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Feb 27, 2026
Eight Democrats are running for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi in the 8th Congressional District, a district that has seen major demographic shifts in recent years.
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Feb 27, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 27, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 27, 2026
On Feb. 27, 1997, Ireland became one of the last countries in the world to legalize divorce. Divorce remains illegal in just two countries: the Philippines and Vatican City.
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Feb 26, 2026
The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it's not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defense Department "made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons."
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Feb 26, 2026
U.S. hockey player Brady Tkachuk said he did not appreciate a doctored video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold.
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Feb 26, 2026
Chicago officers, along with the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested Muhammad Thomas, 35, on Tuesday in St. Louis.
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Feb 26, 2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina State House, Monday, March 2. A public memorial service will follow.
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Feb 26, 2026
The United States women's hockey team has a date with Flavor Flav this summer in Las Vegas celebrate winning the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
The state of Illinois began accepting applications Thursday afternoon from Chicago restaurants and bars that hope to operate video gambling machines.
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Feb 26, 2026
The Chicago Bears haven't always had their headquarters and training fields in the same place. Here's where they have "Bear-ed down."
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Feb 26, 2026
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill Thursday that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond, while Illinois lawmakers inched closer to a tax deal to keep the team in the Land of Lincoln.
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Feb 26, 2026
A pair was charged Thursday in a Hammond shooting stemming from a botched marijuana deal.
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Feb 26, 2026
Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back, killing four and wounding six, according to the Cuban government.
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Feb 26, 2026
A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes.
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Feb 26, 2026
A businesswoman and philanthropist, Jorie Butler Kent ran the Oak Brook Polo Club and befriended England's now-King Charles III, who became a supporter of her Friends of Conservation project in Kenya.
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Feb 26, 2026
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review "newly unearthed" evidence in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent's vehicle.
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Feb 26, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 26, 2026
Chicago Public Schools will begin transferring about 540 students from two high schools in the ASPIRA charter network facing midyear closure.
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Feb 26, 2026
The Indiana Senate approved a bill that allows local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and cooperate with ICE.
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Feb 26, 2026
Thousands are expected to gather Thursday and Friday to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of America's most enduring civil rights leaders.
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Feb 26, 2026
A Naperville man has been charged with staging a fake jewelry heist of more than a million dollars in jewelry, officials said.
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Feb 26, 2026
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group's request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House.
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Feb 26, 2026
Tommy Schaefer pleads not guilty to conspiracy charges in the bludgeoning death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of his then-girlfriend, Heather Mack.
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Feb 26, 2026
Life revolved around the Beverly Shores firehouse for Andrew Himan and his family. The end of Himan's watchful service came on Saturday.
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Feb 26, 2026
Home insurance rates may be going through the roof, but State Farm has some good news for its auto insurance customers.
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Feb 26, 2026
Two ratings agencies have downgraded the city of Chicago and kept their negative outlooks intact, citing the city's back-to-back budget shortfalls since 2023.
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Feb 26, 2026
The violence that erupted in Mexico after the death of a powerful drug lord has left many questioning whether the country will be able to co-host the World Cup in just over three months.
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Feb 26, 2026
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before U.S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.
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Feb 26, 2026
Iran and the United States were holding another round of indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday to try to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the U.S. gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle East.
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Feb 26, 2026
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia will try to persuade a federal judge in Tennessee on Thursday to throw out human smuggling charges against him.
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Feb 26, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 26, 2026
More than a week of services and funerals in memory of Rev. Jesse Jackson will begin Thursday at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded on the South Side in 1971.
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Feb 26, 2026
The CEO of Northfield-based Medline cheered the company's successful initial public offering late last year following the company's first earnings call Wednesday.
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Feb 26, 2026
The racial disparity has raised some eyebrows, including those of State Rep. Kam Buckner, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation that allowed the transit systems to start suspending riders.
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Feb 26, 2026
Can the Obama Presidential Center stick to its guiding principle of attracting investment and helping longtime South Side working-class neighbors build wealth without pushing them out?
