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Young people in Chicago aren’t voting. Here’s why

Only 3% of ballots cast on Feb. 28 came from youth voters. So what’s the deal? “It’s obvious to me that young people in that city don’t feel empowered by their governance,” said author Della Volpe.

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Kevin Warren believes Chicago Bears have ‘the right people at the right time in the right situation focused on the right issues’

Kevin Warren’s first official day as Chicago Bears President and CEO will be April 17.

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Chicago Corporation Counsel Celia Meza resigns

Meza, the first Latina to serve as the city’s chief attorney, told her staff another job opportunity was too great to pass up, sources say.

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Long-planned redevelopment of former Michael Reese Hospital site kicks off

With an official groundbreaking Wednesday, infrastructure work will begin for the $4.3 billion Bronzeville Lakefront mixed-use project, called the largest ever in Chicago.

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Vallas says he’s running for mayor because ‘our house is on fire’

“Our downtown is half-vacant, a ghost town in the middle of the workweek. Our schools have lost a year of learning or more. Test scores have plummeted. Every public agency is facing a financial cliff,” Vallas told the City Club of Chicago.

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Paul Sullivan: Nico Hoerner’s 3-year, $35 million extension was a small step forward in Cubs’ future

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs signed second baseman Nico Hoener to a three-year, $35 million extension, according to multiple reports — a small but important step toward the team’s future.

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Who has endorsed Paul Vallas, Brandon Johnson in the Chicago mayoral runoff?

Updating lists of prominent endorsements from key political figures and organizations for each of Chicago’s mayoral runoff candidates.

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Jonathan Toews joins Blackhawks teammates at practice and reflects on his future: ‘My health is more important’

CHICAGO — It was a familiar sight that had become unfamiliar in recent weeks.

Chicago Tribune

Highland Park massacre survivor responds to Nashville tragedy, ward races intensify and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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MLB 2023: Chicago braces for intriguing season for White Sox and Cubs

Baseball is back and both Chicago teams have interesting storylines entering this season.

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Midwest Fishing Report: Coho and openers for Heidecke, inland trout, smelt netting

Coho on southern Lake Michigan continue to lead the sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but fishing really gets going Saturday around the Chicago area with opening days at Heidecke Lake, the statewide inland trout season and smelt netting on the Chicago lakefront (well, opening night for…

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Author Bill Zehme, whose subjects included Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Leno and Andy Kaufman, is dead at 64

CHICAGO — Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years and it’s likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme’s keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair and Esquire, and in bestselling books in collaboration with Jay Leno and Regis…

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Dining Out? The Chicago Run Festival, a Ravenswood crawl that serves up desserts, and more events on tap

Your ultimate guide to eating out in Chicago. Highlights of the area eateries’ openings, new menus and special events and more.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jonathan Toews opens up about health issues, future: ‘Could be my last few weeks in Chicago’

Toews returned to Blackhawks morning skate Tuesday — two months to the day since his last game — and will try to make a few appearances before the season ends April 13. But he has battled through immense pain and fatigue to get to this point.

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Guitar World

John Primer: “I tried the Cry Baby wah pedal and a phase shifter, but the blues guys said, ‘Hey, you throw that thing in the garbage’”

The one-time Muddy Waters lead guitarist and living legend of the Chicago blues scene discusses good times, Hard Times, and that time Keith Richards offered him a cigarette

Chicago Tribune

Conservatives are targeting suburban Chicago school boards. And the elections are becoming political battlegrounds

Two years ago, at the urging of her teenage daughter, clinical psychologist Donna Marino ran for school board in far west suburban Oswego, Illinois, thinking her background in mental health could help students recover from the isolation, stress and trauma brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions taken…

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Horoscope for Tuesday, March 28, 2023

After 5:30 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Cancer.

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‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Virginia Woolf’ among top winners at Non-Equity Jeff awards ceremony

The awards, which recognize excellence in non-equity theater in the Chicago area, honored 35 winners in all, selected from 167 nominees representing 28 artistic/technical categories.

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The Independent UK

Highland Park survivor heads to scene of Nashville shooting

The survivor of a mass shooting last July 4th outside Chicago rushed to the scene of the latest such tragedy in Nashville, expressing disbelief that one had occurred again

Chicago Tribune

Chicago mayoral contenders Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson trade attacks over ‘MAGA’ signs, ‘racist’ criticism over defund the police

CHICAGO — Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas escalated their attacks on one another as Chicago’s mayoral race entered the final week of campaigning before the April 4 election.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago-born Mexican kid’s comic Xavier López, ‘Chabelo,’ dies at 88

Chabelo starred in Mexico’s longest-running television show, ‘En Familia con Chabelo,’ a Sunday variety show that ran from 1967 to 2015. He performed well into his 80s.

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4 South Side groups awarded $1 million in grants will offer free services to ‘transform health care’

Groups like Dion’s Chicago Dream and Trek World USA have been given grants from South Side Community Health Organization.

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The racist history of Chicago’s FOP

The FOP has, without exception, vociferously opposed every proposed police reform and effort to obtain police transparency.

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3 seriously injured in crash in Gresham, SUV driver in custody

A red SUV going west on 87th Street ran a red light, struck two vehicles on Vincennes Avenue and struck a pole, Chicago police said. Three people are badly hurt.

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The Problems With Just Getting Guns Out of People's Hands as a Solution to Gun Violence

New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence

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