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Jan 25, 2026
A person of interest is in custody, authorities say.
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Jan 25, 2026
A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis.
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Jan 25, 2026
A massive winter storm made for a brutal travel day Sunday, with widespread cancellations and delays at some of the nation's busiest airports.
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Jan 25, 2026
Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a partial government shutdown.
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Jan 25, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that a U.S. security guarantees document for Ukraine is "100% ready" after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia.
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Jan 25, 2026
American rock climber Alex Honnold ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment.
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Jan 25, 2026
Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis.
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Jan 25, 2026
Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis.
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Jan 25, 2026
A massive winter storm continued Sunday morning, dumping sleet, freezing rain and snow across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.
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Jan 25, 2026
A Michigan City man said he was injured on Dec. 16, and police body camera footage shows another man was injured on Oct. 9.
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Jan 25, 2026
Those whose livelihoods depend on ice and the fish and microorganisms in the lakes are experiencing havoc wrought by fluctuations fueled by climate change.
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Jan 25, 2026
While Marina Lopez was in ICE detention for seven months, parishioners in her church stepped up to help care for her family.
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Jan 25, 2026
Residents worried about gentrification in Woodlawn and South Shore are concerned the Obama organization is pitching short-term rentals as a way to deal with tourism.
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Jan 25, 2026
On Jan. 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first city to add fluoride to its public water supply.
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Jan 25, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 25, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 24, 2026
The South Loop Farmers Market, featuring local produce and artisanal foods, drew about 1,200 shoppers Saturday morning.
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Jan 24, 2026
Japanese panda fans are gathering Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo's Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China.
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Jan 24, 2026
The NBA game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors was postponed on Saturday afternoon following another fatal shooting by a federal officer in Minneapolis.
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Jan 24, 2026
Winter weather can upend even the best-laid travel plans, but one less thing to worry about is losing money if your flight is canceled: U.S. airlines are required to provide refunds.
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Jan 24, 2026
President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America's northern neighbor went ahead with its China trade deal.
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Jan 24, 2026
Federal officers shot and killed a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to a hospital record obtained by the Associated Press.
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Jan 24, 2026
There will be a do-over meeting about the East Lake Fire Protection Territory for Lake Station and East Chicago on Feb. 13.
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Jan 24, 2026
Illinois Democratic leaders speak out after federal immigration officers fatally shot a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, where Republican President Donald Trump's latest deportation campaign has unfolded.
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Jan 24, 2026
Two Gary projects, including the demolition of an elementary school that's been closed for 17 years, were included in U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan's Transportation and Housing Community Project Funding requests approved Thursday by the U.S. House.
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Jan 24, 2026
Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
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Jan 24, 2026
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
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Jan 24, 2026
A bill aiming to preemptively shape how nuclear facility permits are awarded passed the Indiana Senate and will move to the House.
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Jan 24, 2026
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Jan 24, 2026
Multiple organizations will clean up contminated sediments at Lake George Canal and Junction Reaches project areas in Northwest Indiana.
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Jan 24, 2026
A man was fatally wounded Friday night inside of his parked car in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 24, 2026
Roughly 140 million people were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England.
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Jan 24, 2026
Chicago police wounded a man armed with a knife and a gun who shot a woman Friday night during a domestic-disturbance in the Chatham neighborhood.
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Jan 24, 2026
McCorld Gallery & Cultural Center in Palos Park helps veterans tell their stories in the exhibit The Veterans Experience Through Art.
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Jan 24, 2026
Illinois preserved two chairs Barack Obama used in the state Senate, hoping they'd be displayed, but now must decide what to do as the Obama Presidential Center is declining to take them.
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Jan 24, 2026
Experts discuss whether any local trees can 'explode' following a social media post.
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Jan 24, 2026
Exploding trees? Extreme cold snaps in Chicago can cause trees to crack and burst from freezing stress. Tree experts explain the science behind the shocking sounds.
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Jan 24, 2026
A day after a Chicago construction worker was acquitted by a federal jury of charges he offered money to kill Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino he found himself back in custody.
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Jan 24, 2026
On Jan. 24, 1989, confessed serial killer Ted Bundy was executed in Florida's electric chair.
