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• Iraq, But Funny lives up to its title

  12-06-2025 20:26 via chicagoreader.com
  Iraq, But Funny, through 7/20 at Lookingglass Theatre
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• Fred Below helped invent the beat of electric Chicago blues

  12-06-2025 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  The Secret History of Chicago Music likes to throw a spotlight on music’s hardworking timekeepers. Drummers in general don’t get the love that singers and guitarists do, but I didn’t decide to cover Fred Below just to address that imbalance—his skills were so remarkable and diverse that he’d be worth writing about even if this […]
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• Larry Legend is the most interesting man in Chicago

  12-06-2025 19:02 via chicagoreader.com
  He smoked a blunt onstage during a 2017 Chaka Khan performance at Essence Fest. He was there that night in 2009 when Lupe saved Drake’s life at House of Blues. He live-tweeted Amber Rose’s 2015 appearance at Adrianna’s, and he partied at East Room with streetwear star Joe Freshgoods—before it became Easy Does It five […]
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• Pride

  12-06-2025 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago certainly embraces celebrating Pride month as a city, and we’ve been doing so for a long time. After all, the Society for Human Rights, the first LGBTQ+ rights organization in our country, was founded here in Chicago in 1924 by postal worker Henry Gerber. And one of the first organized Pride marches in the […]
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• Southeast Spotlight: Universal Concepts Office Center

  12-06-2025 16:35 via chicagoreader.com
  Universal Concepts Shipping CenterTue-Fri 10 AM-6 PM, Sat 9 AM-2 PM; 8704 S. Bennett, 773-902-7287, universalconceptsofficecenter.com   How a South Side small business is delivering trust and opportunity In the age of Amazon, Universal Concepts Office Center has become a southeast community staple for safe shipping and safekeeping. When McKeela Wilson began to encounter issues with […]
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• Rainbow PUSH 2025 People’s Conference Issues Urgent Call to Action in Chicago

  12-06-2025 15:00
  For the organizers of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s 2025 People’s Conference, this year’s program is as consequential as ever—a summit to bring about policy solutions, strategy and healing to a nation at a crossroads. 
  Set for June 12–14 in Chicago, the conference arrives during what they describe as a full-scale attack on civil rights and democratic freedoms.
  “Never before have we seen such an assault on the temple of civil rights legislation that was aim
  
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• Meet Cordell Shelby: CPS Grad and Future City Laborer Inspired by His Mom’s Legacy

  12-06-2025 15:00
  Cordell Shelby, a King College Prep graduate and Chicago Builds participant, turns his hands-on skills and South Side upbringing into a career with the city’s General Laborer Trainee Program (Photo Provided). 
  Cordell Shelby builds things.
  He and his mother—an experienced plumber with the City of Chicago Water Department—have built barbecue grills, Hibachi setups, and even a motorcycle from the box—wrench in hand and purpose in the other.
  The recent King College Prep
  
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• UNCF Black & White Ball Returns June 14 to Raise $1M for College Scholarships

  12-06-2025 13:30
  Trey White of WGCI-FM and Anita Blanton of FOX TV 32 (Photos Provided).
  One of Chicago’s most anticipated summer galas is back—and it’s celebrating a significant milestone this year.
  The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will host its 25th annual Black & White Ball—formerly known as the “A Mind Is…” Gala—on Saturday, June 14, at The Geraghty in the Lower West Side. The event, known for its elegant dress code and mission-driven fundraising, aims
  
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• Latino Trumpers Standing By Their Vote Despite Immigration Policy Concerns

  12-06-2025 13:30
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  Latinos living in South Florida who overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election are standing by their vote despite their concerns about his immigration policies, NBC News reports.
  Reinerio de la Torre, a 56-year-old electrician who came from Cuba almost two decades ago, said Trump has gone too far with his immigration policies and deportation efforts. He also disagrees with the partial travel ban on Cuba, saying “visas should be decided case by case.&rdqu
  
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• This Week In Black History June 11-17, 2025

  12-06-2025 06:08
  JUNE 11
  1963—President John F. Kennedy declares during a nationwide radio and television address that segrega­tion was “morally wrong” and told the U.S. Congress it was “time to act” (pass legislation) to end all segre­gation of the races. That statement and similar ones endeared Kenne­dy to millions of African Americans. However, a few months after making the declaration, Kennedy was assas­sinated in Dallas, Texas. But most of his legislative ideas
  
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• Ketapanen Kitchen returns for an all-Indigenous patio party at the next Monday Night Foodball

  12-06-2025 00:51 via chicagoreader.com
  On day one, Jessica Walks First will teach her students about the Kwakwaka’wakw Salmon Boy who was taken by the Salmon People to their underwater village to learn their sacred laws, emphasizing respect, reciprocity, reincarnation, and the interconnectedness of human and natural worlds. A few lessons later, she’ll speak of the Lakota White Buffalo Calf […]
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