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Nov 20, 2025
The Old Town resident and associate dean at the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Architecture was also married to an architect.
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Nov 20, 2025
Washington National Cathedral on Thursday hosted a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who in later years became an acidic scold of fellow Republican President Donald Trump.
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Nov 20, 2025
Prosecutors want a joint trial for Ralph Stokes and Betty Ann Tomlinson, court filings show. Defense lawyers argue it would prejudice his case for a jury. Stokes, 24, of Gary, is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Tomlinson, the ex-girlfriend's mother, so far, is accused of helping to dispose of the body.
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Nov 20, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition "punishable by DEATH" after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy "illegal orders."
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Nov 20, 2025
The new system will be a biometric kiosk that TSA describes as a" modernized alternative identity verification program," allowing passengers to access TSA checkpoints for up to 10 days after paying the $18 non-refundable fee.
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Nov 20, 2025
The Riverdale Village Board chose Trustee Cassandra Riley-Pinkney as acting mayor to replace Lawrence Jackson, convicted of perjury.
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Nov 20, 2025
A federal immigration crackdown based in North Carolina's largest city that authorities said led to hundreds of arrests is now over, a local law enforcement agency said Thursday.
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Nov 20, 2025
A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the release on bond of hundreds of immigrants whose arrests during Operation Midway Blitz are being challenged under a consent decree.
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Nov 20, 2025
A man suspected of staying overnight in an unoccupied room at a hotel in Chesterton was arrested at a hotel in Porter Tuesday.
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Nov 20, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Nov 20, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line.
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Nov 20, 2025
A jury convicted a former Gary man Wednesday with beating his roommate to death with a sledgehammer at the Willows apartments.
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Nov 20, 2025
Most Chicagoans want the Bears to stay, but don't want to spend public money to keep them, a new survey has found.
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Nov 20, 2025
The deal will allow Abbott -- which makes continuous glucose monitors and other products -- to enter the cancer testing space.
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Nov 20, 2025
As cases of potentially deadly botulism in babies who drank ByHeart infant formula continue to grow, state officials say they are still finding the recalled product on some store shelves.
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Nov 20, 2025
Walmart delivered another standout quarter, posting strong sales and profits that blew past Wall Street expectations as it wins over more cash-strapped Americans who have grown increasing anxious about the economy.
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Nov 20, 2025
Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees, as the telecommunications giant says it must "reorient" its entire company.
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Nov 20, 2025
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes increased last month to the fastest pace since February as lower mortgage rates helped pull more homebuyers into the market.
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Nov 20, 2025
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
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Nov 20, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Nov 20, 2025
Chicago Public Schools' culinary students help maintain the Drake Hotel's holiday gingerbread tradition.
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Nov 20, 2025
A immigration agent who bragged to colleagues about his marksmanship after shooting a Chicago woman accused of ramming his vehicle sent other text messages that are now in the hands of defense attorneys, marking yet another twist in a controversial case arising from "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Nov 20, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 20, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Nov 20, 2025
On Nov. 20, 1910, Francisco Madero led a revolt against Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, marking the beginning of the decade-long Mexican Revolution.
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Nov 19, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed a bill to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nov 19, 2025
The district is currently undergoing a major facilities overhaul after voters in the spring approved the district selling $420 million in bonds.
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Nov 19, 2025
Terrance White, 32, pleaded guilty in June to attempted murder in aid of racketeering activity for the nearly decade-old shooting of then 10-year-old Tavon Tanner.
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Nov 19, 2025
A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Ternopil has killed at least 25 people, including three children.
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Nov 19, 2025
Videos of the attack have circulated widely on social media, stirring fear amongst Bright parents and getting the attention of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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Nov 19, 2025
Congress is sending President Donald Trump a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nov 19, 2025
Congress is sending President Donald Trump a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nov 19, 2025
Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. It zipped harmlessly past Mars last month.
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Nov 19, 2025
A Gary man was sentenced Wednesday to a 105-year split term for killing his neighbor and wounding her fiancé.
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Nov 19, 2025
Alexian Brothers has not yet announced on what date it will stop scheduling deliveries of babies, but "will be doing so shortly," Ascension spokesperson Olga Solares said in an email.
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Nov 19, 2025
State Sen. Daniel Dernulc, R-Highland, received a false swatting call Wednesday — the day after the state Senate voted not to move forward with mid-census redistricting.
