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Oct 31, 2024
Northwest Indiana residents and environmental activists on Wednesday attended a public meeting to voice their concerns about a potential permit for Tradebe. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management hosted a meeting at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting. IDEM's Office of Air Quality issues air pollution control permits to sources that emit regulated levels of pollutants into the air, according to the agency. Tradebe, a Barcelona-based waste management company, has a hazardous waste storage and treatment facility at 4343 Kennedy Ave. in East Chicago. IDEM's public meeting focused on a drum shredder at Tradebe's East Chicago location. A drum […]
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Oct 31, 2024
The reasons to revoke Donald M. Johnson's probation in his securities fraud case continued mounting Thursday, a day before a hearing to do just that, when his probation officer filed a notice with the court that Johnson has been working at a Michigan City restaurant without reporting it.
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Oct 31, 2024
Immigrant rights activists urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council at a Thursday news conference to maintain funding for migrant and homelessness services in next year's budget.
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Oct 31, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson's school board president resigned after coming under fire for controversial social media posts.
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Oct 31, 2024
Algoma is known in Wisconsin as a sleepy, charming little place, a draw for tourists with its charter fishing trips, antique shops and beachfront boardwalk that is perfect for a lakeside stroll. What is less widely known is its unusually deep political divide.
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Oct 31, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to break from the 48 out of 50 aldermen who will accept the automatic 2025 pay bump tied to inflation.
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Oct 31, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Oct 31, 2024
Here's a look back at the men who have portrayed the now iconic ghost host Svengoolie through the decades.
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Oct 31, 2024
A 23-year-old from Gary, Indiana, was arrested last weekend for having a firearm inside his car while parked at Topgolf in Naperville — the 25th firearm-related offense outside the venue since August 2023, authorities said.
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Oct 31, 2024
More tapes were played at Madigan's corruption trial Thursday as testimony ventured into the #MeToo-era sexual harassment scandal that engulfed the speaker's office and posed the most significant threat in decades to his grip on power.
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Oct 31, 2024
Thornton Township got some business done before Trustee Chris Gonzalez left due to "grandstanding" by Supervisor Tiffany Henyard.
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Oct 31, 2024
The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory Thursday in effect from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. as officials are expecting wind gusts up to 50 mph. The advisory is for portions of north central and northwest Illinois where west winds are expected between 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, officials […]
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Oct 31, 2024
For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message away.
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Oct 31, 2024
Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives.
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Oct 31, 2024
With the U.S. handling of the Israel-Hamas war and conflict in the Middle East looming over the White House race, many American Muslim voters — most of whom backed President Joe Biden four years ago — have been wrestling with voting decisions.
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Oct 31, 2024
Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign's final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades.
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Oct 31, 2024
At least two businesses, a restaurant and a bar, were burglarized overnight on the Near West and Near South Sides, Chicago police said. The latest burglary happened shortly before 3:30 a.m. at a bar in the 600 block of West Lake Street. Officers responded to a call of a burglary and found the front door […]
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Oct 31, 2024
The cancer hospital will be named the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, and is slated to open in 2027.
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Oct 31, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Oct 31, 2024
The teen lays part of the blame for the repeated sexual abuse he experienced as a sophomore at the South Side high school from then-29-year-old guard, Tywain Carter, with school employees, he alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against Carter and the Chicago Board of Education.
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Oct 31, 2024
When the teenager was asked if he wanted to share a statement at a court hearing for a former security guard at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy who pled guilty to sexually assaulting him when he was a 15-year-old student, he worried that he wouldn't be able to express his emotions in detail using his voice. So, instead, he wrote a poem — an "alternative route," he called it. "From poor self esteem to no sleep, you brought all of this upon me," the poem said. "Please don't take me out of another classroom. I hope you feel the deceit, and […]
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Oct 31, 2024
Illinois abortion providers say out-of-state ballot measures won't decrease the number of patients travelling here.
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Oct 31, 2024
For Rev. Laura González, the business of being a witch is a little subversive — reflecting a female empowerment that she doesn't see in mainstream politics — and thoroughly practical.
