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• Defy the lies with a new spring 2025 lineup at Monday Night Foodball

  13-03-2025 22:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I know. There are a thousand places you’d rather exist than in this corrupted reality, where armies of malignant goons strive to force-feed you gobs of steaming ordure at every instant. Here are nine of mine: Ireland, Brazil, Serbia, Sicily, northern Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nigeria. Hell, Wicker Park in 2014 would be preferable to […]
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• Banning paper from prisons is a bad idea

  13-03-2025 18:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This spring, the Illinois House is set to take up a bill that would make all prisons in the state paperless. This legislation is sponsored by Republican lawmakers and supported by American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31, the public-sector employee union that represents corrections officers. If it passes, new rules will […]
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• Pastor Charlie Dates to Distribute 40,000 Eggs to Chicago Families Amid Rising Grocery Costs

  13-03-2025 14:00
  
  With egg prices soaring due to the bird flu crisis, Pastor Charlie E. Dates is leading volunteers from ProgressiveChicago and Salem Baptist Church to distribute 40,000 eggs across the city on March 15 (Photo Credit: www.salemchicago.org).
  With grocery prices continuing to climb, Pastor Charlie E. Dates isn’t waiting for relief to come from Washington—he’s bringing it directly to Chicago families. On Saturday, March 15, the senior pastor of ProgressiveChicago and Salem Baptist C
  
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• Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Reintroduces CROWN Act In Congress

  13-03-2025 13:30
  
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  The CROWN Act has been reintroduced in Congress.
  On Tuesday (March 11), New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) reintroduced the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act to ban hair discrimination federally, per The Hill.
  The legislation would specifically create federal protections against discrimination of natural hairstyles, including curly and kinky hair and protective styles like Bantu knots, locs, braids, and twists.
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• Ayo Edebiri Faced ‘Insane Death Threats’ Over Rumor Spread By Elon Musk

  13-03-2025 12:30
  
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  Actress Ayo Edebiri says she faced “insane death threats” after Elon Musk shared a fake report about her being cast in a film.
  On her Instagram Story, Edebiri called out Musk for reposting a report from “Unlimited L’s,” a rightwing social media account, that falsely stated she was slated to replace Johnny Depp in a reboot of the Pirates of the Carribean.
  “Disney sucks,” Musk previously wrote on X, formerly Twitter, as he quote tweeted
  
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• First Ascent staff launch union drive

  13-03-2025 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before First Ascent opened its Avondale location in 2015, there were few if any dedicated climbing gyms in Chicago. The climbing scene was less accessible; it was difficult to break into if you weren’t already traveling and climbing outdoors on your own. Now with four Chicago gyms, First Ascent has built a reputation as a […]
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• This Week In Black History March 12-18, 2025

  13-03-2025 05:50
  
  MARCH 121773—This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du Sable would over time become a man of considerable wealth, owning commercial build­ings, docks, trading posts and a mansion. Du Sable was the prod­uct or a Frenchman and an African woman. He died Aug. 19, 1818.1791—Pierre Charles L’Enfant was commissioned to desi
  
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