[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires

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• Plans for a residential development in Kingston's west-end Graceland district have raised environmental concerns. Global News reports.


• HuffPostQuebec shares the exciting plans for expanding and modernizing the complex around the Oratoire Saint-Joseph.


• CityLab notes how, despite having a declining black population, Chicago is set to elect a black mayor.


• VICE looks at the bars and nightclubs in uptown New Orleans that, in the 1970s, hosted the city's jazz and funk scenes.


• Guardian Cities reports on the murga, the latest dance/pop culture craze in Buenos Aires.