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Jan 15, 2026
Momentum in Democratic-led states for the measures is growing as legislatures return to work following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
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Jan 15, 2026
In her first state of the union address, acting President Delcy Rodríguez laid out a vision for Venezuela's new political reality.
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Jan 15, 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a meeting with him at the White House on Thursday, "as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom."
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Jan 15, 2026
A former Joliet elementary school custodian will be on home confinement as he awaits trial on child pornography charges. He has been fired from his job with Joliet Elementary School District 86.
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Jan 15, 2026
An amended welfare fraud bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday in a 9-3 vote, with one Democrat voting in favor of the bill because he'd like to continue working with the bill author on amendments. Senate Bill 1, authored by State Sen. Chris Garten, R-Charlestown, was filed to prevent fraud and contain […]
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Jan 15, 2026
A digital trail led authorities to charge Ralph Stokes' relative with helping him to dispose of Jimmijion Bailey's body in October 2024.
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Jan 15, 2026
The federal judge who issued a landmark preliminary injunction in November limiting the use of force by immigration agents agreed Thursday to take over a new lawsuit filed by the state and city of Chicago alleging a much broader swath of illegal actions during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz.
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Jan 15, 2026
Mayor Richard J. Daley's dream to carve a Crosstown Expressway through a swath of Chicago neighborhoods provoked a citizen revolt.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Office of Inspector General now offers an interactive data portal that allows anyone to see which Chicago Police Department officers are connected to misconduct claims.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Office of Inspector General now offers an interactive data portal that allows anyone to see which Chicago Police Department officers are connected to misconduct claims.
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Jan 15, 2026
Days before a high profile trial, a federal judge Thursday barred prosecutors from bringing in evidence that a Chicago man charged with putting a bounty on Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino's head had ties to the Latin Kings.
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Jan 15, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 15, 2026
The United States is intensifying pressure on Mexico to allow U.S. military forces to conduct joint operations to dismantle fentanyl labs inside the country, according to U.S. officials.
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Jan 15, 2026
Getting familiar with Chicago's expressways — which are referred to by name instead of number — can be confusing.
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Jan 15, 2026
President Donald Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to tamp down unrest and the pushback against ICE agents working in the state.
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Jan 15, 2026
Chicago Public Schools has received less than half of the thousands of applications it needs for Local School Council spots before Tuesday's deadline.
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Jan 15, 2026
Former DePaul guard Jalen Terry and forward Da'Sean Nelson are accused of fixing the first halves by underperforming in three Big East games in February and March 2024.
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Jan 15, 2026
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun addressed the Chicago Bears potentially moving to Northwest Indiana during his 2026 State of the State address, but kept any specifics close to the vest.
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Jan 15, 2026
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun addressed the Chicago Bears potentially moving to Northwest Indiana during his 2026 State of the State address, but kept any specifics close to the vest.
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Jan 15, 2026
Julian Blevins was tired of hearing racial slurs, so he posted on social media about his experience at Chesterton High School.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Gary Common Council planning and development committee looked at an ordinance that would issue a permit for a wet processing system.
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Jan 15, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Chicago on Friday for this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Breakfast, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced.
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Jan 15, 2026
The petitions claim that air permit renewals for U.S. Steel's Midwest Plant and the BP Whiting reginery are inadequate.
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Jan 15, 2026
U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country's oil.
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Jan 15, 2026
Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted "fundamental disagreement" over the future of the Arctic island.
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Jan 15, 2026
A 28-year-old man was fatally wounded in a triple shooting on the Far South Side in the Morgan Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 15, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 15, 2026
A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating "uncertainty and confusion" in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.
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Jan 15, 2026
A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city.
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Jan 15, 2026
A Chicago Tribune investigation exposing some hospitals' questionable use of the state's guardianship system has inspired new legislation.
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Jan 15, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 15, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 15, 2026
On Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia maintained by volunteer editors, made its debut.
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Jan 14, 2026
The shooting took place about 4.5 miles north of where an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7.