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Oct 31, 2024
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Oct 31, 2024
2015 — Triple Crown champion American Pharoah wins the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic by 6 1/2 lengths in his final race before retirement.
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Oct 31, 2024
On Oct. 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister for more than 15 years, was assassinated by two of her own security guards.
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Oct 30, 2024
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed suit Monday to stop the America PAC sweepstakes, which is set to run through Election Day.
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Oct 30, 2024
Investigators say the man suspected of setting fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state is an experienced metalworker and may be planning additional attacks.
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Oct 30, 2024
Gov. JB Pritzker and more than two dozen aldermen criticized Mayor Brandon Johnson for not fully vetting his choice for school board president — citing the hand-picked candidate's history of posting repeatedly about Israel's yearlong offensive in Gaza. The Rev. Mitchell "Ikenna" Johnson was appointed by the mayor to the school board's top leadership role […]
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Oct 30, 2024
Banking and credit groups opposed to an Illinois law banning certain credit card fees are asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction.
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Oct 30, 2024
Whether you have a stand-alone Part D drug plan or your drug coverage comes with your Advantage all-in-one plan, you must do a review. (Note that not all Advantage Plans include drug coverage, and if you're in Advantage without drugs, you cannot buy a separate Part D plan!)
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Oct 30, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration said 90 people across 13 states have fallen ill in the outbreak, up from 75 at the end of last week. The number of people hospitalized increased by five, to 27 people. One death has been tied to the outbreak.
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Oct 30, 2024
City workers who are members of SEIU Local 73 bargain their contracts jointly with city employees who are members of IBEW Local 21.
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Oct 30, 2024
Michael Airhart and Rena Poulos will challenge Lawrence Jackson, who was charged last year for perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Oct 30, 2024
That tax hike instantly led a large group of aldermen to outright oppose Mayor Johnson's budget proposal and say their constituents cannot bear the cost.
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Oct 30, 2024
A Center Township man will pay more than $31,000 to Lake County Animal Control as restitution for on one count of Class A Misdemeanor cruelty to an animal.
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Oct 30, 2024
On Wednesday, Han became the sixth person sentenced in the saga over Outcome Health, which was once one of the most talked-about tech companies in Chicago.
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Oct 30, 2024
A Highland man is facing felony charges after stalking his ex-wife and threatening her companion, texting in Serbian that he would "drink his blood," court records show.
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Oct 30, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Oct 30, 2024
One Northwest Indiana activist is encouraged by a recent Washington, D.C. circuit court ruling but said U.S. Steel still has a long way to go. The court on Thursday denied a request for the steel company to hit pause on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule setting emission standards for integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities. U.S. Steel's decision was consolidated with cases from Cleveland Cliffs and the Clean Air Council, according to online court records. The court urges the groups to submit a joint proposal going forward. "The new rule would make a dent in emission levels," said Carolyn […]
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Oct 30, 2024
In recent weeks, a new kind of mailer has been piling up on doorsteps across the city — ads for and against candidates for the soon-to-be-elected school board. With 31 candidates and money pouring in from the Chicago Teachers Union and charter-aligned groups for 10 hotly contested seats, these ads look a little different, with cut-out portraits of unsmiling contenders and menacing messages. Like the kinds of mailers seen in legislative and aldermanic races, they are sometimes darkly political and stick to straight politics, even though some of the country's most polarizing education issues — officers in schools, book-banning and critical […]
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Oct 30, 2024
The Valparaiso woman charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly defacing Commissioner Jim Biggs' campaign signs is the former director of the Memorial Opera House, a county official confirmed Wednesday.
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Oct 30, 2024
Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she disagrees "with any criticism of people based on who they vote for," reacting after President Joe Biden made a reference to Donald Trump's supporters and "garbage" as the vice president delivered a speech aimed at unity.
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Oct 30, 2024
Verna Clayton, Buffalo Grove's village president for 12 years and later a state legislator, has died.
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Oct 30, 2024
The funding for Chicago represents a slice of the $72 million HUD funds allocated nationally for youth homelessness.
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Oct 30, 2024
Blue Island officials consider a plan to use a former landfill site at 119th Street and Vincennes Road to host a Cook County Fair.
