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1. From: raynard
....Subject: Historical Bronzeville Church Gets Air Conditioning For The First Time
....................In Its 131-Year History
Historical Bronzeville Church Gets Air Conditioning For The First Time
In Its 131-Year History
So long, electric fans and sweltering services. The new high-efficiency HVAC system, part of ComEd's "Community of the Future" initiative, will allow Quinn Chapel to reduce its energy bill and host events year-round.
by Jamie Nesbitt Golden
Source: blockclubchicago
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2. From: DPS.Events@cityofchicago.org
....Subject: 10th Annual City of Chicago Procurement Symposium
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3. From: raynard
....Subject: 7th Annual Born 2 Win Conference
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4. From: M.A.D.D. Rhythms
....Subject: Celebrating Juneteenth with Dance
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5. From: Kathy Mitchell <4kathyillinois@gmail.com>
....Subject: Bronzeville’s 2023 Juneteenth Celebration - June 17
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6. From: Chicago Alumnae DST
....Subject: Celebrate Juneteenth - It's a Family Affair
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Are you coming to the #ChicagoDeltas Juneteenth celebration? Lawn chairs are recommended, but picnic baskets are optional. There'll be food trucks to satisfy all of your taste buds. The fun begins at 12pm and ends at 6pm.
See you there! #ChicagoFoodTrucks #Juneteenth2023
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7. From: raynard
....Subject: “Tribute to Ramsey Lewis: Gentleman of Jazz” Concert
“Tribute to Ramsey Lewis: Gentleman of Jazz” Concert
Kicks Off the City’s Millennium Park Summer Music Series
June 22 at 6:30pm at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Orbert Davis, The Urban Knights, Donald Lawrence & The Co, and More
Pay Tribute to Chicago’s Own Jazz Legend with Free Concert
Special Pre-Show Event: “Panel Discussion: Ramsey Lewis: Gentleman of Jazz”
to take place at Chicago Cultural Center, June 22 at 4:30pm
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The City of Chicago and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) celebrate the first concert of the 10-part, free Millennium Park Summer Music Series with the “Tribute to Ramsey Lewis: A Gentleman of Jazz” concert, Thursday, June 22 at 6:30pm at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion (gates open at 5pm). Celebrating the legacy of one of the most iconic jazz pianists of all time, the evening features performances by Orbert Davis, The Urban Knights, Donald Lawrence & The Co., The Ramsey Lewis Legacy Band, Monty Alexander Trio featuring Steve Jordan, Thaddeus Tukes Trio, Santita Jackson, and more. Orbert Davis presents a special string arrangement of Lewis’s iconic work, Les Fleur. The concert is hosted by Mark Ruffin of Sirius XM’s Real Jazz.
Also on June 22, guests can enjoy a free pre-show event, “Panel Discussion: Ramsey Lewis: Gentleman of Jazz,” from 4:30pm – 5:30pm at the Chicago Cultural Center. The panel features a 45-minute discussion with Moderator and Program Director of Real Jazz, Sirius XM’s Mark Ruffin, family members Frayne Lewis and Robert Lewis, Author Aaron Cohen, Columbia College Chicago Professor of Instruction Scott Hall, and Musician Henry Johnson. The panel will be sharing stories and discussing the indelible impact of Lewis’s life and work and will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. The discussion takes place in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater (2nd floor). Admission is free. RSVPs are encouraged, RSVP to the pre-show event at this event link. More information on the concert and panel discussion at Chicago.gov/RamseyLewis.
Ramsey Lewis (1935–2022) was one of the most prolific jazz pianists of all time, with more than eighty albums to his name. A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Top 10 hitmaker, and winner of three Grammys, Lewis also hosted popular television and radio shows that honored the history of jazz music. He was not only influential for many modern jazz artists but compositions he created decades ago have been sampled and can be heard across R&B and hip-hop. Through it all, Lewis remained grounded, never leaving behind his roots in Chicago.
The “Tribute to Ramsey Lewis” concert is supported by 90.9fm WDCB and the South Side Jazz Coalition.
The popular Millennium Park Summer Music Series (select Mondays and Thursdays, June 22 – August 21) features some of the biggest names in music throughout the summer on the Jay Pritzker Stage. Following the Tribute to Ramsey Lewis (June 22) is Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra (June 26, 6:30pm); Big Freedia (July 13, 6:30pm), Yemi Alade (July 17, 6:30pm); Stephen Marley (July 20, 6:30pm); Kurt Vile and the Violators (July 24, 6:30pm); Shemekia Copeland (July 31, 6:30pm) and more. Access the full Music Series schedule at MillenniumPark.org.
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8. From: Chicago History Museum
....Subject: Ida B. Wells: Amplifying Civic Participation
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Ida B. Wells: Amplifying Civic Participation
This summer, CHM is reimagining our celebrations, together. Instead of one commemorative event on Independence Day, CHM will be presenting our own Civic Season in partnership with Made By Us, unleashing history for informed, inspired civic participation. Our celebrations and programming kick off on June 18 and will continue with Juneteenth and Civic Sundays, all leading toward a reimagined Independence Day celebration with traditions new and old.
