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Mar 04, 2026
With 100 days to go until the World Cup, the Iran war has added a new layer of complexity to the tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Mar 04, 2026
A Portland, Oregon, company is recalling nearly 3.4 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice products sold at Trader Joe's stores and in Canada because they may contain pieces of glass, U.S. Agriculture Department officials reported.
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Mar 04, 2026
The hard landing caused minor damage to the aircraft, and one runway was temporarily affected, the Aurora Police Department said.
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Mar 04, 2026
For President Donald Trump, some of the sharpest criticism he's faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures far more accustomed to singing his praises.
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Mar 04, 2026
At least one person was killed Tuesday night in a fiery crash on I-90 on the northwest side, Illinois State Police said.
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Mar 04, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 04, 2026
The United States and Israel hit Iran's capital and other cities in multiple airstrikes on Wednesday, the fifth day of the war with Iran.
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Mar 04, 2026
Jarrett Dapier and A.J. Dungo's "Wake Now in the Fire" recalls how high school students at Lane Tech College Prep immediately stood up against the ban on the book "Persepolis."
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Mar 04, 2026
With Mendoza eyeing a potential run for Chicago mayor, Illinois voters must choose her successor for the first time in a decade.
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Mar 04, 2026
Massive project has alarmed residents, but rapid advances in technology and water from Lake Michigan could make it viable.
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Mar 04, 2026
The latest chapter in an ongoing legal battle between Abbott Laboratories and parents of babies born prematurely is set to play out in a Chicago courtroom this week.
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Mar 04, 2026
On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term. With the end of the Civil War in sight, and just six weeks before his assassination, Lincoln declared:
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Mar 04, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 4, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 03, 2026
Will County Board member Jacqueline Traynere is charged with computer tampering for accessing emails of board member Judy Ogalla.
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Mar 03, 2026
A judge ordered Muhammad Thomas detained until trial on first-degree murder and armed robbery charges connected to the deaths of Faustino Alamo, 63, and Luis Angel Alamo, 25.
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Mar 03, 2026
Eight dogs were briefly stolen Tuesday morning after someone took a sprinter van carrying the pets as it sat parked outside of a Lincoln Park pet salon.
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Mar 03, 2026
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is trying to hold on for a fifth term in Tuesday's GOP primary, while Democrats will choose whether to send Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett or state Rep. James Talarico to a November general election.
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Mar 03, 2026
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is trying to hold on for a fifth term in Tuesday's GOP primary, while Democrats will choose whether to send Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett or state Rep. James Talarico to a November general election.
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Mar 03, 2026
Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war were identified Tuesday by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve from different states who worked in logistics and kept troops supplied with food and equipment.
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Mar 03, 2026
Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in lives and dollars in what is quickly becoming a widening Middle East conflict.
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Mar 03, 2026
During groundbreaking for the Chicago Fire's new privately funded soccer stadium near Soldier Field, the mayor said he hasn't given up on the Bears staying in Chicago.
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Mar 03, 2026
A high-stakes antitrust trial that could lead to the possible breakup of Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, got underway Tuesday in a case over whether the entertainment giant's dominance of the concert industry amounts to an illegal monopoly.
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Mar 03, 2026
A deckhand on the reality television show "Deadliest Catch," which documents the lives of crab fishermen working in one of the world's harshest environments, died after he was reported to have fallen overboard, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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Mar 03, 2026
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that "someone from within" the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed — but said "most of the people we had in mind are dead."
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Mar 03, 2026
Splatters of paint now dot the face of Iryna Zarutska, the slain Ukrainian refugee, after an unknown vandal defaced the Elon Musk-funded mural.
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Mar 03, 2026
If you are not able to hop on Facebook, you are not alone.
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Mar 03, 2026
Next year, Chicago Public Schools will assume management of Chicago High School for the Arts and its current conservatory model will likely change.
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Mar 03, 2026
Frustrated and anxious travelers clamored Tuesday for flights out of the Middle East and other regions where a widening Iran war has stranded tens of thousands of people, closed major airports and caused widespread cancellations.
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Mar 03, 2026
A trial begins for a Logan Square man accused of killing his girlfriend and stuffing her body into a duffel bag.
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Mar 03, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 03, 2026
Orland Park will consider artificial turf, replacing the Grinding Edge Skate Park with athletic fields and converting country club.