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Jan 24, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 24, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 23, 2026
A Gary Police officer has been placed on unpaid leave following a Jan. 17 arrest for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Jan 23, 2026
Members of a motorcycle club and a street gang worked together in an attempt to kill an Indiana judge in hopes of derailing a domestic abuse case against one of their own, prosecutors alleged Friday, hours after police announced they had arrested five people in connection with the investigation.
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Jan 23, 2026
News from Lake County courts news
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Jan 23, 2026
The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration's focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China.
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Jan 23, 2026
An attorney and activist who said an immigration agent threw him to the ground as he filmed on his phone told the Tribune on Friday he learned from police that the agent has been charged with a misdemeanor in Cook County.
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Jan 23, 2026
Terry Boers, a former Sun-Times columnist who was one of the founding talkers of Chicago's first sports radio station WSCR-AM 670, died Friday afternoon. He was 75.
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Jan 23, 2026
But even by Trump's standards, the tumult of the past week stood out because it crystallized his determination to erase the rules-based order that has governed U.S. foreign policy — and by extension most of the Western world — since World War II.
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Jan 23, 2026
The man killed in an officer-involved shooting Wednesday in Aurora has been identified as 27-year-old Temesgen Welendreyas of Aurora, the Kane County Coroner's Office said on Friday.
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Jan 23, 2026
Vice President JD Vance on Friday encouraged anti-abortion activists to "take heart in how far we've come" on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration's accomplishments including an expansion of a ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services.
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Jan 23, 2026
Clothes have become symbols of the battle over Trump administration immigration and deportation policies, their enforcement and the debate about whether those policies are a tool of authoritarianism or a justified reaction to an untenable situation.
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Jan 23, 2026
The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
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Jan 23, 2026
A jury convicted a Gary man Friday for shooting a man dead inside a Little Caesar's on Garfield Street in Gary.
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Jan 23, 2026
An elderly man died Friday afternoon after a fire broke out in an Avondale residence on the city's Northwest Side, authorities said. Officers responded to calls of a fire in a basement residence in the 3000 block of West George Street just before 3 p.m., according to Chicago police. A 75-year-old man was found unresponsive […]
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Jan 23, 2026
One person is dead after a fire broke out in an Avondale residence on the city's Northwest Side Friday afternoon, fire officials said. Fire crews responded to reports of a working fire in the 3000 block of West George Street just before 3:10 p.m., according to Larry Merritt, a Chicago Fire Department spokesperson. Merritt confirmed […]
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Jan 23, 2026
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must keep federal funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in five Democratic-controlled states — at least for now.
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Jan 23, 2026
VNA Health Care is planning to expand one of its busiest health centers in Aurora with the help of a recently-announced $750,000 award from Endeavor Health.
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Jan 23, 2026
The Senate approved a social services bill, which is a Senate Republican priority, aimed at addressing fraud within the systems on Thursday.
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Jan 23, 2026
TikTok has at last finalized a deal to keep the popular video sharing platform operating in the U.S. after years of uncertainty, but questions remain about whether users' experience will change and whether the changes actually address security concerns around the app.
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Jan 23, 2026
The Old Town importer and leader in the food, beverage and hospitality industries, had a goat cheese named in her honor by an Indiana cheesemaker.
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Jan 23, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion.
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Jan 23, 2026
Mary Savisky, 81, was found unresponsive in her unheated Evergreen Park garage after her neighbor called for a well-being check.
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Jan 23, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 23, 2026
Text messages appeared to show a former Lake County Community Corrections officer was in a sexual relationship with a work release inmate.
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Jan 23, 2026
The Oak Park River Forest chapter of the Illinois League of Women Voters recently discussed redistricting as well as Fair Maps Illinois.
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Jan 23, 2026
The Indiana Senate advanced an immigration bill on Thursday, on second reading, that would allow local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and require Indiana law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
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Jan 23, 2026
The FBI has opened an investigation into the death of former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, team officials confirmed Friday.
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Jan 23, 2026
An Indiana bill criminalizing doxing passed on second reading in the Senate Thursday with an amendment attached.
