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Jul 26, 2024
A 65-year-old retired probation officer from Chicago fatally shot her grandchild's mother on an Upper East Side street Friday.
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Jul 26, 2024
Congressional Democrats in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and beyond are seeing an outpouring of volunteers to help Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Jul 26, 2024
The FBI said former President Donald Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet during the assassination attempt on July 13.
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Jul 26, 2024
A 16-year-old boy and a man were killed Friday morning when a gunman opened fire in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to authorities. The teen and a 40-year-old man were on the 2500 block of West 46th Street about 10:40 a.m. when a person got out of an SUV, approached the […]
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Jul 26, 2024
Small business owners in Paris expected a boon in visitors once the Olympics arrived. Instead, some, particularly in heavily touristed areas in central Paris, say they're experiencing a bust.
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Jul 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic nominee for president, is attempting to bridge divides within the party over the war in Gaza.
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Jul 26, 2024
More than 8,000 airline catering workers are threatening to go on strike as soon as next week, adding more uncertainty to the summer travel season.
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Jul 26, 2024
A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage?
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Jul 26, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jul 26, 2024
Nearly two weeks after storms tore through, communities are seeking property damage reports to potentially receive federal aid.
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Jul 26, 2024
The Cook County Board is considering a hearing to create a new property tax relief rebate program paid for with fees the Cook County treasurer collects from people who pay their bills late.
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Jul 26, 2024
Cook County prosecutors have charged three men with murder, arson and financial crimes in connection with the death of a Chicago firefighter last year while battling a blaze on the Far South Side.
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Jul 26, 2024
Cook County prosecutors have charged three men with murder, arson and financial crimes in connection with the death of a Chicago firefighter last year while battling a blaze on the Far South Side.
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Jul 26, 2024
The Flores twins spoke to the Tribune following the bombshell news Thursday that Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada had been arrested in Texas along with one of "El Chapo's" sons, Joaquin Guzmán López.
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Jul 26, 2024
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff's deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon had previously disclosed initial findings on Massey's July 6 […]
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Jul 26, 2024
An Aurora man was arrested on a slew of charges Thursday after smashing into a Naperville squad car and taking police on a high-speed interstate chase at speeds exceeding 120 mph, officials said.
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Jul 26, 2024
The state is prioritizing low-income households in an effort to meet federal requirements and receive full funding, according to the Illinois EPA.
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Jul 26, 2024
A letter allegedly written by Richard Proctor, on trial for the 2020 stabbing death of 28-year-old Ryan Connell, claims he acted in self-defense.
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Jul 26, 2024
U.S. health officials announced a recall of some Boar's Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak.
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Jul 26, 2024
Arsonists attacked the French high-speed rail network early Friday, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe for some 800,000 people, including Olympic athletes heading to the grand opening ceremony of the Games in the evening.
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Jul 26, 2024
For Netanyahu, who was in the United States to address Congress and meet with Biden, repairing relations with Trump is imperative given the prospect that he may once again become president of the United States, Israel's main arms supplier and protector.
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Jul 26, 2024
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid.
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Jul 26, 2024
House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harris's role in the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. border with Mexico/
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Jul 26, 2024
The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo the ruling party's policies that caused economic collapse and forced millions to emigrate.
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Jul 26, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jul 26, 2024
Barb and Bill Luebcke of Tinley Park are key operators of a two-month-old prayer line at Trinity Lutheran Church in Tinley Park.
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Jul 26, 2024
Culminating in a 'red carpet' of handmade birds as long as a football field, project aims to draw attention to push for mandatory high-rise safety measures.
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Jul 26, 2024
The Wisconsin cabin offers relaxation and recreation, such as a pontoon boat, paddleboarding, kayaking, barbecuing and making s'mores.
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Jul 26, 2024
In 2005, the Chicago Cubs' Greg Maddux records his 3,000th career strikeout against San Francisco, striking out Omar Vizquel in the third inning of a 3-2, 11-inning victory for the Giants.
