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• Internet radio station Redux throws a party for its first birthday compilation

  09-06-2026 22:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago-based Internet radio station Redux launched in March 2025, and for its first birthday the station will release its debut compilation album on Friday, June 12. Twenty acts, mostly making a vast variety of dance music, appear on the Redux comp Track & Field. They include Grand Rapids duo S+K, aka Sam Hall and Kristine […]
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• Experience Juneteenth with these celebrations of Black life through space and time in Chicago

  09-06-2026 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I overheard two white women on the sidewalk the other day, excitedly making plans to see each other on June 19. “Yay, we have Juneteenth off! So we’re going to—” yadda yadda yadda. When President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021—commemorating the 1865 day Union soldiers arrived […]
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• UIC has a James Turrell, and it’s falling apart

  09-06-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a midday drive down to Greektown for a meeting, I passed a baffling structure. Located on the University of Illinois Chicago’s urban campus, in a plaza on the southwest corner of Roosevelt and Halsted, stands a nearly 30-foot high brick-red freestanding pavilion. Strewn with litter, its only visitors were a few houseless people on […]
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