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• Stussy’s Diner opens in Bridgeport with high hopes

  31-07-2024 20:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bridgeport Restaurant was your typical greasy spoon, serving hash browns, scrambled eggs, and bottomless coffee. The legendary diner served neighbors on Halsted for more than seven decades until it closed in 2022 when the owners decided to retire. After sitting vacant for two years, Bridgeporters wondered if we’d ever get a diner in that location […]
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• Extremists with badges

  31-07-2024 20:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Have you checked to see if any police officers assigned to your neighborhood were among the eight whose names were found in a membership directory for a far-right extremist group? Neighbors in Chicago police district 14—an area that spans Logan Square, Wicker Park, and Humboldt Park—are pushing to keep Sergeant ​​Mike Nowacki under scrutiny after […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 26

  31-07-2024 20:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 23. July 11, 2024
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• Fever dream

  31-07-2024 19:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Two films I saw last week have really stuck with me: a digital restoration of Claire Denis’s early masterwork No Fear, No Die (1990) at the Gene Siskel Film Center and […]
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• Veggie, Egg & Cheese at Loaf Lounge

  31-07-2024 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I find something unspeakably pleasurable about eating a good sandwich on a walk. And that pleasure is only immeasurably heightened when the sandwich is not only good, but great—greater than I could’ve even imagined.  I imagined the Veggie, Egg & Cheese at Avondale’s Loaf Lounge would be good when I ordered it, but it was […]
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• From start to finish

  31-07-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Entrances and Exits runs 8/1–8/29 at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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• William Warren drummed on one of the greatest blues recordings ever made

  31-07-2024 16:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every so often, the Secret History of Chicago Music is inclined to “give the drummer some,” as James Brown famously put it in the 1967 hit “Cold Sweat.” This week’s subject is blues drummer William Warren, and I chose him in part because drummers in the blues so often get taken for granted—shuffle beats sound […]
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• Black Journalists Org Faces Backlash Over Trump Invitation

  31-07-2024 15:30
  
  In a move that has triggered a backlash, former President Donald Trump will answer questions from a select group of National Association of Black Journalists members at their annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore).
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  By Joseph Williams
  The GOP presidential nominee is scheduled to appear Wednesday at the annual National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago — an event that has divide
  
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• The Carr Report: Solutions to the racial wealth gap

  31-07-2024 15:00
  
  I recently read two articles in the New Pittsburgh Courier…”Nine facts about the racial wealth gap” and “The urgency of ending the racial wealth gap.”
  One of the articles started out with this statement: “Five hundred years. That’s how long experts say it would take for Black people to reach economic parity with White people and close the racial wealth gap, given current trajectories…”
  This prompted me to think of possible solutions to brid
  
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• PartyNextDoor Co-Headlines Afro Nation Detroit 2024: The Enigmatic Star’s Journey

  31-07-2024 14:30
  
  Canadian R&B singer, songwriter and producer PartyNextDoor has a bit of a conundrum, if you want to call it that. 
  By all accounts, this introvert prefers anonymity to celebrity. However, by being involved with some of the biggest hits of the last decade, widespread fame and notoriety, the kind that stalks Party’s most notable associate, seems close. 
  But for now, he can breathe.    
  “The only thing that’s important, that has changed my life, i
  
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• Sen. Mattie Hunter Hosts 20th Annual Family Health and Fitness Fair

  31-07-2024 14:15
  
  Ill. State Senator Mattie Hunter (3rd District), in partnership with the Institute for Positive Living, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Ada S. McKinley and TASC, is hosting one of the city’s largest health fairs. 
  The 20th Annual Family Health and Fitness Fair is Saturday, August 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus, 33rd and State St., Chicago.
  Back-to-school time will be here soon, and parents can get a head start with these free services. T
  
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• Mr. Sonny Knows for July 31, 2024

  31-07-2024 14:00
  
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• Editor’s note: Trump . . . at NABJ?

  31-07-2024 02:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Monday, July 29, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that former president Trump would be participating in a “conversation with journalists” as part of the organization’s opening day of its national convention, hosted at the Hilton Chicago. The release was posted just after 9 PM Chicago time to the NABJ website, two […]
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