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Apr 26, 2024
A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]
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Apr 26, 2024
A McKinley Park man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday for the fatal 2016 drive-by shooting on the city's Southwest Side, the office of Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced. A Cook County jury last December convicted Sergio Gonzalez, 29, of first-degree murder in the slaying of David Gonzalez, 17, court records show. Sergio Gonzalez and David Gonzalez, who each lived in the Brighton Park neighborhood, were not related, authorities said. Sergio Gonzalez and a second man, Jose Juarez, were charged with killing Gonzalez shortly after the shooting occurred in January 2016. Police said Sergio Gonzalez and Juarez were […]
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Apr 26, 2024
Sergio Gonzalez, 29, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2016 killing of David Gonzalez, 17.
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Apr 26, 2024
An emergency slide fell off a Delta plane shortly after takeoff Friday from New York.
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Apr 26, 2024
A Colorado judge has sentenced a former paramedic to probation in the death of Elijah McClain.
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Apr 26, 2024
The IRS said Friday that more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program and participants saved roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have otherwise spent with commercial tax preparation companies.
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Apr 26, 2024
A multifaceted emergency services consolidation is underway in Lake County, joining a dozen municipalities' dispatch centers with the goal to provide quicker response times and more effective emergency services.
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Apr 26, 2024
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
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Apr 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is again delaying a sweeping plan to ban menthol cigarettes.
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Apr 26, 2024
Cook County Democrats Friday tapped county Commissioner Monica Gordon to replace the late county Clerk Karen Yarbrough on November's ballot.
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Apr 26, 2024
Video showing a Lansing police officer pushing a 17-year-old student at Thornton Fractional South High School is at the center of a federal lawsuit against the school district, the village of Lansing and the officer.
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Apr 26, 2024
William Kallas, who as mayor in the 1990s led efforts to bring Lake Michigan water to Oakbrook Terrace, has died.
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Apr 26, 2024
For months now, gun-related arrests in the parking lot of Topgolf in Naperville have mounted, each the result of a similar chain of events.
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Apr 26, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 26, 2024
Pro-Palestine protests continued for a second day Friday at Northwestern's Evanston campus, with hundreds of students and faculty — many of whom spent the night in tents — pressuring the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or those that profit from its war in Gaza.
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Apr 26, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protests continued for a second day Friday at Northwestern's Evanston campus, with hundreds of students and faculty pressuring the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or those that profit from its war in Gaza.
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Apr 26, 2024
R. Kelly's sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago's federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion.
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Apr 26, 2024
R. Kelly's sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago's federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion.
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Apr 26, 2024
As part of the agreement, protocols and cancer treatment plans at Rush will mirror those available at MD Anderson.
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Apr 26, 2024
Two teenage victims were left in critical condition overnight after a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 11:30 p.m., two gunmen entered an apartment where the two teens were inside and opened fire, police said. One of the victims, 18, suffered gunshot wounds to the left side of the jaw […]
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Apr 26, 2024
A lot of my friends and I are turning 50 this year, which means my calendar is filled with celebrations to mark a half century (!) of life and memories and friendships and mistakes and love and heartbreak and reinvention and redemption. And my social feeds are filled with ways to look like none of it happened. There's a product or procedure for saving every (I mean every) inch of our bodies ...
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Apr 26, 2024
Harvey Weinstein's landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed.
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Apr 26, 2024
The students at Columbia University who inspired pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country dug in at their encampment for the 10th day Friday as administrators and police at campuses from California to Massachusetts wrestled with how to address protests that have seen scuffles with police and hundreds of arrests.
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Apr 26, 2024
A man was pronounced dead overnight after being found lying on the ground critically wounded in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 2:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired and found an unresponsive man lying on the ground in the 200 block of West 72nd Street. The man was taken to UChicago Medicine after suffering about 20 gunshot wounds to the body, and was pronounced dead. No one was in custody for the attack, and detectives were investigating.
