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Oct 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 22, 2025
On Oct. 22, 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series. (The Cubs would go on to beat Cleveland in the World Series in seven games, their first series championship since 1908.)
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Oct 21, 2025
As a right-wing fake newspaper website publishes a story containing an internet link detailing salacious allegations against one candidate, a new candidate emerged with a controversial background.
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Oct 21, 2025
Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias' office cautioned against the illegal practice of flipping and modifying state-issued license plates amid reports that agency vehicles may have changed plates.
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Oct 21, 2025
President Donald Trump's pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.
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Oct 21, 2025
OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions.
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Oct 21, 2025
A teenage boy was killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the city's West Side, Chicago police said. The boy, 16, was gunned down while standing in the 4100 block of West End Avenue around 2:30 p.m., police said. Authorities said he was struck by multiple gunshots, but provided no […]
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Oct 21, 2025
The petition seeks to compel St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, its owner Prime Healthcare and former owner Ascension to go to arbitration over the matter.
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Oct 21, 2025
A history class unit designed by the Flossmoor Veterans' Memorial organization may be going regional, with the curriculum set to be presented at a Constitutional Democracy Project conference at the end of the month. The program, called the Flossmoor Veterans' Time Machine, is a collaboration between the Flossmoor Veterans' Memorial and Parker Junior High School […]
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Oct 21, 2025
Blue Island City Council approved reauthorizing eight Flock Safety license plate cameras as the devices are shut down elsewhere.
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Oct 21, 2025
The glittering sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds that once adorned France's royals could well be gone forever, experts said Tuesday after a brazen, four-minute heist in broad daylight left the nation stunned and the government struggling to explain a new debacle at the Louvre.
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Oct 21, 2025
The Lake County Board of Elections and Registration voted to defer a Gary polling location change after Republican members asked for the GOP precinct chairman to weigh in.
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Oct 21, 2025
The Illinois State Board of Elections split evenly along party lines on whether Democratic Senate President Don Harmon should pay nearly $10 million for violating state campaign finance laws he helped write.
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Oct 21, 2025
A decade since Orland Park began using drones for police work, Police Chief Eric Rossi is looking to expand the program. "I think this is a great tool that we can add to our tool box and I do foresee, based on funding, getting enough to deploy throughout the entire village," Rossi said during a […]
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Oct 21, 2025
Prosecutors allege Thomas Starks ambushed a couple in a Gary apartment complex while defense lawyers said the evidence didn't add up.
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Oct 21, 2025
A trial opened Monday with jury selection for a man accused with a former girlfriend of having a young girl engage in sex acts with them starting around 2013.
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Oct 21, 2025
Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children's Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.
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Oct 21, 2025
Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country's first female prime minister.
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Oct 21, 2025
New Trier High School is moving forward with plans to issue $15 million in bonds to pay for infrastructure upgrades at its Winnetka and Northfield campuses.
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Oct 21, 2025
Reacting to the blitz of arrests and activity by federal immigration agents in the area, the village of Oak Park has decided to tweak how it enforces its ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.
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Oct 21, 2025
A math whiz and a prodigal cellist from the northern suburbs are two of Illinois' four U.S. Presidential Scholars this year.
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Oct 21, 2025
Naperville District 203 board member Melissa Kelley Black has again been censured for conduct deemed detrimental, unprofessional.
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Oct 21, 2025
Border Patrol agents apprehended allegedly undocumented people at places like gas stations, grocery stores, car washes and nurseries.
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Oct 21, 2025
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the U.S. eyes the continent's rich rare-earth resources at a time when China is imposing tougher rules on exporting its own critical minerals abroad.
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Oct 21, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, following a burst of deadly violence and questions over how to move forward with the plan for long-term peace.
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Oct 21, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism Tuesday about Gaza 's fragile ceasefire agreement, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited a new center in Israel for civilian and military cooperation.
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Oct 21, 2025
As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.
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Oct 21, 2025
As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.
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Oct 21, 2025
The British royal family is once again under intense scrutiny as a memoir by Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Prince Andrew and Jeffery Epstein, hits bookstores Tuesday.
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Oct 21, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Oct 21, 2025
Folk singer and poet Judy Collins spoke at the Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined symposium at Plymouth Place Senior Living in La Grange Park.
