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Mar 28, 2025
Wisconsin state law expressly prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for voting — drawing a slew of complaints, including from Wisconsin's Democratic attorney, who sued Friday afternoon to block Musk from handing out the checks.
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Mar 28, 2025
A 15-year-old boy was killed by gunshots fired from a vehicle Friday afternoon in the city's Little Village neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The teen was standing on the sidewalk in the 2800 block of South Komensky Avenue around 5:10 p.m. when a vehicle pulled alongside him and a gunman inside the vehicle opened fire, […]
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Mar 28, 2025
A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Mar 28, 2025
Almost a year's worth of bargaining between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools could culminate in a tentative agreement Monday.
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Mar 28, 2025
Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley discusses the Karen Schepers missing person case with two detectives who found her car and remains in the Fox River after 41 years.
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Mar 28, 2025
The lawsuit was among of the first filed against Musk himself. It argued that DOGE's actions were unconstitutional because he was wielding significant power without being elected or Senate approved.
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Mar 28, 2025
Veteran Chicago lawyer and former federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros was officially appointed Friday to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Mar 28, 2025
A Lake County Magistrate denied a Gary man's bid for post-conviction relief Thursday, who fatally killed a Gary police officer in 2014, court records show.
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Mar 28, 2025
A truck driver hauling a trailer filled with 127 cows took a ramp too fast Friday morning, police said, tipping the trailer and snarling traffic at the Interstate 65 and Interstate 80/94 interchange for much of the day.
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Mar 28, 2025
Even if you're not in the market for a new car, U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on auto imports could make owning one more expensive.
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Mar 28, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 28, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson adding Springfield alderwoman to lobbying team, part of his efforts to improve relations in the capital.
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Mar 28, 2025
A flood basin at Heather Hills Elementary School and the firing of a former police chief top issues in Flossmoor's mayoral race.
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Mar 28, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker is heading a trade mission to Mexico next week to pitch Illinois businesses.
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Mar 28, 2025
Douglas Higgins, who after many years in real estate returned to his initial career choice in education, has died at 81.
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Mar 28, 2025
Funding for new books in Spanish in the Oak Lawn Community High School library help "meet the needs of our community," educators say.
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Mar 28, 2025
Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over opposition from dentists and national health organizations who warn the move will lead to medical problems and disproportionately affect low-income communities.
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Mar 28, 2025
The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs.
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Mar 28, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.
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Mar 28, 2025
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration would work with allies to ramp up deterrence against threats across the world, including China's aggression in the South China Sea.
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Mar 28, 2025
A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Footage shared on social media from Myanmar's second-largest city showed widespread destruction, raising fears that many were trapped under the rubble or killed.
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Mar 28, 2025
A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Footage shared on social media from Myanmar's second-largest city showed widespread destruction, raising fears that many were trapped under the rubble or killed.
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Mar 28, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Friday to put Ukraine under external governance under the U.N. aegis as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement, a blustery statement that reflected the Kremlin leader's determination to achieve his war goals.
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Mar 28, 2025
Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that has broken spending records and become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump's administration.
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Mar 28, 2025
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal contractors and grant recipients.
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Mar 28, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 28, 2025
Longtime Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld's Greater Homewood party faces a challenge from Brady Chalmers and Greener Homewood.
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Mar 28, 2025
The Trump administration's policies and actions do not demonstrate that the party values the lives of all Americans, writes Heidi Stevens.
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Mar 28, 2025
Gov. Pritzker and Illinois Comptroller Mendoza raised concerns about Mayor Johnson's ability to keep United's HQ in Chicago.
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Mar 28, 2025
On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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Mar 28, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 28, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 27, 2025
The order Thursday from U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma came in a case brought by several long-serving transgender military members who say the ban is insulting and discriminatory.
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Mar 27, 2025
The Kane County Coroner's Office announced Thursday night that the skeletal remains found inside a car removed this week from the Fox River belong to Karen Schepers, the 23-year-old Elgin woman who went missing in April 1983.
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Mar 27, 2025
Betty White is making her mark on the nation's snail mail.
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Mar 27, 2025
Buckingham Palace says King Charles III was hospitalized for observation on Thursday after experiencing "temporary side effects,'' related to a scheduled cancer treatment.
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Mar 27, 2025
The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer in 1995.
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Mar 27, 2025
The bill addresses a state comptroller's mistake with supplemental payments that were added into state law during the 2019 session.