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Jul 26, 2024
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the ADA, prohibiting discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities.
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Jul 25, 2024
The arrests Thursday in El Paso follow some important captures of other Sinaloa cartel figures.
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Jul 25, 2024
Chicago Public Schools board members unanimously voted to pass the district's spending plan for the 2024-25 school year Thursday.
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Jul 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met separately at the White House Thursday with President Joe Biden and likely Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss the war in Gaza and the possibility of securing a cease-fire deal.
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Jul 25, 2024
The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.
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Jul 25, 2024
OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google.
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Jul 25, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has told reporters that she's "ready to debate Donald Trump."
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Jul 25, 2024
At Midway International Airport, Amy Schuber gathered her three young kids near baggage claim with her husband Thursday afternoon. She was heading back to her home in Oswego after a nearly week-long vacation in Tampa. The 37-year-old was happy with her Southwest flight, namely the relatively cheap price and ability to bring two checked bags for free. But something that can cause a headache, she said, is not having a guarantee that her whole group can sit together. This won't be a worry for much longer. The airline announced Thursday that it will start assigning seats and offering premium seating […]
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Jul 25, 2024
Prosecutors are urging a judge to uphold Donald Trump's historic hush money conviction, arguing in court papers made public Thursday that the verdict should stand despite the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity.
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Jul 25, 2024
Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with game industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a halt over artificial intelligence protections.
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Jul 25, 2024
Ban spurred a bizarre process in which the matter has been tossed to multiple judges and roped in assistant state's attorneys, even though there are no criminal or contempt of court charges.
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Jul 25, 2024
Residents, businesses and commuters traveling around the United Center and McCormick Place can now prepare for street closures and security restrictions during the Democratic National Convention.
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Jul 25, 2024
Residents, businesses and commuters traveling around the United Center and McCormick Place can now prepare for street closures and security restrictions during the Democratic National Convention.
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Jul 25, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jul 25, 2024
Here's a look back at 10 who have been at the top of their games — and on top of the world — during the modern era.
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Jul 25, 2024
Sue Duncan was the founder and guiding force for a children's center that provided educational opportunities and a refuge on Chicago's South Side.
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Jul 25, 2024
Federal and local authorities on Thursday released long-awaited details of the planned security perimeter around the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
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Jul 25, 2024
Richard Proctor is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing Ryan Connell on New Years Day 2020 in Steger.
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Jul 25, 2024
College of DuPage students could save as much as $1,500 a year with the community college's free textbook program for more than 1,000 courses.
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Jul 25, 2024
If you want to elect someone based on how they'll answer the concerns of parents and families, look at their policy proposals for the concerns of children and families.
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Jul 25, 2024
The management of the US-Mexico border has been a political liability for Biden, and it will now follow Harris as Trump makes it a cornerstone of his campaign.
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Jul 25, 2024
In the two years since Greg Abbott dispatched the first buses from Texas, the busing program has turned into a significant part of the country's transportation infrastructure for migrants.
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Jul 25, 2024
The hospitals will keep their current names, minus the "Ascension" branding.
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Jul 25, 2024
Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world's second-hottest day ever.
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Jul 25, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is propelling her presidential push by speaking Thursday to the American Federation of Teachers, the first labor union to formally endorse her candidacy.
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Jul 25, 2024
Chicago police responding to ShotSpotter technology Thursday night discovered a man in a wheelchair wounded on the South Side near the Englewood neighborhood. About 10:20 p.m., the man was discovered shot to the right hip in the 7400 block of South Perry Avenue on the sidewalk. The suspect fled in an unknown direction from the scene, police said. The victim was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was listed in fair condition, but he refused to provide details about the shooting, police said. No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.
