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Someone stole the ‘Black’ from a Black Lives Matter sign outside an Evanston church — neighbors weren’t having it

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SHAREA banner expressing support for Black Lives Matter was vandalized outside an Evanston church over the weekend.A vandal apparently used a razor blade to cut the word BLACK from a banner outside theNorthminster Presbyterian Church that read “BLACK LIVES MATTER To God and To Us.”It happened sometime overnight from Saturday into Sunday, according to Senior Pastor Michael D. Kirby.As word spread in the neighborhood Sunday morning, support began to pour in.Supportive messages written in chalk appeared on sidewalks outside the church. People took their Black Lives Matter yard signs and put them outside the church. And someone wrote ‘BLACK’ on a piece of paper and taped it back in the sign.“The neighborhood respondedpretty dramatically,” Kirby said.An anonymous donor paid for 10 new banners.“One will replace ours and others will be donated to other faith communities,” Kirby said.“This is not going to deter us; we’re going to workto dismantle white supremacy and do what we can to dismantle and surrender white privilege,” said Kirby,who reported the vandalism to the Evanston Police Department.Kirby said church security cameras didn’t cover the area of the banner.“It’s a sad reflectionof the fear withinthe people who did this, and it inspires us all the more,” Kirby said.Next Up InMost ReadThe LatestToday’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.Markets are shuddering following Wall Street’s sudden realization that inflation isn’t slowing as much as hoped. The Dow dropped more than 1,000 points Tuesday afternoon and the S&amp;P 500 sank 3.6%.Shoreline salmon and trout again lead this sprawling raw-and-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus info on Illinois’ upcoming fall trout season and a Waukegan derby, aa well as hints of fall fishing arriving around Chicago, a cat-on-dog note and a Shabbona saga.Unos 300 inmigrantes han llegado a Chicago por autobús de Texas a Illinois en la última semana, según las autoridades de Illinois. Algunos están viviendo temporalmente en un hotel suburbano.La obra mexicana, “La Pájara de San Juan”, cuya trama se centra en la ciudad, es con la que arranca la programación del Festival Internacional de Teatro Latino de Chicago.

SHAREA banner expressing support for Black Lives Matter was vandalized outside an Evanston church over the weekend.A vandal apparently used a razor blade to cut the word BLACK from a banner outside theNorthminster Presbyterian Church that read “BLACK LIVES MATTER To God and To Us.”It happened sometime overnight from Saturday into Sunday, according to Senior Pastor Michael D. Kirby.As word spread in the neighborhood Sunday morning, support began to pour in.Supportive messages written in chalk appeared on sidewalks outside the church. People took their Black Lives Matter yard signs and put...

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