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Dec 10, 2025
An autopsy found that the victim had been stabbed 26 times, officials said.
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Dec 10, 2025
CBS News appointed Tony Dokoupil as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday, charging him with taking on ABC's dominant David Muir on one of the flagship shows for broadcast television.
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Dec 10, 2025
The federalization of 300 Illinois National Guard troops was extended for 32 days, Gov. JB Pritzker's office said, even though the soldiers have mostly remained on an Illinois Army National Guard training site in Marseilles.
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Dec 10, 2025
The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense buys weapons.
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Dec 10, 2025
A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another.
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Dec 10, 2025
Republican Senators did not have to cast initial votes related to Indiana's mid-census redistricting Wednesday as the three Democratic amendments were voted on by voice vote.
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Dec 10, 2025
Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.
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Dec 10, 2025
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 10, 2025
Oak Lawn will receive about $1,300 less in revenues than expenditures in 2026. The budget also includes a 6.8% water rate increase.
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Dec 10, 2025
Gary Police Sgt. Jamaal Joseph, 40, was arrested in Portage for domestic battery and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Dec 10, 2025
IDEM hosted a public meeting Tuesday for an air permit that would allow 70 diesel generators at a Michigan City data center site.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Tuesday an immigration bill that the Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita criticized as a "watered-down, bizzaro world" version of an immigration bill that died last session.
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Dec 10, 2025
Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling.
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Dec 10, 2025
Will County Judge Brian Barrett said the state violated the time limit for trial on a forfeiture and ordered the return of property.
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Dec 10, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 10, 2025
More than six years after the FBI knocked on his door as part of a sprawling corruption investigation, former Summit police Chief John Kosmowski was convicted by a federal jury of taking a bribe from a local bar owner in exchange for assisting with a liquor license transfer.
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Dec 10, 2025
Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security before being approved for travel.
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Dec 10, 2025
Four Hobart homeowners have filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate multiple actions by Hobart city officials that have "prepared" the way for the possible construction of an Amazon data center on more than a square mile of farmland within city limits.
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Dec 10, 2025
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to formally dismiss the case against a Lakeview comedy club manager whom federal authorities had accused of slamming the door on the leg of a Border Patrol agent during an October immigration arrest.
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Dec 10, 2025
After a nearly two-year legal fight, Ogden Dunes officials have dropped plans for a stone revetment along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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Dec 10, 2025
Cook County Sheriff's Department officials said two off-duty deputies were shot at, but not hit, Wednesday morning while in front of Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Dec 10, 2025
Ald. Brian Hopkins said he will introduce a plan giving Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling power to declare a teen curfew for an area with at least 12 hours notice.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Hammond woman got 2.5 years probation Wednesday in a plea deal for leaving the scene of a crash. Tianna Smith, 35, of Hammond, pleaded guilty in September to Leaving the Scene of an Accident with Moderate or Serious Bodily Injury.
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Dec 10, 2025
The council unanimously approved a resolution asking for 911 services to be added to the Indiana General Assembly's upcoming agenda.
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Dec 10, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Dec 10, 2025
The federal government has agreed to extend until April a temporary restraining order requiring improved conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview.
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Dec 10, 2025
President Donald Trump's push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who was attempting to flee in a stolen vehicle during a struggle with police officers Tuesday night, authorities said.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who was attempting to flee in a stolen vehicle during a struggle with police officers Tuesday night, authorities said.
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Dec 10, 2025
The House is expected to vote this week on a bill authorizing $900 billion for military programs, including boosting pay for service members, cutting Pentagon diversity efforts and requiring footage to be released of forces blowing up alleged drug boats.
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Dec 10, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional leaders Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors, even as he faced intensifying demands from Congress for disclosure.
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Dec 10, 2025
A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione's arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing last year.
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Dec 10, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult.
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Dec 10, 2025
Ukraine is expected to hand its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms.
