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|  | Illinois Restaurant Assoc. asks Pritzker to allow indoor dining
2021-01-14 On Jan. 14, the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA) and restaurant operators around the state issued a press release asking Gov. JB Pritzker to immediately allow for safe and limited indoor dining operations. The IRA's Open Indoor ...
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|  | Illinois legislature passes bill ending money bond 2021-01-13 --From a press release by The Coalition to End Money Bond - Since 2016, communities across Illinois have been rigorously organizing to end money bond. Today, after years of work by the Coalition to End Money Bond and Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, the state's legislature has voted in ...
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|  | COVID-19 Chicago's stay-at-home advisory extended
2021-01-11 Chicago's stay-at-home advisory has been extended for another 12 days (from Jan. 10), ABC7Chicago.com reported. Residents are advised to only leave their home to go to work or school, or for essential needs; examples include requiring ...
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|  | Five Worth Finding: Workout gear, $2 subs, LGBTQ book
2021-01-11 1. Lived Experience: Reflections on LGBTQ Life: "Lived Experience," in this case, refers to 60 LGBTQ people in this country who are older than 50—those who especially have so much to offer. This is a generation ...
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|  | WORLD Workplace index, Japan survey, stories of the year, Buttigieg 2021-01-05 Two years after the India's Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality, employment for the LGBTQ community is slowly gaining acceptance in the private sectorto the point where there is now an India Workplace Equality Index, RFI.fr reported. The ...
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|  | PASSAGES Chicago activist Benny Montgomery dies
2020-12-29 Benny M. Montgomery Jr.—a longtime Chicago-based LGBTQ-rights activist who had worked as a constituent services administrator for U.S. Rep. Danny Davis and former Congresswoman Cardiss Collins, among other politicians—passed away ...
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|  | NATIONAL Aimee Stephens, GNC teen murdered, Katie Hill, Amazon 2020-12-27 A consent decree ordered that Michigan business Harris Funeral Homes—which fired the late Aimee Stephens for being transgender and led her to sue the business in litigation that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court—must ...
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|  | Cook County to recognize Juneteenth as paid holiday
2020-12-24 Cook County is recognizing Juneteenth as an official holiday and a paid day off for county workers, ABC 7 Chicago reported. Juneteenthwhich marks the June day in 1865 that Union soldiers told enslaved African Americans in ...
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|  | Judge issues pro-diversity federal workplace ruling
2020-12-23 On Dec. 22, U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that bars federal contractors and grantees ...
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|  | John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments in Castillo Plaza, LGBTQ housing in Logan Square 2020-12-18 Last month, The John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments at Castillo Plaza (Pennycuff) opened at the corner of Milwaukee and Campbell Avenues in Logan Square after four years of development and city approval meetings and for the past ...
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|  | Pennycuff Memorial Apartments now open 2020-12-16 The John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments at Castillo Plaza is named for the late LGBTQ and civil rights activist, John Pennycuff. Located on Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, the building was designed by Cyrus Subawalla ...
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|  | Report: Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much to Tip You 2020-12-11 --From a press release - Today, One Fair Wage, a national nonprofit organization representing subminimum wage and other tipped workers, in partnership with #TimesUp, the UC Berkeley Food Labor Research Center, Professor Catharine MacKinnon, Professor Louise Fitzgerald and ...
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|  | Pegasus holding Young Playwrights Festival Jan. 7-31 2020-12-10 On Jan. 7-31, Pegasus Theatre Chicago is presenting the 34th Young Playwrights Festival (YPF), which selects winning high school-age scribes to apprentice with theater professionals to workshop and produce their ...
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|  | Lamont Robinson fundraiser with Chasten Buttigieg on Dec. 9
2020-12-09 Lamont Robinson, Jr.—a Chicago business owner and insurance agent who became the first openly gay Black state legislator in Illinois history, and who is running for a second term representing the 5th District in the Illinois ...
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|  | Andersonville at Home for the Holidays virtual variety show Dec. 13 2020-12-08 --From a press release - CHICAGO (Dec. 8, 2020) — Although we can't all gather for the traditional caroling and festivities that are customary in the Andersonville business district during the holiday season, the Andersonville ...
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