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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 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
The Christkindlmarket at Aurora's RiverEdge Park, located at 360 N. Broadway, has been open Thursdays to Sundays since Nov. 21 and is now open every day through Christmas Eve.
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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
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
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
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
Downtown Homewood businesses dimmed lights, placed candles and extended hours for pre-Christmas shoppers Thursday night.
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Dec 19, 2025
Redevelopment plans for the former CVS Health headquarters and vacant land belonging to Northwestern Memorial Hospital near I-294 in Glenview received a mixed response from a village panel charged with considering the proposal. Developer Scott Gibbel is looking to construct three buildings for "light industrial" uses on 29 acres of land at 2211-2305 Sanders Road […]
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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
The La Grange Park Recreation Center expansion will be financed by a $10.7 million referendum passed by district voters in 2023.
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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 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
Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic "Peanuts" and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada's WildBrain.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Illinois Commerce Commission sliced $25.4 million from ComEd's $268.5 million rate reconciliation request Thursday, holding down increases customers will pay for electricity delivery next year.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Illinois Commerce Commission sliced $25.4 million from ComEd's $268.5 million rate reconciliation request Thursday, holding down increases customers will pay for electricity delivery next year.
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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
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
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
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Dec 18, 2025
On Monday, the South Shore Line began running a two-car train along the new rail line to start testing and conditioning, so bugs can be worked out before passenger service is set to start in March, President and General Manager Michael Noland said Tuesday.
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Dec 18, 2025
The specter of losing federal funding has already driven some Chicago area hospital systems to scale back gender-affirming care for minors. But a few hospitals have held out.
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Dec 18, 2025
Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said is valued at more than $6 billion.
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Dec 18, 2025
U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month, the government said in a report that was delayed and likely distorted by the government shutdown.
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Dec 18, 2025
The U.S. government admitted that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing a collision last January.
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Dec 18, 2025
This five-bedroom four-story home has four full bathrooms, one half bath, hardwood floors and custom millwork.
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Dec 17, 2025
A family-owned, Winnetka-based private equity firm is nearing the final stages of an agreement to purchase the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 17, 2025
In 1995, the Chicago Bears threatened to move to northwest Indiana if the team didn't get money for a new stadium. They're doing it again.
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Dec 17, 2025
Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority chairman Tom Collins Jr. voiced a sense of urgency for the coming year at the conclusion of Wednesday's authority meeting. "There's pressure to bring business here," he said. "The focus is on shovels in the grounds, planes in the air."
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Dec 17, 2025
In a break with federal guidance, Illinois will continue to recommend that nearly all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccines, the state health department announced Wednesday.
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Dec 17, 2025
Strop paid $625,000 in 2019 for the three-story detached house, which was built in 2005.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Donald Trump says he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.
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Dec 17, 2025
Expected to open next fall, the 11,000-square-foot banking center is being built out in vacant space previously occupied by Uniqlo, the Japanese clothing company.
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Dec 17, 2025
The $11 million paid is the seventh-highest amount any Chicago-area buyer has paid for a home in 2025.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 17, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 17, 2025
It's the holiday shopping/scamming season. And that makes it a good time to think about protecting yourself from the dangers of identity theft.
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Dec 16, 2025
Medline's initial public offering of stock is one of the largest of the year. The Northfield company sold about 216 million shares at $29 a piece.
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Dec 16, 2025
Medline's initial public offering of stock is one of the largest of the year. The Northfield company sold about 216 million shares at $29 a piece.
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Dec 16, 2025
Medline's initial public offering of stock is one of the largest of the year. The Northfield company sold about 216 million shares at $29 a piece.
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Dec 16, 2025
The committee's vote Tuesday followed a decision by a federal vaccine advisory committee earlier this month to no longer recommend hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns.
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Dec 16, 2025
Kraft Heinz has named veteran Chicago-based executive Steve Cahillane as CEO beginning Jan. 1, taking the reins of the packaged food giant as it prepares to split into two companies.
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Dec 16, 2025
Kraft Heinz has named veteran Chicago-based executive Steve Cahillane as CEO beginning Jan. 1, taking the reins of the packaged food giant as it prepares to split into two companies.
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Dec 16, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday celebrated his enactment of a new law that advocates say will avert catastrophic service cuts on Chicago's public transit systems and make the region's trains and buses safer and more reliable — even as he acknowledged "transformation takes a little bit of time."
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Dec 16, 2025
Citadel is shrinking its footprint in Chicago three years after billionaire owner Ken Griffin left for Florida, moving the company's remaining operations in the city out of the downtown tower that was named for it, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dec 16, 2025
The Chicago Christian RoboKnights will represent Illinois in the inaugural United States Governor's Cup in Washington, D.C.
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Dec 16, 2025
This five-bedroom French Country-inspired home has five full bathrooms, two half-baths, designer lighting and custom millwork throughout.
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Dec 15, 2025
Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 staff is giving very positive reviews to its new offices
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Dec 15, 2025
Four of the nation's top retail stores failed to promptly pull contaminated infant formula tied to a dangerous botulism outbreak from their shelves, federal health officials said in warning letters posted Monday.
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Dec 15, 2025
Holtkamp, who worked at Fermilab from 1998 to 2001, was the deputy director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University from 2014 to 2022, and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
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Dec 15, 2025
Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students said they drank alcohol within the last 30 days when surveyed in 2021, according to a report released Monday.
