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May 16, 2024
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea.
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May 16, 2024
A week after President Joe Biden's latest visit to Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared at a Glencoe home fundraiser.
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May 16, 2024
A Chicago police officer died Thursday afternoon in an apparent suicide on the Near West Side, authorities confirmed. The 29-year-old officer, whose identity wasn't released, was found about 2:30 p.m. with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in the 1600 block of West Warren Boulevard, police said. At least 29 Chicago police officers have […]
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May 16, 2024
The law, considered among the strictest of its kind, requires companies to gain consent before they collect and store biometric information such as fingerprints or retina scans.
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May 16, 2024
South Africa has urged the United Nations' top court to order a cease-fire in Gaza to halt Israel's military operation in the southern city of Rafah.
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May 16, 2024
Under current law hospitals must report allegations of patient abuse. But abuse that occurs at clinics outside of hospital walls is not subject to the same requirement.
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May 16, 2024
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas.
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May 16, 2024
Solar installations in the U.S. are expected to double to 10 million by 2030 and triple to 15 million by 2034. Illinois, which had only 2,500 solar installations in 2017, now has more than 87,000.
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May 16, 2024
House Republicans voted Thursday on a bill to mandate the delivery of weapons to Israel.
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May 16, 2024
Their ongoing battle to get off the list became a public flashpoint in the early months of conflict between Johnson advisors and staffers who stayed on from the Lightfoot era or earlier.
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May 16, 2024
Officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed by a 15-year-old resident, according to police records.
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May 16, 2024
Organizers said they planned to seek approval to hold their march, but the DePaul clash between police and protesters convinced them it was pointless to try to cooperate with city officials.
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May 16, 2024
The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy.
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May 16, 2024
Other "crimes of the century" have come and gone, but the "perfect murder" of Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb continues to fascinate and infuriate Chicagoans 100 years later.
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May 16, 2024
A Colorado woman has pleaded guilty to participating in a sophisticated "SIM swap" scam allegedly orchestrated out of a suburban Chicago home that led to the $400 million hack of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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May 16, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 16, 2024
Orland Park's former village manager Joseph La Margo will pay $30,000 in settling a lawsuit filed in the wake of an investigation he launched into possible bid rigging by Mayor Keith Pekau.
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May 16, 2024
At the start of the century, Lake County was experiencing a rise in population, according to archival data from the U.S. Census. In 2000, the population was 644,599; 10 years later it was 703,462.
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May 16, 2024
The office investigates waste, fraud and abuse across county government, including at the Forest Preserves and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
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May 16, 2024
FBI raises Lincoln Square home Thursday morning, executes warrant.
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May 16, 2024
Since November, the GVPI has hosted a number of town halls around the county that helped inform the violence prevention plan.
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May 16, 2024
The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
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May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that's at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers in a letter publicly released on Thursday.
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May 16, 2024
Chicago police dismantled DePaul University's pro-Palestine encampment Thursday morning after administrators signed a complaint alleging trespassing by the protestors.
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May 16, 2024
The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation's asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border
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May 16, 2024
UNICEF said an estimated 30,000 children under age 18 have crossed the jungle-clad trail between Colombia and Panama, and some have died making the trip.
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May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to debate at least twice before the election. Here's what to know.
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May 16, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 16, 2024
Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial Thursday.
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May 16, 2024
Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill Wednesday at the first Mexican taco stand ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide, and did exactly the same thing he's been doing for 20 years: searing meat.
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May 16, 2024
More than 112,000 Illinois residents have been deemed too dangerous to own guns, but the state doesn't know if 84,000 of those people still have them, according to a new analysis by the Cook County sheriff's department.
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May 16, 2024
On May 16, 2022, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million.
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May 16, 2024
Though the city of Chicago has lost residents in recent years, the suburbs in Cook County have lost more, while suburbs far from the city are booming, new U.S. census estimates show.
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May 16, 2024
How did things change in your area? Here's a look at 2023 population estimates for cities, towns and villages in Cook County and other Chicago-area counties.
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May 15, 2024
A bipartisan group of senators is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.
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May 15, 2024
A couple of hundred Chicago teachers and school employees rallied in Springfield in a union-led effort to secure more funding for Chicago Public Schools.
