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Jul 03, 2025
A motorcyclist was airlifted after suffering serious injuries in a wreck with an SUV Friday afternoon in Pleasant Township, police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
A young man was critically wounded Thursday afternoon after he was shot in the face in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties.
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Jul 03, 2025
Northwest Indiana congressmen fell along party lines in supporting or opposing President Donald Trump's tax bill.
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Jul 03, 2025
Neighbors call on city to ensure environmentally safe process after botched 2020 implosion in Little Village, hold out hope for green space.
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Jul 03, 2025
On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, 28 people from 19 countries sat on stage of the Wolf Lake Pavilion in Hammond. Those on stage, wearing their Sunday best and holding small American flags, were about to become naturalized citizens.
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Jul 03, 2025
Thankfully, 100-degree days are a rarity here. There have only been 66 of them, according to data kept by the National Weather Service.
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Jul 03, 2025
Family, friends and colleagues are reminiscing about the life and impact of Eugene Hotchkiss, Lake Forest College's longest serving president and his tireless efforts to improve the school as well as the greater community.
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Jul 03, 2025
More than ever, international students are setting their sights on public universities — especially top-tier flagships like Purdue, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These institutions offer world-class research, respected brand names, and — crucially — more seats. So what does that mean for in-state students?
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Jul 03, 2025
There's no filibuster in the House, but Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries essentially conducted one anyway.
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Jul 03, 2025
Oak Park police Sgt. Derrick Verge received the Police Medal of Valor from the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police for shooting and arresting the man who is charged with killing Oak Park police Det. Allan Reddins last November. Verge, a 21 year veteran of the Oak Park Police Department received the award at the […]
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Jul 03, 2025
A 7-month-old infant girl was found safe after a man allegedly stole the car she was riding in the 1200 block of South Independence Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood around 10:40 a.m.
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Jul 03, 2025
Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for entering US illegally and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, federal officials said Thursday.
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Jul 03, 2025
Republicans muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cut bill through the House on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to his desk by the GOP's self-imposed deadline of July 4th.
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Jul 03, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jul 03, 2025
House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.
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Jul 03, 2025
Judge Gina Jones rejected a plea deal that prosecutors drew up for Hobart man who abused his girlfriend's son.
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Jul 03, 2025
A drive-by mass shooting killed four people and wounded 14 more late Wednesday night in River North, Chicago police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
Madsen died from cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, Calif., according to his representatives.
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Jul 03, 2025
Richton Park-based SHERO Coffee helps women veterans connect with each other, share experiences after transitioning to civilian life.
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Jul 03, 2025
After a father jumped in after his daughter fell overboard from a Disney Cruise Line ship Sunday, the Broward County Sheriff's Office released a statement clarifying details from its investigation.
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Jul 03, 2025
Shortly after 3:15 a.m. Thursday, a group was outside in the 600 block of East 133rd Street when someone opened fire striking four victims, Chicago police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
A 29-year-old woman was killed overnight in a double shooting at a South Shore neighborhood during a robbery attempt that turned into a fight, Chicago police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
The number of people crossing the southern border illegally has dropped to levels not seen in decades.
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Jul 03, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they will speak by phone Thursday, their sixth publicly disclosed chat since Trump returned to the White House this year.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students can join.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Trump administration has accused states and schools of using federal education grants earmarked for immigrants' children and low-income students to help fund "a radical leftwing agenda."
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Jul 03, 2025
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been acquitted of the most serious charges in his federal sex trafficking trial, but that doesn't mean the once-celebrated music mogul will see his business empire restored.
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Jul 03, 2025
U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite uncertainty over President Donald Trump's economic policies. The unemployment rate ticked down 4.1% from 4.2% in May, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Jul 03, 2025
House Republicans are ready to vote on President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill early Thursday, up all night as GOP leaders and the president himself worked to persuade skeptical holdouts to drop their opposition by his Fourth of July deadline.
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Jul 03, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jul 03, 2025
A drive-by mass shooting killed four people and wounded 14 more late Wednesday night on the near North Side, Chicago police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
A drive-by mass shooting killed four people and wounded 14 more late Wednesday night in River North, Chicago police said.
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Jul 03, 2025
The longest, strangest trip embarked upon by a rock 'n' roll band ended 30 years ago at Soldier Field when the Grateful Dead played their final concerts.