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Jul 25, 2024
A 25-year-old man was fatally wounded overnight during an argument in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said. Shortly before 1:45 a.m., the victim was in in an alley in the 6100 block of South King Drive when he was involved in an argument with someone he knew, police said. The person he was arguing with pulled out a gun and shot the victim several times. The victim's family began driving him to a hospital when they flagged down police in the 6500 block of South King Drive. An ambulance was called to the scene and […]
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Jul 25, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jul 25, 2024
Southwest Airlines is doing away with its 50-year tradition and plans to start assigning seats and premium seating for customers who are seeking more legroom.
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Jul 25, 2024
In 1941, Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th and last game, beating the Cleveland Indians 10-6.
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Jul 25, 2024
On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Joe Biden delivered a solemn Oval Office address Wednesday that laid out in the clearest terms yet why he abandoned his reelection campaign.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Biden will have an opportunity to make a case for his legacy when he delivers an Oval Office address about his decision to bow out of the race and "what lies ahead."
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Jul 24, 2024
Biden used his first public address since his announcement Sunday that he was stepping aside to deliver an implicit repudiation of former President Donald Trump.
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Jul 24, 2024
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he couldn't comment on "private discussions" when asked if Kamala Harris' campaign staff had contacted him for vetting as she seeks a running mate.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Biden will have an opportunity to make a case for his legacy when he delivers an Oval Office address Wednesday night.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Biden will have an opportunity to make a case for his legacy when he delivers an Oval Office address Wednesday night.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Biden will have an opportunity to make a case for his legacy when he delivers an Oval Office address about his decision to bow out of the race and "what lies ahead."
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Jul 24, 2024
A veteran Oak Park-River Forest High School history teacher resigned recently because of what he said in his resignation letter was "the continued toll of antisemitism at OPRF - and the district's lack of response to the antisemitism and lack of support for Jewish students, parents and teachers." Michael Soffer submitted his resignation letter to OPRFHS officials on June 5, one day after he was hired to teach history at Lake Forest High School in northwest suburban Lake Forest. In the letter, a copy of which Pioneer Press obtained through a public records request, Soffer, also a 2003 graduate of […]
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Jul 24, 2024
A wipeout on Wednesday sent U.S. stock indexes to their worst losses since 2022 after profit reports from Tesla and Alphabet helped suck momentum from Wall Street's frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology.
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Jul 24, 2024
Democratic National Convention delegates can make Vice President Kamala Harris their presidential nominee — and even start approving her yet-to be-named running mate — in online voting beginning next week.
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Jul 24, 2024
Thousands of protesters against the war in Gaza converged on Washington on Wednesday to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, chanting "Free, free Palestine" as they marched toward the Capitol
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Jul 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to bolster U.S. support for his country's fight against Hamas and other Iran-backed armed groups in a speech to Congress Wednesday that sparked boycotts by some top Democrats and drew thousands of protesters to the Capitol to condemn the war in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis it has created.
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Jul 24, 2024
A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader's endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Biden will have an opportunity to make a case for his legacy when he delivers an Oval Office address about his decision to bow out of the race and "what lies ahead."
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Jul 24, 2024
Delta Air Lines canceled significantly fewer flights Wednesday, and the airline's chief executive said cancellations and delays stemming from a global technology breakdown should end by Thursday.
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Jul 24, 2024
A 33-year-old man was killed Sunday after police said he unlawfully entered the home of an Arlington Heights woman who had a restraining order against him, and another man who was visiting her and had a conceal carry license fatally shot the intruder. According to an Arlington Heights Police Department news release, police were called at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday to a unit in the Arbor Lakes Apartment Complex, in the 4200 block of North Bloomingdale Avenue, in the northwest suburb. The release states that the woman who lives in the apartment called police to report that the man, now […]
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Jul 24, 2024
A riveted nation watched video released this week of a sheriff's deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who called 911 for assistance, in her Illinois home.
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Jul 24, 2024
The new nonprofit and political action committee will be called "One Future Illinois." Leaders said they hope to provide political and financial heft backing the business community's agenda.
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Jul 24, 2024
Dolton Village Trustee Jason House announced his campaign for mayor along with a full slate opposed to incumbent Tiffany Henyard.
