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Cairá Lee Conner sits chained on top of a ladder, holding the Pan-African flag. (Photo: Sarah Jane Rhee) This article emerged from a collaboration between Truthout and Village Leadership Academy’s GAP year students. Village Leadership Academy is a K-8, social-justice-based school in Chicago. The school focuses on social change, leadership development and …

A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said. Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage …

Elgin, IL. (ECWd) – All members of the U-46 School Board in Elgin, Illinois have been named as suspects in the alleged crime(s) of violations of the Open Meetings Act, more specifically, conducting meetings without proper posting of agendas and without allowing for public comment as required under the Act. …

Chicago will host a first-of-its-kind, all-day Halloween festival Saturday that will end with a nighttime parade through the city. The Oct. 24 inaugural event dubbed “The Halloween Gathering” will kick off at 2 p.m. with an art festival of events in Millennium Park along Michigan Avenue’s Chicago Cultural Mile. http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/worth-the-trip/Chicago-to-Host-First-Ever-Halloween-Festival-Nighttime-Parade-334248741.html

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Angry black woman wearing club clothes fire at least 5 shots with a handgun on halsted near Diversy in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago on October 10th, 2015.

Are you wondering what it will be like to work in the future? Welcome to the future. The only impediment to this workplace technology and its applications is your imagination. https://www.bestpracticeinstitute.org/blog/the-future-of-work-augmented-reality/

Advise major media outlets to stop sensationalizing mass shootings to prevent inspiring future killers Now. http://wh.gov/iUeI7

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Pope Francis, as the first pontiff from the so-called New World, appears to be attempting to come to grips with the sins that his own church visited upon indigenous peoples across the Americas in the five centuries since Europeans first sailed across the Atlantic on an unholy mission of economic …

Technology permeates just about every aspect of your personal and professional lives. It changes constantly, and not keeping up with its trends can negatively affect your job. No one can completely hide from technology, and if you want to keep your job, you may find that you are asked to …

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The incident occurred one day after Constitution Day. Students were told by the officer that they needed a permit from the Student Life office in order to pass out literature or clipboard. Several students at the College of DuPage were told to cease or be “locked up” Friday as they …

SongCat is a music production studio that’s operating online, yet they are offering an offline Partner Studio in Chicago. SongCat Partner Studio Chicago is going to offer high quality services to all those who are looking to use a professional studio to record their songs. At this moment, there’s only …

It has been twelve years since Illinois lawmakers passed a measure allowing needle exchange programs in the state, by passing laws that allowed people to buy a limited number of syringes without a prescription. Since then there have been official needle exchange programs situated throughout Chicago, with official statistics reporting …