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Feb 11, 2026
Proposal would increase local accountability by setting water and electricity reporting requirements and water efficiency standards, and ensure community engagement.
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Feb 11, 2026
An immigration judge on Wednesday denied bond to a Chicago man acquitted last month of charges he offered money for the killing of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
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Feb 11, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson's fight with aldermen about the budget continued Wednesday as council members said they are organizing to monitor his execution of the plan.
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Feb 11, 2026
The lack of progress in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has generated pressure and questions for local and federal investigators who haven't held a news conference in days.
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Feb 11, 2026
A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department's staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians.
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Feb 11, 2026
The sentencing hearing unfolded almost exactly six years after the slaying that rattled the tight-knit Chinatown community just a month before much of the world shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Feb 11, 2026
An Indiana immigration bill allowing local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and for those officers to cooperate with ICE was amended Tuesday
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Feb 11, 2026
Bud Cort, who personified the role of Harold in the 1971 Hal Ashby classic "Harold and Maude," died Wednesday in Connecticut after a long illness. He was 77.
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Feb 11, 2026
Meet all the medalists from the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Feb 11, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 11, 2026
Concerns about the tax impact led the Lake Station City Council to reject a plan to form a fire territory with New Chicago.
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Feb 11, 2026
Several hundred high school students from Proviso Township walked out of their classrooms Wednesday morning in protest of mass deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48.
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Feb 11, 2026
New Hope United Church of Christ plans a prayer vigil Sunday to raise awareness of actions taken by ICE and Border Patrol agents.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Chicago police officers involved in the March 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed were largely cleared of wrongdoing by investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, city records show.
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Feb 11, 2026
Arlington Heights leaders and residents plan to rally Wednesday for Illinois lawmakers to fight off a bid from Indiana to build a new enclosed stadium for the Chicago Bears.
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Feb 11, 2026
Lawyers for Marimar Martínez, the Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in October, said evidence released this week "shows the world" that Trump administration officials "have created a culture of violence among their agents."
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Feb 11, 2026
The House Courts and Criminal Code committee passed three amendments to the doxing bill before passing it Wednesday.
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Feb 11, 2026
Canadians were in shock Wednesday after authorities said seven people were killed at a school in remote British Columbia and two others were killed at a nearby home in one of the country's deadliest mass shootings.
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Feb 11, 2026
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Feb 11, 2026
A judge has dismissed yet another set of Operation Midway Blitz related charges, this time against against a man who had been accused of resisting or impeding federal agents during the Trump administration's expansive immigration raids in and around Chicago late last year.
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Feb 11, 2026
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi will face questions from lawmakers Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite redaction efforts.
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Feb 11, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 11, 2026
Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie's porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break.
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Feb 11, 2026
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
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Feb 11, 2026
A Mexican cartel drone incursion prompted an hourslong closure of airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas that was lifted on Wednesday morning, the Trump administration said.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure.
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Feb 11, 2026
The backstory of Chicago's century-old symbol — a "Y" inside a circle — that can be found dotted throughout the city.
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Feb 11, 2026
The made-in-Chicago documentary series this season follows a teacher, a suburban grandmother and others who have found their own ways to fight for democracy.
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Feb 11, 2026
Leading up to the national shutdown, many businesses took to social media to decry the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions, but explained they were not in a financial position to close.
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Feb 11, 2026
Leading up to the national shutdown, many businesses took to social media to decry the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions, but explained they were not in a financial position to close.
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Feb 11, 2026
Homeschooling has burst from the ideological fringe to the center of Chicago's education landscape.
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Feb 11, 2026
The verdict found that Conagra did not adequately warn consumers about the potential dangers of inhaling fumes from Pam cooking spray containing diacetyl, a butter-flavored chemical linked to respiratory illness.
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Feb 11, 2026
On Feb. 11, 2013, during a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would resign as pope effective Feb. 28; it was the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years.
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Feb 11, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 11, 2026
With the new gift, Bluhm will have donated $135 million over the last two decades to the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
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Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday's release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie's doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.
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Feb 10, 2026
A school shooting in British Columbia left eight people dead, including a shooter, and dozens injured, Canadian police said Tuesday.
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Feb 10, 2026
Sunday night's Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records for most watched U.S. broadcast and halftime show.
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Feb 10, 2026
Passed in 2024 and set to take effect this July, the law bans certain so-called swipe fees on the tax and tip portions of customers' bills, with a goal of lowering how much credit card companies can charge retailers.
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Feb 10, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump and his administration need to be held accountable for their aggressive immigration enforcement actions — even if that accountability comes after the president is scheduled to leave office in 2029.
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Feb 10, 2026
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camera video showing the tense moments just before their vehicles collided and text messages sent later by the agent joking and bragging about the shooting.
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Feb 10, 2026
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camera video showing the tense moments just before their vehicles collided and text messages sent later by the agent joking and bragging about the shooting.
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Feb 10, 2026
The spending plan Mayor Brandon Johnson and aldermen put together for 2026 includes a a $12 million cut in the facilities budget.
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Feb 10, 2026
Patrick "PJ' Hennings and his father, Leo, led bands including at Queen of Peace, St. Laurence and Brother Rice high schools.
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Feb 10, 2026
La Grange's Welcoming Community ordinance prohibits federal agents from using village property in conducting immigration enforcement.
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Feb 10, 2026
A Lake County judge delayed sentencing or a man who admitted he was the getaway driver in a November 2024 Gary pawn shop owner's slaying.
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Feb 10, 2026
An Indiana State Police trooper was seriously injured Monday after being hit by another police car following a police chase of a vehicle that ended in Highland.
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Feb 10, 2026
The walkout joins a string of other similar protest actions across the Chicago area in recent days.
