This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist and educator Andrea Hill Fitzgerald.
Tag: Michael Pfleger
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
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Researchers are exhuming World’s Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes’s body to determine if he escaped execution, and other Chicago news
Also, CPD superintendent Eddie Johnson’s car was broken into over the weekend.
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Obama is making his return to public life with a speech at the University of Chicago Monday, and other news
Also, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is again threatening to revoke federal funding for Chicago.
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People with clout are still contacting Rahm on his private e-mail account, and other Chicago news
Also, a New Zealand-based coffee chain wants to open more than 30 locations in Chicago over the next few years.
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Through faith, reconnecting ‘two Chicagos’ divided by violence and inequality
Three religious leaders and Cook County sheriff Tom Dart spoke about the effects of gun violence and what the religious community should do to fix it.
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Rauner was right to reject calls for the National Guard in Chicago
Calling the guard into black and brown neighborhoods would only escalate tensions between the community and the police.
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Rauner says no to deploying the National Guard in Chicago after 90 homicides in August, and other news
Also, gang members speak out on life in gangs.
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Illinois hopes to improve sexual assault investigations, and other Chicago news
Also, Kanye’s Pablo pop-up shop drew huge crowds despite the controversial Northbrook location.
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CPD commander: Keeping Rahm safe has become difficult ‘due to current events,’ and other Chicago news
Also, Lincoln Park alderman Michele Smith is getting increasingly concerned about Airbnb.
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Remembering Muhammad Ali’s Chicago years, and other news
Also, Father Pfleger inspired iconic fashion label Versace’s fall ad campaign.
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Chance the Rapper wants to replace Rahm with Obama, and other Chicago news
Also, a man is shot to death on his front porch over his car keys.
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Chicago police union hires Jason Van Dyke, and other news
Also, don’t rule out a 2019 mayoral run from Cook County sheriff Tom Dart.
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George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, and reasonable doubt
Did the justice system fail Saturday?