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Dec 21, 2024
Little was known about the manuscript, which donated by Edward Ayer, a tycoon who made his fortune supplying railroad ties.
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Dec 21, 2024
We take it for granted, but Dexter is a real part of our lives, Gregory Royal Pratt writes of his dog's best friend.
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Dec 21, 2024
Ginger Creek in Oakbrook is connected to other bodies of water so there's a high chance that hydrilla has spread.
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Dec 21, 2024
I will forever carry my father's wound and that makes me stronger; it's a heavy truth that took me a while to accept, writes Laura Rodríguez Presa.
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Dec 21, 2024
The Illinois State Board of Education has been awarded nearly $20 million to begin transitioning to zero-emission buses.
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Dec 21, 2024
1941 — The Chicago Bears win the NFL championship with a 37-9 rout of the New York Giants.
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Dec 21, 2024
On Dec. 21, 1913, the first newspaper crossword puzzle, billed as a "Word-Cross Puzzle," was published in the New York World.
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Dec 20, 2024
Chicago Board of Education voted Friday to fire Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez.
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Dec 20, 2024
The Chicago Board of Education on Friday finalized the array of support the district will provide the approximately 2,000 impacted students, who are predominantly Latino.
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Dec 20, 2024
Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday.
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Dec 20, 2024
Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.
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Dec 20, 2024
Controversial Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher Anthony Clark, who ran for Congress against Danny Davis, has resigned.
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Dec 20, 2024
Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump's demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
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Dec 20, 2024
Thornton Township Trustees Chris Gonzalez and Carmen Carlisle called a special meeting Friday to approve bill payments.
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Dec 20, 2024
The United States won a ruling on Friday in a trade dispute with Mexico, which had sought to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption.
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Dec 20, 2024
As Chicago Public Schools faces deficits of around $500 million, two Board of Education votes could affect district finances for years to come.
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Dec 20, 2024
As Chicago Public Schools faces deficits of around $500 million, two upcoming Board of Education votes could impact district finances for years to come.
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Dec 20, 2024
As Chicago Public Schools faces deficits of around $500 million, two Board of Education votes could affect district finances for years to come.
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Dec 20, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson moved ahead Friday on his plan to close Chicago's migrant shelters and fold them into the city's existing system for homeless residents.
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Dec 20, 2024
A Hammond man got two years probation Thursday for stabbing his parents when they declined to let him use the car, records show.
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Dec 20, 2024
A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 68 others in what authorities suspect was an attack.
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Dec 20, 2024
A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 68 others in what authorities suspect was an attack.
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Dec 20, 2024
Party City employees were informed they'd be cut loose without severance pay or benefits just days before Christmas.
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Dec 20, 2024
Oak Lawn's Angel Santiago, a student at Moraine Valley Community College, was given a family trip to Hawaii by Nik's Wish.
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Dec 20, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 20, 2024
Attorney for Chicago Public School CEO Pedro Martinez threatens to sue Board of Education if they move forward with firing.
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Dec 20, 2024
Damonte McCorkle, 25, of Chciago, was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking and kidnapping in Palos Park and Worth.
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Dec 20, 2024
The city warned thousands on Chicago's South Side of a potential boil order for drinking and cooking water during a large water main repair this weekend.
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Dec 20, 2024
The city warned thousands on Chicago's South Side of a potential boil order for drinking and cooking water during a large water main repair this weekend.
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Dec 20, 2024
The firing of Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Pedro Martinez has been top of mind for months now.
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Dec 20, 2024
Hours before the start of a federal government shutdown, President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down Friday on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal — and if not, let the closures "start now."
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Dec 20, 2024
An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike was sentenced to a maximum of 130 years in prison.
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Dec 20, 2024
National Weather Service officials are expecting snow to continue throughout Friday with daytime accumulation of at least an inch.
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Dec 20, 2024
A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, over concerns that he might impose travel bans like he did during his first administration.
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Dec 20, 2024
Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union launched a strike at seven of the company's delivery hubs less than a week before Christmas.
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Dec 20, 2024
The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep connections within the Christian school.
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Dec 20, 2024
Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it's beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.
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Dec 20, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 20, 2024
The La Grange Area Chapter of the League of Voters celebrated its 100th year of fair election advocacy.