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Nov 19, 2025
The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.
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Nov 19, 2025
The Lake County Sheriff's Department received approval for a feasibility study of its indoor shooting range to review structural needs.
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Nov 19, 2025
A Gary man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend with a sawed-off shotgun on Monday.
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Nov 19, 2025
A federal judge said he plans to move ahead on a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
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Nov 19, 2025
Chicago White Sox limited owner Justin Ishbia met with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday in Rome and asked the world's most prominent Sox fan to bless the team's next ballpark when it opens.
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Nov 19, 2025
Palos Heights Mayor Robert Straz is waiting to hear from Trinity Christian College about plans for the 6601 W. College Drive campus.
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Nov 19, 2025
Tom Pritzker, cousin to Gov. JB Pritzker and a Hyatt Hotels heir, is named in documents of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nov 19, 2025
A Chicago federal appeals court on Wednesday put the brakes on a lower court's preliminary injunction restricting the use of force in Operation Midway Blitz, saying it is "overbroad" and improperly targets virtually the entire executive branch, including President Donald Trump.
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Nov 19, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Nov 19, 2025
Prosecutors Wednesday afternoon charged Reed, of Chicago, with a single count of terrorism against a mass transportation system in an attack on the CTA Blue Line.
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Nov 19, 2025
Prosecutors Wednesday afternoon charged Lawrence Reed, of Chicago, with a single count of terrorism against a mass transportation system in an attack on the CTA Blue Line.
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Nov 19, 2025
The Merrillville School Board voted Tuesday to name two facilities after trailblazing women connected to the district. A special education center inside its own wing at Pierce Middle School will be called the Judy C. Dunlap Pirate Academy and sports fields and tennis courts on the high school's athletic campus will honor retired athletic director Janice Qualizza.
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Nov 19, 2025
The Northwestern Medicine Dauten Behavioral Health Institute will aim to better coordinate care and improve screening of patients.
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Nov 19, 2025
Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state's largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
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Nov 19, 2025
For the fourth year in a row, use-of-force incidents involving Chicago Police officers are increasing, with advocates and officials saying the trend is helping to bring the reform process to a key point.
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Nov 19, 2025
Pope Leo discussed with Pritzker their shared concerns about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement practices in Chicago.
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Nov 19, 2025
Southland crime items compiled from police and court reports and news releases.
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Nov 19, 2025
The breach may have exposed the personal information of 6,679 people. The hospital said it has no evidence that any of the information has been used for identity theft or fraud.
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Nov 19, 2025
The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely.
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Nov 19, 2025
U.S. immigration agents carrying out an enforcement push in North Carolina's largest city have arrested more than 130 people and are now moving into an area around the state's capital city.
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Nov 19, 2025
Wall Street bounced back from this week's losses early Wednesday ahead of the latest earnings report from Nvidia, considered a bellwether for artificial intelligence sector.
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Nov 19, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Nov 19, 2025
Two pastors of Evanston churches were among 21 arrested on Nov. 14 outside of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Broadview processing facility. One said he was beaten, bruised and had his hands zip-tied so tightly they went numb. They have a Dec. 3 court date where they will face three misdemeanor charges. Rev. Michael Woolf, […]
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Nov 19, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 19, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Nov 19, 2025
On Nov. 19, 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.
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Nov 18, 2025
New U.S. EPA rule would strip protections from 72% of the state's remaining wetlands, which play a crucial role in mitigating flooding and filtering drinking water.
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Nov 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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Nov 18, 2025
President Trump denounced ABC News' Mary Bruce as a "terrible reporter" Tuesday and threatened the network's license to broadcast.
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Nov 18, 2025
President Donald Trump is insisting that the redistricting fight in Indiana is not over even as the GOP-led state Senate again refused Tuesday to return to the Capitol this year for a special session to draw new congressional maps.
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Nov 18, 2025
Twenty-three Congressional Democrats — including two from Illinois — joined with Republicans in favoring a resolution admonishing U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García for using old-school tactics to clear the way for his own House successor.
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Nov 18, 2025
Around 250 federal border agents are set to go to New Orleans for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed "Swamp Sweep" that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi.
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Nov 18, 2025
Plea negotiations with a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents are underway as her trial nears, the newly minted federal prosecutor overseeing the case said Tuesday.
