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Nov 01, 2025
The death of 19-year-old Homewood resident Lester Wolf in 1926 is going national as an episode of the podcast Our American Stories.
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Oct 31, 2025
High School District 230 plans to purchase a $3 million property on 163rd Street in Orland Park for a new maintenance facility.
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Oct 31, 2025
Illinois lawmakers passed legislation expanding eligibility for senior property tax breaks and moving the due date back one month for spring Cook County property tax bills.
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Oct 31, 2025
Tinley Park police reached a pact to use Orland Park's new police training facility as old Tinley range could offer downtown parking.
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Oct 31, 2025
Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities around the country were again causing delays at airports on Friday as the government shutdown neared the one-month mark.
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Oct 31, 2025
For months, Illinois transit leaders warned of a doomsday scenario that would hobble the region's mass transit systems. That scenario seems to be in the rearview mirror.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a major piece of the U.S. social safety net used by nearly 42 million, or about 1 in 8 Americans, to help buy groceries.
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Oct 31, 2025
The shrinking options are leading to lapses in care and delays in time-sensitive treatments. "It's basically an abandonment of these kids," one mother said.
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Oct 31, 2025
Border Patrol agents conducting yet another raid on an O'Hare parking lot for rideshare drivers Thursday evening tasered and arrested a man whom they accused of ramming their vehicle as he tried to get away.
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Oct 31, 2025
Instacart said Friday it will offer customers who receive SNAP benefits 50% on their next grocery order to ease strain as the government prepares to cut off food aid payments.
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Oct 31, 2025
YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.
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Oct 31, 2025
YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.
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Oct 31, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 31, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 30, 2025
House Democrats' latest plan includes a state motor fuel sales tax, using interest from the state's road fund, a sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area and a sharp increase in tolls on the Illinois Tollway.
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Oct 30, 2025
Plan includes a state motor fuel sales tax, using interest from the state's road fund, a sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area and a sharp increase in tolls on the Illinois Tollway.
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Oct 30, 2025
Plan includes a state motor fuel sales tax, using interest from the state's road fund, a sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area and a sharp increase in tolls on the Illinois Tollway.
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Oct 30, 2025
House Democrats' latest plan includes a state motor fuel sales tax, using interest from the state's road fund, a sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area and a sharp increase in tolls on the Illinois Tollway.
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Oct 30, 2025
Longtime "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King may not be greeting viewers with her signature smile next year, as the network ponders reassigning her elsewhere.
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Oct 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says he had an "amazing" meeting with China's top leader Xi Jinping that produced very important decisions.
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Oct 30, 2025
A federal judge in Boston seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's plan to stop funding the SNAP food aid program amid the government shutdown.
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Oct 30, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its leaders.
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Oct 30, 2025
President Donald Trump says he has decided to lower his combined tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Oct 30, 2025
Certain senators know it's time for the government shutdown to come to an end. So does House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Oct 30, 2025
Stellantis recently announced a $13 billion investment in the U.S. market. That investment is the largest in the automaker's history for the United States.
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Oct 30, 2025
Soybeans are Minnesota's largest export — generating $2.4 billion annually. Now farmers fear they are seeing the start of a permanent market shift that will change the soybean industry.
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Oct 30, 2025
The winners of Homewood's annual Haunted Homewood Halloween decorating contest were drawn from 28 households.
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Oct 30, 2025
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell for the fourth week in a row to its lowest level in more than a year.
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Oct 30, 2025
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has earmarked additional funding to support seven food banks that supply more than 2,600 food pantries statewide ahead of SNAP freeze.
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Oct 30, 2025
Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors.
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Oct 30, 2025
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Here's what to know.
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Oct 30, 2025
The IOC and Saudi Arabia have canceled their 12-year deal to host the video gaming Esports Olympics in Riyadh in a rare setback for a sports project backed by the oil-rich kingdom.
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Oct 30, 2025
Nearly 2 million Illinois residents depend on SNAP to help pay for groceries. As the government shutdown continues, they're scrambling to find other ways to feed their families.
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Oct 30, 2025
Nearly 2 million Illinois residents depend on SNAP to help pay for groceries. As the government shutdown continues, they're scrambling to find other ways to feed their families.
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Oct 30, 2025
This three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home has white oak flooring and Chanel-inspired finishes.
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Oct 30, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 30, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 29, 2025
Hitting the new benchmark puts more emphasis on the upheaval being unleashed by an artificial intelligence craze that's widely viewed as the biggest tectonic shift in technology since Apple.
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Oct 29, 2025
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada, just as President Donald Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with U.S.'s northern neighbor that is one of its largest economic partners.