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Mar 03, 2026
No injuries were reported, and three individuals were taken into custody in connection with the incident but later released pending further investigation, police said.
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Mar 03, 2026
Lawyers and advocates for a woman charged with killing her abusive ex-boyfriend railed against prosecutors' offer of a plea deal and probation Tuesday and renewed their calls for the Cook County state's attorney's office to drop the charges altogether.
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Mar 03, 2026
Indiana University Northwest Chancellor Arrick Jackson began his career with a dark sense of urgency.
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Mar 03, 2026
A jury swiftly convicted a man who gave his son a gun that has been linked to the fatal shooting of two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school, the latest U.S. parent taken to court when a child is accused of violence.
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Mar 03, 2026
A sell-off for stocks is slamming into Wall Street Tuesday after wrapping around the world, as oil prices leap even higher with worries that the widening war with Iran may do more sustained damage to the economy than feared.
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Mar 03, 2026
A sell-off for stocks is slamming into Wall Street Tuesday after wrapping around the world, as oil prices leap even higher with worries that the widening war with Iran may do more sustained damage to the economy than feared.
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Mar 03, 2026
With Marimar Martinez standing directly behind her, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Tuesday that she was not "familiar with the details" of Martinez's shooting by an immigration agent in Chicago last fall.
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Mar 03, 2026
Octavio Perez-Beauchamp, 32, opted to plead guilty to criminal confinement, a Level 5 felony, before his trial's first day started in March 2025. Jurors were dismissed.
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Mar 03, 2026
Republicans have pounced on the testimony video of ex-President Bill Clinton suggesting Gov. JB Pritzker and his wife were on a plane with him belonging to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mar 03, 2026
Republicans have pounced on the testimony video of ex-President Bill Clinton suggesting Gov. JB Pritzker and his wife were on a plane with him belonging to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mar 03, 2026
Marvin "Geno" Clark, 33, of Dolton, Illinois, is charged with four counts of murder and three counts of burglary. Two of those murder counts are while committing a burglary.
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Mar 03, 2026
Aurora GreenFest, a festival that has been bringing people together around topics like sustainability and green living for 15 years, will be returning on May 2.
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Mar 03, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to testify Tuesday in the Senate, her first congressional appearance since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis galvanized widespread opposition to how the Trump administration was executing its mass deportation agenda.
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Mar 03, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department's immigration enforcement tactics in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.
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Mar 03, 2026
Throughout his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy: an ironclad partnership with the United States and a relentless diplomatic and covert battle against the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Mar 03, 2026
Residents of Chicago's North Shore neighborhoods respond to U.S. and Israel's coordinated attack on Iran, which killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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Mar 03, 2026
An unidentified man was discovered fatally wounded Monday night inside of a residence in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago police said.
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Mar 03, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 03, 2026
Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital with a drone early Tuesday, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes.
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Mar 03, 2026
The last few years have seen broad changes in the Muslim student experience at Northwestern, specifically during the month of Ramadan, when observing students are fasting from dawn to dusk.
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Mar 03, 2026
With Schakowsky retiring, 15 Democrats are battling in Illinois' 9th District primary, a closely watched race reflecting the party's Trump-era shift, rising outside money and a generational change in Chicago politics.
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Mar 03, 2026
With Schakowsky retiring, 15 Democrats are battling in Illinois' 9th District primary, a closely watched race reflecting the party's Trump-era shift, rising outside money and a generational change in Chicago politics.
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Mar 03, 2026
On March 3, 1845, Florida became a U.S. state.
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Mar 03, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 3, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.
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Mar 02, 2026
Justin Timberlake is suing to block the release of police body camera footage from his drunken driving arrest in New York's Hamptons in 2024.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Aurora man has been charged with 72 counts related to gunrunning, illegally possessing silencers and machine-gun conversion devices and unlawful possession of unserialized firearms and receivers, according to a news release from the Illinois Attorney General's Office.
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Mar 02, 2026
Shekinah Lee said she and her friends, vacationing this week in Dubai, have seen a missile and heard explosions. They're sheltering in place at their hotel until further notice.
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Mar 02, 2026
Photos: South Carolina honors the Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Mar 02, 2026
Chicago hosted the 2024 DNC and is a finalist — along with Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Philadelphia — to host the Aug. 7-10, 2028, event.
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Mar 02, 2026
As the Indiana legislature finished the 2026 legislative session Friday, many bills didn't advance.
