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Daywatch: U. of C. study examines police misconduct

Chicago Tribune 13 May 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Police officers with histories of on-the-job misconduct are also likelier to have reported instances of bad behavior while off-duty, according to a new study published today through the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
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Which couple’s tomb was ‘discovered’ at Glastonbury Abbey? The Saturday quiz

The Observer 12 May 2024
Which couple’s tomb was “discovered” at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191?. The M’Naghten rules are concerned with the legal definition of what?. Which singer was nicknamed the Empress of the Blues? ... Insanity ... Bittern ... Chicago Seven activists on trial in 1969 ... .
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'Kunstler' from iTheatre Saratoga finds life in London

Times Union 12 May 2024
While he built a career as a civil activist and radical lawyer whose cases included defending the Chicago 7 and prisoners in the Attica uprising, Kunstler had become the enemy because of his later ...
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DePaul University hosts lesbian leader of heretical ‘Catholics for Choice’ pro-abortion group

Life Site 11 May 2024
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — DePaul University hosted the leader of dissident abortion activist group “Catholics for Choice” at a pro-abortion event organized by the nominally Catholic university’s Planned Parenthood chapter.
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When the Evil Clowns Come to Town - Is Chicago Ready to Rumble?

Hot Air 11 May 2024
... incumbent Lori Lightfoot failed to even make the runoff, was an organizer with the Chicago Teachers Union and has yet to fully make the jump from activist to mayor of one of America’s largest cities.
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Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Campus Leftism?

Hot Air 11 May 2024
They can either continue to remain beholden to a minority of activist professors, students, and administrators, or they can follow schools like the University of Chicago and MIT and forge a different path.
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Comedian Fortune Feimster to serve as grand marshal for Chicago Pride Parade

Chicago Sun-Times 10 May 2024
Comedian Fortune Feimster and her wife will lead the 2024 Chicago Pride Parade as grand marshals ... Chicago bar owner Art Johnston and his partner, Jose "Pepe" Pena, and activists Myles and Precious Brady-Davis.
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Some key dates in Mayor Brandon Johnson's first year in office

Chicago Sun-Times 10 May 2024
<img class="Image" alt="Brandon Johnson celebrates at his victory on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago on election night." ... Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas came in first, with nearly 34% of the vote.
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Updating Chicago, 1968

Korea Times 09 May 2024
Just two weeks earlier, at the less-elite end of our media message spectrum, a far more inciteful message was delivered to several hundred far-left activists who gathered at Chicago’s local Teamster headquarters for an event that called itself.
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Democrats brace for escalating protests at summer convention

Madison 09 May 2024
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug ... Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment ...
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How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution

Time 09 May 2024
Whether or not young activists who dismissed the aging musicians as Uncle Toms understood that, Rev ... More significantly, it prompted the first meeting between Ellington and King Jr., who came to Chicago to catch the show.
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President Biden arrives for Chicago for fundraiser bringing in more than $2 million for re-election campaign

Chicago Sun-Times 08 May 2024
<img class="Image" alt="US President Joe Biden steps off Marine One upon arrival at Soldier Field Landing Zone in Chicago, Illinois, on May 8, 2024 ... Wislow, chief of Parkside Reality and a civic activist in Chicago, is a longtime Biden backer.
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Barry Romo, Vietnam veteran who then fought against the war, dies at 76

Stars and Stripes 08 May 2024
bombing runs on Hanoi during a 1972 visit to North Vietnam with activists including folk singer Joan Baez, died May 1 in Chicago ... In Romo’s apartment in Chicago, the walls had posters from antiwar events during the Vietnam years.
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Photos: University of Chicago protest encampment cleared by police

Chicago Tribune 07 May 2024
Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Activists gather in the quad after a pro-Palestinian encampment was raided by officers at the University of Chicago early Tuesday, May 7, 2024 ... Kim/Chicago Tribune) Activists ...
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Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention

Detroit news 07 May 2024
However, Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor who was a campus activist at Columbia then and also in Chicago in 1968, noted that the Vietnam War and its draft affected far more ...

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