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Oct 29, 2025
The lawsuit said the recent rollout of the "Cameo" feature as part of OpenAI's video generation app,has already created growing "consumer confusion."
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Oct 29, 2025
The mansion, first listed inJuly, was built in 1906 by Paul Starrett, who constructed the Empire State Building in New York and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Oct 29, 2025
After Gov. JB Pritzker was not enthusiastic about tax and fee proposals to overhaul the Chicago region's mass transit systems, at least one fellow Democrat said he would like to see the governor's suggestions to fix the problem.
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Oct 29, 2025
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year as it seeks to shore up economic growth and hiring even as inflation stays elevated.
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Oct 29, 2025
Automakers also expect to soon be free of expensive government fines for greenhouse gas emissions that pushed EV manufacturing ahead of market demand.
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Oct 29, 2025
Andrew grad Brian Enyart, who trained under chef Rick Bayless at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo, is part of the D230 Legacy Hall of Fame.
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Oct 29, 2025
Wall Street was pointing toward gains in premarket trading Wednesday as markets focus on the latest corporate earnings ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision this afternoon.
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Oct 29, 2025
Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson and his wife, Jessica, on Sept. 5 sold their four-bedroom, 3,940-square-foot house in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, Mich., for their $1.1 million asking price.
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Oct 29, 2025
Johnson was announced as the Bears' 19th head coach in January. In March, Johnson and his wife purchased a Lake Forest mansion.
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Oct 29, 2025
The owner of Gene & Georgetti, the iconic Chicago steak house, said she is being pushed out of her space at the Midway Airport concession area after five years to make room for a Bally's sports bar. Michelle Durpetti, whose grandfather started Gene & Georgetti nearly 85 years ago, said she received notice last week […]
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Oct 28, 2025
With time running short in the Illinois General Assembly's fall veto session, Democratic lawmakers were weighing several alternatives to raise the $1.5 billion advocates say is needed to fund public transit adequately.
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Oct 28, 2025
With time running short in the Illinois General Assembly's fall veto session, Democratic lawmakers proposed new taxes on many large entertainment events and billionaires to raise the $1.5 billion advocates say is needed to fund public transit adequately.
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Oct 28, 2025
Cook County Health and University of Illinois College of Medicine are expanding their partnership to provide care to patients, more training for medical students and more research opportunities.
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Oct 28, 2025
Half of the cheap-and-tasty paradigm that makes junk food so appealing is collapsing: Many of those guilty-pleasure treats aren't so cheap anymore.
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Oct 28, 2025
Medline - a massive medical supply company based in Northfield - publicly filed paperwork Tuesday for a proposed initial public offering.
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Oct 28, 2025
La Grange Park presented its 31st Street Transportation Plan for an area een as a district the village wanted to develop as a destination.
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Oct 28, 2025
The La Grange Board of Trustees unanimously approved changes Monday to its ordinances regarding e-bikes. Under the new rules, the battery powered cycles will be allowed on sidewalks outside the downtown area, but those under age 16 or without a driver's license are prohibited from riding them on any public street, except when accompanied by […]
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Oct 28, 2025
With the federal government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, Americans are starting to see the cascading effects of programs shuttered by lapses in federal funding.
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Oct 28, 2025
A man from India stabbed two teenagers with a fork, slapped a female passenger and a crew member and mimicked shooting himself during an international flight, authorities said.
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Oct 28, 2025
The S&P 500 added 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 161 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8%. All three indexes set all-time highs for a third straight day.
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Oct 28, 2025
The U.S. stock market is ticking further into record heights. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 298 points, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.6%.
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Oct 28, 2025
United Parcel Service posted third-quarter results that handily beat Wall Street's expectations and gave details about its turnaround efforts, including approximately 34,000 job cuts.
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Oct 28, 2025
Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while trimming spending.
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Oct 28, 2025
This house has two primary suites, a whole-house generator and an attached three-car garage.
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Oct 27, 2025
Clarendon Hills has hired a consultant to advise on a new fire station at the site of the police department and public works sites.
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Oct 27, 2025
Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans, if Congress allows subsidies to expire
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Oct 27, 2025
Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans, if Congress allows subsidies to expire
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Oct 27, 2025
Soybeans and other crops soared as progress in negotiations between the U.S. and China lifted hopes that the world's two largest economies were edging toward a deal in their protracted trade war.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Oct 27, 2025
Stocks are climbing toward more records on Monday ahead of a week packed with potentially market-moving events for Wall Street.
