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• See me

  11-07-2024 21:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Kiayla Ryann
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• Review: Fly Me to the Moon

  11-07-2024 19:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Conspiracy theories are rarely accurate, yet when examined, they can provide important context and insight into the general public’s fears. “The government faked the moon landing!” is something that a conspiratorial uncle might yell at Thanksgiving, but for the new romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon, it’s a launch pad.  It’s 1969 and the […]
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• Power Construction – Bid notice

  11-07-2024 18:09
  
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• Chicago’s own Common gets the orchestral treatment at an elegant one-night stand

  11-07-2024 16:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Millennium Park is turning 20 this year, and to celebrate the occasion the city is bringing out the big guns. Famed south-side MC Common (born Lonnie Rashad Lynn) is easily among Chicago’s all-time greatest rappers. He began making music in the early 90s and became one of the first rappers from “the crib” I ever […]
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• Chicago slam phenomenon Torture play their second-ever local show

  11-07-2024 16:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you pay close attention to underground heavy music, I’m probably not the first person you’ve heard mention Torture, or even the fifth. This anti-war slam-metal project, led by a 24-year-old Chicago drummer and vocalist who goes by K.K., has been putting out music for a couple years. K.K. uploaded Torture’s debut, War Crime: 37 […]
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• ILBCF to Host Scholarship Reception And Honor Late Commissioner Dennis Deer

  11-07-2024 14:00
  
  Illinois State Representative and Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation Joint Chairwoman Carol Ammons and ILBCF Executive Director Tiffany D. Hightower (Photos Provided).
  The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation (ILBCF), under the dynamic leadership of ILBCF Joint Chairwoman Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons, Executive Director Tiffany D. Hightower and the full Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, will host its Annual Scholarship Reception at the spacious UIC Forum.
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• 2024 is not 1968 − and the Democratic convention in Chicago will play out very differently than in the days of Walter Cronkite

  11-07-2024 14:00
  
  A sign welcomes delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1968, with helmeted police officers standing by. Bettmann/Getty Imagesby Heather Hendershot, Northwestern University
  The presidential nominating conventions every four years are political events, but they are also media events. Since the advent of television, Democratic and Republican national convention organizers have sought to tightly stage-manage their gatherings for home viewers, and they’ve often succeeded.
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• This Week In Black History July 10-16, 2024

  11-07-2024 04:34
  
  JULY 101775—Shortly after taking com­mand of the troops fighting for American independence from Britain, Gen. George Washing­ton (the nation’s first president) has his adjutant general issue an order barring any further Blacks from joining the Continental Army. The decision would be confirmed by the Continental Congress in November of 1775. The fear was that Blacks who fought for Amer­ica’s independence would be justified in demanding an end to slavery. And slave ow
  
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