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Oct 12, 2025
Advocates said Trump's "Operation Midway Blitz" affected how some runners trained and whether their families came out to support their efforts.
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Oct 12, 2025
The federal government has emphasized the Guard's mission would mainly be to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and property.
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Oct 12, 2025
A nor'easter churned its way up the East Coast on Sunday, washing out roads and prompting air travel delays as heavily populated areas of the Northeast braced for excessive rain, lashing winds and coastal flooding.
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Oct 12, 2025
China signaled on Sunday that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump and urged the United States to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats.
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Oct 12, 2025
Israel said Sunday that it expected all of the living hostages held in the Gaza Strip to be released Monday in its breakthrough ceasefire deal with Hamas, as Palestinians awaited the release of hundreds of prisoners held in Israel and a surge of aid into the famine-stricken territory.
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Oct 12, 2025
Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn stalemate in Congress.
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Oct 12, 2025
Anticipation built across Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Sunday as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held before a critical day for all sides and the region.
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Oct 12, 2025
Photos from the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 12, 2025.
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Oct 12, 2025
President Trump is setting off for Israel and Egypt on Sunday to celebrate the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas and urge Middle East allies to seize the opportunity to build a durable peace in the volatile region.
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Oct 12, 2025
Russia attacked Ukraine's power grid overnight into Sunday, part of an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter, and expressed "extreme concern" over the U.S. potentially providing Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
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Oct 12, 2025
A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.
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Oct 12, 2025
The Chicago Marathon begins in waves starting at 7:20 a.m. Sunday in Grant Park and follows a route around 29 of Chicago's neighborhoods. Here's how to watch the race.
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Oct 12, 2025
The Tinley Park Elementary District 146 teacher contract up for a vote Tuesday includes 6% raises for the next five years.
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Oct 12, 2025
The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.
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Oct 12, 2025
There are questions whether a stream of recent federal court defeats for President Donald Trump's administration will only prompt a more serious reaction from him.
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Oct 12, 2025
Across Chicago Public Schools and surrounding districts including Cicero and Berwyn, Operation Midway Blitz has left families on edge.
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Oct 12, 2025
Across Chicago Public Schools and surrounding districts including Cicero and Berwyn, Operation Midway Blitz has left families on edge.
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Oct 12, 2025
On Oct. 12, 1968, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremonies of the Mexico City Summer Games.
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Oct 11, 2025
Organizers say the event was held to provide solidarity and support to detainees at the facility, with participants walking more than a mile to Broadview.
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Oct 11, 2025
A video that went viral of ICE agents detaining a man at a bakery marked a significant moment for many who gathered Saturday to protest at East Chicago City Hall.
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Oct 11, 2025
An off-duty Lake County correctional officer was killed early Saturday morning in a crash in Schererville.
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Oct 11, 2025
The indictment of James, who had previously prosecuted the Trump Organization for business fraud, immediately sparked debate over whether the justice system had been politicized for President Donald Trump's personal grievances.
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Oct 11, 2025
A series of tit-for-tat moves this week by the two superpowers has thrust trade hostilities back in the global spotlight, roiling markets and raising alarms of what might come next.
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Oct 11, 2025
Authorities are investigating a powerful blast that tore through an explosives plant in rural Tennessee as first responders say they've recovered no survivors.
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Oct 11, 2025
The city is a majority Black epicenter for civil rights, where residents remember the Guard responding during more than one period of unrest.
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Oct 11, 2025
A ceasefire was holding in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Saturday after two years of war. But will the agreement lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to "a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace"?
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Oct 11, 2025
Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world's most economically disadvantaged areas.
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Oct 11, 2025
Most markets will still have several stand-alone drug plans, but some options are becoming particularly sparse for shoppers with low-income subsidies.
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Oct 11, 2025
Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive.
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Oct 11, 2025
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of "Annie Hall," "The Godfather" films and "Father of the Bride," has died. She was 79.
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Oct 11, 2025
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he told the Defense Department to use "all available funds" to ensure troops are paid despite the government shutdown.
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Oct 11, 2025
Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
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Oct 11, 2025
A federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a district judge's order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.
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Oct 11, 2025
The Trump administration has asked a federal appellate court in Chicago for an emergency stay of a district judge's order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.
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Oct 11, 2025
He had recently published a new book, "The Sun at the End of the Road," filled with his distinctive art, poetry and prose. Some consider it a memoir.
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Oct 11, 2025
Four people were killed in a shooting in a town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, a lawmaker said Saturday.
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Oct 11, 2025
Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to their Gaza neighborhoods Saturday, as bulldozers clawed through the wreckage of war and a ceasefire held.