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Mar 02, 2026
Federal authorities joined local police Monday in the search for a suspect in a weekend nightclub shooting in Cincinnati that wounded nine people.
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Mar 02, 2026
Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.
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Mar 02, 2026
The gunman who opened fire outside a crowded Texas bar and killed two people in an attack that wounded 14 others was not on the radar of authorities before the shooting, federal and local investigators said Monday.
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Mar 02, 2026
"Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her sister returned to their mother's home outside Tucson on Monday in their first sighting at the house since Nancy Guthrie went missing a month ago.
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Mar 02, 2026
Videos of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Monday by a House committee investigating the late financier.
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Mar 02, 2026
Videos of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Monday by a House committee investigating the late financier.
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Mar 02, 2026
If you plan to vote by mail in the March 17 primary election, don't delay, urged the League of Women Voters of the La Grange Area.
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Mar 02, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 02, 2026
A woman was found intoxicated on the floor, oblivious to a naked, crying 5-month-old infant lying beside, court documents show.
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Mar 02, 2026
When Gary Police found an 11-year-old girl wandering in an alleyway, she told an officer she didn't want to go home.
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Mar 02, 2026
A North Side synagogue is asking Edgewater residents to support a plan that would transform its lakefront site into a 12-story apartment complex with hundreds of units and a new, smaller synagogue.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Clarendon Hills Historical Society is speaking out strongly against removal of the Sloan Triangle in the village's downtown
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Mar 02, 2026
The Indiana General Assembly passed several consequential education-related bills in its abbreviated session that ended Feb. 27. Two bills placed restrictions on student social media and cellphone use, and a section of Senate Bill 76 that focuses on immigration enforcement requires schools to cooperate with federal authorities when they arrive at a school.
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Mar 02, 2026
In front of a gym full of 21st Century Charter School students on Friday, leaders from IU Northwest, Purdue Northwest and Ivy Tech signed a memorandum of understanding outlining the terms of a new partnership aimed at strengthening student success and coordinating pathways to help students earn certificates and degrees.
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Mar 02, 2026
The shootings occurred in the Clearing, Woodlawn, Belmont Cragin and West Lawn neighborhoods, police said.
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Mar 02, 2026
Iran's place at the men's World Cup in three months' time was put in doubt Monday amid an escalating Middle East conflict sparked by the soccer tournament's co-host: the United States.
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Mar 02, 2026
The endorsement brings a significant boost to Kim, the Lake County treasurer, over three Democratic rivals vying for their party's nomination in the March 17 primary election.
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Mar 02, 2026
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Feb. 28, 2026.
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Mar 02, 2026
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Mar 02, 2026
Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.
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Mar 02, 2026
Global air travel chaos intensified on Monday as the U.S. and Israel continued to bombard Iran, which struck back at targets across the Middle East, leaving airports closed and stranding travelers including those in faraway areas who were scheduled to transit through the region.
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Mar 02, 2026
Global air travel chaos intensified on Monday as the U.S. and Israel continued to bombard Iran, which struck back at targets across the Middle East, leaving airports closed and stranding travelers including those in faraway areas who were scheduled to transit through the region.
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Mar 02, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday spoke to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring, "This is not Iraq. This is not endless."
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Mar 02, 2026
A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S.
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Mar 02, 2026
The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at war.
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Mar 02, 2026
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health care jobs over the next three years.
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Mar 02, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 02, 2026
The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures. Here's where things stand.
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Mar 02, 2026
Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran.
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Mar 02, 2026
Just as Waymo autonomous vehicles were spotted video mapping Chicago streets, Niles voters will weigh on whether self-driving taxis should be allowed in their town.
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Mar 02, 2026
Thornton, Rich, Orland and Palos townships are asking voters if the state should provide annual property tax rebates to homeowners.
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Mar 02, 2026
Likely escapees of the exotic pet trade, the birds first put down roots in some south suburbs in the 1960s and Hyde Park in the 1970s.
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Mar 02, 2026
Of the 21 judges who worked at the city's immigration court in January 2025, nine judges have resigned, taken buyouts or been terminated, a Tribune review found.
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Mar 02, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 02, 2026
On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
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Mar 01, 2026
The fire in Green River State Wildlife Area quickly grew to a five-alarm level because of dry, warm and windy weather.
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Mar 01, 2026
After six months of negotiations, Pace and Niles village leaders have approved a new contract to continue the free bus service in the community.
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