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Commentary: When Highland Park students faced another threat of gun violence, this is how they felt

Delayed by COVID-19 and the city’s July Fourth mass shooting, Highland Park High School’s FOCUS on the Arts biennial event almost didn’t happen. But facing a multiyear hiatus, the suburban Chicago school rallied, inviting creatives from across the country to teach workshops, as it’s done since 1964. Organizers asked me…

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2 dead in domestic attack in South Chicago

A man was shot to death and a woman beaten to death in what police say is a ‘domestic-related’ attack in South Chicago. One person is in custody.

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Off-duty officer commits suicide outside Southwest Side home, Chicago police say

An off-duty Chicago police officer died over the weekend in an apparent suicide, the latest in a grim tally of officers.

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Ahmad Jamal, influential jazz pianist, dies at 92

Musician recorded his popular album “At the Pershing/But Not for Me” in Chicago.

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Grayson Rodriguez bounces back and Cedric Mullins has 4 RBIs as Orioles rally past White Sox, 8-4, win series

CHICAGO — For the third straight start to begin his major league career, Grayson Rodriguez walked the first batter of the game.

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Say it ain’t snow! Slushy mix expected just in time for Monday morning’s commute

Slushy accumulations of less than one inch are expected in Chicago overnight Sunday as spring-like weather returns for a few days before it warms up again.

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Chicago's mayor, mayor-elect weigh in on weekend shootings as summer approaches

CHICAGO — The weekend shootings of three teenagers in two separate incidents drew responses from Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson as summer looms.

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South Side residents upset by Walmart closure, community group fills the gap by handing out free food

Sunday marked the last day for Chicago-area Walmart locations in Little Village, Kenwood, Lakeview and Chatham— where residents shopped among ‘ghostly’ aisles. My Block My Hood My City hands out food in the parking lot.

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Chicago outdoors: Unusual dragonfly, great coho season in Chicago

An unusual dragonfly and a quote on the great coho season around Chicago fishing are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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How Black labor leaders propelled Brandon Johnson to the Chicago mayor’s office

CHICAGO — One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet.

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Off-duty Chicago police officer dies by apparent suicide in Chicago Lawn District

The department says it is hiring more counselors to serve officers.

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Man killed, another wounded in Austin shooting

About 3:55 a.m., two men were on a sidewalk in the 500 block of North Lamon Avenue when two people approached them and opened fire, Chicago police said.

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Orioles can’t hold late lead in 7-6 walk-off loss to White Sox in 10 innings

CHICAGO — The Orioles took four leads Saturday but couldn’t hold any of them.

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Illinois first lady M.K. Pritzker appointed to committee charged with the preservation of the White House

CHICAGO — Just days after President Joe Biden selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, his administration said Friday that Illinois’ first lady M.K Pritzker has been appointed to serve on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

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Suspect who turned to cops with gun is shot dead by police: Chicago police

CHICAGO — Police fatally shot a man who turned to them while holding a gun during a foot chase Saturday morning on the West Side.

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Heat to sleet: Snow possible days after Chicago sets record high for April

“A few tenths of an inch to a half an inch of snow” could fall in the city early Monday, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Ratzer.

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Love is in the air — and in the sumptuous dance — of American Ballet Theatre in dazzling Chicago program

ABT celebrated romance in all its incarnations in a quartet of works at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre.

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Person fatally shot by Chicago police during Lawndale foot chase

After a foot pursuit with officers, the person turned toward the officer and “brandished a handgun” before the officer discharged his weapon, Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad told reporters.

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Feds reveal Heather Mack texts in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ killing of her Oak Park mom at Bali resort: ‘Im sneaky … Im smart … and I watch’

The newly released messages between the Chicago area resident and her boyfriend come as she faces trial July 31, accused of plotting to kill her mother, whose body was found in a suitcase at a posh resort in 2014.

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Take a walking tour of free art popping up around the Loop

Pegged to EXPO Chicago, we put together a walking tour of four exhibitions for anyone near the Loop in the coming weeks. Each is free.

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Walmart closures show that small business, not big box stores, are the answer for food deserts

Business experts designed a project that helped hundreds of small Mexico City businesses thrive. A similar effort to help mom-and-pop businesses in Chicago’s low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods might well have the same impact.

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Largest Catholic university in US faces $56 million budget gap

DePaul University is facing financial pressure after the pandemic intensified declining enrollment and widened the Chicago private school’s budget gap.

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Three steps Brandon Johnson can take to move quickly on police reform

Once he’s in office, Johnson has a chance to take Chicago in a new direction to achieve better public safety for everyone, writes Alexandra Block of the ACLU of Illinois. But it will take immediate action.

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Adley Rutschman’s clutch double keys Orioles’ rally in 6-3 comeback win over White Sox

CHICAGO — The Orioles were walking the walk Friday until Adley Rutschman got sick of the free bases.

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As Walmart closes stores in Chicago, community leaders raise concerns about health care, pharmacy access

Kimberly Jackson-Miller, a resident of Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, has been a customer of the Walmart in Chatham since it opened more than a decade ago.

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