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Feb 27, 2026
The arrests of two people in the infamous overnight raid of an apartment building in South Shore were among more than 30 Operation Midway Blitz cases where immigration agents violated a 2022 consent decree limiting so-called warrantless arrests, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Feb 27, 2026
After years of financial turmoil, Hawthorne Race Course filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago on Friday.
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Feb 27, 2026
Chicago Public Schools hosted the Transition Fair, a two-day event that connects students with disabilities to post-secondary opportunities.
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Feb 27, 2026
Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes wrote an apology letter to Marla Rose, who he was accused of pepper-spraying in 2024 as she attempted to ring the doorbell of his west suburban home.
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Feb 27, 2026
Court news from Lake County.
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Feb 27, 2026
A Lowell will on home monitoring and probation for sending threatening texts to the Lake County prosecutor and a police officer.
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Feb 27, 2026
Candidates Beau Bayh and Blythe Potter participated in Thursday's forum, where they answered questions about their goals for the office.
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Feb 27, 2026
A Cedar Lake man is facing new child molesting charges less than two weeks after his sentencing in another case.
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Feb 27, 2026
Valparaiso High School students walked out Friday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence and deportations.
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Feb 27, 2026
The new "Tourism Improvement District" backed by hotel, labor and business groups would allow dozens of large Chicago hotels to impose a new 1.5% tax on overnight stays.
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Feb 27, 2026
Merrillville Police were called at around 8:15 a.m. Feb. 27 to the 7600 block of Van Buren Street for a firearm assault, officials said.
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Feb 27, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 27, 2026
The Orland High School District 230 board spent more than an hour Thursday discussing a proposal to add Arabic as a world language in district classrooms, after stalling its vote on the curriculum in January. Several board members maintained their position there are several barriers to installing the curriculum and said it is the board's […]
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Feb 27, 2026
Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday as he pushes a campaign against military support for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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Feb 27, 2026
The Chicago Tribune has won the Toner Prize for local political reporting for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.
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Feb 27, 2026
Police accountability advocates from across the city gathered on the Southwest Side Thursday evening, continuing their calls for a public hearing with Chicago Police Department leadership to address CPD's response to — and relationship with — the federal government and it's immigration crackdown.
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Feb 27, 2026
Police said the suspect arranged to meet the victims after coming into contact with them on social media apps.
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Feb 27, 2026
Will County sheriff primaries feature Democrats Patrick Jones and Dan Jungles, Republicans Justin Fialko and James "Jim" Reilly.
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Feb 27, 2026
For the report, Northwestern researchers aimed to analyze violent deaths of Illinois children ages 10 and younger who died at the hands of caregivers between 2015 and 2022.
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Feb 27, 2026
An Indiana bill aimed at eliminating welfare fraud received final approval by the Senate Wednesday and heads to Gov. Mike Braun's desk for signature.
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Feb 27, 2026
James Clifford Broadway kept using an expletive during a hearing that Porter Superior Court Judge Michael Fish described as "combative."
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Feb 27, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make a quick trip to Israel early next week, the State Department said, as tensions between the United States and Iran remain high after their latest nuclear talks and American forces gather in the region.
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Feb 27, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's "not happy" with the latest talks over Iran's nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.
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Feb 27, 2026
The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately, as the threat of an American strike on Iran looms.
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Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan's defense minister said Friday means they are now in "open war."
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Feb 27, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton is testifying Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.
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Feb 27, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton started his deposition before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday by telling them he "did nothing wrong" and saw no signs of Epstein's abuse.
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Feb 27, 2026
As wounded anti-government protesters poured into an Iranian hospital during last month's crackdown, a young doctor hurried to the emergency room to help treat a man in his 40s who had been shot in the head at close range.
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Feb 27, 2026
Eight members of Cuba's delegation were denied visas to the United States for the World Baseball Classic, the Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation (FCBS) said Thursday.
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Feb 27, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 27, 2026
Eight Democrats are running for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi in the 8th Congressional District, a district that has seen major demographic shifts in recent years.
