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Jan 11, 2026
As the first week of candidate filing wound down Friday afternoon, the May primary ballot was shaping up with a mix familiar faces and newcomers.
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Jan 11, 2026
Emergency traffic lights are coming to Duneland communities, improving safety when police and fire departments respond to a scene.
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Jan 11, 2026
"Avatar: Fire and Ash" kept on smoldering at the box office, taking the top spot for a fourth straight week on a relatively quiet weekend as the January doldrums began setting in for the industry.
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Jan 11, 2026
President Trump fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.
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Jan 11, 2026
Minnesota's Twin Cities on Sunday braced for what many expect will be a new normal over the next few weeks as the Department of Homeland Security carries out what it called its largest enforcement operation ever.
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Jan 11, 2026
U.S. Senator Todd Young, R-Indiana, was one of five Republican Senators who voted Thursday in favor of the war powers resolution that could limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.
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Jan 11, 2026
Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s is dead at 78.
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Jan 11, 2026
Iran's parliament speaker warned Sunday that the U.S. military and Israel would be "legitimate targets" if the U.S. strikes the Islamic Republic over ongoing protests.
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Jan 11, 2026
Pope Leo XIV baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday beneath Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling, continuing an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican.
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Jan 11, 2026
Except for two years — 1922 and 1982 — the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers have played each other every season since 1921.
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Jan 11, 2026
Affordability will be a key political theme of the coming Illinois General Assembly as leaders signal proposals from health care to a Bears stadium will be filtered through a cost-of-living lens.
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Jan 11, 2026
After the U.S. captured and imprisoned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last week, many Venezuelans in the Chicago regions are left with conflicting emotions.
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Jan 11, 2026
Many in the Chicago area, where residents are still reeling from more than two months of chaos during Operation Midway Blitz, have revived a legal question of whether state and local agencies can investigate and file charges against agents who appear to have crossed the line.
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Jan 11, 2026
On Jan. 11, 2010, Mark McGwire admits that he'd used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998.
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Jan 11, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 11, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 11, 2026
Here's a look back at each of the Bears' playoff games — including two trips to the Super Bowl — since 1932.
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Jan 10, 2026
Dr. Molly O'Shea has noticed growing skepticism about vaccines at both of her Michigan pediatric offices.
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Jan 10, 2026
St. Patrick's High School students participated in a Go Baby Go event to modify battery-powered cars for children with disabilities.
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Jan 10, 2026
The Minneapolis gathering was one of hundreds of protests planned in towns and cities across the country over the weekend.
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Jan 10, 2026
The death of a woman found with head injuries in a Chicago Lawn parking lot was ruled a homicide Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police found the still-unidentified woman unresponsive in the 6700 block of South Western Avenue just before 11:30 a.m. Friday. She was pronounced dead at the scene, but […]
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Jan 10, 2026
President Trump said Friday he is going to do "something on Greenland, whether they like it or not."
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Jan 10, 2026
Fox Valley activists came together for a rally Saturday in South Elgin in the wake of the recent death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed in her car by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.
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Jan 10, 2026
Indiana legislators filed bills that relate to timely matters, from mid-census redistricting to wearing masks and receiving vaccines.
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Jan 10, 2026
The parking lot at Mount Baldy will grow this year as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shaves the back of the dune to nourish the front.
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Jan 10, 2026
Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people — including a child — were killed in a series of shootings in northeast Mississippi.
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Jan 10, 2026
Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people — including a child — were killed in a series of shootings in northeast Mississippi.
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Jan 10, 2026
While the 40-foot steeple of Crown Point's oldest church lays toppled along Grant Street and East North Street, treasures found inside the 139-year-old church have found their way into new light.
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Jan 10, 2026
An 1-year-old boy was pronounced dead after he fell from a 4th floor window in the Edgewater neighborhood.
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Jan 10, 2026
President Trump said on Friday he wants to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region of Denmark, to prevent Russia or China from taking it.
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Jan 10, 2026
The killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is reverberating across Capitol Hill where Democrats, and certain Republicans, are vowing an assertive response.
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Jan 10, 2026
The killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is reverberating across Capitol Hill where Democrats, and certain Republicans, are vowing an assertive response.
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Jan 10, 2026
A Valparaiso area man is in custody on charges of murder and arson for a fatal fire Oct. 31 at a group home in Union Township.
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Jan 10, 2026
A 37-year-old man was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive and stabbed overnight on CTA property in the Loop, Chicago police said.
