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Aug 29, 2025
A Gary man faces six years after a plea deal Friday for dealing drugs in a Hammond councilman's son's death.
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Aug 29, 2025
The huge shortfall was expected, but Mayor Brandon Johnson faces a tough fight with a restive City Council to fill it and balance the 2026 budget by the end of this year.
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Aug 29, 2025
This could buy a lot of Labor Day weekend sunblock: Saturday's Powerball jackpot is estimated at $1 billion, the sixth-largest prize in the game's history.
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Aug 29, 2025
Speaking at a town hall, Mayor Brandon Johnson warned it would be "unconstitutional" and "illegal" for the federal government to send troops to patrol Chicago's streets.
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Aug 29, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Aug 29, 2025
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa's first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa seat that could have ripple effects down the ballot as Democrats look to the state for pickup opportunities.
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Aug 29, 2025
A man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing a teen girl who blocked his attack during her brother's baseball game near Lowell.
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Aug 29, 2025
The Orland District 230 discussed possibly adding Arabic to its world languages curriculum, but officials say it would be difficult.
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Aug 29, 2025
Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation's most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — claiming they are needed to crack down on crime.
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Aug 29, 2025
Officials voted to delay the start of the 2026/2027 school year at Oak Park and River Forest High School to accommodate construction.
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Aug 29, 2025
Anthony Driver, Jr., the first president of the city's Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, announced this week that he will soon step down as head of the body that oversees the leaders of the Chicago Police Department and two oversight agencies.
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Aug 29, 2025
A 15-year-old boy who was among two youngsters who were wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has died from his injuries, Chicago police said. The young teen and a 12-year-old boy had a physical squabble with an "unknown number" of people in a vacant lot in the 600 block […]
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Aug 29, 2025
A Garfield Park man was charged Friday morning with two counts of attempted murder of two police officers following an attempted burglary in a freight train yard in Englewood, authorities said. Barry Hayes, 32, was charged with two counts of attempt murder, two counts of criminal damage of government property between $500 to $10,000, and […]
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Aug 29, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 29, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Aug 29, 2025
Oak Lawn High School District 229 was selected as part of Omnilert's grant program that covers costs of its "gun detect appliance."
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Aug 29, 2025
A registered sex offender accused of secretly taking photos of children in New Lenox will undergo a fitness evaluation.
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Aug 29, 2025
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling this week rebuked a Northwest Side alderman who expressed skepticism about Chicago's year-over-year crime declines as the city girds itself ahead of a possible deployment of National Guard troops.
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Aug 29, 2025
President Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris, a senior White House official said on Friday.
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Aug 29, 2025
What often gets lost in the dialogue about Chicago is the tremendous work that takes place day in and day out to prevent violence, to heal trauma.
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Aug 29, 2025
PACE Virtual Academy, launched this month by Portage Township Schools, will no longer be just an online high school. Parents expressed enough interest that it will also serve grades 6-8.
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Aug 29, 2025
The parents of the two schoolchildren fatally shot in a Minneapolis church spoke out for the first time on Thursday afternoon, with some imploring the shaken community to address the root causes of shootings that target schools.
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Aug 29, 2025
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday with memorials, performances and a parade to honor those who were affected.
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Aug 29, 2025
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight what he says is runaway crime. Yet data shows most violent crime in those places and around the country has declined in recent years.
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Aug 29, 2025
As the families of the two Catholic school students fatally shot while celebrating Mass at a Minneapolis church continue to wrestle with their grief, the father of the 8-year-old boy killed tearfully urged the community to remember his son for his love of family, fishing and cooking.
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Aug 29, 2025
Officials are working to restore service at the Matteson station after the Metra Electric Line was disrupted due to power issues at substations after a fire, officials said.
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Aug 29, 2025
Speaking at a town hall, Mayor Brandon Johnson warned it would be "unconstitutional" and "illegal" for the federal government to send troops to patrol Chicago's streets.
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Aug 29, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Aug 29, 2025
Hundreds of postdoctoral scholars and research associates at Northwestern University voted to unionize this week.
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Aug 29, 2025
On Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, held at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Chicago Board of Education approved Chicago Public Schools' 2025-26 budget without the ability to take out a $200 million high-interest loan, following warnings from high-level district officials.
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Aug 28, 2025
The move was in response to a letter interim CHA Board Chair Matthew Brewer sent to the federal agency Wednesday that outlined Burnett's potential conflicts.
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Aug 28, 2025
The University of Chicago announced a string of budget cuts slashing spending by $100 million to plug its mounting structural deficit.
