Iowa City Pride, Chicago Pride Fest and Metro East Pride are happening this weekend. Decorah Pride is coming Oct. 8-9, then Pride Orange City Oct. 15-17. The Fox Valley area holds a Pride Halloween party Oct. 23. And southeastern Illinois joins its neighbors for the 19th Annual Pride Prom Oct. 30.
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Quad Cities Fall Pride held its fall festival Sept. 11 in Davenport. Enjoy this Long Live Community gallery of performers, community members, volunteers and vendors.
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We’ve already been down the path of pushing it to the limit, as we’re newly reminded with the 20th anniversary of 9/11. We can’t keep going down this path of relentless escalation and “shock and awe,” liberal-style. We have to stop the macro-ization of every micro-aggression.
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A BLM peaceful protest in Herrin. LGBTQ Pride in the Quad Cities, Champaign-Urbana and Belleville. Carbondale’s SIU honored. Community Briefs Illinois!
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Nancy Johnson’s first novel raises a worthy question about lies, despite leaving characters unexplored, writes Cathy Chavez in her new “Off the Shelf” book review.
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Even good people need to work on healthy apologies and overcoming defensiveness. Alex Kestrel offers some tips In his new “Starting With You” column on self-investment.
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