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Feb 27, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 27, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 27, 2026
On Feb. 27, 1997, Ireland became one of the last countries in the world to legalize divorce. Divorce remains illegal in just two countries: the Philippines and Vatican City.
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Feb 26, 2026
The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it's not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defense Department "made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons."
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Feb 26, 2026
U.S. hockey player Brady Tkachuk said he did not appreciate a doctored video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold.
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Feb 26, 2026
Chicago officers, along with the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested Muhammad Thomas, 35, on Tuesday in St. Louis.
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Feb 26, 2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina State House, Monday, March 2. A public memorial service will follow.
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Feb 26, 2026
The United States women's hockey team has a date with Flavor Flav this summer in Las Vegas celebrate winning the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
The state of Illinois began accepting applications Thursday afternoon from Chicago restaurants and bars that hope to operate video gambling machines.
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Feb 26, 2026
The Chicago Bears haven't always had their headquarters and training fields in the same place. Here's where they have "Bear-ed down."
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Feb 26, 2026
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill Thursday that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond, while Illinois lawmakers inched closer to a tax deal to keep the team in the Land of Lincoln.
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Feb 26, 2026
A pair was charged Thursday in a Hammond shooting stemming from a botched marijuana deal.
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Feb 26, 2026
Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back, killing four and wounding six, according to the Cuban government.
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Feb 26, 2026
A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes.
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Feb 26, 2026
A businesswoman and philanthropist, Jorie Butler Kent ran the Oak Brook Polo Club and befriended England's now-King Charles III, who became a supporter of her Friends of Conservation project in Kenya.
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Feb 26, 2026
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review "newly unearthed" evidence in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent's vehicle.
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Feb 26, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 26, 2026
Chicago Public Schools will begin transferring about 540 students from two high schools in the ASPIRA charter network facing midyear closure.
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Feb 26, 2026
The Indiana Senate approved a bill that allows local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and cooperate with ICE.
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Feb 26, 2026
Thousands are expected to gather Thursday and Friday to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of America's most enduring civil rights leaders.
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Feb 26, 2026
A Naperville man has been charged with staging a fake jewelry heist of more than a million dollars in jewelry, officials said.
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Feb 26, 2026
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group's request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House.
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Feb 26, 2026
Tommy Schaefer pleads not guilty to conspiracy charges in the bludgeoning death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of his then-girlfriend, Heather Mack.
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Feb 26, 2026
Life revolved around the Beverly Shores firehouse for Andrew Himan and his family. The end of Himan's watchful service came on Saturday.
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Feb 26, 2026
Home insurance rates may be going through the roof, but State Farm has some good news for its auto insurance customers.
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Feb 26, 2026
Two ratings agencies have downgraded the city of Chicago and kept their negative outlooks intact, citing the city's back-to-back budget shortfalls since 2023.
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Feb 26, 2026
The violence that erupted in Mexico after the death of a powerful drug lord has left many questioning whether the country will be able to co-host the World Cup in just over three months.
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Feb 26, 2026
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before U.S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.
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Feb 26, 2026
Iran and the United States were holding another round of indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday to try to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the U.S. gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle East.
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Feb 26, 2026
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia will try to persuade a federal judge in Tennessee on Thursday to throw out human smuggling charges against him.
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Feb 26, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 26, 2026
More than a week of services and funerals in memory of Rev. Jesse Jackson will begin Thursday at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded on the South Side in 1971.
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Feb 26, 2026
The CEO of Northfield-based Medline cheered the company's successful initial public offering late last year following the company's first earnings call Wednesday.
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Feb 26, 2026
The racial disparity has raised some eyebrows, including those of State Rep. Kam Buckner, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation that allowed the transit systems to start suspending riders.
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Feb 26, 2026
Can the Obama Presidential Center stick to its guiding principle of attracting investment and helping longtime South Side working-class neighbors build wealth without pushing them out?
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Feb 26, 2026
Former Chicago police Officer Pierre Tyler was one of about a dozen petitions for expungement heard last week by a Cook County judge. But Tyler's case was the only one involving a former cop and a murder charge.
