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Dec 15, 2025
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, has died. He was 78.
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Dec 15, 2025
Wages are the sticking point in negotiations for Chicago Public Schools' lunchroom workers, who have been without a contract for nearly six months.
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Dec 15, 2025
As of mid-December, CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling still must decide whether or not to bring administrative charges in 490 cases in which the Civilian Office of Police Accountability sustained allegations of misconduct, city records show.
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Dec 15, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson and budget opponents are engaged in a public relations fight aimed at the hearts and minds of Chicago residents.
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Dec 15, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 15, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 15, 2025
On Dec. 15, 2013, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest in a state funeral, ending a 10-day mourning period for South Africa's first Black president. Mandela died on Dec. 5 of that year at the age of 95.
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Dec 14, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees.
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Dec 14, 2025
A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump's choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president's views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates.
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Dec 14, 2025
It's been 10 years since the fire that claimed the life of Chicago firefighter Daniel Capuano. Today, his children are following in his footsteps as a nurse and firefighter.
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Dec 14, 2025
Sunday morning temps were the coldest the Chicago area has had this early in the season since the "infamously" cold and snowy winter of 2013-14.
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Dec 14, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Australia's leader on Sunday while nations expressed shock and sympathy over a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday event.
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Dec 14, 2025
Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year.
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Dec 14, 2025
Any time a police officer responds to a situation, it often goes in a completely different direction than they anticipate, but Gary high school students interested in law enforcement are getting a jump on how to react.
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Dec 14, 2025
A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot early Sunday in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police reported.
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Dec 14, 2025
A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria's internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier.
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Dec 14, 2025
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Sunday said he had declared a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala.
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Dec 14, 2025
The Chicago Bears are barely above .500 in their coldest games at Soldier Field since they began playing their home games there in 1971
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Dec 14, 2025
The Environmental Integrity Project's report said 27 states have cut environmental agency budgets in the last 15 years, including Indiana.
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Dec 14, 2025
Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism.
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Dec 14, 2025
An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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Dec 14, 2025
Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government's archaeological events that aim at drawing more tourists to the country.
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Dec 14, 2025
The Indiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released its hate crime report, which says the state must take stronger and more coordinated action.
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Dec 14, 2025
As a polar vortex arrives in Chicago in time for Sunday's game, do hardy Bears fans secretly pine for a fixed roof stadium down the road?
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Dec 14, 2025
Benches created by District 205 students and teachers depicting Pope Leo XIV are inside Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton.
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Dec 14, 2025
Aurora Mayor John Laesch's proposed campaign ethics reforms, which have been held for weeks, are now moving towards final approval with significant changes.
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Dec 14, 2025
Illinois Elections Board staff recommended Senate President Don Harmon's campaign committee be fined $9.8 million for campaign fundraising violations but the penalty was not imposed because the board repeatedly deadlocked 4-4 along party lines.
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Dec 14, 2025
Because of Steven Lee's erratic behavior, state police had revoked his firearm license and local police tried at least twice to remove guns from his home.
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Dec 14, 2025
Some Chicagoans came to appreciate "Messiah" as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.
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Dec 14, 2025
Rebecca De La Luz helps people detained at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan, with Chicago-area families.
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Dec 14, 2025
Activists want a meet with the developer and state representatives to secure a community benefits agreement.
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Dec 14, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 14, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 14, 2025
On Dec. 14, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled Congress was within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination by private businesses (in this case, a motel that refused to cater to Blacks).
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Dec 13, 2025
Chesterton's Assistant Police Chief Cisco Rodriguez surprised Police Chief Tim Richardson, honoring his leadership with an Exceptional Service Award during Thursday's Police Commission meeting.
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Dec 13, 2025
A cold weather advisory remains in effect from 8 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday in northern and central Illinois and northwest Indiana.
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Dec 13, 2025
Multiple people were shot Saturday in the area of Brown University, police said, as the Ivy League school issued an active shooter alert.
