from library shelves, limiting access to crucial resources that elucidate the multifaceted experiences and contributions of Black Americans, it’s more important than ever to discuss and share Black History. The ongoing erasure of Black History in America has been exacerbated by politicians attempting to rewrite history to downplay the significance of Black stories.
  
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• Kham Beard: From Tractors to Triumph, An Inspirational Journey

  01-03-2024 00:15
  
  A daughter shares her father’s extraordinary and inspiring story.
  Hailing from the heartland of Arkansas, Kham Beard’s journey began with a steering wheel in hand – not a glamorous start for someone who would later define the essence of style and success. His story is a compelling odyssey of triumph over adversity.
  As he navigates through racial threats, transforms a single store into a thriving fashion empire, and takes on historic legal battles, Beard’s story is a capti
  
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• Australian doom duo Divide and Dissolve fight for liberation on Systemic

  01-03-2024 00:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’ve ever been startled by a thunderclap, you know the power of gargantuan sounds to stop you in your tracks and make you take notice of something bigger than yourself. This sometimes holds true for heavy music, and for Australian doom duo Divide and Dissolve, it’s at the heart of what they do. Texas-born […]
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