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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon have made a pact to bring the show to the Windy City — with one condition.
During Emanuel’s appearance Tuesday on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” Fallon agreed to bring his production to Chicago for a few shows if Chicago Public School students read 2.4 million books this summer. That would mean the school system’s more than 400,000 students would have to read six books each.
Emanuel’s appearance with Fallon was the result of a previous deal between the two men. The mayor agreed to appear on the show if Fallon participated in Chicago’s Polar Plunge into Lake Michigan in February.
Fallon took part in the event dressed in a business suit.
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Maxwell is looking to produce something this year that has nothing to do with music.
In a recent interview, the 41-year-old crooner — who plans to release a new album this year — said he also wants to get married and become a father (though he didn’t offer the name of his “collaborator”).
“This year is really about the people, it’s really about focusing on putting out the music, and taking myself to another level in life. Hopefully getting married, having kids — the whole thing,” Maxwell said.
The R&B star said the experiences he’s had since coming back to music with 2009’s Grammy-winning “BLACKsummers’night” inspired him to release the second album in his trilogy. “SUMMERS,” originally planned for release in 2010, will come out this year, he said.
“I lost my cousin. I lost a lot of things. I lost a lot of friends. I came to realize so many good things about people that were always really there, and then so many bad things about people who really weren’t. When you turn 40 and when you cross a decade, God shows you the truth and you just sort of have to take it and run with it, and basically make the right choices, and that’s kind of where I’m at right now,” he said.
“I think that’s why the album can come out now.”
Fans will hear some of those new songs when Maxwell kicks off his two-month “Summer Soulstice” tour June 15 in Minneapolis. It’s his first tour since canceling his six-date U.S. trek in 2011 because of vocal swelling and hemorrhaging. (He said surgery was successful.)
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