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Apr 26, 2024
An unidentified woman was pronounced dead following a fire that broke out at a building Thursday night on the South Side in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Shortly before 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a residence in the 3600 block of South Giles Avenue where a woman was critically injured, police said. The woman was taken to […]
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Apr 26, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 26, 2024
After prosecutors' lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of "catch and kill" tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump's hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election.
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Apr 26, 2024
At Advocate Children's Hospitals in Oak Lawn and Park Ridge, virtual reality systems are helping young patients deal with the discomfort of invasive treatments such as chemotherapy.
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Apr 26, 2024
When you think of the acronym STEM, you likely know it stands for science, technology, engineering and math. But does it make you think about bugs, rodentia and taxidermy? Janelle Iaccino thinks it should. Iaccino is marketing director of Rose Pest Solutions, a structural pest control company that ensures nature and the environment stay outside […]
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Apr 26, 2024
On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. (Dozens of people were killed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster while the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is believed to number in the thousands.)
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Apr 25, 2024
As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
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Apr 25, 2024
Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushes an increase in funding to fight homelessness as a new report shows striking racial disparities among those facing housing challenges.
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Apr 25, 2024
By ROB MAADDI (AP Pro Football Writer) DETROIT (AP) — Caleb Williams is heading to the Windy City, aiming to become the franchise quarterback Chicago has sought for decades. The Bears selected Williams with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night after deciding weeks ago to bank on the 2022 […]
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Apr 25, 2024
David Pecker testified he paid $20,000 for a story about an alleged Rahm Emanuel affair before Emanuel kicked off his bid for Chicago mayor in 2010.
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Apr 25, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says new rules would force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.
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Apr 25, 2024
Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one. But the group has also refused to say that it would recognize Israel or renounce its armed fight against it.
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Apr 25, 2024
Seventeen interested applicants sent their credentials to the party by the Wednesday deadline, including several county board members, a sitting state senator and the current clerk of Evanston.
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Apr 25, 2024
Is there ever a more optimistic day about a team's future than when its brightest new star is introduced to fans? Here's what some of the Bears' first-round draft picks from the past six decades have said when they started their careers in Chicago.
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Apr 25, 2024
It's been a big week for city news: (Chicago) Bears at the lakefront, a rat (hole) removed and no more Fox(trots). And a little birdie didn't want to be left out: Imani, son of Chicago's beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose, returned to the area Thursday. Around 5:30 a.m., a birder spotted him at the Montrose Beach Dunes, a protected area at the southernmost point of the beach. Last summer, Imani also returned to the beach on April 25. Tamima Itani, lead volunteer coordinator for Chicago Piping Plovers, said she expected the call this time of year. "I wasn't expecting […]
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Apr 25, 2024
Lincoln-Way District 210 sees another boost in credit rating as trial of former Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie is pushed back.
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Apr 25, 2024
Several hundred Northwestern University students calling for the college to divest financial support to Israel gathered for an organized encampment Thursday morning as the university changed the student conduct policy banning tents or other temporary structures on campus.
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Apr 25, 2024
Court filings show Omar Zegar was armed with a rifle and fired more than 20 times in the direction of several people outside a home in the 5500 block of Babette Court in Oak Forest.
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Apr 25, 2024
Volunteers who have been providing care packages and assisting migrants off of buses and onto trains at Wilmette's Metra Station urged the Wilmette Village Board to not follow neighboring communities by adopting a busing ordinance during Wednesday night's meeting. Despite concerns, trustees voted unanimously to limit unscheduled bus drop-offs to weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Village Manager Michael Braiman, who told Pioneer Press in early January the village had no plans to move forward with busing ordinances, said increased late-night drop-offs have begun to cause concern. According to the village, 68 buses with approximately 2,700 people have arrived […]
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Apr 25, 2024
Fifty years ago this week, a small team of Tribune employees flew to Washington, D.C. and back in order to beat every other American newspaper to the punch — printing the entire transcript of the Watergate tapes, which were conversations recorded by Nixon in the White House.