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Oct 11, 2025
Aurora Mayor John Laesch condemned federal immigration enforcement activity following a protest outside City Hall on Thursday.
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Oct 11, 2025
In honor of the anniversary of Emma Baum's disappearance, her family passed out flyers and continued to question Gary residents on Friday afternoon.
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Oct 11, 2025
Former President Joe Biden's treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer has entered a new phase.
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Oct 11, 2025
Federal immigration officials targeted a parking lot near O'Hare International Airport where rideshare drivers wait between trips on Friday. 18 people were arrested.
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Oct 11, 2025
The explosion Friday morning at Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies and researches explosives for the military, scattered debris over at least a half-mile area.
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Oct 11, 2025
Oak Lawn Community High School's Spartans Without Borders club plans trip to help build hospital and trauma center in rural Bolivia.
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Oct 11, 2025
Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.
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Oct 11, 2025
From a back row of Jordan Temple Church, Katrina Thompson wiped her eyes, got to her feet and raised her hands in prayer as a black-and-white clad choir sang about the excellence of God. When the Rev. Stephen Richardson took the lectern, she whispered to herself in response to his declaration that "God is not […]
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Oct 11, 2025
With the Texas National Guard arriving in the city just days ahead of marathon weekend, some local Latino running clubs plan to take extra precautions ahead of the 26.2-mile marathon course.
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Oct 11, 2025
On Oct. 11, 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting the following year and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum.
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Oct 11, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 11, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 10, 2025
President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," according to his physician, who evaluated him Friday.
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Oct 10, 2025
A former Chicago police officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday following a plea deal related to three separate cases where he was accused of sexually abusing a minor he met on the job and recorded sex acts. Before Judge Kenneth Wadas at the Leighon Criminal Court Building, David P. DeLeon accepted […]
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Oct 10, 2025
The Trump administration is pushing again to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, even though three African countries they've approached have rejected the idea, a judge heard during testimony Friday.
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Oct 10, 2025
AstraZeneca on Friday became the second major pharmaceutical manufacturer to announce it had agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration that avoided its threats of steep tariffs.
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Oct 10, 2025
It is the Democrat's barrage of lawsuits against Trump, suing him for fraud and challenging his Republican administration's policies, that has shaped her tenure and drawn his ire.
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Oct 10, 2025
At a massive military parade attended by foreign leaders, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rolled out his nuclear-armed military's most powerful weapons, including a new intercontinental ballistic missile he may be preparing to test in coming weeks.
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Oct 10, 2025
The warehouse is one block east of the existing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at 1930 S. Beach St.
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Oct 10, 2025
Former Evanston/Skokie District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton was indicted for his alleged involvement kickback scheme that paid him $81,000.
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Oct 10, 2025
The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started, an attempt by President Donald Trump's administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown dragged into a 10th day.
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Oct 10, 2025
President Donald Trump said Friday that "there seems to be no reason" to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea and threatened additional tariffs after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.
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Oct 10, 2025
Orland Park District 135 moved to hire assistant principals at Park School and Center School, where younger students attend.
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Oct 10, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Oct 10, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker awarded 28 schools the Blue Ribbon, including Glen Oaks Elementary in Hickory Hills and Lincoln-Way East in Frankfort.
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Oct 10, 2025
A woman shot by an immigration agent after she allegedly rammed his vehicle on Chicago's Southwest Side last weekend has been indicted by a federal grand jury, part of a flurry of developments Friday in cases involving protests and violence over the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Oct 10, 2025
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
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Oct 10, 2025
Hours before the execution of Roy Lee Ward, the Gary diocese hosted a vigil at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
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Oct 10, 2025
Sister Jean, who died at the age of 106, was more than a basketball-loving nun and team chaplain of the Loyola Ramblers. She was a living example of how to bring people together.
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Oct 10, 2025
An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said.
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Oct 10, 2025
East Chicago Police officers won't involve themselves in ICE activities in the city, but officials are imploring residents to not instigate or accelerate volatile situations. East Chicago Police confirmed that ICE agents were set up in the publicly accessible portion of the department's parking lot after the mayor's office saw an online video showing ICE […]
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Oct 10, 2025
A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb's right to access its own land and ordered its removal.
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Oct 10, 2025
A Chesterton man's threat to the U.S. Naval Academy that led to a lockdown in September is detailed in a recent court filing.
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Oct 10, 2025
National Guard troops were seen patrolling in Memphis for the first time on Friday, as part of President Donald Trump's federal task force, which faces multiple legal challenges.
