This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist and educator Andrea Hill Fitzgerald.
Tag: Father Pfleger
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Lake Shore Drive marchers: Here’s the real lowdown on the city’s budget
According to Cook County clerk David Orr, in the last year alone $660 million in property taxes went into tax increment financing (TIF) districts.
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Hospital official: Trump anxiety is sparking a ‘public health crisis,’ and other Chicago news
Also, an artist wants to install a photo mural of Michelle Obama on the first lady’s south-side elementary school.
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Prediction: Our failure to build the Lucas museum won’t haunt Chicago for decades
The George Lucas museum Chicago won’t built wasn’t that big a deal
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Today’s marijuana lesson comes from New York City
How Chicago can take a cue from New York City on pot possession.
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Father Pfleger: end the pot possession busts!
On pro-pot-decriminalization priest Father Michael Pfleger
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Chicago is only the fourth most expensive place to park
Parking rates in Chicago are the nation’s fourth highest. The median rate to park all day downtown is $32, according to a new survey. It costs $41 to park all day in Manhattan, the most expensive place in the country. (Sun-Times) Police say a Minnesota city councilman, in an attempt to gain sympathy from voters, […]
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Takes One to Know One
Robert McClory’s Radical Disciple looks at Father Pfleger as not just an activist but a priest.
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Street Gospel
Rev. Michael Pfleger in “Radical Disciple” Bob Hercules, who explored the lives of Barack Obama, pioneering community organizer Saul Alinsky, and gadfly Holocaust survivor Eva Kor in his previous documentaries, turns his eye on another kind of rabble rouser in his new Radical Disciple: The Father Story of Father Pfleger. The film premieres Friday, Aug. […]
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The Holy Terror of Saint Sabina’s
Robert McClory’s 1989 profile of Father Michael Pfleger