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Jan 23, 2026
Richards High School in Oak Lawn will have a school resource officer to manage traffic amid safety concerns at the school at 106th Street and Central Avenue. Mike Conroy, who has worked for the Oak Lawn Police Department for 26 years, started Tuesday managing traffic outside of Richards both before and after school. During school […]
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Jan 23, 2026
Governors State University said an international student paid $2,400 out of fear that he would be reported to ICE.
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Jan 23, 2026
Devontae Harris will serve 11 years in connection with a 2022 incident in which he stalked, battered and shot a woman he had dated.
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Jan 23, 2026
Weather officials warned residents ahead of the cold stretch to expect dangerously cold wind chills as low as 30 to 35 degrees below zero.
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Jan 23, 2026
As Los Angeles ramps up for the 2028 Olympics, local unions are drawing inspiration from the Paris Games when hotel workers went on strike a day before opening ceremonies.
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Jan 23, 2026
An oasis of calm and comfort floats on the fifth floor of the Porter County Courthouse in the victim assistance suite.
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Jan 23, 2026
Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder who was among the FBI's most-wanted fugitives and faces charges related to drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witnesses, has been arrested.
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Jan 23, 2026
Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and knock out power for days, while Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston could see enough snow to make travel very difficult or nearly impossible, forecasters say.
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Jan 23, 2026
TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 million Americans.
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Jan 23, 2026
Texas and Oklahoma braced for heavy snow and ice that could make roadways treacherous Friday in what is expected to be some of the initial effects of a huge, dayslong winter storm threatening catastrophic damage, extensive power outages and bitterly cold weather to more than 170 million people across the nation, the National Weather Service says — about half the population.
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Jan 23, 2026
A vast network of labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy has been urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and stores Friday to protest against immigration enforcement in the state.
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Jan 23, 2026
During two days of testimony, faith leaders and elected officials shared civil rights violations they alleged to have witnessed during Operation Midway Blitz.
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Jan 23, 2026
A 37-year-old man was stabbed overnight during an attempt robbery on a CTA train in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 23, 2026
A 37-year-old man was stabbed overnight during an attempted robbery on a CTA train in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 23, 2026
An Illinois doctor indicted on murder charges in the killings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in their Columbus home is due in an Ohio courtroom.
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Jan 23, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 23, 2026
An internal ICE memo obtained by The Associated Press states immigration officers can forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant.
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Jan 23, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 23, 2026
Chicago's Iranian community is facing uncertainty about their loved ones after deadly anti-government protests erupted in late December.
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Jan 23, 2026
Continued enrollment declines at Chicago Public Schools could escalate into a "crisis" that impact the city's public education system.
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Jan 23, 2026
On Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, prohibiting poll taxes in federal elections.
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Jan 22, 2026
The House has passed this year's final batch of spending bills.
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Jan 22, 2026
TikTok said that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, concluding a six-year legal saga.
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Jan 22, 2026
The House rejected a Democratic-backed resolution Thursday that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to Venezuela.
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Jan 22, 2026
The reserves identified in this year's budget primarily affect health and human services, with $361.5 million of the $481.6 million identified falling into that category.
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Jan 22, 2026
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday officially dismissed a lawsuit that led to her landmark injunction limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz. Though U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis agreed to dismiss the case "without prejudice," which leaves open the possibility that the claims could be reinstated, it marked […]
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Jan 22, 2026
The National Weather Service has issued an extreme cold warning from 3 a.m. Friday until noon for central Cook County, including the Chicago area.
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Jan 22, 2026
The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday.
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Jan 22, 2026
Schools are closing or operating remotely and warming shelters are opening their doors as temperatures in Northwest Indiana are expected to plunge into the negative single digits Friday and wind chills as low as -28 are predicted, according to the National Weather Service. A collapsing polar vortex is expected to bring high winds, a chance […]
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Jan 22, 2026
Illinois offices will be open the next two Saturdays in downtown Chicago to help residents obtain a REAL ID before TSA starts fining any airport traveler without one $45 beginning Feb. 1.
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Jan 22, 2026
Indiana bills about assigning inmates by biological sex in prisons and addressing abortion pills passed out of separate committees.
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Jan 22, 2026
Federal agents have detained a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota, taking them to a detention facility in Texas.
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Jan 22, 2026
Lake Station Superintendent Thomas Cripliver is retiring after guiding the school district for 11 years, capping a 41-year career as an educator.
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