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Apr 25, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 25, 2024
Burke joined the club on West Jackson Boulevard in the mid-1970s and was one of its most high-profile members. He had his resignation accepted Tuesday, according to a member who requested anonymity.
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Apr 25, 2024
Devon Ward was accused of attacking Wayne Deutsch, 39, with a metal object June 12, 2020 at his business, Shades of Darkness Window Tinting, after an argument. Deutsch, of Orland Park, died of his injuries five days later.
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Apr 25, 2024
The Cook County medical examiner's office released Reed's autopsy and toxicological reports Thursday, five weeks after he was fatally shot in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street.
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Apr 25, 2024
National Weather Service officials believe the chilly weather is over for the season, but a large storm system headed toward Chicago is expected to bring rain and scatter thunderstorms over the weekend. Warmer temperatures are on tap beginning Friday but a storm system moving out of the plains was expected to hit over the weekend […]
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Apr 25, 2024
Paul Phillips, a violinist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under acclaimed music directors Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti, has died.
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Apr 25, 2024
When it comes to writing a demand note, bank robbers tend to follow a certain unspoken etiquette of brevity and clarity. But that's not what happened in downtown Chicago earlier this week, when federal prosecutors say a man walked into the Chase Bank building at 10 S. Dearborn St. and handed a note to a teller that may have set records for length and variety of literary themes. "Give me as much money possible!!" read the note on lined paper in a neat, looping script that used bubbles to dot the "I's." "No more then $2000." It was a simple […]
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Apr 25, 2024
Here's what to know about the latest efforts in various U.S. states to target immigration.
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Apr 25, 2024
Siendo una exitosa tamalera en el barrio de La Villita en Chicago, Pérez vivía en Estados Unidos sin permiso legal de residencia anhelando regresar a México para abrazar a sus hermanos mayores, visitar las tumbas de sus padres y conocer las casas que construyó con el dinero que ganó vendiendo tamales, antes de que fuera demasiado tarde.
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Apr 25, 2024
A Carpentersville man remains in Lake County Jail as Thursday, held on sexual assault charges after he reportedly groped a co-worker. According to a Lake Zurich Police Department news release, officers responded April 19 to the 600 block of America Court on a call of a sexual assault. Officers said a man at the assisted living complex, who was identified as Everado Cardenas, of the 100 block of Bolz Road in Carpentersville, was accused of "[grabbing] the breast and genitals of another employee of the business without her consent," according to the release. Cardenas, 53, was arrested at the scene. […]
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Apr 25, 2024
Alvaro Larrama was charged with second-degree murder in the death of U.S. Marine Daniel Martinez, 23. Prosecutors say that the two had an altercation outside the bar on March 19, 2022, after which Larrama stabbed Martinez fatally in the chest.
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Apr 25, 2024
Embattled Marine Leadership Academy principal Kristin Novy is resigning as the head of the Logan Square school for a city-wide position within CPS.
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Apr 25, 2024
At least eight people fell victim to armed robbers within minutes of each other overnight, and some of incidents turned violent with victims being struck in the head and dragged in the street, Chicago police said. The most recent robbery happened shortly before 12:55 a.m. in the Loop neighborhood in the 100 block of East […]
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Apr 25, 2024
New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren't part of the case.
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Apr 25, 2024
New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren't part of the case.
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Apr 25, 2024
Legislation forcing TikTok's parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. received President Joe Biden's official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law could be in for an uphill battle in court.
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Apr 25, 2024
Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue.
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Apr 25, 2024
Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always crept back onto his 5-foot-5-inch frame.
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Apr 25, 2024
With graduations looming, student protesters doubled down early Thursday on their discontent of the Israel-Hamas war on campuses across the country as universities, including ones in California and Texas, have become quick to call in the police to end the demonstrations and make arrests.
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Apr 25, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 25, 2024
A reluctant Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his hush money trial resumes at the same time that the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president.
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Apr 25, 2024
Doctors and advocates say step therapy can prolong patients' symptoms or worsen their conditions.