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Jan 14, 2026
Jerome Powell isn't the first high-profile official to find himself targeted by the Justice Department since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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Jan 14, 2026
Kristen Pierce-Sherrod, CEO of the beloved Chicago chain Harold's Chicken, has died, according to an announcement shared by family and company franchises on social media Wednesday. "The family extends their sincere gratitude for the outpouring of prayers and condolences," the announcement read. How and when Pierce-Sherrod died was not immediately clear. Harold's Chicken was founded […]
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Jan 14, 2026
The four returning astronauts — from the U.S., Russia and Japan — are aiming for an early Thursday morning splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego with SpaceX.
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Jan 14, 2026
A month after tenants of the troubled South Shore apartment building raided by immigration agents last fall faced court-ordered eviction, a former resident of the complex has been reported missing, according to Chicago police. Samantha Stamps, 56, was last seen Jan. 2 headed to catch the Pink Line from the Central Park CTA station in […]
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Jan 14, 2026
Illinois nonprofit organizations reported receiving letters from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration saying their funding was terminated as of Jan. 13.
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Jan 14, 2026
Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation.
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Jan 14, 2026
At least 45 people in nearly two dozen states have been sickened with salmonella food poisoning tied to the Super Greens brand of diet supplement powder, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Jan 14, 2026
The strongest opposition to federal enforcement and support for the city's sanctuary policy was among people who were white, wealthier and living on the city's North Side, the survey found.
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Jan 14, 2026
Romanucci & Blandin announced it's been retained by Renee Good's family a week after she was killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis.
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Jan 14, 2026
Police in Ohio's capital city said Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to link a man charged in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband in their Columbus home last month to the killings.
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Jan 14, 2026
Jurors convicted a Chicago man Wednesday afternoon of molesting an underage teen girl in East Chicago.
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Jan 14, 2026
Helen Keller Elementary School in Tinley Park will add eight classrooms as part of a $3.6 million renovation project.
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Jan 14, 2026
But another case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging Mississippi's five-day post-Election Day ballot counting law, could render Rep. Mike Bost's challenge moot.
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Jan 14, 2026
At trial, prosecutors contended that Marni Yang, who had previously been involved with Shaun Gayle, killed Rhoni Reuter out of jealousy.
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Jan 14, 2026
Merrillville officials don't want a deportation processing center any more than its residents do, but if it does come, there probably isn't much they can do to stop it.
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Jan 14, 2026
After hearing concerns from parents and teachers Tuesday, Crete-Monee School District 201-U board members said they will take more time to consider a proposal to hold school on certain state holidays in the case of emergency closures other days. Illinois law requires that school districts approve a waiver to hold school or schedule teacher institute, […]
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Jan 14, 2026
Many Verizon customers encountered a widespread outage on Wednesday, disrupting calling and other cellular services across the U.S.
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Jan 14, 2026
Verizon Outage Affects Tens of Thousands of Users, Tracking Site Shows
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Jan 14, 2026
A former Sin City Deciples president faces up to 20 years after a new guilty plea last week in federal court on a RICO charge.
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Jan 14, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 14, 2026
A taste of Mar-a-Lago is coming to northwest suburban Crystal Lake. After closing under threat of eviction six months ago, the controversial Trump Truth Store is reopening in a new location — a larger venue, which will offer even more MAGA-themed merchandise as well as recreational and social activities designed to bring together like-minded Trumpites. […]
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Jan 14, 2026
Chicago Police officials this week said more civilian investigators will join the department's Bureau of Internal Affairs as the office works to finish investigations more quickly and decrease its backlog of pending cases.
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Jan 14, 2026
The United States said Wednesday that it is moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan that involves disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs in Gaza under American supervision.
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Jan 14, 2026
After a defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal judge Wednesday they're looking to settle a litigation over President Donald Trump's controversial efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area to bolster immigration enforcement.
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Jan 14, 2026
The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.
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Jan 14, 2026
The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.
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Jan 14, 2026
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Jan 14, 2026
FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of a leak investigation involving a Pentagon contractor accused of sharing classified information, the Justice Department said.
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Jan 14, 2026
FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of a leak investigation involving a Pentagon contractor accused of sharing classified information, the Justice Department said.
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Jan 14, 2026
The Winfield Town Council has called legislation drafted by State Senator Rick Niemeyer, R-Lowell, a "perversion of the entire concept of home rule." Winfield officials, in a news release posted Monday on the town's Facebook page, are challenging the proposed bill and asking residents to contact Niemeyer's office to voice their concerns in regard to […]
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Jan 14, 2026
Snow showers and patchy blowing snow is expected to continue in the Chicagoland area Wednesday as temperatures fall into the high teens in the night hours, weather officials said.
