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Sep 15, 2025
Lincoln-Way District 210 is on good financial footing a decade after being put on the state Board of Education's financial watch list.
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Sep 15, 2025
The Trump administration's central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of probationary workers as part of President Trump's efforts to downsize the federal workforce, a judge ruled.
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Sep 15, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox.
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Sep 15, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel.
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Sep 15, 2025
Riders can access the overdose-reversing medication for free by pressing the code "555" on the machines.
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Sep 15, 2025
The Matteson Police Department took two people into custody after a manhunt Monday morning along Vollmer Road and Harlem Avenue in Matteson, according to a department statement. Matteson Commander Justin Ramel said Matteson police received a call reporting suspicious individuals, who police later said had firearms, at 5:39 a.m. in a residential neighborhood along Central […]
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Sep 15, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Sep 15, 2025
Shouts of "We love you, Charlie" rang out Sunday as hundreds of folks came together to light candles, pray and remember Charlie Kirk.
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Sep 15, 2025
Actions come one week after President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security announced it was embarking on a surge of immigration enforcement actions in the Chicago region.
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Sep 15, 2025
Actions come one week after President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security announced it was embarking on a surge of immigration enforcement actions in the Chicago region.
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Sep 15, 2025
Vice President JD Vance on Monday hosted the radio program of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist who was assassinated last week, telling listeners that the best way he knows how to honor his friend is to be a better husband and father.
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Sep 15, 2025
After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline.
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Sep 15, 2025
Aldermen had long feared the price tag for the 176 remaining reversed conviction cases tied to disgraced Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts.
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Sep 15, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Sept. 13, 2025.
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Sep 15, 2025
The rat and note was left at the office of Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, and contained "derogatory statements" about immigrants, according to officials.
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Sep 15, 2025
The rat and note was left at the office of Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, and contained "derogatory statements" about immigrants, according to officials.
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Sep 15, 2025
A Wisconsin state senator who came in third in the Democratic primary for governor in 2018 is running again, saying in her campaign launch video that "extremists" like President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are putting the nation's democracy at risk.
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Sep 15, 2025
Tesla's stock is climbing before the market open Monday as CEO Elon Musk disclosed the purchase of more than 2.5 million shares worth approximately $1 billion.
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Sep 15, 2025
A meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials went well and a deal was reached regarding "a ‘certain' company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save," President Donald Trump posted on his social media site on Monday.
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Sep 15, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Sep 15, 2025
Michael Benjamin was gravely burned in a fire on Sept. 8, 2021 at his then-Evanston home.
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Sep 15, 2025
President Donald Trump's ongoing obsession with Chicago as a "hellhole" places the truth of its notorious gun violence problem at the heart of a national fight.
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Sep 15, 2025
On Sept. 15, 1978, Muhammad Ali became the first boxer to capture the heavyweight title three times, winning by unanimous decision in his rematch with Leon Spinks.
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Sep 15, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 15, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Sep 14, 2025
"Severance" put in overtime at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, nabbing trophies in major categories, including a historic one for Trammell Tillman
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Sep 14, 2025
"Severance" put in overtime at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, nabbing trophies in major categories, including a historic one for Trammell Tillman
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Sep 14, 2025
Tonight's the night for television!Nate Bargatze hosts the 77th Prime Time Emmys, held at the Los Angeles' Peacock Theater on Sunday. He vowed to avoid politics during the annual award show, despite the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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Sep 14, 2025
The crowds were considerably thinner. In previous years, sidewalks would be packed, making it impossible to walk along the parade route, attendees noted.
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Sep 14, 2025
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday pushed back against a 50% tariff on Brazilian imported goods to the United States, arguing that it was "political" and "illogical."
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Sep 14, 2025
Qatar's prime minister denounced Israel on Sunday as foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim nations met to discuss a possible unified response to Israel's attack on Doha targeting the leadership of the fighter group Hamas.
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Sep 14, 2025
After years of complaints from the right about "cancel culture" from the left, some conservatives are seeking to upend the lives and careers of those who disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death.
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Sep 14, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration renewed its request Sunday for a federal appeals court to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors, a move the president is seeking ahead of the central bank's vote on interest rates.
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Sep 14, 2025
The 101st annual Mexican Independence Day parade went on peacefully Sunday in East Chicago in the face of heightened federal immigration enforcement nationwide.
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Sep 14, 2025
Arguably one of Illinois' most-popular governors, Jim Edgar, 79, led with a low-key persona a meticulous focus on fiscal matters aimed at preparing the state for the 21st century,
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Sep 14, 2025
Avinash Panjwani is charged with five counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, one count of aggravated battery - great bodily harm and two counts of resisting a police officer causing injury.
