Cassie Walker Burke
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Lonnie Bunch III, Chicago historian named secretary of Smithsonian, to step down at end of year (opens the original)
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Lonnie Bunch III, who led the charge to build the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and formerly served as the Chicago History Museum president, will step down from his post as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian, he said in a statement Tuesday. A historian by training, Bunch became the first Black person and first historian appointed to the position atop the Smithsonian — the world’s largest museum — in June 2019. His efforts to maintain the museum’s independ
Cop responding to call hurt in Near West Side crash (opens the original)
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A Chicago police officer responding to a call was injured in a crash Monday night on the Near West Side. The officer was in a marked vehicle with emergency lights activated, was struck by a silver sedan at an intersection in the 500 block of South Ashland Avenue around 10:25 p.m., police said. The other driver had failed to yield, police said. The officer suffered a cut to his forehead and was taken to an area hospital in good condition, officials said. The driver of the sedan, a 26-year-old man
Man seriously injured, woman missing after vehicle plunges into Little Calumet River in West Pullman (opens the original)
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A man was seriously injured and a woman was still missing after a vehicle drove into the Little Calumet River early Tuesday in West Pullman on the Far South Side. The vehicle, occupied by five adults, was in the 13000 block of South Indiana Avenue around 2:30 a.m. when the lost control, Chicago police said. The vehicle struck a barrier and fell into the water, police said. One man was rescued by the marine unit and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition, polic
2 men shot to death in Englewood home; 1 in custody (opens the original)
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Charges are pending for a suspect in custody after two men were shot to death during an argument at an Englewood home late Monday. Around 11:55 p.m., the two men were arguing with someone they knew inside the home in the 600 block of West 74th Street on the South Side when they were shot, Chicago police said. One of the men, 45, was shot in the chest and neck. The other, 32, was shot in the chest, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. A man was arrested at the scene and two firear
Art is all around you at the Obama Presidential Center (opens the original)
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Barack and Michelle Obama are well-documented art lovers. So it’s little surprise that the new Obama Presidential Center features several contemporary artists in the prime of their careers, from Mark Bradford and Rashid Johnson to Chicagoans Theaster Gates and Nick Cave, who partnered with Indigenous artist Marie Watt for a bead-heavy work on display in the ticketed museum. But what’s surprising is where most of this art has ended up. Only a fraction of the more than two dozen commissions sit be
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