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Dec 18, 2025
The money — worth $106 billion — would be raised by the EU on capital markets.
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Dec 18, 2025
The man was found dead Thursday evening. He is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the person familiar with the matter said.
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Dec 18, 2025
Starting Friday, the Chicago Transit Authority Chicago police will would boost the number of officers patrolling in response to a threat from President Trump.
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Dec 18, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 18, 2025
The Chicago Bears announced they will consider moving to Indiana if they can't get the deal they want in Illinois. Illinois lawmakers are skeptical.
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Dec 18, 2025
After an ICE processing center located in west suburban Broadview became a flash point in protests against the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz," village officials are moving to require that local prisons and detention centers allow for religious worship inside their walls.
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Dec 18, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker launched the commission in October to track and scrutinize federal immigration agents' actions in Chicago.
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Dec 18, 2025
Illinois was one of four government bodies sued by the U.S. Justice Department for unredacted copies of voter rolls. Also sued were the states of Wisconsin and Georgia and Washington, D.C.
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Dec 18, 2025
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
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Dec 18, 2025
When Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a throng of masked federal agents returned to Chicago in a flash Tuesday, city residents were ready.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Harvey, Illinois, man was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison Thursday after a plea deal for breaking into the permanently idled U.S. Steel East Chicago Tin in January.
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Dec 18, 2025
In an interview for a food-themed podcast that resurfaced online, Richard Hart, the co-founder of Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City and a well-known figure in international baking circles, said Mexicans "don't really have much of a bread culture," adding that "They make sandwiches on these white, ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made."
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Dec 18, 2025
Northwest Indiana mayors and state officials have been beaming with pride since the Chicago Bears announced Wednesday that the team's search for a new stadium location includes the region.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Gary man was sentenced Thursday to a 15-year split term for his role in a drug dealer slaying. Davion "Ray-Ray" Dean, 29, pleaded guilty in March in separate criminal cases to attempted armed robbery and dealing in a narcotic drug.
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Dec 18, 2025
A custom collection of five wines was created by Oakwood Vines in Lake Forest in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest.
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Dec 18, 2025
A federal judge sentenced a Lynwood, Illinois, man to 30 years on Wednesday for drug dealing.
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Dec 18, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday singled out a debt collection measure as his latest nonstarter in the budget proposal crafted by his aldermanic antagonists, who showed no signs of slowing their march toward an imminent final vote.
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Dec 18, 2025
January 1985 began with the city assisting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in its efforts to arrest migrants who were working behind the wheel but lacked permanent legal status.
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Dec 18, 2025
Kee Firearms and Kee Construction owners Greta Keranen and Jeff Regnier says two cars ordered returned by the state were damaged.
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Dec 18, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 18, 2025
A business jet that crashed at a regional airport in North Carolina was registered to a company run by retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.
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Dec 18, 2025
Former race driver Greg Biffle and members of his family were among seven people who died in a plane crash in North Carolina, state police said.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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Dec 18, 2025
The Indiana State Ethics Commission approved a settlement agreement for former Secretary of Public Safety Jennifer-Ruth Green, who will pay a $10,000 fine to resolve an ethics violations complaint.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
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Dec 18, 2025
The specter of losing federal funding has already driven some Chicago area hospital systems to scale back gender-affirming care for minors. But a few hospitals have held out.
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Dec 18, 2025
House Democrats released several dozen more photos Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dec 18, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump gave an 18-minute speech intended to defend his accomplishments in the first year. Here are six takeaways.
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Dec 18, 2025
A man who stole in ambulance in Rockford and drove it roughly 80 miles to Chicago was caught in in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Wednesday night, officials said.
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Dec 18, 2025
Paul Vallas alleged that Chimaobi Enyia ripped him off by doing little work in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars to build support for Vallas with Black voters.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Niles North High School teacher was suspended 3 days without pay; he failed to disclose selling $40,000 in merch to the district.