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Feb 26, 2026
Former Chicago police Officer Pierre Tyler was one of about a dozen petitions for expungement heard last week by a Cook County judge. But Tyler's case was the only one involving a former cop and a murder charge.
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Feb 26, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 26, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 26, 2026
On Feb. 26, 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
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Feb 25, 2026
The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket had spent a month at the pad ready for potential liftoff, but encountered a series of problems serious enough to require a return to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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Feb 25, 2026
The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted.
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Feb 25, 2026
The remarks by two Iranian officials came a day before the talks and as America has assembled its biggest deployment of aircraft and warships to the Middle East in decades.
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Feb 25, 2026
Victims have been transported to multiple hospitals, but their conditions are unknown, police say.
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Feb 25, 2026
Hilary Knight doesn't want to let what she called a "distasteful joke" from President Donald Trump get in the way of a historic performance by American women across all sports at the Olympics.
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Feb 25, 2026
The executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority will succeed Frank Mautino, who is retiring.
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Feb 25, 2026
A bill allowing militarization of the Indiana National Guard passed the Senate Tuesday, after seven Democratic amendments failed.
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Feb 25, 2026
Four former students are suing the Oswego Community Unit School District 308 for allegedly failing to properly investigate grooming and sexual misconduct they say they experienced from a former teacher.
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Feb 25, 2026
The legislation has almost no chance of passing but has nonetheless forced GOP candidates to deal with the issue of abortion, a subject they have fared poorly on in Illinois.
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Feb 25, 2026
An Indiana state bill addressing gratuities in response to the case against former Portage Mayor James Snyder was amended and approved in the Senate to remove all language pertaining to gratuities.
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Feb 25, 2026
With utility rates rising across Illinois, consumer groups are backing proposed legislation to wring $40 million per year in hidden expenses out of customer bills.
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Feb 25, 2026
The food pantry is working with the school district to promote food access to families.
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Feb 25, 2026
Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are some the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a wide net that includes rap, metal, R&B, hip-hop, Britpop, blues rock and pop.
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Feb 25, 2026
LaPorte and Porter counties will be added to the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force beginning on July 1, 2027, after the House's unanimous support.
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Feb 25, 2026
Randy Martin, 42, pleaded guilty in January. Court filings show, in exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges, including Level 1 felony rape. He got time served on the firearm charge, leaving him to finish probation for stalking.
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Feb 25, 2026
The judge ordered the 33-year-old be held in the slaying of an Uber Eats driver killed outside Loretto Hospital on Chicago's West Side.
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Feb 25, 2026
Republican Schererville Town Council candidate Dan Elzinga's name will remain on the ballot in the Lake County Election primary in May, while North Township Trustee Democratic candidate Samuel R. Smith Jr. was removed.
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Feb 25, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 25, 2026
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued an apology for his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a townhall for the Gates Foundation, during which he also confessed to having two affairs while married to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, according to reports.
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Feb 25, 2026
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the university announced Wednesday.
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Feb 25, 2026
The larger-than-life theater owner died recently at the age of 76. Though he came into show business without much experience, he had a gift for understanding his customers.
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Feb 25, 2026
The home of the "Mona Lisa" is getting a new boss. Art historian Christophe Leribault, a veteran museum director, is taking over at the Louvre, shouldering the challenge of getting the world's largest museum out of crisis after the brazen heist in October of the French crown jewels.
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Feb 25, 2026
Wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of feeding into "reactive sick care" during her confirmation hearing to become the nation's next surgeon general.
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Feb 25, 2026
Wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of feeding into "reactive sick care" during her confirmation hearing to become the nation's next surgeon general.
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Feb 25, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security would be barred from using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP under a new bill introduced in the House on Wednesday.
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Feb 25, 2026
After 68 years, Mr. Clean, the bald, strapping mascot of the household cleaning products bearing his name, announced his retirement in a social media post.
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Feb 25, 2026
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Feb 25, 2026
A bill aimed at addressing housing costs passed the Senate on Tuesday after it was amended on Monday.
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Feb 25, 2026
President Donald Trump has delivered the State of the Union. Now the challenge for him is to make that message stick.
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Feb 25, 2026
President Donald Trump has delivered the State of the Union. Now the challenge for him is to make that message stick.