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May 15, 2024
Gerald Reed was acquitted Wednesday after a retrial of his murder case, killings for which he had spent some three decades in prison.
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May 15, 2024
A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relationships with Native American tribes has filed a lawsuit accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual harassment.
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May 15, 2024
The family of an assistant principal who was shot and killed inside a residential building in the Loop filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the alleged gunman, building management and its security, saying they "violated policies and common sense."
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May 15, 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
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May 15, 2024
Staff at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital and others in the system have access to a free program offering nurse training.
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May 15, 2024
Northwestern recently performed its 10,000th abdominal organ transplant, and was the first network in the state to reach that number
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May 15, 2024
Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday while greeting supporters at an event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe weeks before an election.
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May 15, 2024
A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a smaller and separate island that is home to a university, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.
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May 15, 2024
After experiencing a panic attack in his office following an active shooter incident, Maliszewski said he was unable to return to work. The panic attack came nine months after the former recreation director worked at the Park District's July 4 parade, where seven people were killed and dozens more were injured during a mass shooting.
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May 15, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 15, 2024
More than a decade after the killing of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton put a national spotlight on Chicago's entrenched problem with gun violence, Illinois prosecutors worked to salvage a conviction against the alleged shooter before the state's highest court.
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May 15, 2024
Richard Globensky, an ex-employee of Augusta National Golf Club, pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday to stealing golf legend Arnold Palmer's green jacket and other memorabilia.
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May 15, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates in June and September — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks.
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May 15, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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May 15, 2024
Bridgeview police said they are investigating the shooting death of a 39-year-old man who was shot multiple times walking to his car Wednesday morning outside an apartment building.
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May 15, 2024
The three men were standing in the lot on the 700 block of West 71st Street at around 9:40 p.m. when shots were fired, according to police.
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May 15, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 15, 2024
A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
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May 15, 2024
Plenty has been said and written about the Paris Summer Olympics (and will be in the coming months), but here we will set that massive event to the side and focus instead on other reasons to visit France this year.
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May 15, 2024
Unlike cars and trucks, planes are difficult to electrify, and some fuel companies believe the answer to cleaning up aviation lies in America's heartland.
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May 15, 2024
On May 15, 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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May 14, 2024
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
King Charles III has unveiled the first portrait of the monarch completed since he assumed the throne, a vivid image that depicts him in the bright red uniform of the Welsh Guards against a background of similar hues.
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May 14, 2024
Standing trial on murder charges, Pierre Tyler contends 2021 shooting of girlfriend when he was a Chicago police officer was in self-defense.
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May 14, 2024
What's going on at your church? Let us know by sending us an email including time, date, place and public contact information at least two weeks before the event or reservation deadline at religion@southtownstar.com.
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May 14, 2024
Members of the Jewish United Fund in Chicago raised a flag in Daley Plaza Tuesday to honor the date of the formal establishment of the State of Israel. The holiday — called "Yom Ha'atzmaut" in Hebrew — held more significance amid the deadliest round of fighting in the history of the conflict between Jews and Palestinians to date. Hundreds milled around in the Loop waving blue Israeli flags, while the chants of a few dozen counterprotesters could be heard from the corner of North Clark and North Dearborn streets nearby. Their messages underscore sentiments of unease that have rippled across […]
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May 14, 2024
Investigators probing the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said in a preliminary report Tuesday the cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore while undergoing maintenance.
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May 14, 2024
David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie's "Young Americans" and James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a performer of melodic, contemporary jazz, has died at age 78.
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May 14, 2024
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court with Donald Trump and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an illegitimate "sham."
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May 14, 2024
A movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust," according to court documents released Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
A border collie-papillion mix aptly named Nimble outran and outmaneuvered 50 other finalists to seize Westminster's agility trophy and plant a flag for blended-breed dogs everywhere.
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May 14, 2024
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world's most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92.
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May 14, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 14, 2024
The Tribune recently reported that long waitlists to connect to the electric grid have emerged as a major barrier to clean energy projects in northern Illinois.
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May 14, 2024
St. Christopher School in Midlothian is celebrating 100 years as a community, along with a retiring nun who's been there for 50 of them.
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May 14, 2024
A potential revenue generator could be to lease vacant land the district owns in Homer Glen to a solar energy company or install solar panels on the roofs of its buildings.
