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Chicago

Bally’s Chicago Announces Investment Opportunity

Silence DoGood - December 30, 2024

Bally’s Chicago has begun marketing the initial public offering and concurrent private placement of its equity ownership interests (offering by prospectus and information memorandum only). #investment

Community

U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. Hosts White House Roundtable for Black Professional Associations

Silence DoGood - March 10, 2024

The roundtable aimed to facilitate a meaningful dialogue on collective challenges, with a specific focus on recent attacks targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the corporate and public sectors. #usblackchambers

Community

Study: Illinois is the Lowest-Ranking State in the Country for Black Wealth, Employment

Donna Rolando | The Center Square - July 2, 2023

More equity in awarding contracts to minority-owned companies would go a long way to creating jobs for Black residents... #wealth #blackwealth #illinois

Politics

Pritzker Administration Announces Timeline for Next Cannabis Dispensary License Lottery

Silence DoGood - December 23, 2022

Each applicant drawn for an opportunity for a conditional license will have 45 calendar days to prove certain social equity eligibility criteria... #cannabis

Crime

Study Shows More Equitable Vaccine Coverage Could Have Prevented Over 250 COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago

Silence DoGood - May 27, 2022

The team found the initial vaccine rollout did not give priority to some underserved communities, pointing toward disparities in vaccine coverage. #covid

National

Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Yvette Clarke Join Free Press to Publicly Urge FCC to Examine Agency’s History of Racial Inequity

Silence DoGood - July 5, 2021

In a letter, 25 members of Congress called on the agency to examine how its policy choices and actions have harmed Black people and other communities of color.

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