With federal aid to venues only now arriving, how are tour managers, stagehands, bookers, and their colleagues in the concert business making ends meet?
Tag: Affordable Care Act
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Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news
Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.
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Ending Obamacare will barely make a dent in the tyranny Americans live under
The ACA today, the highways tomorrow
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Four former cops turned aldermen push for police access to assault rifles, and other Chicago news
Also, Heineken acquires the rest of Lagunitas Brewing Co.
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Punk Talks works to change the conversation about musicians and mental health
Social worker Sheridan Allen and her organization Punk Talks hold a fund-raising concert in Chicago this month to help connect DIY musicians with mental-health care.
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Chicago musicians speak up about the Affordable Care Act
Musicians are especially vulnerable to a repeal of Obamacare, and these Chicagoans went on the record to say how.
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Amy Whitaker wants her patients to know that Planned Parenthood is here to stay
The medical director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois says the healthcare provider will stick with its mission, regardless of what the new president and Congressional Republicans do.
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If Trump cuts HIV funding it could devastate public health, LGBTQ groups warn
A failure to reauthorize the Ryan White Care Act, coupled with the possible repeal of Obamacare, could be devastating for people living with AIDS.
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Obama’s making a ‘last-minute push’ to reform Chicago police before Trump’s inauguration, and other news
Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.
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Rahm promises that Chicago will remain a ‘sanctuary city’ for undocumented immigrants, and other news
Also, there’s been a huge increase in demand at Planned Parenthood.
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Rahm gets ‘thrown under the bus’ in Obama DNC video, and other Chicago news
Also, CPD cuts back on stop and frisk.
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As the Obamacare deadline looms, ‘navigators’ guide Illinois residents through the process
As the February 15 Obamacare enrollment deadline approaches, Get Covered Illinois “navigators” guide people through the process.
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Best Affordable Medical Care
A clinic filling the post-Obamacare pockets of need
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It’s getting harder to snicker at Obamacare
A rare editorial cartoon defending Obamacare shows up in the Chicago Tribune.
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The undoing of a president’s mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he’d been scrutinized in the same way as Obama?