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Oct 30, 2024
Latino evangelicals are an influential voting bloc. Both parties have tried to appeal to them over the past two election cycles — neither with remarkable success — according to faith and community leaders.
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Oct 30, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Oct 30, 2024
Missouri voters are considering whether to make the state the 40th jurisdiction to legalize sports betting.
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Oct 30, 2024
The $300 million increase is a major flip-flop from Johnson's prior vow not to employ the widely unpopular revenue-raising tactic.
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Oct 30, 2024
The graduation rate among Illinois students hit a historic high, of nearly 88%, last school year, as did student performance on literacy exams, state officials announced Wednesday upon the release of the 2024 Illinois Report Card.
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Oct 30, 2024
The Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, has been the state's federally mandated measurement of students' mastery of the state standards in English language arts and math since 2015.
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Oct 30, 2024
In addition to the Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, the Illinois Report Card also includes data from the SAT, an Illinois Board of Education-sponsored accountability assessment given to high school juniors.
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Oct 30, 2024
A former lieutenant for Michael Madigan is expected to resume testimony Wednesday in the ex-speaker's corruption case, where he's giving jurors an insider look at Madigan's influence over legislation in Springfield and Democratic Party politics.
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Oct 30, 2024
The thousands of young soldiers North Korea has sent to Russia, reportedly to help fight against Ukraine, include many elite special forces, but that hasn't stopped speculation they'll be slaughtered because they have no combat experience, no familiarity with the terrain and will likely be dropped onto the most ferocious battlefields.
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Oct 30, 2024
At least 63 people have died in eastern Spain after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory.
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Oct 30, 2024
A fatal fire broke out overnight at a home in north suburban Zion where three people were reported dead and a woman was injured, officials said.
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Oct 30, 2024
A 14-year-old girl was reported in good condition after she was wounded Tuesday evening in a shooting in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 7:15 p.m., the girl suffered a gunshot wound to the left leg in the first block of West 110th Street. She was taken to Comer Children's Hospital where she was listed in good condition, police said. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.
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Oct 30, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Oct 30, 2024
During mushroom season in Illinois, mid-April to early November, the club conducts surveys around Chicagoland a few times a month.
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Oct 30, 2024
On a trip to Arizona, a writer tries to understand her mystically inclined mother with the help of crystals, meditation and visits to the area's vortexes.
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Oct 30, 2024
The top race in Cook County has not generated mass mailings, broadcast commercials or even a public debate.
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Oct 30, 2024
1993 — Erin Whitten becomes the first woman goalie in professional hockey to be credited with a victory as Toledo beats Dayton 6-5 in the East Coast Hockey League.
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Oct 30, 2024
On Oct. 30, 1972, 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago's South Side.
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Oct 29, 2024
Kamala Harris on Tuesday sought to remind Americans what life was like under Donald Trump and then offered voters a different path forward if they send her to the White House, in a speech billed as her campaign's closing argument.
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Oct 29, 2024
About 475 damaged ballots were retrieved from a ballot box that was burned early Monday in southwest Washington, a county official said Tuesday.
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Oct 29, 2024
President Joe Biden took a swipe against Donald Trump's supporters on Tuesday as he reacted to the Republican presidential nominee's weekend rally at Madison Square Garden, which was overshadowed by crude and racist rhetoric.
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Oct 29, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
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Oct 29, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
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Oct 29, 2024
Illinois Latino Democrats denounced derisive rhetoric about Puerto Rico at a rally for Donald Trump.
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Oct 29, 2024
Chicago on Tuesday broke a record more than a century old for the warmest daily temperature recorded on Oct. 29, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures climbed to 82 degrees at O'Hare Airport Tuesday, topping the previous daily record of 78 degrees. Mark Ratzer, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Chicago office, said that record had stood since 1901, though it was also met on Oct. 29, 1999. The Chicago area has experienced what National Weather Service senior meteorologist Gino Izzi called "a pretty unprecedented warm spell" since Monday. The warm weather is forecast to continue through Wednesday […]
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Oct 29, 2024
For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
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Oct 29, 2024
Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in Vancouver, Washington.
