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• How to navigate the Cook County court system after a shooting

  08-05-2025 21:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. When Estela Díaz entered the Cook County courthouse on 26th and California last November, she steadied herself with a reminder: Expect nothing. Díaz was attending the start of the court proceeding for the fatal […]
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• It might get spawny when Logan Oyster Socials returns to the next Monday Night Foodball

  08-05-2025 21:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Oysters are survivors. After all, they made it through the Permian–Triassic extinction event, aka the Great Dying, 251.9 million years ago when volcanic eruptions snuffed out 81 percent of all marine species. What the arousing bivalves can’t survive is the wanton over lemonizing and cocktail saucing of unthinking bipedal meatbags. They didn’t come all this […]
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• Yalin Zhao turns insomnia into art

  08-05-2025 20:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Chicago artist Yalin Zhao. Yalin Zhao Most […]
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• All I wanna do

  08-05-2025 20:19 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. Most people think their generation produced the best of everything, but I’m pretty confident when I say that’s true of the teen movies of my youth, specifically those made between the […]
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• Chef Hailee Catalano celebrates her debut cookbook with a midwest homecoming

  08-05-2025 19:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like many, I got to know Hailee Catalano through TikTok. The 31-year-old chef—always sporting a cute T-shirt and a tight bun with a middle part—gained a following for her recipe tutorials and warm persona, in addition to collaborative cooking videos with her partner, Charles “Chuck” Cruz. The pair is known on the app for constructing […]
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• Review: The Surfer

  08-05-2025 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Surfer in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Magic Farm

  08-05-2025 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Magic Farm in limited release in theaters
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• Review: Fight or Flight

  08-05-2025 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fight or Flight in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Another Simple Favor

  08-05-2025 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Another Simple Favor streaming on Prime
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• Stress Positions stick to their guns

  08-05-2025 18:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago hardcore group Stress Positions are sitting outside a watering hole in the Dutch city of Tilburg, but they’re not far enough from home that they don’t have fans around. A couple of Finnish guys approach the band and ask to take a picture with them. “We don’t usually have fanboy moments,” one of them […]
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• Chicago Reentry Summit Highlights Healing, Funding, and New Support for Women Returning Home

  08-05-2025 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson participates in a panel discussion during the Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers – A Unified Path to Hope and Reentry Summit at Breakthrough FamilyPlex in East Garfield Park; April 2025 (Photos Courtesy of The City of Chicago).
  For many, exiting prison can be as tense as entering it, regardless of the circumstances.
  Returning citizens often face a variety of challenges, from trauma, finding stable employment and accessing mental health support. Not to mention wanting
  
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• Ex-Officers Found Not Guilty Of Murder In Tyre Nichols Beating Death

  08-05-2025 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A verdict has been reached in the trial for three former Memphis police officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
  According to KARK, ex-officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith were all found not guilty on all charges in their state trial for Nichols’ January 2023 beating death. The trio faced charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression.
  Nichols died on January 10
  
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• HeraHaven Review

  08-05-2025 07:24 via chicagoreader.com
  If you’re not an early adopter of generative AI or you’re not chronically online, you may be unaware of an evolving cultural phenomenon: AI girlfriends. These highly customizable companions have emerged, coded for connection, as a novel, if controversial, ‘solution’ to loneliness and the complexities of modern relationships. Promising affection without conflict, companionship without obligation, […]
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• This Week In Black History May 7-14, 2025

  08-05-2025 03:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  MAY 7
   
  1800—On this date the founder of the settlement which would grow to be­come the city of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, sold his property and left the settlement. The Haitian-born frontier trader and businessman had a history of building significant wealth, losing it and building it again. He would die 18 years later in St. Charles, Mo.
   1878—Black inventor, Joseph R. Win­ters, receives a patent for his designing of the fire escape ladder.
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