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Dec 22, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 22, 2025
Through mid-November, records show, CPD officers in 2025 have recovered nearly 400 "ghost guns" — effectively untraceable weapons.
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Dec 22, 2025
Cook County suburban school districts are begging to receive their share of property tax revenues in order to to make payroll.
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Dec 22, 2025
The shooting has sent ripples of worry and anxiety across many of the roughly 2,300 Afghans who have resettled in Illinois since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
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Dec 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 22, 2025
On Dec. 22, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men on a Manhattan subway, alleging they were about to rob him. (Goetz, a white man in what became known as the "Subway Vigilante" case, was later acquitted of attempted murder and assault charges but convicted on a weapons possession charge and served eight months of a one-year sentence.)
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Dec 21, 2025
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they "love America," declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party.
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Dec 21, 2025
Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.
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Dec 21, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
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Dec 21, 2025
A White House envoy said Sunday he held "productive and constructive" talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Dec 21, 2025
In a particularly long, absurd year marked by violence toward Jewish people across the world, with Sydney, Australia's Bondi Beach mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration December 13 as the latest on the list, Chabad Northwest Indiana's Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov said there is a duty to smile and be fearless.
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Dec 21, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier.
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Dec 21, 2025
The woman was driving along the 2200 block of East 103rd Street around 8:20 a.m. when someone from inside another vehicle pulled up and shot at the car, police said.
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Dec 21, 2025
A proposed state Senate bill would restore the right of Indiana University alumni to select three members of the university's Board of Trustees, reversing a late addition to the 2026-27 budget bill passed earlier this year that granted the governor authority to name all nine trustees at the state's largest university.
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Dec 21, 2025
Bowen Yang bid an emotional farewell to "Saturday Night Live" with music, laughter and help from his "Wicked" buddy Ariana Grande.
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Dec 21, 2025
A group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.
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Dec 21, 2025
A Griffith man faces decades in prison after kicking the door down to a couple's apartment. His dog attacked the other man.
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Dec 21, 2025
A scathing report compiled by the former Lake County Comptroller before he was fired demands that county government "solves its leadership problem" and modernizes how it leads and serves.
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Dec 21, 2025
Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe will get a new president and CEO, Gretchen Baker, who will start in March 2026.
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Dec 21, 2025
It's not always easy for Christians who are deaf or hard of hearing to find services and Masses, but some churches are opening those doors.
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Dec 21, 2025
May this look at the toys, gifts and novelty items from years past light up your eyes with nostalgia this holiday season.
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Dec 21, 2025
Charged alongside four Democratic politicians and one political staffer, Joselyn Walsh is arguably the least known of the group, known as the 'Broadview Six.'
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Dec 21, 2025
State-funded work came after Jonathan Jackson was paid as a $13,000-a-month consultant for JB Pritzker's 2018 campaign for governor.
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Dec 21, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 21, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 21, 2025
On Dec. 21, 1891, the first basketball game, devised by James Naismith, is believed to have been played at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Dec 20, 2025
World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.
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Dec 20, 2025
Volunteers delivered food, clothing and toys to families as part of "Operation Midway Bliss" to counter the Trump administration's 'Midway Blitz' crackdown.
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Dec 20, 2025
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted.
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Dec 20, 2025
Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget on Saturday, redrawing the political lines at City Hall and further imperiling his progressive agenda.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.
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Dec 20, 2025
An Illinois man has been arrested for acting out the Grinch's shtick on Whiting City Hall's Christmas decorations late Sunday afternoon.
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Dec 20, 2025
Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event.
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Dec 20, 2025
A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine's emergency service.
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Dec 20, 2025
3 victims were shot while traveling in a vehicle overnight in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
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Dec 20, 2025
The U.S. Senate confirmed Adam Mildred Thursday as the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.
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Dec 20, 2025
The contest, which is held by the Department of Streets and Sanitation, encourages residents to submit creative snowplow names for the city's six snow districts.
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Dec 20, 2025
A former Burns Funeral Home secretary in Hobart got 2.5 years probation Thursday in a plea deal after stealing $122,000 between January 2019 and April 2024. Kathleen Farmer, 63, of Crown Point, pleaded guilty to theft, a Level 6 felony.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Dec 20, 2025
More than two dozen Chicago Public Schools properties remain vacant. Some have been sold, but most are racking up millions in upkeep costs.
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Dec 20, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 20 according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 20, 2025
On Dec. 20, 1954, Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago. She went on to attend Loyola University Chicago then Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa before achieving acclaim through her novel, "The House on Mango Street."
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Dec 19, 2025
While former Public Safety Secretary Jennifer-Ruth Green will pay a $10,000 civil fine in an ethics probe against her, potential criminal charges remain under review by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.
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Dec 19, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a release long anticipated for its potential to reveal new details about the late sex offender and his connections to powerful people.
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Dec 19, 2025
Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018.
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Dec 19, 2025
Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before the shooting, but they know he repeatedly visited the Ivy League school's Providence campus.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to "eliminate" Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago.