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Aug 28, 2025
The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
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Aug 28, 2025
Operations at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in jeopardy after the ousting of the CDC director and the resignation of several high-profile agency leaders.
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Aug 28, 2025
Parade organizers are planning a celebration under the shadow of "ramped up" immigration enforcement in Chicago.
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Aug 28, 2025
The boys, aged 12 and 15, were shot in a vacant lot in the 600 block of West 47th Street around 3:45 p.m., police said.
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Aug 28, 2025
Known as the "Pilgrim Mother," the 4-foot-8 statue arrived in Des Plaines on Wednesday from Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City.
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Aug 28, 2025
Acute respiratory distress syndrome happens when the lungs become severely inflamed — much more so than from a typical lung infection.
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Aug 28, 2025
The strange smell and oil sheen in Munster's Cobblestones neighborhood continues to be an annoyance, but the Munster and BP emergency crews said Wednesday they fixed the issue with two inactive BP pipelines.
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Aug 28, 2025
State Sen. Mike Bohacek accepted a plea agreement Wednesday for his drunk driving charge, which includes avoiding one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
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Aug 28, 2025
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is suing the Trump administration in an effort to overturn the president's attempt to fire her.
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Aug 28, 2025
Jim O'Neill, a deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the CDC.
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Aug 28, 2025
Three top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been escorted off the public health agency's Atlanta campus as the White House tries to remove its leader.
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Aug 28, 2025
A review of the Tribune's archives produced 18 events in which the governor activated the National Guard within Chicago. Only two of them — both during the 19th century — involved a sitting U.S. president.
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Aug 28, 2025
A former School City of Hammond maintenance director has his initial trial date set for October.
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Aug 28, 2025
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan made some jabs at the Trump administration and the Republican leaders in Congress while answering constituents' questions about redistricting, immigration and other issues on Wednesday at a Portage town hall meeting.
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Aug 28, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Aug 28, 2025
A federal judge sentenced a Markham, Illinois man Wednesday to seven years for dealing fentanyl to undercover informants five times from March to May 2024.
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Aug 28, 2025
Officials issued a beach hazard to remain in effect from 4 p.m. Thursday to Friday afternoon.
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Aug 28, 2025
Police Supt. Larry Snelling joined Mayor Brandon Johnson to brief reporters on President Donald Trump's rumored plan to deploy federal troops and law enforcement to Chicago.
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Aug 28, 2025
Ariana Grande is returning to the stage for her first tour in seven years.
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Aug 28, 2025
The District 160 board suspended Superindent Duane Meighan and appointed Denise Julius from South Holland District 150 as interim.
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Aug 28, 2025
Convicted mobster Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno has lost his latest bid for early release from prison after a judge ruled the onetime leader of the Outfit's Cicero faction was still a danger to continue with mob activities despite his declining health.
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Aug 28, 2025
The road back to a normal water system for all in Cedar Lake will be long and costly, but town officials are in it for the long haul to make it right.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Homer Glen Village Board is reconsidering installing license plate reader cameras, two years after residents voted against them.
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Aug 28, 2025
As part of its international tour, a life-size sculpture of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated at Des Plaines' Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Aug. 27, 2025, where it will remain until Sept. 30. It is next planned for St. Gall Parish, 5511 S. Sawyer Ave., in Chicago, then to the Mother of […]
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Aug 28, 2025
Donald Trump's administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities.
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Aug 28, 2025
Walgreens Boots Alliance has officially become a private company, with private equity firm Sycamore Partners announcing Thursday morning that it's completed its acquisition of the Deerfield-based retail pharmacy giant.
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Aug 28, 2025
Walgreens Boots Alliance has officially become a private company, with private equity firm Sycamore Partners announcing Thursday morning that it's completed its acquisition of the Deerfield-based retail pharmacy giant.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Winfield Police Department has a first-time second in command. The Town Council on Tuesday swore in Todd Koster as its new Deputy Chief.
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Aug 28, 2025
A revived management board for the Chesterton/ Porter joint police dispatch center will soon meet to review the performance of their dispatchers during the June 18 police-involved shooting outside the Hilton Garden Inn in Chesterton.
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Aug 28, 2025
Stocks held relatively steady near their record highs as investors pored over a mixed batch of earnings reports from big U.S. companies.
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Aug 28, 2025
Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, for connections to the church and its school to understand the motivation for the attack.
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Aug 28, 2025
A president mobilizing the National Guard to respond to a situation is rare. National Guard historians, in response to a request by the Tribune, listed a dozen.