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Jan 10, 2026
A 37-year-old man was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive and stabbed overnight on CTA property in the Loop, Chicago police said.
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Jan 10, 2026
New Illinois education laws take effect this month, expanding rights for immigrant students and regulating artificial intelligence in schools.
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Jan 10, 2026
Unlike Chicago and northwest Indiana, the Kansas City metroplex and its 2.4 million people are tightly intertwined across Missouri and Kansas, making a potential Bears move to Gary or Hammond very different from the Chiefs' efforts.
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Jan 10, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 10, 2026
On Jan. 10, 2017, President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address in Chicago, in which the two-term Democrat urged national unity and highlighted achievements of his presidency including the Affordable Care Act. Republican Donald Trump took office days later after a 2016 election in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Jan 09, 2026
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she expects Mangione's trial to begin in December — or possibly January 2027, as federal prosecutors suggested — if the death penalty is still on the table.
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Jan 09, 2026
Meteorologists announced that the 1.92 inches of rain recorded at O'Hare surpassed the Jan. 8, 1935, rainfall record of 1.18 inches, making it the third-rainiest January day in history.
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Jan 09, 2026
Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family's bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges.
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Jan 09, 2026
Newly released video of Wednesday's ICE shooting in Minneapolis appears to show the officer's point of view just moments before he opened fire, leaving a 37-year-old mother of three dead.
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Jan 09, 2026
A longtime Gary motorcycle gang operative pleaded guilty again in federal court Friday.
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Jan 09, 2026
A Gary man is facing deportation after he was sentenced Friday for drunkenly shooting off an automatic rifle in his backyard.
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Jan 09, 2026
Calling a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling a "straightforward path" to a legal victory, lawyers for the state of Illinois said Friday they hope to quickly resolving ongoing litigation over President Donald Trump's controversial efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area to bolster immigration enforcement.
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Jan 09, 2026
It was the first public comment from Rebecca Good about the death of Renee Good, the mother of three killed Wednesday when three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded and tried to force open the door of her Honda Pilot SUV and the vehicle lurched forward.
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Jan 09, 2026
A man faces charges after threatening to blow up Franciscan Health if they didn't say which nurse sent a Black woman in labor home.
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Jan 09, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 09, 2026
Eleanor Walsh, who faces an increase of approximately $14,300 in health insurance costs this year as the Affordable Care Act subsidies sunset, said she was pleased that the U.S. House passed a three-year extension on the subsidies.
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Jan 09, 2026
The department says it has received reports of 11 such calls after recipients of them contacted the police department to verify.
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Jan 09, 2026
Barry Lewis, 62, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing the death of Harriet Reynolds at a Riverdale BP station.
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Jan 09, 2026
Excited Bailey Elementary students in Lake Station waved red pom poms as two vibrant blue vans from Enchanted Backpack pulled up in front of the school Thursday morning.
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Jan 09, 2026
A Chesterton Police officer on paid administrative leave will now receive no pay because of a recent arrest on two felony charges.
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Jan 09, 2026
Frankfort man was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault from July at Credit One Amphitheater in Tinley Park.
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Jan 09, 2026
The attorneys general of Illinois, California, Colorado, Minnesota and New York filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in New York, alleging federal officials have no legal or constitutional authority to freeze the money.
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Jan 09, 2026
The attorneys general of Illinois, California, Colorado, Minnesota and New York filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in New York, alleging federal officials have no legal or constitutional authority to freeze the money.
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Jan 09, 2026
The federal officer steps in front of the Honda SUV, parked nearly perpendicular across a one-way residential street in Minneapolis, with snow piled up on the curb.
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Jan 09, 2026
At the White House, President Donald Trump vows American intervention in Venezuela will pour billions of dollars into the country's infrastructure, revive its once-thriving oil industry and eventually deliver a new age of prosperity to the Latin American nation.
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Jan 09, 2026
Iran signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters, directly challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating as the death toll rose to at least 50.
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Jan 09, 2026
A 19-year-old man was fatally wounded and two other men were seriously injured in a shooting in the Gage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 09, 2026
A 19-year-old man was fatally wounded and two other men were seriously injured in a shooting in the Gage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 09, 2026
Chicago residents, activists and elected officials demanded that the city's civilian police oversight board launch a thorough probe into how the Chicago Police Department has interacted with or assisted federal immigration agents before, during and after "Operation Midway Blitz" at a heated Thursday night meeting.