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Dec 13, 2025
Multiple people were shot Saturday in the area of Brown University, police said, as the Ivy League school issued an active shooter alert.
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Dec 13, 2025
Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka.
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Dec 13, 2025
A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer.
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Dec 13, 2025
United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Baghdad on Saturday to mark the end of the political mission set up in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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Dec 13, 2025
With most European leaders talking tougher about immigration amid a rise in far-right populism and Trump administration warnings that they could face "civilizational erasure" unless they tighten their borders, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stands apart.
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Dec 13, 2025
The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.
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Dec 13, 2025
The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.
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Dec 13, 2025
A Ukrainian drone attack in southwestern Russia has killed two people, while parts of Ukraine are without power following Russian assaults on energy infrastructure.
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Dec 13, 2025
Greene's longtime manager, Gregg Edward, said the actor's family had been notified of his death. There was no immediate indication as to the cause.
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Dec 13, 2025
In the past 20 years, the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority has been instrumental in bringing about the commuter rail expansion that had long been a dream. Now the RDA is looking ahead at what else it can accomplish.
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Dec 13, 2025
Two men were sentenced in separate immigration cases at the U.S. District Court in Hammond.
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Dec 13, 2025
A 24-year-old man was fatally wounded early Saturday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 3 a.m., officers responded to a call of someone shot in the 700 block of North Lawndale Avenue. A 24-year-old man had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was dropped off by his friends […]
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Dec 13, 2025
A person was arrested overnight after a 39-year-old man was critically wounded in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, Chicago police said. Officers responded to a call of someone shot around midnight in the 6600 block of South Stewart Avenue. The victim was involved in an argument that turned into a fight when a firearm was pulled […]
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Dec 13, 2025
A 10-year-old child was found safe after being in the rear sit of a vehicle stolen Friday night in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said. Shortly before 11:30 p.m., a 30-year-old man exited his running vehicle in the 7300 block of South Lafayette Avenue where a 10-year-old child sitting in […]
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Dec 13, 2025
Officials have called the South Shore building that federal immigration agents raided in a controversial middle-of-the-night operation "deplorable." A court order mandated the structure be vacated by Friday.
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Dec 13, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 13, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 13, 2025
On Dec. 13, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act providing federal recognition and protection for same-sex and interracial marriages, calling it "a blow against hate in all its forms."
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Dec 12, 2025
The federal government's crackdown on commercial driver's licenses for immigrants has found problems in eight states so far in the wake of several deadly crashes.
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Dec 12, 2025
President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Justice Department asked an appeals court Friday to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Transportation Security Administration is renewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's push to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers.
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Dec 12, 2025
The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country.
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Dec 12, 2025
Puerto Rico tax incentives that have lured thousands of rich Americans to the U.S. territory for over a decade are under scrutiny.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that people do.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do.
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Dec 12, 2025
The U.S. removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list on Friday after initially adding him over his role in leading the trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Dec 12, 2025
From documenting immigration enforcement, to covering the highs and lows of Chicago's sports teams and photographing the lives of everyday residents, Chicago Tribune photographers and editors strive to provide a fair account of the lives and events we witness. Our photo editors curated some of the best images from 2025 in this collection.
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Dec 12, 2025
After Indiana defeated mid-census redistricting Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump downplayed the loss, while Gov. Mike Braun and Lieutenant Gov. Micah Beckwith shared their disappointment and alluded to potential repercussions for the state from the Trump administration.
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Dec 12, 2025
A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms.
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Dec 12, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 12, 2025
First-degree murder charges were filed against Alaa Edeen M. Qouqazeh, 27, in relation to the Dec. 8 death of his father, Mohammad Qouqazeh, 59, of Chicago Ridge. Mohammad Qouqazeh was killed in his home on the 10500 block of South Austin Avenue in what police called an "isolated, domestic-related event." His cause of death was […]
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Dec 12, 2025
House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prince Andrew.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy.
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Dec 12, 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced during the waning days of then-President Joe Biden's term in December 2024 that the agency planned to add the beloved backyard pollinator to the threatened species list by the end of 2025, calling the insect "iconic" and "cherished across North America."
