Philadelphia International Archives

Reader’s Agenda Thu 5/9: Kittypalooza, Charles Bradley & the Extraordinaires, and CineYouth Festival

by Hannah Lorenz May 9, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, May 9.

Commissioner Jerry Butler, a former soul star, is Cook County's longest-serving commissioner.

Jerry Butler: Soul Survivor

by Ted Cox April 7, 2011August 19, 2021

Jerry “Iceman” Butler was an A-list soul singer, playing with Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding. Today, he mulls taxes and health care as the longest-serving member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.