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• Sax giant E. Parker McDougal left precious few footprints

  12-04-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every once in a while, instead of using the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on an unjustly underrecognized artist I already know about, I use it to put out a call for information. I used to have a “Mystery Month,” where each installment doubled as a plea to knowledgeable readers who […]
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• The best street style at EXPO Chicago

  12-04-2024 18:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Standing out at Thursday evening’s opening night party for the 11th edition of EXPO Chicago was David Jude Greene, a local performance artist and professor in Columbia College Chicago’s cinema and television arts department. Sporting a white dress shirt festooned with white prize ribbons that the artist made by hand and a bright, paisley headscarf […]
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• Dexter Reed, anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, Marquette Greenway construction

  12-04-2024 17:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  COPA releases bodycam footage of police killing Dexter Reed The public got some answers this week about the police killing of Dexter Reed. But many questions remain.  We know police shot at Reed nearly 100 times in 41 seconds, including at least three times as he lay collapsed on the ground, unarmed. We know the […]
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• Checking in with ChiArts

  12-04-2024 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Monday night, Mayor Brandon Johnson sat down with Clinée Hedspeth, the new commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), at University Club of Chicago for a lovefest/general discussion about the state of the arts in Chicago. There were no big surprises or major announcements during the event. (Hedspeth is also chair […]
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• ShotSpotter worked with alders on push to keep the technology

  12-04-2024 16:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  ShotSpotter and its lobbyists worked with members of the City Council to advance a measure that would bypass Mayor Brandon Johnson and give alders final say on the use of the controversial gunshot detection system in their wards, documents obtained through public records requests show. A lobbyist for the company provided alders with multiple drafts […]
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• What Happens When Your Friend, Sister, or Daughter Goes Missing?

  12-04-2024 16:00
  
  MISSINGPERSONS: LaTonya Moore poses with her daughter’s urn, Shantieya Smith, inside her home 150 miles away from Chicago. May 11th, 2023. Smith was reported missing and later found murdered near her home in North Lawndale in 2019. Her cases was among the 99.9% percent of missing person cases of Black women and girls between 2000 and 2022 the Chicago Police Department labeled cold or showed noncriminal. Smith lives through her only daughter and mother, LaTonya Moore, both struggle with gri
  
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• Has the media learned anything since the O.J. Simpson trial?

  12-04-2024 15:59
  
  O.J. Simpson shows the jury a pair of gloves, similar to those found near the crime scene, during his trial in Los Angeles in 1995. POO/AFP via Getty Images
  by Frankie Bailey, University at Albany, State University of New York
  With the death of O.J. Simpson, I can’t help but wonder whether the media has learned any lessons from its coverage of his trial, in which the ex-football star was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.
  In many ways, the “trial of the century”
  
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• Hermene Hartman, N’DIGO Studio Present New PBS TV Series Airing Nationwide

  12-04-2024 15:00
  
  Hermene Hartman’s 12-part series debuts today on WTTW and on PBS stations nationwide with “Jesse Jackson Matters.”
  Interviews with Hermene Hartman are insightful and engaging.  
  She is a distinguished media pioneer having founded NDIGO, an alternative newspaper for the urbane, in Chicago. Hartman thought it was time for new news. Discussions will make you cry, think twice reflect, and cheer. In the interview style of John Callaway and Charlie Rose, Hermene asks import
  
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• White-Sounding Names Get More Job Callbacks Than Black Ones: Study

  12-04-2024 14:30
  
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  Applicants with white-sounding names are more likely to get called back for a job than individuals with Black ones, according to a new study per NPR.
  In a study published this month called “A Discrimination Report Card,” researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago analyzed data from 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at various Fortune 500 companies.
  Researchers found that the typical employer ca
  
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• Pastor Killed In Unprovoked Stabbing By Man He Allowed To Live At Church

  12-04-2024 14:00
  
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  A Miami pastor was stabbed to death in his church by a man he allowed to live on the property, according to police.
  On Saturday (April 6), 41-year-old Antwane Lenoir, a pastor at Westview Baptist Church, was found with multiple stab wounds to the neck, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in an arrest report per PEOPLE.
  According to police, Lenoir had requested a locksmith change the church’s locks on the day of the fatal stabbing. The pastor had also gotten into a ver
  
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• Piñatta kicks off patio season at the next Monday Night Foodball—now at Frank and Mary’s Tavern

  12-04-2024 01:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sometimes Tony Mata messes with the regulars and tells them the bar is going vegan. In the two and half years that Mata’s managed Frank and Mary’s Tavern, it hasn’t come close. The daytime lunch specials remain as meaty as they were in the near half century that the late Mary Stark cooked them. And […]
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