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Oct 27, 2025
Instead of targeting factories and businesses in large-scale raids, federal agents are arresting Chicagoans who work out in the open.
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Oct 26, 2025
Tenants say new landlord is demanding they pay on average 60% higher rent.
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Oct 26, 2025
Boeing workers at three Midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed voted Sunday to reject the company's latest contract offer and to continue a strike that started almost three months ago.
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Oct 26, 2025
Allies and opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson are voicing reservations about his idea to pull money out of tax-increment financing districts around the city.
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Oct 25, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
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Oct 24, 2025
For nearly three years, JPMorgan Chase has picking up the legal tab of Charlie Javice and Olivier Amar, the two convicted fraudsters who sold their financial aid startup Frank to the bank.
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Oct 24, 2025
The three-year, $169 million rehabilitation of the Kennedy Expressway was completed Friday a month ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline.
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Oct 24, 2025
Around a dozen Starbucks baristas gathered on Friday to march in front of one of the chain's locations in Aurora, kicking off a series of Illinois-based pickets in the coming days as unionized employees at stores across the country vote on whether to initiate a strike.
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Oct 24, 2025
The win is Abbott's third in a row in federal court in Chicago where hundreds of cases over specialized formulas for preterm infants have been consolidated.
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Oct 24, 2025
The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024, according to U.S. government figures.
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Oct 24, 2025
Markets on Wall Street climbed early Friday after long-awaited government data showed that inflation remained elevated but that prices rose less than feared last month.
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Oct 24, 2025
The Social Security cost-of-living increase will go up by 2.8% in 2026, which translates to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month.
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Oct 24, 2025
U.S. inflation remained elevated last month as gas prices jumped while the cost of rents cooled.
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Oct 24, 2025
Downtown restaurants say they've already seen lower foot traffic and instances of staff not showing up to work.
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Oct 24, 2025
Downtown restaurants say they've already seen lower foot traffic and instances of staff not showing up to work.
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Oct 23, 2025
Rivian, which builds all of its electric pickups, SUVs and commercial vehicles in downstate Illinois, gave notice Thursday to more than 600 employees.
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Oct 23, 2025
Coca-Cola is rolling out a new version of its classic soda made with U.S. cane sugar. But where it's being sold is still unclear.
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Oct 23, 2025
Ryan Companies, a real estate development company that has worked with Amazon and Target, seeks to develop Calumet Country Club.
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Oct 23, 2025
The government shutdown has reopened debate on what has been a central issue for both major political parties in the last 15 years: the future of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Oct 23, 2025
The airline says the routes were made possible by the additional space it won through the city's airport gate reallocation process this fall.
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Oct 23, 2025
Address: 1637 N. Burling St., Chicago Price: $4,350,000 Listed: Oct. 7, 2025 This six-bedroom home has six full bathrooms, two half baths, a four-stop passenger elevator and a heated, attached garage. The main level features 4-inch rift-sawn oak floors, crown molding, two fireplaces, custom window treatments and built-in speakers. The kitchen has an island with […]
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Oct 22, 2025
The sanctions against oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil followed months of calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hit Russia with harder sanctions on its oil industry.
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Oct 22, 2025
From early Saturday to Monday, Brown, Green, Orange and Pink lines will be suspended downtown while CTA crews replace "critical track switching equipment."
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Oct 22, 2025
In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government's gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America's balance sheet.
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Oct 22, 2025
The price tag of health insurance from employers keeps getting bigger across the U.S., and the increases this year are fueling concerns over medical spending across all health insurance markets.
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Oct 22, 2025
Orland Park voted to eliminate Main Street Triangle TIF district four years early, providing $2.5 million for districts 130 and 230.
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Oct 22, 2025
The Bears, Fire and White Sox are in the market for new homes, while the Blackhawks and Sky eye expanding their footprint in Chicago.
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Oct 22, 2025
Metra reported BNSF trains are operating with major delays Wednesday morning due to a vehicle striking a bridge.
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Oct 22, 2025
Wall Street futures dipped modestly early Tuesday as markets digest another full slate of corporate earnings in the absence of economic data due to the government shutdown.
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Oct 21, 2025
OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions.
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Oct 21, 2025
In August, Capital One filed a notice with the state that it was laying off 215 employees related to Discover's home equity and refinance loans business. Capital One filed another notice last month that 382 additional employees were being laid off.
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Oct 21, 2025
The petition seeks to compel St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, its owner Prime Healthcare and former owner Ascension to go to arbitration over the matter.
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Oct 21, 2025
Blue Island City Council approved reauthorizing eight Flock Safety license plate cameras as the devices are shut down elsewhere.
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