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• Footage Shows CPD Officers Firing Nearly 100 Shots in Fatal Traffic Stop

  09-04-2024 23:26
  
  Four Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in less than a minute at 26-year-old Dexter Reed, who appeared to have fired first, injuring one of them, during a fatal traffic stop last month.
  Moreover, bodycam footage shows an officer firing additional shots at Reed after he was slumped on the ground at the rear of his vehicle. 
  The purported reason for the stop was that he was not wearing a seatbelt. 
  “My heart breaks for the family of Dexter Reed. They are grieving the lo
  
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• Best of Chicago: Sampling Food & Drink Details

  09-04-2024 23:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Chicago Reader will host its Best of Chicago event at Lincoln Park Zoo on Thursday, April 25. There is an expected attendance of 2500-3000 . Vendors should be prepared to sample for a minimum of 1000 attendees, or for a specific period of time (first hour, or two, for example)
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• Paper or Plastic promise a brain-melting vintage book collection at Third Season pop-up

  09-04-2024 22:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Friday, April 12, vintage book and record pop-up shop Paper or Plastic will take over Third Season, a retail space at 1516 W. Carroll, that’s run by the Roof Crop, an organization that focuses on sustainability via creating and maintaining rooftop farms. Paper or Plastic is the brainchild of writer, editor, and Roof Crop […]
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• Missionary Hattie Humphrey Dies at 96

  09-04-2024 20:49
  Missionary Hattie Humphrey, respected church leader, radio host and spiritual advisor to Detroit’selected officials, died on Friday, March 22, 2024, at 96 years old. The popular church evangelist died athome in Detroit with friends and family by her side. Missionary Humphrey was born in Hazen, Arkansason March 21, 1928. She was the oldest and longest surviving of 8 siblings to parents Alice and GeorgeCasey. Missionary Humphrey and husband Ray moved from the prairie lands of Arkansas to the
  
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• Public Notice: REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY OF NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS (“RTA”) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (“RFP”)

  09-04-2024 17:04
  
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• A John Boskovich solo that’s casual and cathartic

  09-04-2024 15:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is a studied air of casualness to the small Polaroid photographs in John Boskovich’s Rude Awakening series. Boskovich took the images, on view at Bodenrader, in and around his home in 1997. The image’s subjects range from intimate close-ups of nude male bodies to artful depictions of banal household objects.  The relationship (and gap) […]
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• Lori Lightfoot Appointed to Investigate Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard

  09-04-2024 15:15
  
  Former Chicago mayor and federal investigator Lori Lightfoot will investigate Village of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard.
  On Monday, the Village of Dolton Board of Trustees voted to hire Lightfoot. 
  This development comes a month and a half after the board approved a resolution calling for a federal investigation into the embattled mayor over allegations she misappropriated village funds and credit cards, made unauthorized payments to vendors, and withheld payment for approved invoices.
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• Southern Illinois Enjoys Solar Eclipse, Chicago Witnesses Partial Phenomenon

  09-04-2024 14:30
  
  If you were lucky enough to be in the Carbondale region in Southern Illinois to witness the eclipse—with the right glasses, of course—then you experienced a 3-minute totality during which night descended on the area for a spell. And during that moment, viewers could see Jupiter and Venus. 
  In Chicago, however, viewers were treated to only a partial eclipse. 
  The solar eclipse in the city started at 12:51 p.m., with almost half of the sun covered by 1:33 p.m. By 2:07 p.
  
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• Trump Compares Himself To Nelson Mandela — Again

  09-04-2024 14:00
  
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  Former President Donald Trump has again likened himself to Nelson Mandela.
  Trump made the comment on Saturday (April 6) while suggesting that he wouldn’t mind going to jail for violating a gag order in his upcoming New York hush money trial, per CNBC.
  “I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post where he also attacked his presiding judge, Juan Merchan.
  Saturday’s comment wasn&r
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Judgment defeats us?

  09-04-2024 14:00
  
  Both Palestinian children in Gaza, as shown on left, and Israeli children, as seen on the right, have been hurt, killed and kidnapped in the Israel-Hamas war. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
  In the 1979 Vietnam War movie “Apocalypse Now,” Colonel Kurtz went rogue and then used barbaric methods to defeat the enemy. The U.S. military turned a blind eye because Kurtz was successful. Then Kurtz leaked photographs of his atrocities to the international media. The
  
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