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Feb 17, 2025
Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump's proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.
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Feb 17, 2025
Carjackers forced a woman and a 1-year-old boy out of a car Monday morning in East Garfield Park and fled in the vehicle with a 6-year-old boy still inside, Chicago police said.
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Feb 17, 2025
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, South Korean officials said Monday.
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Feb 17, 2025
Senior American and Russian officials, including the countries' top diplomats, will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Monday, in what would be the most significant meeting between the sides since Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly three years ago.
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Feb 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron called leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom to his ornate Elysee Palace on Monday for an emergency meeting on how to react to the U.S. diplomatic blitz on Ukraine, which left the once rock-solid partner as a potential political liability.
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Feb 17, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow's war on the country.
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Feb 17, 2025
President Donald Trump's Mideast diplomacy has been a world of big declarations, chaotic unpredictability and mixed results. Here are some takeaways.
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Feb 17, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 17, 2025
Harsh weather moved west as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend.
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Feb 17, 2025
Homer Township Supervisor Steven Balich's Freedom Caucus slate faces Homer Glen Trustee Susanna Steilen's Homer Township Reset.
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Feb 17, 2025
Allan DiCastro, who attended Prairie State College in the 1980s, established a $100K scholarship for Chicago Heights students.
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Feb 17, 2025
WTTW's latest "Firsthand" documentary series follows a range of community violence interventions aimed at "creating conditions for peace" around Chicago.
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Feb 17, 2025
Illinois groups receiving aid dollars that help developing nations say freezing federal funds hurts jobs at home.
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Feb 17, 2025
An overall recent trend in Supreme Court rulings has raised the bar for convictions in white-collar crime cases, such as public corruption.
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Feb 17, 2025
Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced in January that it would close its South Side Englewood clinic and three others in the state.
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Feb 17, 2025
On Feb. 17, 1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of 15 counts of first-degree murder.
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Feb 17, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 17, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 16, 2025
The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation's nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE's blind cost cutting will put communities at risk.
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Feb 16, 2025
Wind chills between minus 10 and minus 25 degrees are expected Monday through Wednesday, the weather service said.
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Feb 16, 2025
President Donald Trump's approach to ending Russia's war against Ukraine has left European allies and Ukrainian officials worried they are being largely sidelined by the new U.S. administration as Washington and Moscow plan direct negotiations.
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Feb 16, 2025
A partnership with the American Dental Association to celebrate Children's Dental Health Month, Give Kids a Smile provides local children ages 5 through 12 who don't have dental insurance a comprehensive dental cleaning complete with x-rays, cleaning and fluoride treatments, IU Northwest Clinical Care Coordinator Dana Darman said. It's a national event, with dental schools all around the country helping, and it's free-of-charge for the patients, she said.
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Feb 16, 2025
Residents spent hours Friday trying to prevent water from damaging their homes following a burst water main.
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Feb 16, 2025
Residents spent hours Friday trying to prevent water from damaging their homes following a burst water main.
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Feb 16, 2025
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.
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Feb 16, 2025
A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in Saudi Arabia for meetings in preparation for a possible visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a Ukrainian minister said Sunday, at a time of intense speculation over planned U.S.-Russia talks in the kingdom to end Moscow's war on its neighbor.
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Feb 16, 2025
News from the Lake County courts
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Feb 16, 2025
The Trump administration's effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products were fired.
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Feb 16, 2025
A section in a wide-ranging measure that's headed to the House floor allows the state to charge tolls on all Indiana interstate highways, including I-80/94 and I-65.
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Feb 16, 2025
In a letter sent to the St. Francis Borgia Parish Saturday, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich wrote that Monsignor Daniel Mayall was accused of abusing a minor about 30 years ago.
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Feb 16, 2025
Lake County has the highest mortality rate this flu season with 10 deaths reported, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
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Feb 16, 2025
Fifty seasons of "Saturday Night Live" sketches, songs and special guests will be celebrated Sunday as the variety show celebrates its landmark anniversary.
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Feb 16, 2025
Papal thriller "Conclave" leads the race for the 78th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, with genre-bending musical "Emilia Pérez" facing a test of whether a multi-pronged backlash has made the former prize favorite an awards-season pariah.
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Feb 16, 2025
Papal thriller " Conclave " was among winners Sunday at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, where genre-bending musical "Emilia Pérez" proved that it's still an awards contender despite a multipronged backlash that looked to have dented its chances.
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Feb 16, 2025
Pope Francis read the newspapers and had breakfast on Sunday after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where the 88-year-old pope is being treated for a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said.