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Aug 28, 2025
Leo High School's choir is one step closer to winning America's Got Talent. After vying against 10 other acts in the quarterfinals of the NBC reality talent show Tuesday night, the South Side Catholic school for boys is moving on to the next round of competition.
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Aug 28, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Aug 28, 2025
Authorities are working to learn the motive of the shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school's church during Mass, killing two children.
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Aug 28, 2025
After 25 years leading schools, Bloom principal Jerry Anderson continuing life of learning on national principals association board.
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Aug 28, 2025
As students return to Chicago Public Schools across the city, some district custodians are working their last month before being laid off.
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Aug 28, 2025
On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had allegedly whistled at a white woman four days prior; he was found brutally slain three days later.
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Aug 28, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 28, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Aug 27, 2025
Israeli and U.S. officials are meeting in Washington to discuss post-war Gaza.
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Aug 27, 2025
The Chicago Department of Public Health, in partnership with the 46th Ward, is launching an initiative to distribute naloxone through repurposed newsstands, beginning in the Uptown neighborhood.
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Aug 27, 2025
Danya Bell, 29, made her first court appearance since her 5-year-old foster brother was found shot inside a family home in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue on Sunday.
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Aug 27, 2025
Advocate Health Care no longer prescribing gender-affirming care medications for patients under 19, joining growing list of hospital systems scaling back care amid federal pressure.
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Aug 27, 2025
The former Illinois GOP chairman might be little known outside state GOP circles, but Don Tracy is the most prominent name running for the open US Senate seat next year.
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Aug 27, 2025
Cardinal Blase Cupich called on those who hold power to "make the safety of our people a national priority" following Wednesday's mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school.
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Aug 27, 2025
Sixteen CPS schools are now Sustainable Community Schools, a title coming with $500,000 in funding and a community-led style of education.
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Aug 27, 2025
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out after less than one month in the job, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.
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Aug 27, 2025
Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
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Aug 27, 2025
What to know about the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis where a gunman opened fire during Mass.
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Aug 27, 2025
A once-straightforward COVID-19 vaccine process has become muddled this year because of new federal guidance on who the shots are approved for.
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Aug 27, 2025
A Gary man was sentenced to 77 months Tuesday for a pair of Merrillville hotel robberies in January 2023.
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Aug 27, 2025
Sheila Harrison-Williams will be paid $1,500 a day as interim superintendent in Dolton West District 148.
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Aug 27, 2025
Federal health officials have dramatically scaled back a program that has tracked food poisoning infections in the U.S. for three decades.
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Aug 27, 2025
Cracker Barrel's attempted revamp hit a wall. The company saw severe backlash over its plans to modernize and simplify its nostalgic logo - including from President Donald Trump.
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Aug 27, 2025
A small group of Black Trump supporters has turned up at most City Council meetings for over two years, speaking against Mayor Brandon Johnson and other Democrats.
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Aug 27, 2025
Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that's resulted in critical information, like warning lights and vehicle speed, not showing up on the dashboard.
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Aug 27, 2025
A 19-year-old man was fatally wounded shortly before noon Wednesday in the Austin neighborhood on the city's West Side, Chicago police said. The victim was standing on the sidewalk in the 5200 block of West Gladys Avenue when he was approached by two people who opened fire in his direction. He was struck to the […]
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Aug 27, 2025
PNW staff and alumni unveiled a new micobiology lab at the university's Westville campus. The lab was constructed over the summer.
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Aug 27, 2025
A $1.15 billion project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet will target silver and bighead carp.
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Aug 27, 2025
A Gary mother is facing charges after doctors concluded her son was abused with several burns and "lasting" brain damage. Lashaunda Castleberry, 35, was charged Tuesday with neglect of a dependent resulting in catastrophic injury, a Level 1 felony. She is in custody, held on a $5,000 cash bond.
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Aug 27, 2025
The District 230 Foundation allows teachers at Stagg, Andrew and Sandburg high schools to find creative ways to reach students.
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Aug 27, 2025
Police notified Homewood-Flossmoor High School and Flossmoor District 161 of Tuesday's shooting at Flossmoor Road and Kedzie Avenue.
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Aug 27, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States.
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Aug 27, 2025
U.S. regulators approved Pfizer's updated COVID-19 shot Wednesday but with limits that could complicate access for millions of American adults and children.
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Aug 27, 2025
A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days.
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Aug 27, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Aug 27, 2025
Federal prosecutors have failed to obtain a felony indictment against a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation's capital.
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Aug 27, 2025
A gunman opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church and struck a group of children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible."
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