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Mar 27, 2025
President Trump's 25% tariffs on auto imports could put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
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Mar 27, 2025
The two are pleading with immigration authorities to release Jose Gregorio González on humanitarian parole to donate the kidney.
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Mar 27, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday named a new interim chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
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Mar 27, 2025
A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve messages in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen's Houthis.
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Mar 27, 2025
Voters have begun to weigh in on a number of local election races across Kane and neighboring counties.
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Mar 27, 2025
A Skokie man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison in a multi-million dollar bank fraud case that involved a 58-foot party yacht known as the "Flying Lady," a onetime fixture in Chicago's summer boating scene adorned with a pink stripper pole attached to the afterdeck.
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Mar 27, 2025
A man could face up to 10 1/2 years for burning an overdosed Griffith woman's body in an abandoned Gary building in September 2022.
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Mar 27, 2025
As the team begins the season, here's a look back at highs — and lows — of the city's South Side franchise.
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Mar 27, 2025
A ruling by the Illinois Pollution Control Board disallowing NRG Generation's request for leniency handling the two coal ash ponds and the "grassy field" which contains coal ash deposits at its decommissioned Waukegan power plant puts a longtime dispute closer to the end.
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Mar 27, 2025
Northwest Indiana immigration attorneys raised concerns with an immigration bill that received final approval by the legislature this week as unconstitutional and an unfunded mandate on local governments.
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Mar 27, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 27, 2025
After a yearlong search, the Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that its new home will be Boulder, Colorado, keeping Sundance in the mountains but moving it out of Park City, the Utah ski town that had for decades provided the premier independent film gathering its picturesque snowy backdrop.
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Mar 27, 2025
The White House has withdrawn Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a stunning turnaround for President Donald Trump's Cabinet pick after her confirmation had been stalled over concerns about Republicans' tight margins in the House.
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Mar 27, 2025
Karen Lewis, Janelle McFadden, Theo Brooks, Timothy Robinson, Davonia Sorrell and Sonia Jenkins-Bell are on University Park ballot.
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Mar 27, 2025
A former office manager for a Portage logistics and transportation company is accused of embezzling $347,362.59 in a scheme where she falsified truck repair invoices and diverted funds to her own bank account.
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Mar 27, 2025
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee requested an investigation Thursday into how Trump national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes, ensuring at least some bipartisan scrutiny on an episode President Donald Trump has dismissed as frivolous.
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Mar 27, 2025
A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said. The remaining tourists, more than two dozen of whom were injured, were rescued, he said.
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Mar 27, 2025
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told Congress during a hearing Thursday about a midair collision over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people that the agency must do more to ensure flying remains safe.
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Mar 27, 2025
Jaylen and La'Montrell McFarland's family and friends gathered on Chase Street Tuesday to mourn their deaths. The families are still searching for answers years later.
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Mar 27, 2025
A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.
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Mar 27, 2025
The Department of Justice is reviewing the convictions in the landmark "ComEd Four" bribery case involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan on counts involving violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which the Trump administration says has been stretched beyond its intended reach.
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Mar 27, 2025
Chicago Public Schools is close to a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union on an agreement, according to district chief Pedro Martinez.
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Mar 27, 2025
Abdalla Shaban, 27, of Worth, was charged with reckless homicide after fatally striking a 46-year-old man following road rage.
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Mar 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will eliminate 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan, it announced Thursday.
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Mar 27, 2025
The Elgin Fire Department found Karen Scheper's car in the Fox River three years ago, but believed it was an ATV and did not recover it.
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Mar 27, 2025
Major anti-abortion groups were gathering in the nation's capital on Thursday to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump's administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood ahead of the Supreme Court hearing a case in April that could strip the organization's funding in South Carolina.
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Mar 27, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel was not part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans, but that didn't spare him from being questioned by lawmakers this week about whether the nation's premier law enforcement agency would investigate.
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Mar 27, 2025
European automakers, already struggling with tepid economic growth at home and rising competition from China, on Thursday decried the U.S. import tax on cars as a heavy burden that will punish consumers and companies alike on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Mar 27, 2025
A new American airstrike campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels appears more intense and more extensive, as the U.S. moves from solely targeting launch sites to firing at ranking personnel as well as dropping bombs in city neighborhoods, an Associated Press review of the operation shows.
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Mar 27, 2025
Ukraine's allies from across Europe gathered for talks in Paris on Thursday about how to strengthen Kyiv's hand and its military as it pushes for a ceasefire with Russia, and to consider proposals to deploy European troops in the country in tandem with any peace deal.
