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Dec 23, 2025
A 49-year-old man was left in critical condition Tuesday morning after he was wounded in a shooting outside of a business in Brighton Park, Chicago police said.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Harvey City Council meeting last met in October, when residents criticized the administration in the midst of a financial crisis.
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Dec 23, 2025
Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dec 23, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he will not veto the 2026 budget passed by aldermen, conceding a historic struggle that reached the brink of a government shutdown.
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Dec 23, 2025
Former Portage Mayor Sammie Maletta Sr. was found dead early Monday, a shock to his family.
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Dec 23, 2025
If the Chicago Bears decide to build their new stadium in Northwest Indiana, the South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority will be ready to chip in however it's needed.
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Dec 23, 2025
There are at least three instances in the past 150 years when opposing temperature extremes hit the area in back-to-back years.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Department of Justice released more files related to the investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein late Monday, making public thousands of documents that included emails from prosecutors, unverified tips and records from Epstein's death in a New York City jail.
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Dec 23, 2025
At least one person was fatally wounded and one injured in a possible robbery on the CTA Pink Line, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Trump administration is offering undocumented migrants $3,000 and paid travel if they agree to leave the US voluntarily before the end of the year.
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Dec 23, 2025
The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.
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Dec 23, 2025
Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dec 23, 2025
For the first time since the roaring flood, the 100-year-old all-girls Christian sleepaway retreat plans to sign up campers in January, forging ahead with a reopening that has divided families and stunned some lawmakers. Campers will start arriving in May, bunking on higher ground than the area where fast-rising waters on the Guadalupe River swept away two cabins.
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Dec 23, 2025
Gary students and parents got a jump start on their two-week winter break Dec. 19 at a Holiday Help Fair sponsored by the Gary Community School Corp. Kids engaged in hands-on STEM projects, such as building a pyramid slingshot, sponsored by Scouting America, while their parents sought out job and mentoring resources or learned different aspects of home ownership, including how to make a down payment.
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Dec 23, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 23, 2025
Samantha Steele's opponent in the race for the Cook County Board of Review has alleged Steele tried to get her to drop out in exchange for a six-figure job in Steele's office.
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Dec 23, 2025
Chicago last had a white Christmas in 2022, but this year temperatures are likely to be in the 40- to 50-degree range.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 23, 2025
On Dec. 23, 1972, in an NFL playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders, Steelers running back Franco Harris scored a game-winning touchdown on a deflected pass with less than 10 seconds left. The "Immaculate Reception," as the catch came to be known, is often cited as the greatest NFL play of all time.
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Dec 22, 2025
Brown University's president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month.
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Dec 22, 2025
U.S. Reps. Chuy García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson arrived carrying a federal court order.
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Dec 22, 2025
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.
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Dec 22, 2025
A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.
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Dec 22, 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias released this year's rejected vanity and personalized license plate applications.
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Dec 22, 2025
An officer encountered a crashed vehicle that had rolled over, and its engine compartment was fully engulfed in flames, police said.
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Dec 22, 2025
Ariel Ginjauma received a 12-year sentence for aggravated battery and a 10-year sentence for criminal confinement.
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Dec 22, 2025
From department stores to grocery stores, most retailers across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours.
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Dec 22, 2025
Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit "Driving Home for Christmas," has died at 74, his family said Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Four boys and three girls, ranging in age from 10 to 13, have been charged with misdemeanor battery causing bodily harm, Chicago police say.
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Dec 22, 2025
Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Community feedback led Evergreen Park District 124 to cancel a referendum to replace Central Middle School and renovate other schools.
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Dec 22, 2025
Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.
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Dec 22, 2025
Powerball will be drawing its winning lottery numbers Monday night for a record 46th time since its last jackpot was claimed, as a string of failed sweepstakes ballooned the top prize to $1.6 billion.
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Dec 22, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted six purported Chicago gang members for racketeering conspiracy, accusing the gang of involvement in 13 homicides as well as spates of other violence across the city in service of protecting their South Side territory.
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Dec 22, 2025
Board of Education President Sean Harden pulled a proposed property tax hike from the school board's agenda last week that would have netted the district $25 million.
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Dec 22, 2025
Gold and silver soared to all-time highs, as escalating geopolitical tensions and bets on further US rate cuts added momentum to the best annual performance in more than four decades.
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Dec 22, 2025
James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series "The Wire" and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46.
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Dec 22, 2025
People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it's never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.
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Dec 22, 2025
In merger application, railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago's West Side.
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Dec 22, 2025
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Dec 22, 2025
A driver in a gray Jeep Grand Cherokee with an Illinois passenger plate hit and killed two pedestrians near Marshfield Plaza shopping area.
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Dec 22, 2025
After an autumn of angst over the impending expiration at the end of the month of Porter County's ambulance contract with Northwest Health, the county and hospital have come to a two-year agreement at an annual cost of $1.5 million for a minimum of four advanced life support and one basic life support ambulances. It's a considerable, but expected, increase from the yearly ambulance subsidy of $450,000 the county currently pays.
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Dec 22, 2025
A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, according to Australian police documents released on Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Most Americans aren't making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar's final month to reach budget targets.
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Dec 22, 2025
CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday didn't air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
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Dec 22, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Dec. 20, 2025.