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Feb 26, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 26, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 26, 2026
On Feb. 26, 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
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Feb 25, 2026
The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket had spent a month at the pad ready for potential liftoff, but encountered a series of problems serious enough to require a return to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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Feb 25, 2026
The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted.
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Feb 25, 2026
The remarks by two Iranian officials came a day before the talks and as America has assembled its biggest deployment of aircraft and warships to the Middle East in decades.
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Feb 25, 2026
Victims have been transported to multiple hospitals, but their conditions are unknown, police say.
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Feb 25, 2026
Hilary Knight doesn't want to let what she called a "distasteful joke" from President Donald Trump get in the way of a historic performance by American women across all sports at the Olympics.
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Feb 25, 2026
The executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority will succeed Frank Mautino, who is retiring.
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Feb 25, 2026
A bill allowing militarization of the Indiana National Guard passed the Senate Tuesday, after seven Democratic amendments failed.
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Feb 25, 2026
Four former students are suing the Oswego Community Unit School District 308 for allegedly failing to properly investigate grooming and sexual misconduct they say they experienced from a former teacher.
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Feb 25, 2026
The legislation has almost no chance of passing but has nonetheless forced GOP candidates to deal with the issue of abortion, a subject they have fared poorly on in Illinois.
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Feb 25, 2026
An Indiana state bill addressing gratuities in response to the case against former Portage Mayor James Snyder was amended and approved in the Senate to remove all language pertaining to gratuities.
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Feb 25, 2026
With utility rates rising across Illinois, consumer groups are backing proposed legislation to wring $40 million per year in hidden expenses out of customer bills.
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Feb 25, 2026
The food pantry is working with the school district to promote food access to families.
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Feb 25, 2026
Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are some the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a wide net that includes rap, metal, R&B, hip-hop, Britpop, blues rock and pop.
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Feb 25, 2026
LaPorte and Porter counties will be added to the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force beginning on July 1, 2027, after the House's unanimous support.
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Feb 25, 2026
Randy Martin, 42, pleaded guilty in January. Court filings show, in exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges, including Level 1 felony rape. He got time served on the firearm charge, leaving him to finish probation for stalking.
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Feb 25, 2026
The judge ordered the 33-year-old be held in the slaying of an Uber Eats driver killed outside Loretto Hospital on Chicago's West Side.
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Feb 25, 2026
Republican Schererville Town Council candidate Dan Elzinga's name will remain on the ballot in the Lake County Election primary in May, while North Township Trustee Democratic candidate Samuel R. Smith Jr. was removed.
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Feb 25, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 25, 2026
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued an apology for his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a townhall for the Gates Foundation, during which he also confessed to having two affairs while married to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, according to reports.
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Feb 25, 2026
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the university announced Wednesday.
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Feb 25, 2026
The larger-than-life theater owner died recently at the age of 76. Though he came into show business without much experience, he had a gift for understanding his customers.
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Feb 25, 2026
The home of the "Mona Lisa" is getting a new boss. Art historian Christophe Leribault, a veteran museum director, is taking over at the Louvre, shouldering the challenge of getting the world's largest museum out of crisis after the brazen heist in October of the French crown jewels.
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Feb 25, 2026
Wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of feeding into "reactive sick care" during her confirmation hearing to become the nation's next surgeon general.
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Feb 25, 2026
Wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of feeding into "reactive sick care" during her confirmation hearing to become the nation's next surgeon general.
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Feb 25, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security would be barred from using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP under a new bill introduced in the House on Wednesday.
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Feb 25, 2026
After 68 years, Mr. Clean, the bald, strapping mascot of the household cleaning products bearing his name, announced his retirement in a social media post.
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Feb 25, 2026
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Feb 25, 2026
A bill aimed at addressing housing costs passed the Senate on Tuesday after it was amended on Monday.
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Feb 25, 2026
President Donald Trump has delivered the State of the Union. Now the challenge for him is to make that message stick.
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Feb 25, 2026
President Donald Trump has delivered the State of the Union. Now the challenge for him is to make that message stick.
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