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‘Alice by Heart’ is being performed by Active and Creative Teen Theatre (ACTT).
Joe Crain, representing the ALPLM stopped by the WTAX Morning Newswatch to discuss anything and everything that they are doing this Saturday!
Khadijah Farrakhan converted to Islam in 1955, the same year that her husband joined the Chicago-based movement after being heavily influenced by Malcolm X, his friend from Boston.
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While Petersburg is tied to Abraham Lincoln history, it’s also tied to circus history.
Awed guests shook hands with the Obamas against the backdrop of a colorful, 38-foot-tall painting depicting a map of Chicago stretching to the ceiling, inspired by Carl Sandburg’s 1914 poem about the city: “stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.”
The busy weekend kicked off with a downtown drone show celebrating Juneteenth and the arrival of the Great Race. Dahl called the event a success and credited cooperation among city, state and federal partners.
The holiday — a combination of “June” and “nineteenth” — marks the day when U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in the Texas port city with the declaration of freedom in General Order No. 3.
The project, under construction on Chicago’s southside since 2021, will open its doors to the public on Friday.