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• Alex E. Chávez transforms tradition on his debut solo album

  24-10-2024 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Artificial intelligence and social media are flooding our information environment with slop, misinformation, and lies, and politicians and talking heads either can’t cut through the noise or don’t want to. This makes it refreshing—and in some cases urgently necessary—for musicians and artists to speak their truths about social and political issues.  In the past few […]
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• A black moon rises over Avondale when Piñatta returns to the next Monday Night Foodball

  24-10-2024 21:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Halloween. Samhain. Allhallowtide. Day of the Dead. Diwali. Yizkor. Devil’s Night. What do all of these sacred autumn observances have in common?   They all fall on or around Santiago Guerrero’s birthday, and therefore also coincide with Piñatta’s now annual infernal luna negra ritual at Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Frank and […]
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•  ‘A common sense problem’ 

  24-10-2024 18:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was copublished by Invisible Institute and the Chicago Reader. “I am left with my sister’s screams.” Bridgette Rouse told the Chicago City Council Public Safety Committee during a hearing Wednesday that the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) lack of response to her sister Sonya Rouse’s 2016 disappearance makes it clear to her and her […]
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• How to file a complaint against a Chicago police officer

  24-10-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Whether an officer roughed you up at a protest, made an inappropriate comment when they pulled you over, or has a history of domestic violence, there are many reasons you might want to file a complaint against a member of the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Fortunately, there’s a system to do that.  COPA, explained  The […]
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