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Feb 25, 2026
The self-driving taxi company is deploying about 10 vehicles in Chicago to start mapping the city's streets — thus "laying the early groundwork" for future operations here — Waymo said.
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Feb 25, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 25, 2026
The kid who learns to run conduit and terminate high-voltage panels in a well-funded high school program may ultimately have a clearer path to financial security than many of their college-bound peers. That is a story worth telling, clearly and without apology, in every school counseling office in America.
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Feb 25, 2026
Will County District 2 incumbents Judy Ogalla, of Monee, and Frankie Pretzel, of New Lenox face Neil "Muggsy" Gallagher, of Manhattan.
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Feb 25, 2026
Illinois Democrats had been largely unified against President Donald Trump's Chicago-area immigration enforcement crackdown. Now, the issue is being used as a political wedge in this spring's Democratic primary races.
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Feb 25, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 25, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 25, 2026
On Feb. 25, 1994, American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshippers.
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Feb 25, 2026
A helicopter pilot wounded in the raid that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received the Congressional Medal of Honor during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday evening.
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Feb 25, 2026
On inflation, immigration, tariffs and matters of war and peace, President Donald Trump presented a frequently distorted account of the state of the nation Tuesday as he claimed a "turnaround for the ages" and myriad achievements that don't pass scrutiny.
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Feb 24, 2026
Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who survived a gunshot wound to the head while patrolling with the National Guard in Washington last year, was presented the Purple Heart medal during Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Feb 24, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump's depiction of the nation as being in a "golden age" during his State of the Union.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump's State of the Union address is expected to tilt heavily on domestic issues, but it's also a chance for him to make the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are increasingly demonstrating uneasiness about his priorities.
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Feb 24, 2026
Heather Mack — the Chicago woman convicted of helping kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali in 2014 — served about seven years of a 10-year sentence in Indonesia, only to be arrested by the FBI when she landed at O'Hare International Airport in 2021 […]
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Feb 24, 2026
The decree comes as Tyler Technologies and the treasurer's office attempt to work through the final stages of a troubled decade-long property tax technology upgrade.
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Feb 24, 2026
The gold-medal-winning U.S. men's Olympic hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House before attending his State of the Union address.
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Feb 24, 2026
The gold-medal-winning U.S. men's Olympic hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House before attending his State of the Union address.
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Feb 24, 2026
The Indiana bill that outlines a financial structure for a proposed Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond passed the House Tuesday. All that remains for it to become law is final approval by the Senate and the signature of Governor Mike Braun.
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Feb 24, 2026
A Hammond man was sentenced to a six-year split term Tuesday as a getaway driver in a Gary pawn shop owner's death.
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Feb 24, 2026
After spending more than a decade in prison overseas, the former boyfriend of Heather Mack is set to appear in a Chicago courtroom on Thursday on conspiracy charges stemming from the infamous 2014 murder of Mack's mother at a Bali resort.
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Feb 24, 2026
The city of Chicago could be on the hook to pay drivers back millions of dollars following a class-action lawsuit alleging expensive late fees were tacked onto tickets for infractions like parking without a city sticker.
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Feb 24, 2026
Senate Bill 164 requires the Indiana Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibilty study to establish microfarm zones statewide.
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Feb 24, 2026
One person was in custody with detectives following the Uber Eats driver's early Monday morning death on the West Side.
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Feb 24, 2026
One person was in custody with detectives following the Uber Eats driver's early Monday morning death on the West Side.
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Feb 24, 2026
A spokesperson said the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump's State of the Union address tonight at 8 p.m. Central is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November's elections for control of the House and the Senate.
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Feb 24, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 24, 2026
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker will deliver the graduation commencement speech in June for Northwestern's Class of 2026.
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Feb 24, 2026
The family of a southwest suburban teen fatally shot last week on the West Side found out about the shooting through a safety app.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump says he has a lot to talk about tonight.
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Feb 24, 2026
The California program that provides the world's only medical treatment for potentially deadly infant botulism also offers traumatized families hope of a different sort - silly cards on their babies' first birthdays.
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