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Oct 29, 2024
The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was given a life term without the possibility of parole on Tuesday following a separate state trial.
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Oct 29, 2024
Veteran NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell said Tuesday that she plans to end her weekday MSNBC show after the inauguration of a new president and switch back to a reporting role.
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Oct 29, 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.
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Oct 29, 2024
The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the election.
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Oct 29, 2024
As a sprawling liability case takes shape following the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, the owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to deflect responsibility and cast blame elsewhere.
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Oct 29, 2024
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison early Tuesday, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Oct 29, 2024
At Calumet area forest preserves, seed-saving efforts ensuring native plants repopulate plots cleared of invasive species.
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Oct 29, 2024
Kathryn Choi is the fifth former Outcome employee or leader to be sentenced in recent months. Choi pleaded guilty in 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a plea deal.
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Oct 29, 2024
An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 88 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said.
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Oct 29, 2024
The Liberty Township woman who, according to charging documents, sat on her foster son until he stopped breathing while conducting video calls with her husband and the boy's caseworker submitted a guilty plea Tuesday to reckless homicide, a Level 5 felony.
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Oct 29, 2024
Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard and Trustee Jason House will face off in the February primary, and 9 candidates seek 3 trustee seats.
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Oct 29, 2024
Naperville police and school officials are investigating a racial slur discovered on a Naperville Central High School student's athletic locker earlier this month.
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Oct 29, 2024
Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has died. She was 79.
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Oct 29, 2024
The man charged in a North Side weekend shootout with Chicago Police officers was ordered detained pending trial Tuesday during a brief hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
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Oct 29, 2024
Donald Trump on Tuesday called his rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, an event marked by crude and racist insults by several speakers, a "lovefest."
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Oct 29, 2024
Native American communities were decisive voting blocs in key states in 2020, and with the 2024 race remaining stubbornly close both campaigns have tried to mobilize Native voters in the final weeks of the presidential election.
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Oct 29, 2024
The former general counsel for Commonwealth Edison testified Tuesday that he had "reservations" about selecting Juan Ochoa for the utility's board after a background check turned up some significant political baggage.
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Oct 29, 2024
The Coalition for Permanent Standard Time in Darien says permanent standard time would provide long term health and safety benefits.
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Oct 29, 2024
According to the sheriff's office, it sends notices to sex offenders at this time of year to remind them that they are not allowed to engage with children collecting Halloween treats.
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Oct 29, 2024
Naperville police say they have detained a man they believe could be responsible for a Monday night shooting in which an 18-year-old man was injured.
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Oct 29, 2024
Voters in parts of Lake, Cook and McHenry counties will decide whether to return Brad Schneider to Washington or send Jim Carris to represent them there when they cast their ballots in the Nov. 5 general election.
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Oct 29, 2024
Shots fired during an armed robbery Monday night in the Chatham neighborhood traveled into an apartment building wounding a 23-year-old woman, Chicago police said. Shortly after 9:30 p.m., a 34-year-old man was approached by three armed robbers at a bus stop in the 8200 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue when they demanded his property. When the robbers started removing his property the victim ran and shots were fired in his direction, police said. One of the gunshots veered into an apartment iin the 8200 block of South Evans Avenue, striking a woman to the shoulder. She was taken in […]
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Oct 29, 2024
Gunfire from a drive-by shooting Monday night veered into a residence critically wounding a 49-year-old in the Morgan Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 11:50 p.m. Monday, a 23-year-old man was walking into a residence in the 1300 block of West 109th Street when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire. The man was not struck but a bullet traveled up to the second floor and struck a man to the stomach, police said. ‘ The 49-year-ld man was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating. […]
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Oct 29, 2024
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison early Tuesday, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Oct 29, 2024
Bowls of labneh and platters of za'atar bread covered the tables in a Lebanese restaurant near Detroit, yet no one seemed to have much of an appetite.
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Oct 29, 2024
The number of newspapers endorsing a candidate for president has dwindled with the industry's financial troubles the past two decades, in part because owners reason that it makes no sense to alienate some subscribers by taking a clear stand in a politically polarizing time.
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Oct 29, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
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