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Oct 21, 2025
As ICE activity and immigrant arrests in Elgin have surged since Operation Midway Blitz, an activist fights back.
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Oct 21, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 21, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 21, 2025
On Oct. 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.
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Oct 20, 2025
The Orionids will peak with the arrival of a new moon, providing an excellent opportunity to see shooting stars without interference from moonlight.
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Oct 20, 2025
A federal judge in Chicago declined a temporary restraining order to Northwestern University graduate students boycotting antibias training.
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Oct 20, 2025
Three west suburban men face felony charges after allegedly conspiring to impersonate police officers at protests over the weekend, DuPage County officials said.
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Oct 20, 2025
Three west suburban men face felony charges after allegedly conspiring to impersonate police officers at protests over the weekend, DuPage County officials said.
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Oct 20, 2025
Police arrested a man at Atlanta's bustling airport on Monday after getting a tip from his family that he was planning to shoot up the place, and found an assault rifle and ammunition in his truck outside, the city's police chief said.
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Oct 20, 2025
Longtime Leyden High School Dist. 212 School Board member Sandra Boehm worked to give students opportunities, colleagues said.
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Oct 20, 2025
A new lawsuit alleges that a Skokie OB-GYN and leader at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston sexually assaulted a patient at his private practice.
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Oct 20, 2025
The mom of a 5-year-old girl who fell overboard from the Disney Dream cruise ship in June while taking a photo in front of a porthole window will not be charged, Broward prosecutors decided.
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Oct 20, 2025
The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build President Donald Trump's ballroom.
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Oct 20, 2025
Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation's top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a report issued Monday.
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Oct 20, 2025
Disney and Hulu subscription cancellations rose during the month that ABC briefly cancelled "Jimmy Kimmel Live!, " according to data from subscription analytics company Antenna.
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Oct 20, 2025
Eighteen-year-old Estefania Herrera has been missing since last Friday, according to Chicago police and school officials.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey urged a judge Monday to dismiss the case against him, calling it a vindictive prosecution motivated by "personal animus" and orchestrated by a White House determined to seek retribution against a perceived foe of President Donald Trump.
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Oct 20, 2025
LaPorte County Councilman Randy Novak will replace former State Rep. Pat Boy to represent District 9 following a Saturday caucus.
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Oct 20, 2025
Attorneys for Illinois on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the Trump administration's "dramatic" request to be allowed to send National Guard troops to the Chicago area to help with immigration enforcement while the issue is on appeal.
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Oct 20, 2025
The Louvre remained closed Monday, a day after historic jewels were stolen from the world's most-visited museum in a daring daylight heist that prompted authorities to reassess security measures at cultural sites across France.
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Oct 20, 2025
A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.
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Oct 20, 2025
Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and "cook them a meal for their families."
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Oct 20, 2025
Before Saturday's No Kings rally, columnist Jerry Shnay hadn't witnessed a large protest movement since 1968 in Chicago.
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Oct 20, 2025
Internet disruptions tied to Amazon's cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games.
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Oct 20, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Oct 20, 2025
"No Kings protests were held on Saturday in downtown Chicago, the city's suburbs and northwest Indiana. Here's what to know.
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Oct 20, 2025
Two local, venerable houses of worship — Cathedral of Holy Angels in the Diocese of Gary and the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University — are among 14 statewide to receive capital funding grants from Indiana Landmarks' Sacred Places Indiana Fund.
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Oct 20, 2025
Four people are charged in a deadly Gary shooting that killed a man and wounded two others just outside an apartment complex.
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Oct 20, 2025
Two Indiana State troopers saw a muzzle flash from a passing car's window and heard three gunshots around Ind. 49 and U.S. 20 in Porter.
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Oct 20, 2025
Two Indiana State troopers saw a muzzle flash from a passing car's window and heard three gunshots around Ind. 49 and U.S. 20 in Porter.
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Oct 20, 2025
Organizers estimated at least 3,000 people showed up for a No Kings rally Saturday along La Grange Road in downtown La Grange.
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Oct 20, 2025
Chicago's suit alleges DHS has tied funding for first-responder salaries and more to "unlawful conditions" outlawing "diversity, equity and inclusion" efforts.