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May 14, 2024
State Rep. Mark Walker is moving to the other chamber in the General Assembly, appointed Saturday to take the state Senate post Ann Gillespie held before she was tapped to head the Department of Insurance. Walker, D-Arlington Heights, had been the state representative for the 53rd District and is now the new state senator for the 27th District. The senate district includes most or parts of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows, and Schaumburg. "Over my time serving the 53rd District in the House, I've represented most of the people and communities of […]
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May 14, 2024
A 25-year-old man was wounded in his residence when gunfire from outside veered through a bedroom window striking him to the thigh, Chicago police said.
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May 14, 2024
At least six armed robberies were reported throughout the city overnight, and in one robbery a steel hammer was used to threaten an employee, Chicago police said.
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May 14, 2024
Though their states severely restrict abortion or place limits on having one through telehealth, about 8,000 women per month late last year were getting abortion pills by mail from states with legal protections for prescribers, a new survey finds.
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May 14, 2024
Burglars used a Jeep to smash the front doors of a business overnight on the South Side, Chicago police said. Around 3:15 a.m Tuesday, officers responded to a burglary in progress in the 1900 block of East 95th Street and found a Jeep was used to smash the front doors of a business. No one inside of the business when burglars made entry, police said. It was not immediately known what was taken from the business. No one has been arrested and detectives were investigating.
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May 14, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 14, 2024
Michael Cohen testified that Trump was constantly apprised of the behind-the-scenes efforts to bury stories feared to be harmful to the campaign.
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May 14, 2024
Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe awaits a bruising round of questioning from the former president's lawyers on Tuesday after testimony that linked the celebrity client to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign.
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May 14, 2024
A proposal to change the way Illinois handles mothers with drug use disorders is meant to prioritize treatment, but has prompted "grave concerns" from a prosecutor who handled one infamous case.
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May 14, 2024
"I love everything, all music, and that's why I do what I do. My great passion has always been to share the things I love."
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May 14, 2024
On May 14, 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion, who became its first prime minister; U.S. President Harry S. Truman immediately recognized the new nation.
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May 13, 2024
A permanent memorial honoring the 10 Black victims of a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket will feature interconnected stone pillars and arches, and a windowed building where exhibitions and events will be held, community and elected leaders announced Monday.
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May 13, 2024
For all the pooch pageantry of Westminster — the coiffed poodles, the top-knotted toy dogs, the formality of dogs trotting around a ring — it's also an illustration of the bond people form with dogs, and what each will do for the other.
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May 13, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson touts seventh migrant shelter closure during his first year in office.
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May 13, 2024
The fine follows an inspector general investigation and a November probable cause finding from the board, which Conyears-Ervin was given the opportunity to rebut in the interim.
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May 13, 2024
The city fell in love with Imani's parents, Monty and Rose, who set up housekeeping in Chicago in 2019.
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May 13, 2024
After a first effort fizzled over questions of independence, legislators consider more detailed legislation to create a statewide public defender's office.
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May 13, 2024
A host of state and local dignitaries, including the governor of Indiana, a U.S. senator and two Congressional representatives, celebrated the South Shore Line's new Double Track service Monday.
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May 13, 2024
Irene Chavez told police about her mental health struggles, including a PTSD diagnosis, when she got arrested.
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May 13, 2024
Crews conducted a controlled demolition Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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May 13, 2024
Firearms recovered were recovered from the Lockport area home of John Shadbar, who is being held pending trial on attempted first-degree murder charges.
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May 13, 2024
The man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze appeared online for the first time in three years, sending the prices of thee quirky and volatile shares sharply higher Monday.
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May 13, 2024
The leaders of Greece and Turkey met Monday for talks aimed at underlining their efforts to put aside decades-old disputes, but they also revealed deep divisions over the Israel-Hamas war.
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May 13, 2024
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday. He was 93.
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May 13, 2024
Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after he was punched in the face by a man on a New York City street, his publicist said Sunday.
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May 13, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 13, 2024
Former phone company exec Paul La Schiazza is to be tried on charges he approved a scheme to funnel payments to a Madigan associate in exchange for the speaker's help passing favorable legislation.
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May 13, 2024
Nineteen aldermen, including several progressive Johnson allies and other more conservative aldermen, have so far signed onto the resolution that also calls for Carter to resign.
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