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Dec 20, 2024
I'm trying to reconcile the playfulness of pajama day with to the flattened fury of the police officer escorting kids in their jammies to safety.
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Dec 20, 2024
A chilly Chicago winter doesn't necessarily mean the African lions at the Lincoln Park Zoo have to go inside.
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Dec 20, 2024
A chilly Chicago winter doesn't necessarily mean the African lions at the Lincoln Park Zoo have to go inside.
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Dec 20, 2024
2005 — Kobe Bryant scores a career-high 62 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat Dallas 112-90. Bryant scores a franchise-record 30 points in the third quarter and sits out the fourth after outscoring the Mavericks 62-61 over the three quarters.
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Dec 20, 2024
On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States.
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Dec 19, 2024
A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown.
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Dec 19, 2024
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved a multi-year power grid improvement plan for Commonwealth Edison.
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Dec 19, 2024
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported more than 270,000 people to 192 countries over a recent 12-month period, the highest annual tally in a decade.
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Dec 19, 2024
The House has resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump's new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown.
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Dec 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has announced "success" in coming up with a new bill to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling a day before a shutdown.
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Dec 19, 2024
A Gary woman was shot and killed and her vehicle stolen Wednesday evening.
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Dec 19, 2024
A leaked City Hall memo shows Mayor Johnson wanted Chicago Public Schools Chief Pedro Martinez out in September.
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Dec 19, 2024
Sen. Shelli Yoder will replace Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, as Senate minority leader after the public learned about three more women who accused Taylor of sexual misconduct.
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Dec 19, 2024
A leaked Chicago City Hall memo shows Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted Chicago Public Schools Chief Pedro Martinez out in September.
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Dec 19, 2024
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released bodyworn camera footage of an October shootout between CPD officers and a suspect in West Rogers Park.
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Dec 19, 2024
A man was sentenced to 62 years Thursday for killing an expectant father in a road confrontation as they drove on 165th Street.
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Dec 19, 2024
Police believe the man — whose identity hasn't been released — committed a triple homicide in downstate Mahomet.
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Dec 19, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 19, 2024
County records indicate more than $120 million was spent on settlements this year.
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Dec 19, 2024
A Cook County judge on Thursday found a man guilty of shooting and killing 7-year-old Natalia Wallace on the Fourth of July in 2020, but acquitted the alleged getaway driver, issuing the split ruling in front of a full courtroom of family members.
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Dec 19, 2024
State Street windows, "Suzy Snowflake," chicken pot pie at The Walnut Room, "This Christmas," Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — these are just a few of the city's contributions to lasting memories at Christmas time.
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Dec 19, 2024
The Will County Board voted to appoint Lockport Republican David Oxley as a 5th District board member to replace Annette Parker.
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Dec 19, 2024
Officials at AT&T Illinois felt so much pressure to hire consultants friendly to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan that they discussed setting aside $60,000 as a contingency fund in case Madigan confidant Michael McClain made any referrals, according to testimony Thursday in Madigan and McClain's corruption trial.
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Dec 19, 2024
Under Rivian and the UAW's confidential pact, the automaker would adopt a neutral stance toward efforts to organize workers at the Normal, Illinois, factory where its vehicles are made, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dec 19, 2024
Protesters called on State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to reinstate charges against Oak Lawn police Officer Patrick O'Donnell.
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Dec 19, 2024
Illinois had 12,710,158 residents as of July 1, 2024, the Census estimated, ranking 6th among states nationally.
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Dec 19, 2024
A Chicago alderman and other advocates are asking the Chicago Board of Education to reschedule Friday's special meeting to address CEO Pedro Martinez's job status.
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Dec 19, 2024
More than 60 people in eight states have been infected with bird flu, with mostly mild illnesses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Dec 19, 2024
National Weather Service officials were are expecting a clipper system moving into the Upper Midwest to bring at least 1 to 3 inches of snow Thursday afternoon in the Great Lakes region.
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Dec 19, 2024
A state appeals court removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others.
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Dec 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump delivered a likely death blow to bipartisan congressional budget negotiations, rejecting the measure as full of giveaways to Democrats after billionaire ally Elon Musk whipped up outrage toward the bill and cheered on Republican lawmakers who announced their opposition.