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Oct 20, 2025
The Evanston City Council adopted a resolution that creates "ICE-free zones" in the north suburb, banning federal immigration officers from using city-owned property to carry out civil immigration enforcement efforts. The details of how the zones could be enforced, however, were not immediately clear. At its Oct. 13 meeting, the council established the immigration enforcement […]
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Oct 20, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Oct. 18, 2025.
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Oct 20, 2025
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.
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Oct 20, 2025
Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president's son-in-law Jared Kushner were in Israel Monday to shore up the tenuous ceasefire that's holding in Gaza.
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Oct 20, 2025
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.
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Oct 20, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was "positive" — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv.
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Oct 20, 2025
He won't call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew's critics.
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Oct 20, 2025
A federal judge in Chicago is set to grill a pair of immigration officials Monday about law enforcement tactics employed during the Trump administration's ongoing "Operation Midway Blitz" that allegedly are in violation of a restraining order she issued earlier this month.
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Oct 20, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 20, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 20, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Oct 20, 2025
From coffee shops to bars to adult stores, businesses and other volunteers have handed out thousands of whistles across the city.
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Oct 20, 2025
In July 2024, Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson, who is white, fatally shot Sonya Massey, who is Black, after she called to report a prowler outside her home near Springfield.
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Oct 20, 2025
On Oct. 20, 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur waded ashore in his return to the Philippines against Japanese forces in World War II, fulfilling a promise he made ("I shall return") after being ordered to evacuate the country in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Oct 19, 2025
Agents say they were arresting a man when two women 'approached and began striking them both in the head,' police said.
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Oct 19, 2025
China likes to condemn the United States for extending its arm too far outside of its borders to make demands on non-American companies. But when it sought to hit back at the U.S. interests this month, Beijing did exactly the same.
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Oct 19, 2025
Neighbors said a man being detained by federal agents ran away, prompting officers to search backyards and stop vehicles.
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Oct 19, 2025
Americans are growing increasingly concerned about their ability to find a good job under President Donald Trump, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.
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Oct 19, 2025
The Northern Lake County Environmental Partnership connects residents with researchers and students from various schools to study pollutants.
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Oct 19, 2025
Ukrainian drones struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a fire and forcing it to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan, Russian and Kazakh authorities said Sunday.
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Oct 19, 2025
Sam Rivers, the bass player in the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, according to social media posts by his band mates.
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Oct 19, 2025
Freed from the prison where he had been serving time for ripping off his campaign donors, former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he's humbled by his experience behind bars but unconcerned about the "pearl clutching" of critics upset that President Donald Trump granted him clemency.
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Oct 19, 2025
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates will lead the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the IFT announced Saturday after its election.
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Oct 19, 2025
The United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro, "does nothing to stop" drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday, escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America.
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Oct 19, 2025
Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire.
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Oct 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved "doctor of the poor" Sunday, offering the South American nation its first saint.
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Oct 19, 2025
Israel on Sunday struck targets in the southern Gaza Strip after it said its troops came under fire from Hamas, in the first major test of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire meant to halt more than two years of war.
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Oct 19, 2025
In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, thieves smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.
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Oct 19, 2025
In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, thieves smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.
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Oct 19, 2025
London police are probing whether Prince Andrew asked an officer assigned to him as a bodyguard to dig up dirt on sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre.
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Oct 19, 2025
Hoosier Jewish leaders and scholars celebrated the release of the remaining Jewish hostages from Gaza, but expressed caution about the next steps in the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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Oct 19, 2025
Ignatian Volunteer Corps has partnered adults 50 years of age or older — many who are retirees — with organizations supporting people in need.
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Oct 19, 2025
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
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Oct 19, 2025
Though it's likely to go through tweaks as Mayor Brandon Johnson runs a gauntlet of aldermanic counter-proposals, here's a look at the his budget by the numbers.
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Oct 19, 2025
President Donald Trump's language to discredit opponents has included Illinois and the Chicago area where protesters have been compared to domestic terrorists and the president has called for jailing Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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Oct 19, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 19, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 19, 2025
On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6% in value (its largest daily percentage loss ever), to close at 1,738.74 on what came to be known as "Black Monday."
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Oct 18, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture informed states that it won't fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP or food stamps, starting Nov. 1.
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Oct 18, 2025
Over the past two decades, live performances and recorded music have flowed into hospitals and doctors' offices as research grows on how songs can help ease pain.
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