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Apr 25, 2024
New regulations require coal-fired power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90% and clamp down on toxic metals dumped into lakes and rivers.
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Apr 25, 2024
On April 25, 2002, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the Grammy-winning trio TLC died in an SUV crash in Honduras; she was 30.
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Apr 24, 2024
For millions of American workers, the federal government took two actions this week that could bestow potentially far-reaching benefits.
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Apr 24, 2024
Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election were charged Wednesday with conspiracy, fraud and forgery.
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Apr 24, 2024
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state legislative leaders slow to embrace public funding for new Bears stadium and lakefront improvement plan.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish in the Lower West Side neighborhood.
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Apr 24, 2024
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers.
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Apr 24, 2024
The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University's hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern's lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players' lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]
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Apr 24, 2024
The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University's hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern's lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players' lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]
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Apr 24, 2024
A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros ($32 million).
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Apr 24, 2024
Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent students from marching through the campus Wednesday, eventually clashing with the protesters and detaining multiple people. And at the University of Southern California, police removed several tents, then got into a tugging match with protesters before falling back. The actions across the U.S. came after Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier in the day.
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Apr 24, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed against Dolton and Mayor Tiffany Henyard alleges a business license for a barber shop was denied due to "arbitrary and capricious" actions by the mayor.
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Apr 24, 2024
A proposed repeal of Arizona's near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that has bedeviled former President Donald Trump's campaign to return to the White House.
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Apr 24, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hotspots.
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Apr 24, 2024
A Pullman group opened up the home of Italian immigrant Americo L. Lisciotto, who led an effort to keep Chicago's Pullman neighborhood from being bulldozed as part of a 1960s industrial redevelopment project.
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Apr 24, 2024
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
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Apr 24, 2024
Photos from the scene show workers removing the Roscoe Village sidewalk slab before refilling the hole with cement. It's unclear where the beloved imprint will be displayed next.
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Apr 24, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Bears — one of the National Football League's charter franchises — unveiled plans for a new stadium project on the lakefront partly funded by the public that would give the team a facility in line with many of the NFL's ultra-modern, fan-friendly structures.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Bears — one of the National Football League's charter franchises — unveiled plans for a new stadium project on the lakefront partly funded by the public that would give the team a facility in line with many of the NFL's ultra-modern, fan-friendly structures.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Chicago Bears released images for a state-of-the-art enclosed stadium with open space access to the lakefront on the Museum Campus on April 24, 2024.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Chicago Bears primarily have played home games at Wrigley Field and then Soldier Field, but a sprinkling of other venues also have hosted the team.
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Apr 24, 2024
Prairie State College leadership announced Tuesday it will no longer plan events at Victory Apostolic Church in Matteson after concerns from students about the church's opinions of same-sex marriage.
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Apr 24, 2024
The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded. The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed's family's attorneys at a press conference outside the CPD's […]
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Apr 24, 2024
Nearly a year after April Perry was nominated to be Chicago's first female U.S. attorney, President Biden has changed tack in the face of blanket opposition from a single Republican senator and is naming Perry instead to be a federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois. The announcement Wednesday ends Perry's bid to take over the top federal law enforcement job in Chicago, which has been officially vacant since U.S. Attorney John Lausch stepped down in March 2023. Perry is being nominated to fill a seat being vacated by U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonaldo, who has been nominated to […]
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Apr 24, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Apr 24, 2024
Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden as he resists calls to cut off U.S. support for Israel while trying to hold together the coalition of voters he'll need for reelection.
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Apr 24, 2024
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers.
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Apr 24, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Apr 24, 2024
The success of a September swim may depend on weather. Sewage and stormwater runoff can spill into waterways raising bacteria levels during heavy rains.
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Apr 24, 2024
Today's Highlight in History: On April 24, 1995, the final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of bombings that killed three people and injured 29 others.) On this date: In 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. In 1915, in what's considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political […]
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Apr 23, 2024
The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban.
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Apr 23, 2024
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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