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Sep 14, 2025
Avinash Panjwani is charged with five counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, one count of aggravated battery - great bodily harm and two counts of resisting a police officer causing injury.
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Sep 14, 2025
Family and friends of the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk described his politics as veering left in recent years as he spent large amounts of time scrolling the "dark corners of the internet," Utah Gov. Spencer Spencer Cox said Sunday.
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Sep 14, 2025
Willian Alberto Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was detained Friday when he went to a barber shop in the Little Village neighborhood, according to the petition filed in U.S. District Court.
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Sep 14, 2025
Willian Alberto Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was detained Friday when he went to a barber shop in the Little Village neighborhood, according to the petition filed in U.S. District Court.
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Sep 14, 2025
Gregory Hudson, 65, faces felony felony charges including murder, arson and criminal sexual assault for alleged attacks against two different women.
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Sep 14, 2025
Ricky Hatton, the former world boxing champion who rose to become one of the most popular fighters in the sport, has died. He was 46.
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Sep 14, 2025
Mexican Independence Day celebrations go as planned in Chicago despite Operation Midway Blitz underway by Department of Homeland Security.
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Sep 14, 2025
"The Studio" looks like a runaway hit, the innies and outies of "Severance" could solidify a spot among the prestige TV elite, and Noah Wyle could finally have his big awards moment as the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive.
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Sep 14, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the "huge learning curve" he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping "in on the deep end of the pool very quickly," in excerpts of an interview released Sunday on his 70th birthday.
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Sep 14, 2025
As Bloom High School in Chicago Heights marks its 125th birthday, Michael Boswell celebrates this 'art deco masterpiece' in photo book.
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Sep 14, 2025
Willie Nelson's first Farm Aid was held 40 years ago in Champaign, Illinois.
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Sep 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office in Chicago was among several regional branches closed, part of Trump's plan to close the agency.
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Sep 14, 2025
Illinois ranks third nationally in ethanol production and carbon sequestration could play a major role in helping industries reach climate targets.
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Sep 14, 2025
On Sept. 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly film star Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.
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Sep 14, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 14, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Sep 13, 2025
Chicago police are conducting a death investigation after an infant girl was pulled from the water near a South Side beach Saturday morning.
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Sep 13, 2025
Chicago police are conducting death investigations after two children and an adult were pulled from Lake Michigan on Saturday.
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Sep 13, 2025
Chicago police are conducting death investigations after a woman and two children were pulled from Lake Michigan on Saturday.
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Sep 13, 2025
Workers, community members and lawmakers gathered outside an ICE facility outside Chicago to call for the release of a detained day laborer.
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Sep 13, 2025
Memphis' mayor said Saturday that President Donald Trump's TV announcement the day before was the first hard confirmation he received that the National Guard would be sent to the city an anti-crime mission.
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Sep 13, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel's attack on Hamas operatives in Qatar that has upended efforts to broker an end to the conflict.
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Sep 13, 2025
A federal judge is temporarily keeping in place measures preventing the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan migrant children in government custody.
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Sep 13, 2025
As investigators spend the weekend digging deeper into suspect Tyler James Robinson ahead of his initial court appearance Tuesday, students who witnessed Wednesday's shooting at Utah Valley University are reckoning with trauma, grief and the pall the killing has cast on their community.
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Sep 13, 2025
With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies.
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Sep 13, 2025
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking $3.1 million in fines from Boeing over safety violations, including ones related to an Alaska Airlines jetliner losing a door plug panel on its fuselage in midflight.
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Sep 13, 2025
The union that represents tens of thousands of actors and other entertainment and media professionals has elected Sean Astin as its new president.
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Sep 13, 2025
The Taliban said Saturday they reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.
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Sep 13, 2025
There's bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable, but lawmakers are clashing over how to do it.
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Sep 13, 2025
The strike has triggered the worst fears of leaders in the oil-rich Gulf: that the U.S. might abandon its decades-old commitment to protect them from regional aggressors.
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Sep 13, 2025
President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum.
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Sep 13, 2025
Kash Patel approaches congressional oversight hearings this coming week facing not just questions about the Charlie Kirk investigation but broader doubts at the FBI.
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Sep 13, 2025
More anti-blitz rallies have been scheduled in the Chicago suburbs in the coming days, as towns that were once Republican strongholds now lean more Democratic.
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Sep 13, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 13, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Sep 13, 2025
On Sept. 13, 1997, a funeral was held in Kolkata, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
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Sep 13, 2025
A Griffith man has been charged with sexual battery after grabbing a woman's breasts in a bicycle drive-by during a popular town festival. Michael R. "Mad Mac" McInerney, 63, of Griffith, is facing two counts of sexual battery: victim compelled to submit by force or imminent threat of force, which is a Level 6 felony. His initial hearing on the matter is scheduled for December 19, according to court records.