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Dec 15, 2025
Mike Malinin, who was the drummer for the rock band the Goo Goo Dolls for almost two decades, earlier this year paid $1.54 million for a Winnetka home.
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Dec 15, 2025
The development proposal is for the last remaining property at the site of the old Pheasant Run Resort, which closed in 2020 and was the scene of a devastating fire in 2022.
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Dec 15, 2025
The famous numbered metal stanchions that for decades defined Southwest Airlines' unique boarding process are coming down as the Dallas-based carrier laid out the final plans for a new boarding process for the beginning of assigned seating next year.
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Dec 15, 2025
Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn't expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process.
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Dec 15, 2025
Along with the unpredictable tariffs, stubborn inflation and weak hiring have shaken consumer confidence in the U.S. economy. The vast majority of U.S. adults say they've noticed higher than usual prices for groceries, electricity and holiday gifts in recent months, according to a December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Dec 15, 2025
Wages are the sticking point in negotiations for Chicago Public Schools' lunchroom workers, who have been without a contract for nearly six months.
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Dec 14, 2025
A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump's choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president's views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates.
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Dec 14, 2025
An insect infestation qualifies as a situation for a condominium board to have legal right to enter a unit to abate the infestation.
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Dec 13, 2025
In the past 20 years, the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority has been instrumental in bringing about the commuter rail expansion that had long been a dream. Now the RDA is looking ahead at what else it can accomplish.
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Dec 13, 2025
A Christmas tree lot along Sauk Trail, the setting for Hallmark's "Christmas Under The Stars" movie, closed after 40 years.
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Dec 12, 2025
South Elgin's Bear Family Restaurants is selling all of its McDonald's restaurants. Owner David Bear plans to open eight K9 Resorts.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Transportation Security Administration is renewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's push to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
Metropolis Pointe would provide nearly 600 apartments and about 30 condos at the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 26th Street.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy.
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Dec 12, 2025
More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening.
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Dec 12, 2025
This holiday season isn't quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Mint abandoned designs from Joe Biden's presidency that highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, favoring classical imagery.
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Dec 11, 2025
Michigan's auto industry remains dominant by several metrics but faces serious threats from southern states and China, from the electric vehicle transition and other technological upheaval, and from educational shortcomings, a new MichAuto report finds.
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Dec 11, 2025
Outdoor clothing company L.L.Bean is planning to open a store in Naperville in fall 2026, the fourth Illinois location for the brand.
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Dec 11, 2025
WBEZ-FM 91.5 was back on the air live and local Thursday morning after nearly a day without power forced the station to vacate its Navy Pier studios and run network programming.
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Dec 11, 2025
Using Treasury Department numbers on revenue from tariffs and Goldman Sachs estimates of who ends up paying for them, the Democrats' report Thursday found that American consumers' share of the bill came to nearly $159 billion — or $1,198 per household — from February through November.
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Dec 11, 2025
This two-story penthouse has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, 10-foot ceilings and a wraparound terrace with panoramic skyline views.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut.
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Dec 10, 2025
IDEM hosted a public meeting Tuesday for an air permit that would allow 70 diesel generators at a Michigan City data center site.
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Dec 10, 2025
Listeners to WBEZ-FM 91.5 may have noticed an abrupt change in the programming schedule Wednesday morning after a power outage shut down operations at the Chicago public radio station's Navy Pier studios.
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Dec 10, 2025
Four Hobart homeowners have filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate multiple actions by Hobart city officials that have "prepared" the way for the possible construction of an Amazon data center on more than a square mile of farmland within city limits.
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Dec 10, 2025
Weeks after a defiant Robert Isom promised American Airlines wouldn't back down from its Chicago O'Hare hub, the Fort Worth carrier is doubling down with a $30 million investment.
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Dec 10, 2025
International fashion boutique Mango opened an eagerly anticipated two-story location on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a group of homeowners filed suit claiming Cook County's tax sale process robbed them of home equity, a federal judge has ruled the current system unconstitutional.
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Dec 09, 2025
A La Grange resident believes the village is targeting him with new rules limiting public comment time amid a condo development discussion.
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Dec 09, 2025
The owner of Credit 1 Union Amphitheatre, Live Nation, said investments will make the minimum $20 parking fee worthwhile.
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Dec 09, 2025
The owner of Credit 1 Union Amphitheatre, Live Nation, said investments will make the minimum $20 parking fee worthwhile.
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Dec 09, 2025
Kyuramen, a Japanese ramen restaurant with more than 120 locations in Japan and the U.S., has opened a location in Naperville.
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Dec 09, 2025
A vacancy on the CTA's board of directors could give Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson a chance to exert some control over the transit agency's future.
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Dec 09, 2025
In letters to Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, Trump's federal transit administrator threatened to withhold funds if the CTA does not increase law enforcement on transit.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Federal Reserve faces an unusually contentious meeting this week that will test Chair Jerome Powell's ability to corral the necessary support from fellow policymakers for a third straight interest rate cut.
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Dec 09, 2025
Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a summer of sky-high electric bills, ComEd is offering Chicago customers some relief next year with $803 million in state-mandated nuclear energy credits.
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