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Dec 18, 2025
A 16-year-old boy was fatally wounded overnight in a shooting on the Southwest Side in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 18, 2025
The ongoing strike at the Louvre is no longer just a labor dispute. It has become a test of how securely, credibly and competently the world's most visited museum is being run.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. Here's what to know.
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Dec 18, 2025
Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group.
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Dec 18, 2025
The U.S. government admitted that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing a collision last January.
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Dec 18, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 18, 2025
Bishop Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York.
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Dec 18, 2025
The federal prosecutor heading up a high-profile case alleging a Chicago gang member solicited the murder of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino announced he's leaving the U.S. attorney's office just weeks ahead of a scheduled trial.
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Dec 18, 2025
In the past 15 years, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has faced major budget cuts and a 21% decline in staffing.
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Dec 18, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 18, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 18, 2025
On Dec. 18, 1892, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia; although now considered a classic, it received a generally negative reception from critics.
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Dec 17, 2025
Both people aboard the two-engine aircraft were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
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Dec 17, 2025
If Mayor Brandon Johnson caves on his earlier threat to veto any 2026 budget proposal that does not meet his demands, that would clear the path clear for aldermen to pass their plan without him.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 17, 2025
In 1995, the Chicago Bears threatened to move to northwest Indiana if the team didn't get money for a new stadium. They're doing it again.
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Dec 17, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying "substantial new evidence" has emerged.
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Dec 17, 2025
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure.
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Dec 17, 2025
Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two days after he was shot to death at his home outside Boston.
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Dec 17, 2025
Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William "Buck" Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82.n
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Dec 17, 2025
A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror villain Slender Man and then fled a group home won't fight the state's attempt to revoke her release privileges.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Donald Trump will address the nation in a televised address at 8 p.m.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a televised speech at 8 p.m. CT.
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Dec 17, 2025
Letter from Illinois' three Republican members of Congress comes a week after the Tribune reported ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan had asked President Donald Trump for clemency.
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Dec 17, 2025
A Gary woman pleaded guilty, but mentally ill Wednesday to the murder of her child's father. Shasta Young, 40, faces 45 years if the plea is accepted by a judge.
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Dec 17, 2025
In a break with federal guidance, Illinois will continue to recommend that nearly all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccines, the state health department announced Wednesday. The decision comes one day after the Illinois Department of Public Health Immunization Advisory Committee voted unanimously that Illinois should "reaffirm and maintain" the recommendation that nearly all babies be […]
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Dec 17, 2025
A Gary man avoided prison Wednesday after he left a loaded gun out, then went to sleep. His cousin's son, 5, found it and fatally shot himself in the head.
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Dec 17, 2025
A Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 68 years for his role as an accomplice in a November 2021 Hammond home invasion.
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Dec 17, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 17, 2025
The Chicago Police Department said in a statement that they did not assist federal authorities with immigration enforcement.
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Dec 17, 2025
Initially federalized in October for 60 days, the 300 Illinois National Guard troops will continue to be deployed through mid-April.
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Dec 17, 2025
Aurora Mayor John Laesch's proposed campaign financing ethics reform package, which was held for weeks but recently starting moving through the approval process again, has been further delayed.
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Dec 17, 2025
The residents of the Porter County side of Lakes of the Four Seasons — and some of their non-resident friends — listened to a pitch for the financial needs of the Lakes of the Four Seasons Volunteer Fire Force ahead of a special Thursday meeting of the Porter County Board of Commissioners.
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Dec 17, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Dec 17, 2025
A longtime ally of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks has been selected to oversee the second-largest archdiocese in the United States.
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Dec 17, 2025
Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vole on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
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Dec 17, 2025
A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade arrest testified that she was shocked by her fellow judge's behavior.
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Dec 17, 2025
Days after an antisemitic assault killed 15 people at one of Australia's most popular beaches, nearly 100 people packed into a corner of Daley Plaza to watch the public lighting of a towering menorah on the third night of Hanukkah.