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Dec 19, 2025
About 10 years ago, the Brown Family Ranch opened up to the public, hosting rodeos, summer camps and other activities.
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Dec 19, 2025
Students opposed to a Turning Point USA affiliate at Carl Sandburg brought their concern to the Orland High School District 30 Board
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Dec 19, 2025
Ewoldt had an encyclopedic knowledge of state high school wrestling and a spirit that led him to work wrestling tournaments long after he retired.
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Dec 19, 2025
A federal judge has overturned the conviction of Karl Jordan, one of the two men accused of killing Run-DMC legend Jam Master Jay.
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Dec 19, 2025
Federal labor investigators are looking into the overnight death of an airline maintenance technician killed in a crash between two cherry-picker machines at Denver International Airport, authorities confirmed Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
Starting Feb. 1, the city of Rome is imposing a 2-euro fee for tourists to get close to the fountain made famous by Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" during prime-time daylight hours. The view for those admiring the late Baroque masterpiece from the piazza above remains free.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Orland Park Village Board halted fiber optic installation following power outage, will strengthen ordinance.
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Dec 19, 2025
Earlier this week, Lake County Historical Society Museum executive director Diane Gora, board secretary Sharon Nault and volunteer Pat Putigna were busy putting items into large crates and moving boxes that will be moved to a storage facility located in Crown Point, as they've been ordered to vacate the old Lake County Courthouse by Dec. 31.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world's most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Lake County Plan commission heard an initial presentation Wednesday about a proposed data center in Eagle Creek Township about six miles away from Lowell High School.
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Dec 19, 2025
While CPS students continue to show post-pandemic gains, interim CEO Macquline King said that the "encouraging" data is just the start.
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Dec 19, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 19, 2025
As the Chicago Bears openly consider constructing a new stadium in Northwest Indiana, team officials say the franchise's presence in Lake Forest will continue.
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Dec 19, 2025
A Lake County judge sentenced a man from Honduras to a maximum 16 years Friday for stabbing a 13-year-old girl in the hand as she was watching her brother's Little League game near Lowell.
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Dec 19, 2025
The budget counterproposal crafted by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson won a critical first vote before the full City Council on Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a Fox News Channel interview that he expected the department to release "several hundred thousand" records Friday and then several hundred thousand more in the coming weeks.
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Dec 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.
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Dec 19, 2025
More than 40 Chicago chefs and restaurant owners launched a coordinated effort to raise money for families severely impacted by federal immigration enforcement.
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Dec 19, 2025
OSF HealthCare, Ascension and Hospital Sisters Health System all say they will not take part in medical aid-in-dying.
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Dec 19, 2025
Federal investigators sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family, and three others are trying to figure out who was flying the plane and what caused it to return to the airport soon after takeoff.
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Dec 19, 2025
Started by a Hinsdale Central student, Harmony Healers now has more than 100 active members who perform for people who might miss out otherwise.
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Dec 19, 2025
Nudged along by a drama-free meeting held by the Porter County Board of Commissioners Thursday evening, the West Porter Township Fire Protection District and the Lakes of the Four Seasons Volunteer Fire Force entered into a contract for fire and EMS services with advanced life support capability for 2026.
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Dec 19, 2025
Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn't resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.
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Dec 19, 2025
Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn't resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.
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Dec 19, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon sentenced Caldwell to 14 years after he admitted to leading a cocaine ring and aiding in the murder of Kevin Hood.
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Dec 19, 2025
As the Trump administration's mass deportation raids continue, their impact has stretched across the Chicago region. Here's what to know.
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Dec 19, 2025
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May.
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Dec 19, 2025
Young women who have grown emboldened in their conservative beliefs are attending the annual conference held by Turning Point USA.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Cook County medical examiner's report identified Phillip Kizer, 18, of Country Club Hills, as the man killed in Hazel Crest.
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Dec 19, 2025
Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S. because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center started the work of adding Donald Trump's name to the building on Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
The CTA announced Thursday it would boost security on the transit system by increasing the number of police officers as well as K-9 security staffing.
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Dec 19, 2025
A man set himself on fire Friday morning at Damen Avenue on the Blue Line and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, officials said.
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Dec 19, 2025
One-third of all arrests made during a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., were immigration-related, according to official figures reviewed by the AP.
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Dec 19, 2025
Harrison Ford will receive a lifetime achievement award in March from the actors union SAG-AFTRA.
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Dec 19, 2025
A jury found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction.
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Dec 19, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 19, 2025
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the U.S.
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Dec 19, 2025
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility.
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Dec 19, 2025
For all the races and some memorable wins, Greg Biffle is perhaps best remembered for his work as a helicopter pilot supplying aid in the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene.
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Dec 19, 2025
She helped support and shape the magazine that would become Playboy Enterprises, but never tried to capitalize on Hugh Hefner's subsequent fame after their divorce in 1959.
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Dec 19, 2025
On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was subsequently acquitted by the Senate.)
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Dec 19, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 19, according to the Tribune's archives.
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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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