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Sep 12, 2025
A teen was sentenced Friday to 15 years after admitting he killed an East Chicago man in 2022 who was helping a friend get his stolen bike back near Edison Park in Hammond.
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Sep 12, 2025
The new facility at the college's Sugar Grove campus includes a collision lab, welding booths and various classroom and lab spaces.
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Sep 12, 2025
Hours earlier, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot a man in the northwest suburb after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop.
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Sep 12, 2025
Emotions in the Chicago area remained at a near-fever pitch as protesters - including two candidates for Congress - confronted federal agents outside an immigration processing center in the near-west suburb of Broadview.
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Sep 12, 2025
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and urge Israel to commit to a Palestinian state, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently opposes.
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Sep 12, 2025
Ted Dabrowski has a sometimes-controversial background and is the former president of the Wirepoints conservative action organization.
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Sep 12, 2025
Witnesses from the FBI and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on Friday offered details on the law enforcement response and evidence collection during the trial of a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump while he played golf in South Florida last year.
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Sep 12, 2025
The lawsuit alleges that Uber drivers have charged illegal cleaning fees for service animal shedding and imposed cancellation fees after denying service.
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Sep 12, 2025
Illinois' move to install its own vaccine protocols follows Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s narrowing of COVID-19 vaccine use for younger adults and children, among other changes.
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Sep 12, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial polluters to report their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the government.
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Sep 12, 2025
Another contract proposal has been rejected by Boeing workers who now have been on strike for nearly six weeks from three Midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed.
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Sep 12, 2025
Hernandez held an informational session for Aurora area businesses on Thursday about what to do if federal agents come to their workplace.
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Sep 12, 2025
Apple is putting its trust in a Kentucky plant singled out to become the exclusive producer of the cover glass meant to safeguard every iPhone and Apple Watch sold worldwide by the tech giant.
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Sep 12, 2025
An Evergreen Park man has been accused of robbery affecting interstate commerce in connection to the attempted robbery of an armored truck driver in Chicago's Loop Wednesday, an incident that ended with the driver of that vehicle shooting the man. Dajon Harris, 23, was charged in a criminal complaint filed Friday of obstructing, delaying and […]
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Sep 12, 2025
The events illustrate the content moderation challenges platforms face in handling fast-moving real-time events, complicated by the death of a polarizing conservative activist who was shot in front of a crowd armed with smartphones recording the moment.
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Sep 12, 2025
Both Indiana University Northwest and Purdue University Northwest have reported enrollment increases for the start of the fall semester.
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Sep 12, 2025
Federal health officials intend to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism, according to a government procurement notice.
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Sep 12, 2025
A Crown Point woman got a 5-year split sentence Friday in a deadly Winfield crash.
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Sep 12, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Sep 12, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Curtis Sliwa — his own party's New York City mayoral candidate — as "not exactly prime time" and even disparaged his affinity for cats, as pressure mounts for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani ‘s rivals to drop out of the race.
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Sep 12, 2025
Bystanders filmed federal immigration agents arresting the Leodegario Martinez Barradas last Sunday.
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Sep 12, 2025
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, long an advocate for civility, made an impassioned plea on Friday for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division.
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Sep 12, 2025
A federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in northwest suburban Franklin Park Friday morning after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle.
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Sep 12, 2025
A federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in northwest suburban Franklin Park Friday morning after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle.
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Sep 12, 2025
The Tinley Council Teachers 146 of Local 604 authorization vote means the earliest they are allowed to strike is Sept. 22.
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Sep 12, 2025
The Environmental Law and Policy Center and other Midwest organizations raised concerns about changes to a U.S. Steel Gary Works permit governing particulate matter emissions from its pig iron caster.
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Sep 12, 2025
Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications warned of heightened traffic downtown this weekend as the city prepares to celebrate Mexican Independence Day.
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Sep 12, 2025
With NASCAR not taking place in Grant Park in 2026, Taste is returning to its July perch, said Chicago's commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
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Sep 12, 2025
A jury acquitted a Gary man late Thursday in his wife's death, according to a Lake County prosecutor's office spokeswoman. Ellis Bishop, 69, was found not guilty of murder in the Oct. 8, 2022 death of Victoria Bishop, 60.
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Sep 12, 2025
France said it's deploying fighter jets to Poland and Britain announced fresh sanctions on Russia's oil revenues and war machine Friday as European countries took steps to deter Moscow's aggression after an incursion by Russian drones into Polish territory.
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