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Dec 10, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 10, 2025
The former president is in Chicago this week to check on construction of his presidential center, set to open next June.
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Dec 10, 2025
The former president is in Chicago this week to check on construction of his presidential center, set to open next June.
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Dec 10, 2025
On Dec. 10, 1967, singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor.
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Dec 10, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 09, 2025
Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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Dec 09, 2025
Illinois' umbrella organization representing most of the state's organized labor opted not to make endorsements as the group has many allies and doesn't want to offend friends.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Metropolitan Alliance of Police and three Arlington Heights police officers filed suit against the northwest suburb, arguing that a new local ordinance tries to prevent sergeants from forming a union.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a group of homeowners filed suit claiming Cook County's tax sale process robbed them of home equity, a federal judge has ruled the current system unconstitutional.
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Dec 09, 2025
At least one person was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at Kentucky State University on Tuesday, and a suspect was in custody, police said.
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Dec 09, 2025
Some Calumet City aldermen said Monday they received conflicting information on expenses and event spending by Mayor Thaddeus Jones.
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Dec 09, 2025
Could Morgan Township High School be shut down in the future, East Porter County School Board member Natalie Bowersock asked during Monday's contentious board meeting. Staff members at Kouts told Bowersock they were left with that impression when Assistant Superintendent Alissa Schnick visited Kouts, but Schnick denied that she said anything about closing Morgan Township.
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Dec 09, 2025
After an Evanston church's ICE-protest Nativity scene was vandalized, it replaced the Joseph figure with a memorial to victims.
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Dec 09, 2025
Imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan has become the latest high-profile Illinois Democrat to officially ask President Donald Trump for clemency on a corruption conviction, though it's unclear if Madigan has requested to be released from custody early.
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Dec 09, 2025
Imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan has become the latest high-profile Illinois Democrat to officially ask President Donald Trump for clemency on a corruption conviction, though it's unclear if Madigan has requested to be released from custody early.
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Dec 09, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country.
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Dec 09, 2025
Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo Double Stuf Zero Sugar will go on sale in the U.S. in January. They're a permanent addition to the company's Oreo lineup.
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Dec 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV insisted Tuesday that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticized what he said was the Trump administration's effort to "break apart" the long-standing U.S.-European alliance.
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Dec 09, 2025
A planned Chanukah celebration with a public menorah lighting is only the beginning for the new Chabad Jewish Center of Hinsdale.
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Dec 09, 2025
A Naperville police squad car was flipped onto its roof Monday night during a crash near Route 59 and 95th Street, officials said.
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Dec 09, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 09, 2025
A revised plan for a Hindu temple heads to the Elgin City Council without a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission.
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Dec 09, 2025
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been charged in a federal indictment with robbing and raping women in Chicago's suburbs in 2022, including at least one at gunpoint.
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Dec 09, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson is now pushing a $33-per-employee monthly tax on companies with over 500 Chicago employees.
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Dec 09, 2025
FIFA president Gianni Infantino's public support for Donald Trump and a peace prize awarded to the U.S. president are the subjects of formal complaints to the global soccer body's ethics investigators.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Lake Ridge School Board named one of its own as the district's next superintendent on Monday.
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Dec 09, 2025
James Hart School musicians will record at Electrical Audio, founded by Steve Albini and used by Cheap Trick and the Foo Fighters.
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Dec 09, 2025
A new Illinois law enables individuals to be better able to sue federal officers for knowingly violating their rights and codifies a zone around courthouses where people are exempt from civil arrest.
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Dec 09, 2025
A vacancy on the CTA's board of directors could give Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson a chance to exert some control over the transit agency's future.
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Dec 09, 2025
Indiana's redistricting bill advanced out of the Senate Elections Committee Monday evening in a 6-3 vote, with one Republican committee member voting against the bill.
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Dec 09, 2025
In letters to Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, Trump's federal transit administrator threatened to withhold funds if the CTA does not increase law enforcement on transit.