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Jan 09, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 09, 2026
Dolton and Harvey tied for the most homicides with seven each, though the south suburbs saw a 35% decrease in homicides in 2025.
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Jan 09, 2026
Excitement is high ahead of the Bears-Packers matchup. Foam cheese grater hats are already on backorder, and food deliveries are expected to be "off the charts."
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Jan 09, 2026
Excitement is high ahead of the NFL matchup. Pediatric hospital patients are writing letters of encouragement to Bears players. Foam cheese grater hats are already on backorder, and food deliveries are expected to be "off the charts" during Saturday's big game.
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Jan 09, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 9, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 09, 2026
On Jan. 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
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Jan 08, 2026
A line of rain showers that dumped a large amount of rain has led the National Weather Service to declare a flash flood warning and a flood advisory in the Chicago area until 11 p.m. Flash Flood Warning including Chicago IL, Naperville IL and Cicero IL until 10:00 PM CST pic.twitter.com/rfKdVJdiL8 — NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) […]
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Jan 08, 2026
The Chicago Bulls were forced to postpone their game against the Miami Heat on Thursday night because of condensation on the court at the United Center.
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Jan 08, 2026
A day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, the case escalated sharply Thursday when federal authorities blocked state investigators from accessing evidence.
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Jan 08, 2026
The governor is encouraging all "individuals, businesses, faith institutions, and organizations" to take a moment of silence at 10 a.m., and "use the day to connect in your community and engage in acts of service."
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Jan 08, 2026
The measure comes as state officials have warned Illinois may face energy shortages but Republicans warn massive battery installations called for in the bill would be partly backed by a surcharge on consumers' monthly bills.
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Jan 08, 2026
Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.
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Jan 08, 2026
Republican candidate for Illinois governor Darren Bailey said the Trump administration's federal immigration crackdown is due to sanctuary policies and Democratic governors not upholding immigration laws.
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Jan 08, 2026
The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season.
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Jan 08, 2026
Timothy Killeen who has helmed the University of Illinois system, including its Chicago and Springfield campuses for more than a decade will step down.
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Jan 08, 2026
The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
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Jan 08, 2026
A former Crown Point woman was sentenced to seven years after she admitted posing as a psychologist, bilking Medicaid and Medicare.
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Jan 08, 2026
Lightfoot said residents could send videos, audio, photos or other information documenting alleged criminal or abusive conduct during Operation Midway Blitz to reporticenow.com.
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Jan 08, 2026
The Indiana Senate and House Republicans released their priorities for the 2026 legislative session this week focused on cutting government bureaucracy and some costs for Hoosiers.
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Jan 08, 2026
When the Bears last beat the Packers in the postseason 85 years ago, many feared it was the last time the two teams would meet.
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Jan 08, 2026
Willie Donald's case against the city of Gary, John E. Jelks Jr., and former Gary police officer Bruce Outlaw was dismissed on Jan. 2.
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Jan 08, 2026
State Reps. Thaddeus Jones and Anthony DeLuca revived bill aimed at Ford Heights owing Chicago Heights $2 million in water bills.
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Jan 08, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 08, 2026
More than 250 people attended an Elgin town hall meeting on immigration enforcement in the city, saying they are angry, frustrated.
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Jan 08, 2026
Here's what is known after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
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Jan 08, 2026
States have major decisions to make in 2026 about the social safety net and taxes in the aftermath of a sweeping law President Donald Trump signed last year.
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Jan 08, 2026
Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control.
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Jan 08, 2026
The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.
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Jan 08, 2026
The plaintiffs in a landmark injunction case limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz are expected to formally dismiss their lawsuit on Thursday.
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Jan 08, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 08, 2026
The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.
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Jan 08, 2026
Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer taking part in the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown.
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Jan 08, 2026
Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer taking part in the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown.
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Jan 08, 2026
Bob Rita, a Democrat who has represented the Blue Island area in the Illinois house, will run unopposed in the March primary.
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Jan 08, 2026
On Jan. 8, 2016, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a third time in a daring raid by Mexican marines, six months after walking through a tunnel to freedom from a maximum-security prison.
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Jan 08, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 8, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 07, 2026
Glenn Hall, who backstopped the Chicago Blackhawks to the 1961 Stanley Cup and was one of the most dominant and innovative goaltenders in NHL history, died Wednesday. He was 94.
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Jan 07, 2026
Glenn Hall, who backstopped the Chicago Blackhawks to the 1961 Stanley Cup and was one of the most dominant and innovative goaltenders in NHL history, died Wednesday. He was 94.
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