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Dec 17, 2025
Authorities have asked the public for any footage they might have of the gunman who fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University, even as they released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of a possible suspect.
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Dec 17, 2025
Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world's most visited museum, though the attraction partially opened Wednesday to allow visitors to enjoy the "Mona Lisa" and other highlights.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Donald Trump intends to preview his agenda for next year and beyond in a live speech from the White House on Wednesday night. His remarks are coming at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.
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Dec 17, 2025
A woman was discovered lying in the street after a possible hit and run accident on the West Side in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 17, 2025
Glenview will pay $50,000 to learn whether the former industrial Signode site it will purchase for $24 million contains toxins.
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Dec 17, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 17, 2025
An accused gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday.
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Dec 17, 2025
Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents.
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Dec 17, 2025
Museum staffers, many of whom are have lived in public housing, share their experiences, inspiring visitors to open up about their own.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 17, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 17, 2025
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2025. There are 14 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 17, 1933, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants 23-21 in the first NFL championship game. Also on this date: In 1777, France becomes one of the first nations to officially […]
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Dec 16, 2025
Medline's initial public offering of stock is one of the largest of the year. The Northfield company sold about 216 million shares at $29 a piece.
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Dec 16, 2025
The committee's vote Tuesday followed a decision by a federal vaccine advisory committee earlier this month to no longer recommend hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns.
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Dec 16, 2025
Noble "BG" Uylaki, 25, of Gary; Emmanuel Pugh, 27, of Hobart; Erich Boone, 49, of Gary; Rommel Harris, 36, of Merrillville; Xavier Schlueb, 24, of Gary; and Shakur Brewer, 24, of Merrillville, are each charged with robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 2 felony; criminal confinement, a Level 3 felony; battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 5 felony; and intimidation, a Level 6 felony.
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Dec 16, 2025
Former Indiana Secretary of Public Safety Jennifer-Ruth Green agreed to a $10,000 fine in her ethics violations complaint, according to an agreed settlement with the Indiana State Ethics Commission.
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Dec 16, 2025
Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation's only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats.
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Dec 16, 2025
A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Guiffre, has sold 1 million copies worldwide two months after its release.
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Dec 16, 2025
The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.
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Dec 16, 2025
Prosecutors said Tuesday that Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved.
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Dec 16, 2025
A Cook County judge ordered a sentence of life in prison for Steven Montano in the killing of Chicago police Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso.
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Dec 16, 2025
A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session.
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Dec 16, 2025
It recommends state build more renewable power, transmission lines, and battery storage, and potentially delay fossil-fuel plant closings.
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Dec 16, 2025
Price will be replacing current District 204 Superintendent Adrian Talley, who opted not to renew his contract beyond the 2025-26 school year.
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Dec 16, 2025
Walter Mahoney, of Western Springs, helped writers and cartoonists place their work nationwide through Tribune syndication, died after being hit by a car.
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Dec 16, 2025
Thornton Township Democratic Committeeman Napoleon Harris will face former ally and township Trustee Stephanie Wiedeman in the primary.
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Dec 16, 2025
Building the new Aylesworth Middle School will cost far less than original estimates, the Portage Township School Board was told Monday.
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Dec 16, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday celebrated his enactment of a new law that advocates say will avert catastrophic service cuts on Chicago's public transit systems and make the region's trains and buses safer and more reliable — even as he acknowledged "transformation takes a little bit of time."
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Dec 16, 2025
The South Side native and community banker was also a two-time men's basketball All-American at the University of Chicago.
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Dec 16, 2025
The Chicago Christian RoboKnights will represent Illinois in the inaugural United States Governor's Cup in Washington, D.C.
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Dec 16, 2025
The City Council group released plans to close a $42 million 2026 budget gap created by them removing a garbage fee increase from their package and restoring youth job funding.
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