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Dec 12, 2025
Gary's Steel City Charter Academy received a 15-year renewal of its charter on Dec. 9 from the Indiana Charter School Board, the school's authorizer.
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Dec 12, 2025
Illinois now joins at least 10 other states, among them California, Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, as well as Washington, D.C., in allowing medical aid in dying.
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Dec 12, 2025
"The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life," Taylor Swift told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney docuseries, "The End of an Era." "It feels insane."
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Dec 12, 2025
A senior Kremlin official says that the Russian police and National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine's Donbas to oversee the prized industrial region, even if a peace settlement ends the nearly four-year war — a possibility that is likely to be rejected by Ukrainian officials as U.S.-led negotiations drag on.
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Dec 12, 2025
This holiday season isn't quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
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Dec 12, 2025
Days of torrential rain in Washington state caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped at least two homes from their foundations, and experts warned that even more flooding expected Friday could be catastrophic.
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Dec 12, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Friday to the cheers of a crowd assembled outside. A federal judge had ordered that immigration officials could not detain him.
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Dec 12, 2025
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region.
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Dec 12, 2025
Two officers and another driver were injured Thursday night in a traffic crash on the South Side in the Fuller Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 12, 2025
A driver was killed Thursday night in a crash in the Jackson Park neighborhood near 63rd Street beach after he struck a median, Chicago police said.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Chicago Bears are barely above .500 in their 10 coldest games at Soldier Field since they began playing their home games there in 1971
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Dec 12, 2025
AAPI organizations devastated by reports of thousands of verbal and physical attacks, including the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings that left six Asian women dead, ramped up lobbying for more inclusive education. The hope was teaching about AAPI contributions would foster understanding. In July 2021, Illinois became the first state to mandate Asian American history. In 2022, New Jersey and Connecticut followed.
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Dec 12, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 12, 2025
Artists pitch their ideas for a monument to honor Rekia Boyd, who was shot and killed by an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2012.
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Dec 12, 2025
Bundle up, Chicago. As the city's quickest start to winter in nearly 50 years persists, this weekend is due to bring another round of bitter cold weather, officials say.
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Dec 12, 2025
Bundle up, Chicago. As the city's quickest start to winter in nearly 50 years persists, this weekend is due to bring another round of bitter cold weather, officials say. Expect temperatures to plunge starting Friday night. After highs in the low 30s, the cold will begin to set in overnight into Saturday, according to David […]
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Dec 12, 2025
Cook County's system to give property tax breaks to businesses is set to expire in two years, and Board President Toni Preckwinkle is looking to revamp the program.
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Dec 12, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 12, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 12, 2025
On Dec. 12, 2010, the inflatable roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed in the early morning hours after a snowstorm dumped 17 inches on the city. (There were no injuries, but the NFL had to shift an already rescheduled game between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants to Detroit's Ford Field.)
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Dec 11, 2025
The Will County Sheriffs Department said charges are pending against three suspects arrested after robberies in Homer Glen, Lemont.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Mint abandoned designs from Joe Biden's presidency that highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, favoring classical imagery.
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Dec 11, 2025
Parents at Haugan Elementary in Albany Park say the school is overcrowded and are upset Chicago Public Schools denied their request to expand.
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Dec 11, 2025
A federal appeals court in Chicago issued a mixed opinion Thursday in a high-profile immigration case, blocking the immediate release of hundreds of people detained during Operation Midway Blitz but allowing the extension of a consent decree governing so-called warrantless arrests.
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Dec 11, 2025
The city of Gary and Indiana University Northwest have worked on a food security study, which should be released in early spring 2026.
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Dec 11, 2025
Illinois Democrats had been awaiting the outcome of the Indiana vote, warning Illinois was ready to respond. For now, it appears Illinois will stand down in that effort.
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Dec 11, 2025
A combination of trade wars with China and rising costs has led to projections of billions in losses nationally for growers this year.
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