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• ‘Bring Chicago Home’ Real Estate Transfer Tax Officially Defeated

  23-03-2024 15:00
  
  On Friday, the one-time real estate transfer tax referendum, intended to generate revenue to address homelessness, was officially voted down. 
  Chicago voters rejected the referendum, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, that would have incrementally raised the city’s real estate transfer tax on properties valued at more than $1 million. The measure would’ve also lowered the transfer tax for properties under $1 million, which comprise the majority of property sales in the city. 
  
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• Black Woman Struts Into 90th Birthday Party In Viral Video

  23-03-2024 13:30
  
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  A Black woman has the internet buzzing over the way she strutted into her 90th birthday party in a resurfaced video.
  The video, originally posted by Chicago-area event designer @20pearlsparty in December 2022, shows a woman identified as Lorraine strutting into her birthday party with a cane as partygoers cheer her on. Lorraine appeared to match her party’s white and gold theme, wearing a white shirt, gold bell bottom pants, hoops, and heels while rocking a platinum gra
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse Booed Off Stage By Protestors At University Of Memphis

  23-03-2024 13:00
  
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  Protestors booed Kyle Rittenhouse off the stage during his speaking engagement at the University of Memphis.
  On Wednesday (March 20), Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of fatally shooting two men and injuring another during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, fled the podium at the University of Memphis after protestors started loudly booing him roughly 30 minutes into his scheduled event, the New York Post reports.
  Rittenhouse was invited to speak at the university by a chapter of
  
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