Civic Sundays will focus on a civic superpower that Chicagoans have used to shape our city. Join us on June 18 while we focus on amplifiers, who use their voice to inspire civic action. As an activist, educator, and journalist, Ida B. Wells is the ultimate amplifier, known for her antilynching work, reporting on racial segregation, and organizing within the women’s suffrage movement.
In 1893, she also protested the exclusion of African Americans from exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition. With contributions by Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett, Wells published the pamphlet, “The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition” and circulated 10,000 copies during the last three months of the fair. The pamphlet is addressed “To the seeker after truth” and contains essays, data, and photographs, with a topical focus on lynching, the prison system, and injustice within the legal system in the 28 years after slavery ended in the United States.
Join us on Sunday, June 18, to see how Wells inspired action to address the social justice issues of her time in the WTTW film, Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special.
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9. From: raynard
....Subject: Muddy Waters MOJO Museum gets $1M grant for programming and restoration plans
Muddy Waters MOJO Museum gets $1M grant for programming and restoration plans
Source: cbsnews.com
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Blues legend Muddy Waters lived in this two-flat in the North Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago from 1954 to 1973.
The house is being considered for official city landmark status. (Credit: CBS)
The South Side residence Muddy Waters called home is getting more than a million dollars to help with plans to make it a museum.
The Muddy Waters MOJO Museum got a $1.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place program.
Blues legend Muddy Waters lived in this two-flat in the North Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago from 1954 to 1973. The house is being considered for official city landmark status. (Credit: CBS)
According to the museum, the money will be used to "restore the basement level of the house...for future programming." It's the space where Waters would practice, jam, and socialize with other musicians and it's considered the heart and soul of the structure.
"Muddy Waters embodies the American Dream. A Mississippi sharecropper who followed his dreams to Chicago, created the Chicago Blues and changed the world," said his great-granddaughter and board president Chandra Cooper.
She added, "With this transformational support from the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place program, the Muddy Waters MOJO Museum will bring his story of blood, sweat, and tears to life, inspire new generations to extend his legacy, and draw residents and tourists from around the world."
The house, located at 339 S. Lake Park Avenue, is set to open as a blues museum. The structure was granted landmark status in June of 2021 and it's expected to open in 2024.
Read more online: Click here>>>
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10. From: Martha Heitman
..... Subject: Good Health Makes This Possible
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11. From: raynard
......Subject: Interested in Serving on the Chicago Police Board?
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12. From: raynard
......Subject: Biden and Harris Throw a Juneteenth Celebration to Remember
......................on the White House South Lawn
Biden and Harris Throw a Juneteenth Celebration to Remember
on the White House South Lawn
Method man, Ledisi and Jennifer Hudson were among the star-studded guests at the Juneteenth celebration.
By Yanick Rice Lamb
Source: theroot.com
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Photo: Samuel Corum/Sipa USA (AP)
Black folks came out for a get-together at the Biden’s House Tuesday evening to celebrate Juneteenth with hugs, high fives, history, great music (of course), and a parade of summer fashion dos and don’ts.
Guests were greeted with a mini battle of the bands between Tennessee and Morgan State Universities.
“This is some Black stuff right here on the White House lawn,” Method Man announced as Tennessee State played “Outstanding” by the Gap Band.
“Juneteenth means to me that a lot of people on the other side still gotta lot of work to do,” The Power Book II: Ghost star told The Root. “And the fact that a lot of our people didn’t know they were free, speaks volumes.”
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The Chicago L is now 125 years old. This network of elevated trains and subways is how Chicagoans get around. But it’s also an iconic symbol of the city.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many American cities used elevated trains to transport their residents. In most cities, those elevated systems were eventually replaced by subways. While Chicago has two subway lines, the majority of our trains are either elevated or at grade (at ground level). Today, Chicago is the only city in the U.S. that still has elevated trains in its downtown area.
History of the L
Beginning in the 1870s, as Chicago grew at an incredibly rapid pace, private companies laid rail tracks downtown and began introducing streetcars pulled by horses. In the 1880s, these horse-drawn trolleys were replaced by cable car services. But this form of transportation couldn’t handle a high volume of passengers and it added to street congestion.
On June 6, 1892, the first elevated—or “L”—train ran from 39th (now Pershing Road) and State streets to Congress Parkway and Wabash Avenue. By 1893, the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad extended this line to Jackson Park, the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Today, this section of track is still part of the Green Line.
Multiple privately-operated train lines transported Chicagoans in the 1890s. However, these trains deposited people just outside the central business district—an area referred to as “the Loop” due to the cable cars that once created a loop around several blocks. A wealthy and controversial financier named Charles Tyson Yerkes soon changed all of this. Despite his sometimes illegal business practices, he had a lasting impact on Chicago by building elevated tracks above downtown streets to connect train lines together. Yerkes essentially created the Loop L we know today.
The first full circuit of the Loop was completed in 1897. Its steel structure was designed by bridge designer John Alexander Low Waddell. The iconic riveted steel-plate form resembles that of the Eiffel Tower (1889) and the original Ferris Wheel (1893).
All of Chicago’s trains were either elevated or at street grade until the 1940s. With funding from the Federal Works Agency—part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal—the State Street Subway, now part of the Red Line, opened in 1943.
The Dearborn Street Subway, now part of the Blue Line, opened in 1951, following a construction delay during World War II.
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