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Jan 14, 2026
China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump's onslaught of higher tariffs.
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Jan 14, 2026
More than half of U.S. adults believe President Donald Trump has "gone too far" in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
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Jan 14, 2026
Now scores of families — who once hesitated to approach advocacy groups — are coming forward to register their loved ones as "political prisoners" in the hope that they might have a more optimistic future than Torres.
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Jan 14, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 14, 2026
President Donald Trump said that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials.
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Jan 14, 2026
Officials and environmentalists say there is still asphalt in the waterway and along the shore from the February spill in Bedford Park and Forest View.
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Jan 14, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 14, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 14, 2026
On Jan. 14, 1967, the "Summer of Love" unofficially began with a "Human Be-In" involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
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Jan 13, 2026
Linda Brown, a special education teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport, was reported missing on Jan. 3.
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Jan 13, 2026
Danny Lee (Daniel) Egler was the Springfield bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune for 14 years before going to work for GOP Gov. Jim Edgar and later becoming a political consultant. He was 78.
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Jan 13, 2026
Two teens are charged with sexually assaulting a female acquaintance in the restroom of a Walgreens store in Naperville, with one of them allegedly videotaping the incident, officials said.
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Jan 13, 2026
While Bruce Leon had a slim-at-best path to victory in the congressional race, he's backing Phil Andrew following Leon saying AIPAC pressured him to drop out to help state Sen. Laura Fine.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Justice Department does not believe there is currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, a top department official said Tuesday.
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Jan 13, 2026
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he's cutting off the prospect of talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens "help is on its way."
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Jan 13, 2026
College of DuPage has been awarded $4 million in federal funding to expand and support its aviation and drone programs.
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Jan 13, 2026
The leaders of Denmark and the country's territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump's calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island.
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Jan 13, 2026
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to deal another setback to transgender people and uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams.
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Jan 13, 2026
A bill allowing for a ballot question to amend the state constitution to change residency requirements for city and town court judges passed out of the House Tuesday.
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Jan 13, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jan 13, 2026
A Merrillville man was sentenced to 2.5 years Tuesday for embezzling $840,000 in COVID-19 relief funds.
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Jan 13, 2026
Director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield turned himself to authorities on Tuesday to face child sex abuse charges in New Mexico.
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Jan 13, 2026
The longtime jurist was shot and killed on April 10, 2017.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Rogers Park resident and his wife, A.J. Barks, both of whom were killed in a car crash, saw nonprofit work as "their calling in life."
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Jan 13, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 13, 2026
Hinsdale Middle School recently partnered with sister school Komarek Elementary in North Riverside to bring gifts to some families.
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Jan 13, 2026
An expert testified that bullet trajectory evidence in the Marni Yang case can't be used to exclude Yang as the person who fatally shot Rhoni Reuter.
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Jan 13, 2026
Volunteers helps clean Beyond Borders Cafe in Flossmoor after a driver fleeing Homewood police crashed into the business Monday.
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Jan 13, 2026
The doxing bill was amended and passed out of the Indiana Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee, while the firing squad bill was held — with an ominous message from the committee chairman about the death penalty.
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Jan 13, 2026
A pair of Lake County trials started Monday for child molesting and sexual misconduct with a minor.
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Jan 13, 2026
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Tuesday over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the department's reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
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Jan 13, 2026
Discussions between Johnson and aldermen over legalized video gambling mark the first major efforts to amend the budget passed by the City Council in December.
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Jan 13, 2026
The La Grange Village Board unanimously approved a 5-story, 39-unit condo complex on the site of the 1903 Jackson Square Antique Mall building.
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Jan 13, 2026
Adam Beckerink, her estranged husband, made his first appearance Tuesday morning in Cook County court to face murder charges.
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Jan 13, 2026
President Donald Trump proposed a funding cut of more than 90% for the Harbor Lock in his fiscal year 2026 budget request. The lock is one of the nation's busiest.
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Jan 13, 2026
"Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams is dead at 68 after a battle with prostate cancer.
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