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• Best Craigslist Personals Alternative Sites of 2025

  03-04-2025 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Once upon a time, Craigslist was the go-to solution for dating, personal ads, and hookups. Craigslist was known for its simplicity and lack of restrictions, allowing people to connect for casual encounters, relationships, and literally everything in between. When the personals section was shut down due to legal concerns in 2018, many users were left […]
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• The Focaccia Mama cooks with feeling at the next Monday Night Foodball

  03-04-2025 21:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Don’t ask Gabriella Mazzarisi for her focaccia recipe. “I turn into my nonna and say, ‘Just watch,’” she says. “There is no build. There is no measuring involved whatsoever. We live in a city with four seasons, and you need to feel the dough. It should be squishy. It should be light to the touch. […]
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• Rocking the boat

  03-04-2025 20:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Titaníque, through 7/13, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre and Broadway in Chicago at Broadway Playhouse
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• They served their time. Now they want to be released from Illinois’s ’murderer’ database.

  03-04-2025 19:56 via chicagoreader.com
  Every November, Donte Quinn grows restless. His shoulders tighten. He becomes irritable. He finds himself brooding over the nearly 15 years he spent in prison, the time lost with his eldest daughter, and the Chicago courtroom where, before his mother and a crowd of strangers, he was sentenced at age 18 to three decades behind […]
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• Equal Hope Rallies Chicago Leaders to Tackle Health Equity and Breast Cancer Disparities

  03-04-2025 16:00
  
  Panelists at the Equal Hope Health Equity Breakfast (left to right): Illinois State Rep. Marcus C. Evans Jr., MATTER CEO Steven Collens, Equal Hope CEO Dr. Paris Thomas, Equal Hope Board President Dr. Patricia Robinson, and 26th Ward Alderperson Jessie Fuentes (Photo courtesy of Equal Hope).
  “Our work has already led to significant progress. Chicago now leads the nation in reducing breast cancer mortality differences among Black women. However, as we gather Today, I must acknowledge the ch
  
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• Chicago Teachers Union Approves Tentative Contract with CPS, Full Member Vote Next Week

  03-04-2025 14:30
  
  Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates with fellow union members (Photo Courtesy of the Chicago Teachers Union).
  The Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates has overwhelmingly approved a historic tentative contract agreement with Chicago Public Schools, clearing the way for a full union membership vote next week.
  Roughly 700 elected delegates reviewed the proposal in a special meeting earlier this week. Their approval sets up a major decision for CTU’s 30,000 members,
  
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• ‘My Bad’: Barack Obama Photobombs Family’s D.C. Cherry Blossom Pictures

  03-04-2025 14:00
  
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  Former President Barack Obama accidentally crashed a family’s photoshoot in Washington, D.C.
  On Monday (March 31), mom Portia Moore said her family was taking pictures with the cherry blossoms on D.C.’s Tidal Basin when they spotted the presidential figure in the background of their shots.
  “It was perfect,” Moore recalled.
  The mom said she was initially focused on keeping her young kids, Belle and Preston Thomas, safe as they were taking their photos u
  
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• Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Despite GOP, Elon Musk Efforts

  03-04-2025 13:30
  
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  Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, marking a major victory for the Democratic party.
  According to Newsweek, Crawford defeated conservative favorite Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s (April 1) race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
  The high-stakes race drew over $90 million in spending, including over $25 million from Elon Musk and affiliated groups, making it the most expensive judicial election in American history With the Wisconsin Supreme
  
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• This Week In Black History April 2-8, 2025

  03-04-2025 05:00
  
  APRIL 21855—John Mercer Langston be­comes the first African American elect­ed to public office when he wins the po­sition of clerk of Brownhelm Township, in Ohio. Though not well known today, Langston was one of the foremost Black leaders of the 1800s. With the aid of his two brothers, he organized anti-slavery societies throughout Ohio. The Oberlin College graduate also became a lawyer and statesman for Black rights. After the Civil War, he organized the law depart­ment at
  
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• Target Faces 8th Week Of Foot Traffic Loss Following DEI Rollback

  03-04-2025 00:16
  
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  Target foot traffic is continuing to nosedive following its DEI rollback.
  According to Retail Brew, the retail giant’s saw a drop in its foot traffic for the eighth conservative week after the company announced in January that it was ending its DEI programs and initiatives.
  Foot traffic fell 5.7 percent YoY the week of March 17, per data from Placer.ai. The week before, traffic in the store had dived 7.1 percent. The past eight weeks have seen an average weekly decline
  
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