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Dec 09, 2025
Nick Polyak, superintendent for Leyden Community High School District 212, was named 2026 Illinois Superintendent of the Year.
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Dec 09, 2025
Nick Polyak, superintendent for Leyden Community High School District 212, was named 2026 Illinois Superintendent of the Year.
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Dec 09, 2025
Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.
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Dec 09, 2025
Opponents of Missouri's new congressional map submitted thousands of petition signatures Tuesday calling for a statewide referendum on a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump as part of his quest to hold on to a slim Republican majority in next year's elections.
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Dec 09, 2025
A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant, but he cautioned that people shouldn't expect to learn much new information from them.
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Dec 09, 2025
A high-ranking member of Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration was arrested over the weekend on drunk driving charges outside the Park District's South Shore Cultural Center.
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Dec 09, 2025
National Weather Service officials warned of a wintry mix expected to hit portions of the Chicagoland area before ultimately transitioning to snow.
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Dec 09, 2025
Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue Northwest Sinai Forum presentation Sunday.
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Dec 09, 2025
An unresponsive man was found fatally wounded overnight in an alley in the North Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 09, 2025
State senators in Indiana advanced a proposal to redraw the state's congressional boundaries Monday, although it is not clear if it has the support to become law in a final vote expected later this week even after months of pressure from President Donald Trump.
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Dec 09, 2025
President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he's tackling Americans' affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances and social media posts to a campaign-style event.
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Dec 09, 2025
President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he's tackling Americans' affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances and social media posts to a campaign-style event.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Supreme Court is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.
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Dec 09, 2025
A Hamas leader on Tuesday threatened to not move forward into the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is placed on Israel to open up a key border crossing, cease deadly strikes and allow more aid into the Palestinian territory.
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Dec 09, 2025
Japan was assessing damage Tuesday and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities.
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Dec 09, 2025
A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from ICE custody while she fights potential deportation.
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Dec 09, 2025
Coming just days after the shooting of two National Guard troops by an Afghan national suspect, federal authorities have carried out increased arrests of Afghans in the U.S., immigration lawyers say.
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Dec 09, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 09, 2025
Illinois is one of a number of states that compile their own lists of endangered species, separate from the federal list. Its creators say it can feel like swimming against the tide.
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Dec 09, 2025
Oak Park and River Forest High School has enlisted a full-time facility dog who comes to the school courtesy of Paws Giving Independence.
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Dec 09, 2025
Many therapists have stopped taking insurance because of what they describe as low payment rates and administrative hoops that make it difficult to treat patients.
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Dec 09, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 9, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 09, 2025
On Dec. 9, 1965, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the first animated TV special featuring characters from the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CBS.
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Dec 08, 2025
Every senior on Medicare should be intimately familiar with IRMAA — the initials that stand for Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount.
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Dec 08, 2025
Federal authorities identified the man as Luis Jesus Acosta Gutierrez, of Venezuela, who DHS said had entered the country in April 2023.
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Dec 08, 2025
Despite a last-minute plea for more time, eviction looms for the remaining residents of the troubled South Shore apartment building raided by immigration agents earlier this year.
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Dec 08, 2025
After a Clarendon Hills residence fell victim to a brazen daytime package theft, police are offering tips to prevent such incidents.
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Dec 08, 2025
The Senate Elections Committee heard Monday from more than 100 people, most of whom spoke in opposition to mid-census redistricting, as the Senate begins its review of the House-passed Congressional map.
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Dec 08, 2025
Mexican Catholics on horseback gathered in Northbrook to ride to the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Des Plaines for her feast day.
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Dec 08, 2025
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats' long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year's midterm elections.
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Dec 08, 2025
The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge that follows years of negotiations.
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Dec 08, 2025
It didn't feel like gardening or soccer under snowy skies as Calumet College of St. Joseph officials broke ground on a new sports field.
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Dec 08, 2025
The family of a man who died in the Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning to call for clarity on the circumstances of his death.
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