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Feb 16, 2025
Pope Francis had breakfast, read the newspapers and followed Mass on television Sunday after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where the 88-year-old pontiff is being treated for a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said.
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Feb 16, 2025
In the month since the Trump administration took over the Justice Department, a succession of actions has raised concerns that the department is "playing politics."
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Feb 16, 2025
Donald Trump is planning to attend Sunday's Daytona 500 for the second time as president and help further burnish his image as a sports fan.
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Feb 16, 2025
Canadians on Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of their flag with a defiant sense of patriotism that people said was prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of tariffs and suggestions that the country become the 51st U.S. state.
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Feb 16, 2025
At least 18 people, including 14 women, were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India's capital of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday.
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Feb 16, 2025
Merrillville Police are investigating a murder-suicide at a gas station Saturday after responding to a report of shots fired, according to a release.
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Feb 16, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday fully endorsed Israel's war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas "must be eradicated" and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt.
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Feb 16, 2025
Finland's president on Sunday urged the rearming of Ukraine and putting "maximum pressure on Russia" through sanctions and asset freezes in the run-up to possible negotiations sought by the U.S. on ending the war.
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Feb 16, 2025
Calumet City 6th Ward Ald. James Patton and his slate challenge Mayor Thaddeus Jones and his candidates in the Democratic primary.
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Feb 16, 2025
Although it accounts for only a small slice of Chicago real estate, a pullback by the federal government could deal a blow to the shaky downtown office market.
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Feb 16, 2025
The city expects the network to go online next year but won't have enough money to keep paying the community to help operate the monitors, publish results.
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Feb 16, 2025
In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago's Black blues performers made the records that were revered by the British group, which took its name from a Muddy Waters song, "Rollin' Stone." "We walked […]
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Feb 16, 2025
As Trump 2.0 unfolds, Illinois and Indiana take disparate approaches to the whirlwind of change that's gripped American politics.
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Feb 16, 2025
Former House Speaker Michael Madigan's epic corruption conviction last week drew more than the usual level of outrage from public officials long accustomed to watching one of their own go down on criminal charges, but Gov. JB Pritzker issued a statement that came with a curious point.
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Feb 16, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 16, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 16, 2025
On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
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Feb 15, 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation's food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, baked goods and frozen treats.
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Feb 15, 2025
Much of the eastern U.S. braced for a renewed round of harsh, soggy weather on Saturday, while snowstorms were predicted in the Northeast and heavy winds brought the threat of tornadoes to the Mississippi Valley.
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Feb 15, 2025
A 23-year-old man stabbed five passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and four others injured.
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Feb 15, 2025
A 23-year-old man stabbed six passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and five others injured.
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Feb 15, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the time has come for the creation of an "armed forces of Europe" because the U.S. may no longer be counted on to support Europe.
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Feb 15, 2025
The event at Aurora City Hall on Saturday marking the sixth anniversary of the incident included a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of the five victims of the mass shooting - Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez, Clayton Parks, Josh Pinkard and Trevor Wehner.
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Feb 15, 2025
The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, and cuts could happen as soon as next week.
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Feb 15, 2025
President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades.
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Feb 15, 2025
Chicago police sent out a community alert Saturday warning of recent burglaries to businesses in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Police said the burglars use force to enter the businesses and steal property once inside. Police said the burglaries happened at businesses on Feb. 14 to 15 in the 700 block of West Garfield […]
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Feb 15, 2025
A 54-year-old man was seriously wounded in a shooting overnight in the McKinley Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a call of a person down in the 1300 block of West 49th Street and discovered a victim with three gunshot wounds to the torso, police said. The victim […]
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Feb 15, 2025
Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there has been 68 total reported human cases and one death.
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Feb 15, 2025
The ceasefire faces major challenges with its first phase concluding in early March.
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Feb 15, 2025
At the same time, the economy is beginning to soften, judges are having their say and even some Republicans in Congress are starting to grumble.
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Feb 15, 2025
The Chicago area could see 1 to 3 more inches of snow through Saturday night, with "bitterly cold temperatures" and subzero wind chills in the forecast for the coming week, according to the National Weather Service.
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Feb 15, 2025
A boil water order for north suburban Skokie remains in effect while crews continue to repair the village's water main break and water refilling system, officials said. After working throughout Friday, officials said the water system is refilling and water pressure will continue to increase Saturday throughout Skokie. Replenishment of water began shortly after 9 […]
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Feb 15, 2025
Six years later, victims and witnesses of the shooting continue to pursue legal action against the Illinois State Police
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Feb 15, 2025
In 2020 April Noga and her husband started Chicagoland Pig Rescue.
