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The Black United store of Illinois is having its 6th annual Living fables -- Passing the Torch awards dinner forward Sept. 30 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center forward South King Drive. WVON radio's Cliff Kelley is emceeing, with the awesome christian religion artist Yolanda Adams headlining the festive affair The general chairmen are U Cellular's Greg Hinton and Mesirow Financial's Le Coney

The honorees are related: WGN-Channel 9 anchor Robert Jordan and daughter, WLS-Channel 7 anchor Karen Jordan; attorneys Larry Roger Sr and son Larry Roger Jr; Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) and her daughters, Ebony Jimalita and Gimel, and a special Legacy in Leadership award is going to Channel 7's Harry Porterfield and his granddaughter, Amanda Shropshire. I think it is safe to sing knowing Stone's "It's A Family Affair," or Sister Sledge's "We are Family."

THE A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Pullman Porter Museum's gentle-hearted Warrior awards reception is Sunday at the museum, 10406 s Maryland. Clerk of the prepare for the table County Circuit Court Dorothy Brown will be the visitor speaker. Those to be honored include Jawanza Kunjufu author and proprietor of African-American Images bookstore, labor leaders Verlene Jone and Eula Cleveland and this crush reporter (me). Talk show host/author Tavis Smiley was a recipient last year.

WHAT'S GOING ON: "Kama Sutra: The Musical" has its world premiere at the Theatre Building Chicago clan 7-Nov. 2. . . Shakespeare's "King Lear" starring Stacy Keach and directed by means of Robert Falls opening Sept. 19 at the Goodman (On Oct 6 Falls will be honored for his 20th year with the Goodman at a dinner at the Four Seasons). . . The 2nd annual Chicago Walk for Pancreatic Cancer is family 10 in Lincoln Park, with registration at 8 a.m. Web site: www.lustgarten.org. . . "The Water Coolers: An Office Musical" has been dilateed thru Oct. 31 at the Lakeshore Theatre. . . Soulful R&B artist Kem with Urban Mystic generation 14 at the Chicago Theatre. . . "Into the Woods" with lyrics and music by dint of Stephen Sondheim, opening Sept. 20 at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. . . "Annie" opening tribe 30 at the LaSalle Bank Theatre.

NICOLE KIDMAN has signed forward to star in "The of a gold color Compass" for New Line Cinema, with filming to start early nearest month in the U.K. if it were not that other films in the can include "Fur" the story of famous photog Diane Arbus co-starring Robert Downey Jr coming revealed in November, and the sci-fi film "The Visiting" hitting theaters early nearest year.

NOTED CHEFS/restaurateurs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand will first attempt Osteria di Tramonto and Gale's Coffee store on Oct. 12 in the brand just discovered Westin Chicago North Shore inn in Wheeling, which opens for business that same day. The dynamic duo will render free of access two other venues - - Tramonto Steak & Seafood and the RT loaf -- inside the hotel in November. on the way, FOIE GRAS will be serv in Tramonto. . . Speaking of bows there are far too many dives geese, blackbirds, sparrows, pigeons, etc in Lincoln Park. It's starting to remind me of the ol' Alfred Hitchcock thriller "The Birds." They are taking athwart

BUSINESS LEADER Juan Soto freshly received La Raza newspaper's Premio Empresarial award. . . not Luis Soto. A little birdie conducted me wrong on this name. Sorry, Juan.

WMAQ-CHANNEL 5 bos Larry "Cool Breeze" Wert will be at his ol' alma mater Fenwick High train in Oak Park Wednesday to introduce Olympic Gold medalist Gary Hall Jr who will talk with the bookish mans of his journey of living with juvenile diabetes. The swimming great has won 10 Olympic medals and is training for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Fenwick scholar Kady Helme, who also pockets from the disease, will be forward stage as well. Her family won the bid to have Hall visit the place of education during a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation adventure back in June.

Helme and family will be participating in the 28th annual Ron Santo Walk to corrective Diabetes Oct. 8.

CELEBRITY SIGHTS: R&B artist Mya, whose "Liberation" album flows out this fall, lunched with friends at China Grill. . . Yankee hotties Derek Jeter Jorge Posada and Robinson Cano dined at the Primehouse in the James inn recently. . . . PGA golfer Luke Donald and the Bulls' Ben Gordon at Bella loll on separate evenings. . . WBBM-Channel 2's Derrick Blakely seen relaxing at the M loll On a different occasion, state Sen Mattie hound stopped by.

SAY IT ISN'T SO: Actress Jill Marie Jone who plays the self- serving and sassy Toni Childs forward the "Girlfriends" sitcom, has opt not to answer for next season.

BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: Hedy Ratner (who celebrated with friends at the G Boutique), Michael Jackson, Billy Friedkin, Channel 7's Harry Porterfield and Helmut Horn. Wednesday: Warren Buffett

Well, that's Stella in the city!

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