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The president of Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Perri Irmer, has responded to a whistleblower lawsuit that shook the institution months ago with allegations that she and other leadership misused funds.  In December, Kim Dulaney, the museum’s former vice president of education and programs, filed a whistleblower and retaliatory discharge lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court, alleging that she was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about the museum’s operations under president and CEO Perri Irmer. The Chicago Crusader reports that Irmer has filed a 15-page response seeking dismissal of the lawsuit. In it, her attorneys argue that Dulaney failed to meet a requirement of the Illinois Whistleblower Act because she did not refuse to participate in the museum’s allegedly unlawful conduct, including the alleged misappropriation of funds within the education and programs department. Dulaney had served as vic...

Your 2026 Swindale Shield leaders. Petone produced a swashbuckling first half of attacking rugby to exhaust Marist St Pat’s defensive supplies, and went to halftime leading 40-5. The home side were in peak form, the visitors meeting a side playing like it was 1973 all over again. First year Left wing William Davis, out of...

Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo . Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a broken glass, and unidentified pills. A man who identified himself as her plastic surgeon said he went to her room after she stopped answering her phone, according to Globo . He said further that she had been in Brazil for three weeks while she had a surgical procedure. The death was registered as suspicious by the police, and tests have been requested, says the paper. “Rosewood São Paulo confirms that the guest Hilde Ann Lynn was found dead on the afternoon of Sunday, May 31,” the hotel said in a statement quoted in Globo . “Since the observation of what happened, the hotel has provided full collaboration with the competent authorities, promptly providing all the ...