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Jul 03, 2025
The longest, strangest trip embarked upon by a rock 'n' roll band ended 30 years ago at Soldier Field when the Grateful Dead played their final concerts.
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Jul 03, 2025
The latest delays to the Cook County property tax system upgrade by controversial contractor Tyler Technologies is leading to fighting among county leaders.
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Jul 03, 2025
On July 3, 1971, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
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Jul 03, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 3, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jul 02, 2025
A jury on Wednesday found a former Chicago Public Schools dean guilty of multiple felony counts for sexually abusing a student, after the young woman testified that he coerced her into a relationship years earlier while she attended a Little Village high school.
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Jul 02, 2025
The government's top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding recommendations from government scientists.
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Jul 02, 2025
The first group of immigrants were scheduled to arrive Wednesday night at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," the state's attorney general said.
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Jul 02, 2025
Microsoft is laying off thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.
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Jul 02, 2025
A criminal justice student who avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students carefully planned the attack for months and took multiple steps to cover his tracks, the lead prosecutor said.
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Jul 02, 2025
Del Monte Foods, the 139-year-old company best known for its canned fruits and vegetables, is filing for bankruptcy protection.
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Jul 02, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker and his new running mate, Christian Mitchell, downplayed any suggestions that the all-Chicago ticket gives short shrift to downstate interests.
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Jul 02, 2025
Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday asked a jury to hold a former Chicago Public Schools dean accountable for allegedly using his position of power to coerce a student into a sexual relationship.
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Jul 02, 2025
Sean "Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put one of hip-hop's most celebrated figures behind bars for life.
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Jul 02, 2025
"It means a lot to my heart," Jerry Moore said of receiving his late brother's Purple Heart medal from World War II. "I don't think there can be any higher honor than getting this back."
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Jul 02, 2025
The family of slain Chicago Police officer Krystal Rivera is calling for city agencies to relinquish the investigation of her death and, instead, turn over the probe to the Illinois State Police as they pursue legal avenues.
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Jul 02, 2025
A BP spokesperson, at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, said in an email to the Post-Tribune that flares had started at the refinery.
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Jul 02, 2025
Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a Wednesday vote on President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package.
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Jul 02, 2025
Sean "Diddy" Combs was convicted Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law with a controversial, century-old history.
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Jul 02, 2025
Oasia Barnes, 70, of Gary, was sentenced to 164 years for of robbing cash from a man, then forcing him and his daughter, then 16, by gunpoint from the popular tourist attraction on Aug. 9, 2024, taking them to a nearby abandoned home, separating the girl and forcing her to perform a sex act in an overgrown field.
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Jul 02, 2025
Politicians still have time to throw their hats into one of the rings, but here are the top candidates for several US House districts next year in Illinois.
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Jul 02, 2025
When Desmond Webb filed a motion to withdraw from a plea deal for shooting his ex-girlfriend in the face, Judge Gina Jones said Tuesday she concluded he just wanted to back out.
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Jul 02, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a new 60-day ceasefire with Hamas and that Washington would work with both sides during that time to try to end more than 20 months of war in Gaza.
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Jul 02, 2025
Jordan Arredondo performs as #5 in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago premiere of "You Will Get Sick" by Noah Diaz.
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Jul 02, 2025
Day camp providers and schools are warning that a Trump administration funding freeze could wreck summer for low-income American families and wipe out some after-school programming next year.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free.
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Jul 02, 2025
As Republicans in Congress rushed forward with a massive tax and spending cut bill, a North Carolina renewable energy executive wrote to his 190 employees with a warning: Deep cuts to clean energy tax credits were going to hurt.
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Jul 02, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jul 02, 2025
Christina Formella, a former Downers Grove South teacher, lost her bid to ease pre-trial release restrictions that prevent her from living at home.
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Jul 02, 2025
The jury in the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial convicted him of a prostitution-related crime but cleared him of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
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Jul 02, 2025
Sales of Tesla electric cars fell sharply in the last three months as boycotts over Elon Musk's political views continue to keep buyers away, a significant development given expectations that anger with the company's billionaire CEO would have faded by now.