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Oct 10, 2025
The study focuses on what pollutants Northwest Indiana's steel mills release, the health costs, and the impact on the community.
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Oct 10, 2025
Felony charges filed against an employee of the Will County state's attorney's office and her daughter for computer tampering.
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Oct 10, 2025
Bombardment stopped and Israeli troops pulled back in Gaza on Friday under a breakthrough ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. But will the agreement lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to "a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace"?
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Oct 10, 2025
Mike Johnson is the speaker of a House that is no longer in session.
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Oct 10, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, one of the most prominent Democrats leading opposition to President Donald Trump, has canceled his appearance at a weekend political event in Palm Beach County.
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Oct 10, 2025
A review of the Tribune's archives produced 18 events in which the governor activated the National Guard within Chicago. Only two of them — both during the 19th century — involved a sitting U.S. president.
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Oct 10, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Oct 10, 2025
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect in Gaza on Friday, the Israeli military said.
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Oct 10, 2025
The Chicago Marathon's 26.2-mile course is flat, fast and ready to welcome more than 53,000 runners this Sunday.
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Oct 10, 2025
Protesters are expected in Broadview on Friday, but it's unclear where the Texas National Guard will be after a federal judge blocked their deployment in Illinois.
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Oct 10, 2025
Protesters are expected in Broadview on Friday, but it's unclear where the Texas National Guard will be after a federal judge blocked their deployment in Illinois.
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Oct 10, 2025
On Oct. 10, 1966, the Beach Boys' single "Good Vibrations," written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, was released by Capitol Records.
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Oct 10, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Oct 10, 2025
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola men's basketball team who became a national sports icon, died Thursday. She was 106.
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Oct 09, 2025
The breakthrough is designed to bring about a pause in the fighting unleashed by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
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Oct 09, 2025
Chicago police said a body was found in Lake Michigan near the South Shore Cultural Center exactly one week after a man disappeared near a breakwall near Rainbow Beach. Police search for missing swimmer at Rainbow Beach in South Shore A police spokesperson on Thursday said that the unidentified male found in the water near […]
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Oct 09, 2025
A few dozen people gathered on Thursday afternoon outside City Hall in downtown Aurora to protest federal immigration enforcement activity in the area.
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Oct 09, 2025
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not authorized for release, said U.S. Central Command is going to establish a "civil-military coordination center" in Israel.
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Oct 09, 2025
The new 45,000-square-foot Health Sciences Building at Elmhurst University opened Oct. 3 amid ribbon-cutting pomp. The state-of-the-art facility now houses the Departments of Nursing, Public Health, Occupational Therapy, and Communication Sciences and Disorders. The $30 million building was financed through existing funds from philanthropic gifts, grants and reserve funds, officials said. "The institution needed it, […]
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Oct 09, 2025
James was indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on one count after a mortgage fraud investigation, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Oct 09, 2025
Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability was investigating a police shooting in the Roseland neighborhood Thursday afternoon that left a man wounded. Paramedics took the man to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition about 2 p.m. Thursday, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Merritt. Two police officers were taken to Little […]
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Oct 09, 2025
Federal prosecutors dismissed charges against an Oak Park man with intellectual disabilities during a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility.
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Oct 09, 2025
Former Evanston/Skokie School District 65 superintendent Devon Horton has been indicted on criminal charges stemming from this time as head of the district, according to a statement from district leaders Thursday.
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Oct 09, 2025
Former Evanston/Skokie School District 65 superintendent Devon Horton has been indicted on criminal charges stemming from this time as head of the district, according to a statement from district leaders Thursday.
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Oct 09, 2025
Early film star Colleen Moore became a Chicagoan when she married local stockbroker Homer Hargrave.
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Oct 09, 2025
A federal judge has ruled that federal agents violated the rights of news reporters and protesters responding to immigration arrests in Chicago, and restricted future actions against them.
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Oct 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV urged labor union leaders from Chicago on Thursday to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks, weighing in as the Trump administration crackdown on immigrants intensifies in the pontiff's hometown.
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Oct 09, 2025
Immigration authorities stepped up their action in Northwest Indiana Thursday with a more visible presence in Lake County.
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Oct 09, 2025
The Will County Board receive 200 to 300 emails and will postpone voting on a resolution regarding immigration enforcement.
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Oct 09, 2025
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales and his team were in Northwest Indiana Wednesday night to talk about election issues with more than 100 attendees, capping off a series of election study public meetings. "Whether you are for or against moving when we do municipal elections, or whether you're for or against using vote centers […]
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