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Mar 27, 2025
A 28-year-old man was killed and five other people were injured in an overnight traffic accident in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 3:25 a.m., a Ford Fusion was headed east in the 5600 block of West 55th Street when the driver made a U-turn striking a Hyundai Palisade headed west, police said. […]
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Mar 27, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 27, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 27, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 27, 2025
Conditions vary during season openers at The Rate. Here's the warmest and coldest home openers for the Chicago White Sox.
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Mar 27, 2025
Despite lingering cold snaps in January and February, Chicago saw just under a foot of snow — less than half the normal amount for the season.
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Mar 27, 2025
On March 27, 2022, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, winning the Oscar for best actor just minutes later. (Smith later resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and received a 10-year ban from the Oscars.)
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Mar 26, 2025
Economists stress there could greater consequences this time — and that higher prices will likely lead consumers to foot the bill.
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Mar 26, 2025
Karen Schepers, missing since she disappeared in 1983 while driving home to Elgin, remembered by her brother as his sibling but also a "remarkable person."
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Mar 26, 2025
Karen Schepers, missing since she disappeared in 1983 while driving home to Elgin, remembered by her brother as his sibling but also a "remarkable person."
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Mar 26, 2025
Illinois Democrats are vowing to defend state elections law against Donald Trump's sweeping executive order, which includes a crackdown on voting by non citizens.
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Mar 26, 2025
The Tribune, its affiliated newspapers in Media News Group and Tribune Publishing, the Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting have accused OpenAI and Microsoft of stealing millions of copyrighted news stories to benefit popular AI products like ChatGPT.
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Mar 26, 2025
A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has "a possible link" to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have sickened more than 370, the state health department said Wednesday.
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Mar 26, 2025
An autographed Chicago Bulls jersey that Michael Jordan wore in a preseason game during his rookie year sold for $4.215 million at an auction that closed Wednesday.
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Mar 26, 2025
A bill that would ban transgender women from collegiate sports passed out of the Indiana Senate Education and Career Development committee Wednesday, with amendments proposed by Democratic committee members voted down by Republican members.
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Mar 26, 2025
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move that the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
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Mar 26, 2025
A Chicago man accused of shooting and killing his brother and his brother's partner in their Gage Park home over the weekend before stabbing a woman at a nearby sports bar was ordered detained Wednesday. Robert Romo, 57, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of Richard M. […]
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Mar 26, 2025
Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser told the county board the SAFE-T Act is increasing costs and is also too limited in its list of detainable offenses.
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Mar 26, 2025
Some renovation projects aimed at preserving and greening existing affordable housing properties are on hold in Chicago as the Trump administration evaluates a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program.
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Mar 26, 2025
The legendary Chicago anchorman and commentator will deliver one last "Perspective" on WGN Radio, home to his weekly commentary segment for the past decade and perhaps end the final chapter of a storied broadcast career.
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Mar 26, 2025
Nineteen months after two women were shot in the bleachers at a White Sox game, there's little clarity in the case.
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Mar 26, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 26, 2025
Ken McClafferty, Kevin Shaughnessy, Samuel Forzley, David Maher and Mark Pawlak seek three seats on the Lemont Village Board.
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Mar 26, 2025
Julie Woestehoff the longtime executive director of Chicago-based Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), has died.
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Mar 26, 2025
Some Dolton Elementary School District 148 Board members say they opposed hikes to Superintendent Kevin Nohelty's $450,000 salary.
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Mar 26, 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification requirements to buy them in kits online.
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Mar 26, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Mar 26, 2025
A 33-year-old man was discovered fatally wounded Wednesday morning outside on the Far South Side in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 5 a.m., the victim was found unresponsive in the 10100 block of South Prairie Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No one […]
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Mar 26, 2025
An ethics commission hearing for a complaint against Skokie Village Trustee James Johnson was pushed back to after the election.
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Mar 26, 2025
Lent always occurs at this time of year. Ramadan rotates around the calendar. This year, they coincide, with Christian fasting taking place at the same time as Muslim fasting.
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Mar 26, 2025
Since the pandemic, schools have adopted new technology, some COVID-era changes persist and student mental health has come to the forefront.
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Mar 26, 2025
A 57-year-old man was charged in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people in recent days in the Gage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Mar 26, 2025
The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials Wednesday, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timing of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen's Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne.
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Mar 26, 2025
A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders are honoring the six construction workers who were killed that night when the road they were repairing buckled underneath them.
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