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...home-renovation debris? The website craigslist.org helps folks in 190 U.S. and foreign cities find almost anything. It's also a cornucopia of classified ads that would never make it into your local paper. Here are a few listings that have appeared in the housing section on Craigslist's Chicago-area site: "Ladies Please Rent from Me," "Requirements: Clean Godly Christian Male" and "African Americans and Arabians tend to clash with me so that won't work...
...container manifest typically indicates only the details known to the final transportation carrier. For instance, a container could start in Central Asia, travel to an interior port in Europe, move by train to the Netherlands, cross the Atlantic by ship to Canada and then move by rail to Chicago. The manifest submitted to U.S. customs often will say only that the container is being shipped from Halifax and originated from Rotterdam. If a container is destined for a city inside the U.S., only in exceptional circumstances would it be inspected at the arrival port...
...stood by their publication. “I addressed something that mainstream media was afraid to address,” Gorton said. “But I firmly believe in covering sensitive material.” Chairman of The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago Abdul Malik Mujahid, which represents 55 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims, called the cartoons offensive but said that the agreed with the editorial accompanying the cartoons. “That article was not wrong but actually criticizes the commissioning of the cartoons in the first place,” Mujahid said, though...
...small, but enthusiastic, group of classical music patrons gathered in Sanders Theatre on the evening of Feb. 18 to hear the Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble (CCOE) perform selections from the oeuvre of Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh. Sponsored by Xauen Music, Inc., a Chicago organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional music from the Near East, the performance showcased the work of now-deceased Darweesh, who is considered Egypt’s premier 20th century composer and one of the great innovators in Arabic music...
Helen Smith's past is one she would just as soon forget. A child of Chicago's housing projects, she ended up turning tricks, but the cash lined the pockets of her polio-stricken pimp named Crip. "I'd probably make $200 a night, but he took it all. I was the young one, and they liked to show me off, but I didn't know what I was doing," she says...