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Jul 02, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Jul 02, 2025
Dolton officials are moving ahead with plans to buy Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in the village, hoping to snap up the modest brick home that has gained international attention ahead of a planned auction. The Village Board at a special meeting Tuesday voted unanimously to move forward on buying the house at 212 East […]
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Jul 02, 2025
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down the state's 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including statutes that criminalize abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
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Jul 02, 2025
Plans to demolish a historic baseball stadium where Babe Ruth played and an adjacent rugby venue are at the heart of a disputed park redevelopment in Tokyo that critics say trades history and greenery for commercial space.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Donald Trump keeps saying that Republicans' mega tax and spending cut legislation will eliminate taxes on federal Social Security benefits.
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Jul 02, 2025
Sean "Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put one of hip-hop's most celebrated figures behind bars for life.
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Jul 02, 2025
In a case seen as a challenge to free speech, Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the editing of CBS' " 60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October.
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Jul 02, 2025
An analysis finds that a critical group of U.S. employers would face a direct cost of $82.3 billion from President Donald Trump's current tariff plans, a sum that could be potentially managed through price hikes, layoffs, hiring freezes or lower profit margins.
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Jul 02, 2025
Hamas suggested Wednesday that it was open to a ceasefire agreement with Israel, but stopped short of accepting a U.S.-backed proposal announced by President Donald Trump hours earlier, insisting on its longstanding position that any deal bring an end to the war in Gaza.
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Jul 02, 2025
A man was fatally wounded overnight in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago police said.
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Jul 02, 2025
A 66-year-old man was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting on the South Side in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jul 02, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jul 02, 2025
Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a Wednesday vote on President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package.
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Jul 02, 2025
The Trump administration has sought to arm deportation officials with more data on immigrants.
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Jul 02, 2025
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the ban on asbestos, an Indiana man suffering from asbestosis recovers from Loyola Medicine's life-saving double lung transplant.
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Jul 02, 2025
On July 2, 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; at least 50 and as many as 200 people, most of them Black, are believed to have died in the violence.
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Jul 02, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jul 01, 2025
A 27-year-old woman was critically wounded Tuesday night after they were stabbed in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, police said.
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Jul 01, 2025
A Cook County judge on Tuesday ordered pretrial detention for a 66-year-old man from Broadview accused of fatally stabbing a fellow CTA Blue Line train passenger who asked to share his cigarette.
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Jul 01, 2025
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen.
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Jul 01, 2025
It was a surprising statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi as the Trump administration promises to release more files from its sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein: The FBI, she said, was reviewing "tens of thousands of videos" of the wealthy financier "with children or child porn."
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Jul 01, 2025
President Donald Trump said a new immigration detention center in a remote area of the Florida Everglades, surrounded by alligator-filled swamps, could be a model for future projects as his administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.
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Jul 01, 2025
There were glimmers of possibility Tuesday that Porter County could mend its riff with Chesterton and Porter following anofficer-involved shooting.
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Jul 01, 2025
Aldermen ordered police and Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration to share information about the incident, though it's not clear what will come of their attempt to figure out what happened.
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Jul 01, 2025
Businessman Kenneth Norgan, founding sponsor of the "Beyond the Aria" series at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, has died.
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Jul 01, 2025
The owner of two allegedly fraudulent COVID-19 testing labs linked to a disgraced ex-executive of Loretto Hospital pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he was part of a sprawling fraud scheme that siphoned more than $290 million in federal funds for testing that never occurred.
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Jul 01, 2025
Six Hoosier university systems have volunteered to reduce more than 400 degree programs statewide, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced Monday.
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Jul 01, 2025
Gary resident Rashad Thompson, 38, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years in a carjacker's killing.
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Jul 01, 2025
Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 2 cyclone Tuesday off the Pacific coast of Mexico and could become a major hurricane before weakening later this week, forecasters said.
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Jul 01, 2025
The man in custody for the fatal stabbing at Navy Pier Sunday was released Monday without charges, police said.
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Jul 01, 2025
The jury in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial said Tuesday that it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul and was unable to reach a decision on the top charge, racketeering conspiracy.
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Jul 01, 2025
While serving as a dean of discipline in the Chicago Public Schools system, Brian Crowder approached a 15-year-old student in the lunch room at a Little Village school and asked her for her SnapChat username, the woman, now an adult, testified on Tuesday.
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Jul 01, 2025
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.
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Jul 01, 2025
South Suburban College in South Holland will break ground on a $71 million, 130,000-square-foot health care training facility.
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Jul 01, 2025
Adam Mildred, current deputy prosecuting attorney in Allen County, was nominated to serve as the new U.S. Attorney for Indiana's Northern District.
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Jul 01, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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