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Dec 22, 2025
The Gary School Board agreed Thursday to dip into its cash reserves to cover more than $5 million in unexpected expenses not included in its 2025 budget..
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Dec 22, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 22, 2025
Through mid-November, records show, CPD officers in 2025 have recovered nearly 400 "ghost guns" — effectively untraceable weapons.
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Dec 22, 2025
Cook County suburban school districts are begging to receive their share of property tax revenues in order to to make payroll.
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Dec 22, 2025
The shooting has sent ripples of worry and anxiety across many of the roughly 2,300 Afghans who have resettled in Illinois since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
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Dec 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 22, 2025
On Dec. 22, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men on a Manhattan subway, alleging they were about to rob him. (Goetz, a white man in what became known as the "Subway Vigilante" case, was later acquitted of attempted murder and assault charges but convicted on a weapons possession charge and served eight months of a one-year sentence.)
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Dec 21, 2025
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they "love America," declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party.
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Dec 21, 2025
Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.
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Dec 21, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
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Dec 21, 2025
A White House envoy said Sunday he held "productive and constructive" talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Dec 21, 2025
In a particularly long, absurd year marked by violence toward Jewish people across the world, with Sydney, Australia's Bondi Beach mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration December 13 as the latest on the list, Chabad Northwest Indiana's Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov said there is a duty to smile and be fearless.
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Dec 21, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier.
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Dec 21, 2025
The woman was driving along the 2200 block of East 103rd Street around 8:20 a.m. when someone from inside another vehicle pulled up and shot at the car, police said.
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Dec 21, 2025
A proposed state Senate bill would restore the right of Indiana University alumni to select three members of the university's Board of Trustees, reversing a late addition to the 2026-27 budget bill passed earlier this year that granted the governor authority to name all nine trustees at the state's largest university.
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Dec 21, 2025
Bowen Yang bid an emotional farewell to "Saturday Night Live" with music, laughter and help from his "Wicked" buddy Ariana Grande.
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Dec 21, 2025
A group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.
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Dec 21, 2025
A Griffith man faces decades in prison after kicking the door down to a couple's apartment. His dog attacked the other man.
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Dec 21, 2025
A scathing report compiled by the former Lake County Comptroller before he was fired demands that county government "solves its leadership problem" and modernizes how it leads and serves.
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Dec 21, 2025
Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe will get a new president and CEO, Gretchen Baker, who will start in March 2026.
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Dec 21, 2025
It's not always easy for Christians who are deaf or hard of hearing to find services and Masses, but some churches are opening those doors.
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Dec 21, 2025
May this look at the toys, gifts and novelty items from years past light up your eyes with nostalgia this holiday season.
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Dec 21, 2025
Charged alongside four Democratic politicians and one political staffer, Joselyn Walsh is arguably the least known of the group, known as the 'Broadview Six.'
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Dec 21, 2025
State-funded work came after Jonathan Jackson was paid as a $13,000-a-month consultant for JB Pritzker's 2018 campaign for governor.
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Dec 21, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 21, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 21, 2025
On Dec. 21, 1891, the first basketball game, devised by James Naismith, is believed to have been played at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Dec 20, 2025
World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.
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Dec 20, 2025
Volunteers delivered food, clothing and toys to families as part of "Operation Midway Bliss" to counter the Trump administration's 'Midway Blitz' crackdown.
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Dec 20, 2025
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted.
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Dec 20, 2025
Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget on Saturday, redrawing the political lines at City Hall and further imperiling his progressive agenda.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.
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Dec 20, 2025
An Illinois man has been arrested for acting out the Grinch's shtick on Whiting City Hall's Christmas decorations late Sunday afternoon.
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Dec 20, 2025
Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event.
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Dec 20, 2025
A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine's emergency service.
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Dec 20, 2025
3 victims were shot while traveling in a vehicle overnight in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
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Dec 20, 2025
The U.S. Senate confirmed Adam Mildred Thursday as the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.
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Dec 20, 2025
The contest, which is held by the Department of Streets and Sanitation, encourages residents to submit creative snowplow names for the city's six snow districts.
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Dec 20, 2025
A former Burns Funeral Home secretary in Hobart got 2.5 years probation Thursday in a plea deal after stealing $122,000 between January 2019 and April 2024. Kathleen Farmer, 63, of Crown Point, pleaded guilty to theft, a Level 6 felony.
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Dec 20, 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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Dec 20, 2025
More than two dozen Chicago Public Schools properties remain vacant. Some have been sold, but most are racking up millions in upkeep costs.
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Dec 20, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 20 according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 20, 2025
On Dec. 20, 1954, Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago. She went on to attend Loyola University Chicago then Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa before achieving acclaim through her novel, "The House on Mango Street."
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Dec 19, 2025
While former Public Safety Secretary Jennifer-Ruth Green will pay a $10,000 civil fine in an ethics probe against her, potential criminal charges remain under review by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.
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Dec 19, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a release long anticipated for its potential to reveal new details about the late sex offender and his connections to powerful people.
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Dec 19, 2025
Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018.
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Dec 19, 2025
Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before the shooting, but they know he repeatedly visited the Ivy League school's Providence campus.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to "eliminate" Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago.
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