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Jul 24, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jul 24, 2024
The DuPage County sheriff's office is investigating the murder of a man who was shot to death in the driveway of his suburban home in unincorporated Lombard on Monday night. At approximately 9:30 p.m. Monday, deputies responded to a reported shooting near the intersection of 16th Street and Meyers Road. Alaa Ghnimat, 38, was found unresponsive inside his parked car with a fatal gunshot wound. The vehicle was towed by law enforcement for further examination, and Ghnimat's body was transferred to the DuPage County coroner, authorities said. "The DuPage County Sheriff's Office extends its deepest condolences to the family and […]
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Jul 24, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will increase minimum rest time between shifts for air traffic controllers after highly publicized close calls between planes that were following orders from controllers.
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Jul 24, 2024
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week's global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
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Jul 24, 2024
Authorities were investigating a break-in at the administrative offices for the Cook County state's attorney, officials said.
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Jul 24, 2024
Lawyers for the former AT&T Illinois boss accused of trying to bribe then-House Speaker Michael Madigan argue in a new filing that the prosecution's case has been "significantly undermined" by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling walking back a federal bribery statute.
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Jul 24, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Jul 24, 2024
On the heels of the Chicago City Council approving a record $50 million settlement to a group of men once known as the "Marquette Park Four," the Cook County Board will consider a $7.25 million settlement for one of those men who accused county prosecutors of wrongful incarceration and detention.
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Jul 24, 2024
A rollover crash of a semi-truck took place on the Eisenhower Expressway at approximately 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, leading to a closure of the nearby eastbound lanes, Illinois State Police said. The truck was carrying a load of approximately 27,000 pounds of canned goods, which remained intact after the crash on I-290, according to police. As of 8 a.m. on Wednesday, eastbound lanes near the crash site — which occurred just east of the interchange with I-294 — still remained entirely blocked, state police said. Traffic is being diverted to southbound I-294. Illinois State Police are investigating the crash.
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Jul 24, 2024
A rollover crash of a semi-truck took place on the Eisenhower Expressway at approximately 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, leading to a closure of the nearby eastbound lanes, Illinois State Police said. The truck was carrying a load of approximately 27,000 pounds of canned goods, which remained intact after the crash on I-290, according to police. As of 8 a.m. on Wednesday, eastbound lanes near the crash site — which occurred just east of the interchange with I-294 — still remained entirely blocked, state police said. Traffic is being diverted to southbound I-294. Illinois State Police are investigating the crash.
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Jul 24, 2024
Two men were shot in Englewood early Wednesday morning when unidentified gunmen fired at them from an alleyway, Chicago police said.
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Jul 24, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Wednesday that a laptop tied to the Trump rally gunman included a Google search of "How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?"
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Jul 24, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray is set to testify Wednesday about the bureau's investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, with lawmakers at a congressional hearing likely to press him for fresh details about the gunman's motive and background.
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Jul 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before Congress on Wednesday in hopes of bolstering U.S. support for continuing Israel's offensives against Hamas and other adversaries.
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Jul 24, 2024
Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service.
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Jul 24, 2024
President Joe Biden might not often use the word "abortion" when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does. She's also toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic where the procedure is performed and routinely links the fall of Roe to the larger issue of rising maternal mortality nationwide.
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Jul 24, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jul 24, 2024
Naples is a vibrant city proud of its culinary roots, and one where you could easily spend a week eating nothing but pizza in its many forms.
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Jul 24, 2024
As a co-founder of Foxtrot and new investors plan to reopen about a dozen stores this fall, most of the 50 former immigrant workers who worked at the commissary continue to struggle to find new jobs to make ends meet.
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Jul 24, 2024
As a co-founder of Foxtrot and new investors plan to reopen about a dozen stores this fall, most of the 50 former immigrant workers who worked at the commissary continue to struggle to find new jobs to make ends meet.
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Jul 24, 2024
In 2011, Cadel Evans wins the Tour de France, becoming the first Australian champion in cycling's greatest race.
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