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Dec 19, 2024
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO will return to New York to face murder charges after agreeing to be extradited Thursday during a court appearance in Pennsylvania where he was arrested last week after five days on the run.
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Dec 19, 2024
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO faces new federal charges of murder, stalking and weapons charges, according to a complaint unsealed Thursday.
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Dec 19, 2024
New York prosecutors are using a 9/11-era anti-terrorism law in their case against the man charged with gunning down UnitedHealthcare's CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.
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Dec 19, 2024
A Kansas official who is an informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on immigration issues doesn't expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches.
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Dec 19, 2024
U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year.
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Dec 19, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 19, 2024
Lockport High School District 205 Board member Zyan Navarra, who had filed for reelection, said he has married and moved.
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Dec 19, 2024
Lockport High School District 205 Board member Zyan Navarra, who had filed for reelection, said he has married and moved.
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Dec 19, 2024
Vaccination rates in Chicago so far this winter for seasonal respiratory infections like COVID-19 and the flu are slightly down from last year, which public health officials say could be a result of disinformation and "vaccine fatigue" since the pandemic.
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Dec 19, 2024
1948 — The Cleveland Browns complete an undefeated season beating the Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game.
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Dec 19, 2024
On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was subsequently acquitted by the Senate.)
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Dec 18, 2024
A Chicago police officer was relieved of police powers after a recent exchange of gunfire involving off-duty officers in the Austin neighborhood.
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Dec 18, 2024
A South Side man with a long criminal record as a conman, thief and scammer was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection to two very different felony cases.
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Dec 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out.
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Dec 18, 2024
The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government building.
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Dec 18, 2024
The shooter at a religious school in Wisconsin had two handguns with her but used only one in the attack that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, the city's police chief said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Dec 18, 2024
David Perry, an urban planning expert, who headed the University of Illinois Chicago's Great Cities Institute for 12 years, has died.
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Dec 18, 2024
Conservationists alarmed as winds blew debris into floating gardens of the Wild Mile; cleanup underway.
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Dec 18, 2024
A Hammond woman faces charges for a drunken injury crash on 5th Avenue in Gary last April that hurt at least three others, including a Gary cop.
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Dec 18, 2024
Japanese automakers Nissan Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. confirmed Wednesday that they are discussing closer collaboration but denied reports they have decided on a merger.
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Dec 18, 2024
U.S. stocks tumbled to one of their worst days of the year after the Federal Reserve hinted Wednesday it may deliver fewer shots of adrenaline for the U.S. economy in 2025 than earlier thought.
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Dec 18, 2024
The world's largest hornet, an invasive breed dubbed the "murder hornet" for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a honey bee hive in a matter of hours, has been declared eradicated in the U.S., five years after being spotted for the first time in Washington state near the Canadian border.
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Dec 18, 2024
The House Ethics Committee voted in secret to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, raising the possibility that the allegations against the Florida Republican who was President-elect Donald Trump's first choice for attorney general could be made public in the coming days.
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Dec 18, 2024
The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday.
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Dec 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out.
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Dec 18, 2024
A Gary teen is facing murder charges for killing a friend in an East Chicago apartment bedroom, then stealing his Buick LeSabre, charges allege. The alleged shooter, 17, was charged Tuesday with murder, auto theft and intimidation. He also faces a gun enhancement that could add another 5-20 years if convicted.
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Dec 18, 2024
The House passed legislation Wednesday requiring more oversight of youth residential treatment facilities, a feat for hotel heiress Paris Hilton who has spent years lobbying lawmakers to regulate an industry marred by child abuse allegations.
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Dec 18, 2024
Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools.
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Dec 18, 2024
Mount Baldy is going on a diet and getting a vegetation toupee to become more presentable.
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Dec 18, 2024
A man was taken to an area hospital Wednesday afternoon after the SWAT team was called out to a parked Coca Cola truck where a person refused to exit. Shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday, the SWAT team was summoned to a Coca Cola truck near Peoria and Madison streets in the West Loop neighborhood, Chicago police said. Wednesday afternoon, a man was taken to an area hospital for observation after exiting the truck, police said. No further information was immediately available from police.
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