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Feb 15, 2025
Stories of ICE pick-ups and expedited removals have in some cases led people to skip their immigration hearings in Chicago, advocates say.
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Feb 15, 2025
On Feb. 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a law allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Feb 15, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 15, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 14, 2025
Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration‘s aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify for civil service protections.
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Feb 14, 2025
An Alabama woman who said she was raped by rappers Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs when she was 13 withdrew her civil lawsuit against both men on Friday, according to court filings.
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Feb 14, 2025
The Illinois Department of Human Services divisions overseeing mental health and substance abuse would be consolidated under an executive order.
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Feb 14, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production.
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Feb 14, 2025
Republicans, the minority party in Illinois, now have the conviction of a longtime Democratic leader to feature in next year's state campaigns. Will it be enough?
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Feb 14, 2025
Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed Friday by President Donald Trump.
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Feb 14, 2025
The daughters of one of the cofounders of Target are expressing their alarm and shock at the discounter's recent moves to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack from conservative activists and of last month, the White House.
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Feb 14, 2025
NIH support in Indiana has led to more than $1 billion toward economic activity, according to United for Medical Research.
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Feb 14, 2025
Among the OPRF alumni given Tradition of Excellence awards were an Olympic medalist, a World War II hero and a U.S. major general.
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Feb 14, 2025
Philadelphia authorities are investigating a double shooting that happened Friday outside the parade where up to 1 million Eagles fans celebrated their team's Super Bowl LIX win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Feb 14, 2025
A Hammond man is facing charges after his 3-year-old daughter took a gun stored between bed mattresses and shot herself in the heel.
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Feb 14, 2025
Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia.
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Feb 14, 2025
A second federal judge on Friday paused President Donald Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19.
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Feb 14, 2025
A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kyiv blamed on Russia.
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Feb 14, 2025
This year, Valentine's Day lands on a Friday, which also happens to be the most popular day for courthouse weddings. Judge Diann Marsalek, who presided over marriage court on Feb. 14, 2025, said Friday is typically the busiest wedding day because couples can celebrate over the weekend. On the court's busiest days, judges can marry […]
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Feb 14, 2025
The Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government's payment system, after Democratic senators raised red flags about the access provided to Trump aide Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team.
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Feb 14, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency's roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration's move to get rid of nearly all probationary employees, according to an audio recording of a National Institutes of Health department meeting.
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Feb 14, 2025
A former Merrillville man was sentenced Friday to 3.5 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man in the neck outside a Merrillville hotel in August 2023.
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Feb 14, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 14, 2025
After a water main break caused flooding and ice, Skokie and Evanston issued boil orders, closed streets and schools went to e-learning.
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Feb 14, 2025
According to Chicago Fire Department officials, fire crews were called to the blaze in the multi-story brick apartment building in the 2700 block of West Granville Avenue just after 11 a.m.
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Feb 14, 2025
Thomas Kozie, 25, arrested in Crestwood after police chase sparked by an Oak Park investigation.
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Feb 14, 2025
Senator J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, attempted to amend a bill making school board elections partisan to only include a pay raise for board members, but that amendment failed Thursday. Senate Bill 287, authored by Sen. Gary Byrne, R-Byrneville, Sen. Chris Garten, R-Charlestown, and Sen. Blake Doriot, R-Goshen, would change the school board election process to that […]
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Feb 14, 2025
Here is how Blagojevich's saga unfolded — from arrest, through impeachment proceedings and the justice system.
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Feb 14, 2025
U.S. District Judge Philip Simon sentenced Richard White to 17 years Thursday, saying he was a Sin City Deciples enforcer responsible for wounding a rival gang leader outside a Pittsburgh bar.
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Feb 14, 2025
The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability announced Friday that the body will conduct a nationwide search to find the next leader of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the agency tasked with investigating use of force incidents by Chicago Police officers.
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Feb 14, 2025
Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday to treat a weeklong bout of bronchitis and undergo diagnostic tests, the Vatican said, confirming the latest issues with the 88-year-old's pontiff's health that forced him to cancel his agenda through Monday at least.
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Feb 14, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will only agree to meet in-person with Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a common plan is negotiated with U.S. President Trump.
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Feb 14, 2025
Hamas named three Israeli hostages Friday set to be released in a weekend trade for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, the latest sign that the shaky Gaza ceasefire deal appears to be holding in spite of a tense dispute that has threatened to renew fighting.
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Feb 14, 2025
The Kane County Sheriff's Office presented data Thursday showing an uptick in jail population and arrest warrants in the county.
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