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Nov 18, 2025
Illinois partisan politics formally undermined a staff finding that state Senate President Don Harmon's political fund violated campaign contribution limits last year.
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Nov 18, 2025
Chicago-based Oak Street Health is laying off 219 people early next year as its owner, CVS Health, restructures parts of the business and closes health centers across the country.
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Nov 18, 2025
Will County prosecutors said the owner of Kee Firearms falsely claimed Kee Construction earned $400,000 a month on a loan application.
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Nov 18, 2025
Chicago police said they shot a man while attempting to question a man they said had a firearm in the Washington Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning. Officers responded to the 5600 block of South Michigan Avenue around 11:50 a.m. to stop and question a man, whose age was not immediately disclosed, who was believed to […]
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Nov 18, 2025
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed U.S. intelligence findings that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Nov 18, 2025
A woman and a young boy were hospitalized after they were attacked Monday afternoon near an elementary school on the city's Far South Side, authorities said. The 33-year-old woman and the boy, 9, were walking on the 10600 block of South Bensley Avenue in the South Deering neighborhood around 3:10 p.m. when a group approached […]
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Nov 18, 2025
The Indiana State Senate and House adjourned their separate Organization Day sessions Tuesday until Jan. 5, 2026, but House Speaker Todd Huston hinted at possibly calling the House back in early December as previously scheduled.
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Nov 18, 2025
Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to chat with other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around their own age.
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Nov 18, 2025
The measure is intended to prohibit federal agents from using county property for staging, processing or operations.
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Nov 18, 2025
Venice has been charmed by a recent visitor: An acrobatic, wild dolphin.
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Nov 18, 2025
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.
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Nov 18, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Nov 18, 2025
A Blue Island man featured in "Loop puncher" videos that went viral on social media has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for crimes related to the attacks, Cook County court records show.
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Nov 18, 2025
Illinois residents on Wednesday will be able to add their state driver's license or state ID to their Apple Wallets. Mobile IDs will expand to Android users by sometime next year.
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Nov 18, 2025
Triton College in River Grove will compete for the national Aspen Institute's 2027 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
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Nov 18, 2025
Former Portage Mayor James Snyder asked for a new trial on his IRS conviction, a request federal prosecutors said is untimely and without merit.
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Nov 18, 2025
The number of detainees held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview has dropped precipitously since a federal judge ordered the government to comply with requirements to improve conditions at the facility, with only four people held there as of Tuesday morning.
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Nov 18, 2025
Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 has brought a taste of outer space into its schools with the recent addition of StarLab.
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Nov 18, 2025
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has largely resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, "League of Legends," to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.
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Nov 18, 2025
A fifth grader's mother complained to the Portage Township School Board about a book he took home from his teacher's personal library.
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Nov 18, 2025
A 54-year-old woman was wounded after three gunmen opened fire at a crowd waiting for the bus in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Nov 18, 2025
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Monday it's investigating a new sexual battery allegation against hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related convictions.
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Nov 18, 2025
The House is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the culmination of a monthslong effort that has overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
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Nov 18, 2025
A 26-year-old woman was left in critical condition after being set on fire during an argument Monday night on a CTA Blue Line train, Chicago police said. About 9:25 p.m., the victim was involved in an argument with a man about 45 years of age while she was on a train in the 100 block […]
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Nov 18, 2025
An Indiana homeowner accused of killing a house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at his front door was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Monday.
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Nov 18, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Nov 18, 2025
Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor said.
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Nov 18, 2025
On Nov. 18, 1928, "Steamboat Willie," the first cartoon with synchronized sound as well as the first release of the character Mickey Mouse, debuted on screen at the Colony Theater in New York.
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Nov 18, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 18, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Nov 17, 2025
The out-of-state troops, which had been living at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in southwest suburban Elwood, left facility as of 1 p.m. Monday, according to a memorandum obtained by the Tribune.
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Nov 17, 2025
Builders plan to complete the 25,000-square-foot Austin HOPE Center by late summer 2026.
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Nov 17, 2025
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson signed a declaration of civil emergency Monday after a series of reported threats against the village amid "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Nov 17, 2025
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson signed a declaration of civil emergency Monday after a series of reported threats against the village amid Operation Midway Blitz.
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