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Feb 10, 2026
The House Local Government Committee will again hear a Senate bill to merge Indiana townships before its final approval.
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Feb 10, 2026
The bill would make changes to the Indiana Code about how the Indiana Department of Environmental Management issues permits to nuclear facilities.
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Feb 10, 2026
An annual meeting of the nation's governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
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Feb 10, 2026
The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible "deficiencies or defects" in the vote count in the 2020 election.
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Feb 10, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he will not refer alleged cases of misconduct by federal immigration agents to the Cook County state's attorney's office.
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Feb 10, 2026
Hector Delgado, 24, pleaded guilty in documents filed Feb. 5 to voluntary manslaughter. A judge would have to accept the plea deal. His sentencing hearing is April 7.
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Feb 10, 2026
His was a family-friendly place and you could walk in on any night and run into pals and politicians, neighbors and labor leaders, or, for a time, members of the 1986 Super Bowl Bears.
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Feb 10, 2026
The city of Portage is throwing a hail Mary pass at a privately-funded Chicago Bears stadium built on city-owned land, city officials said Tuesday.
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Feb 10, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 10, 2026
Aurora police said that two different individuals have been taken into custody and charged in connection with the two incidents.
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Feb 10, 2026
Bremen High School has long had clothing and hygiene products available for students in need, scattered in various storage areas at the school in Midlothian. But thanks to the school's longtime chief custodian, Eugene Reyna, all that has changed. "We came in over the summer and she (Principal Jessica Rucinski) said, let me show you […]
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Feb 10, 2026
Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick's previous claim that he had cut ties with the late financier after 2005.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Harvey City Council approved settling an FOIA lawsuit with Ryan Sinwelski and to accept funds for Broadway Avenue road work.
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Feb 10, 2026
Two people were sickened Monday night during a rideshare package pickup in the Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Feb 10, 2026
Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is "incomplete and insufficient" as they are demanding new restrictions on President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
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Feb 10, 2026
Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google's YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products.
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Feb 10, 2026
"Today" show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded for the public's help at "an hour of desperation" in the search for her missing mother as the family's latest attempts to reach the abductors failed to yield any proof she is alive or communication with the culprits.
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Feb 10, 2026
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie more than a week ago released the first surveillance images Tuesday, showing a masked person on her porch the night she went missing.
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Feb 10, 2026
The heart-breaking messages made by "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her family have shifted from hopeful to desperate as they plead with the apparent kidnappers to hand over their missing mother.
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Feb 10, 2026
After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party about the consequences of a leadership coup.
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Feb 10, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 10, 2026
The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress Tuesday and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.
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Feb 10, 2026
The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress Tuesday and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.
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Feb 10, 2026
Recognition, publication and financial awards are among prizes in competitions offered by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.
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Feb 10, 2026
Stephanie Gutierrez was found fatally shot on a Chicago sidewalk in 2022, launching her family on a quest for justice in a case police consider cleared because detectives submitted it to prosecutors, even though it was rejected for charges.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Archdiocese of Chicago's plans to shutter St. Jerome and Sts. Bruno and Richard has left families reeling and worried about Catholic education.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Archdiocese of Chicago's plans to shutter St. Jerome and Sts. Bruno and Richard has left families reeling and worried about Catholic education.
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Feb 10, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 10, 2026
On Feb. 10, 1959, an F4-intensity tornado tore through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and injuring 345.
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Feb 09, 2026
Disaster declaration would have unlocked federal assistance for five counties affected by heavy rains and flooding last summer.
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Feb 09, 2026
While Indiana officials play up their efforts to lure the Chicago Bears across the border for a new stadium, Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that he and his staff have made "progress" to incentivize the football team to stay in Illinois.
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Feb 09, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration has pinned layoffs of nine custodians on the 2026 budget aldermen passed. His opponents have insisted the onus is on him.
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Feb 09, 2026
State Rep. Croke is one of four Democratic candidates running in the March 17 primary for Illinois comptroller. Others are Lake County Treasurer Holly Kim, state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit and state Sen. Karina Villa.
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Feb 09, 2026
Catherine O'Hara died from a pulmonary embolism, with cancer as the underlying cause.
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Feb 09, 2026
Indian Head Park has been awarded a $385,500 state grant for the redevelopment of Sacajawea Park and Kelli's Playground.
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Feb 09, 2026
'We're fighting for what's right': Hammond Central students protest ICE in school walkout
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Feb 09, 2026
City attorneys are recommending aldermen spend $29.2 million to settle four wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to disgraced former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Feb 09, 2026
City attorneys are recommending aldermen spend $29.2 million to settle four wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to disgraced former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Feb 09, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 09, 2026
Two partner bills passed the House Judiciary committee Monday that would amend the Indiana constitution as it relates to a judge's authority in setting bail.
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Feb 09, 2026
Damian Donaldson, 38, was charged with 15 felonies, including rape, burglary and strangulation. He also faced a half-dozen misdemeanors.
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Feb 09, 2026
An estimated 135 million viewers made Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show the most-watched mid-game performance ever, while about 6 million tuned into the Turning Point USA counterpart on YouTube, according to preliminary counts.
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Feb 09, 2026
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein.
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Feb 09, 2026
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein.
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Feb 09, 2026
Data is from the National Weather Service's Chicago office and measured at the city's official recording site, which has been O'Hare International Airport since Jan. 17, 1980.
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Feb 09, 2026
Midlothian Village President Gary L' Heureux hasreceived homeowner exemptions on two properties for three years, despite corrections.
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Feb 09, 2026
Authorities investigating the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie returned to her Arizona neighborhood several times over the weekend, ahead of a Monday evening deadline set by her purported abductors who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return.
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Feb 09, 2026
Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification can now take place in Peoria as originally planned, the Peoria diocese announced Monday.
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