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Chicagoans prepare to elect police district council members for the first time

CHICAGO — While the nine Chicago mayoral candidates pitch plans to address crime and policing, Chicago voters for the first time in city history will be able to vote for representatives on civilian police oversight councils, part of a growing group of reforms following years of protests over law enforcement…

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Jimmy Carter, our nation’s North Star, is leaving us a shining path to follow

Sneed: At 98 years old, America’s moral compass is in hospice care.

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Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration

The slides, thought to have been produced between 1922 and 1923 by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Why are so many people leaving Illinois?

As of the last U.S. Census count, more residents are moving out of Illinois than are coming in. The Chicago Sun-Times spoke with residents and demographers to find out why.

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Chicago Park District hiring fishing instructors

The Chicago Park District has jobs posted for fishing instructors, primarily this summer.

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Order kept cleric after sex abuse accusations, the roads to a mayoral runoff and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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They were born into war. Now, they're celebrating their first birthday in the U.S.

Twins Lenny and Moishe were born premature to a surrogate mother in Kyiv just as Russia began its attack on Ukraine. They went through a daring journey to reach their eventual home in Chicago.

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‘16 minutes of hell’; Volkswagen says ‘serious breach’ led to delay in giving authorities GPS location of stolen car carrying toddler

CHICAGO — Volkswagen acknowledged Friday that a representative of its roadside assistance program made a “serious breach” after declining to provide police with the GPS location of a car carrying an abducted toddler.

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Shopkeeper rescues abducted toddler after carjacker runs over his mom in suburban Chicago, police say

CHICAGO — Police are looking for a man driving a stolen white BMW who carjacked a woman and ran her over before abducting her 2-year-old who nearly wandered into a busy street after being abandoned Thursday afternoon near Libertyville, officials said.

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Bears 2023 free agency preview: Will DeAndre Houston-Carson return?

DeAndre Houston-Carson has been a special teams mainstay for seven seasons. Will he be back for another?

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Picture Chicago: 16 must-see photos from the last week

Campaign efforts, protests and more highlight our photographers’ best photos from the last week.

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Bears 2023 offseason preview: Where does Chicago stand at special teams?

Our Bears offseason position previews concludes with special teams, which appears all but set.

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2023 Chicago Sun-Times All-City high school basketball team

The 20 best players in the city this season.

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2023 NFL mock draft roundup: Experts believe Bears will trade back from No. 1

We've rounded up the latest 2023 NFL mock drafts, where experts agree the Bears will trade back from No. 1.

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A whacked-out winter: Early birds, flowers, coho, crawlers & ticks; a dearth of ice

Early bird movements, early popping of flowers, early move north by coho, early night crawlers and early ticks along with a historic lack of ice are part of whacked-out winter.

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These are the runners-up in our student art contest

We chose 19 students from Chicago and beyond who sent in artwork on the theme “Bringing Chicago’s Voices Together” as part of a Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ/Vocalo student art contest.

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Chicago is seeing an increase in fatal meth overdoses. Here’s why.

110 people in Chicago died from methamphetamine overdoses in 2021, a steep rise from 47 in 2019. The fatal overdoses are linked to a rise in demand, increased supply and deadlier “cocktails” as dealers cut the drug with fentanyl and cocaine.

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About 2 of every 3 Chicago polling places aren’t fully accessible for people with disabilities

That’s according to a WBEZ analysis of new data from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, which has posted accessibility ratings for each poll.

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Here’s how the 4 mayoral front-runners plan to make the runoff

If the vote total is close to the 556,758 mayoral ballots cast in 2019, the two hopefuls making the runoff are likely to get 20% each. But the four top-polling contenders each have a different formula to reach that benchmark.

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This young artist won our student art contest and will have her work turned into a mural you can see at the Salt Shed

Buffalo Grove sixth-grader Lucy Holloway, 11, created the work for a Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ/Vocalo contest. It will be turned into a sprawling mural at the entertainment venue that took up the old Morton Salt site.

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Higher education can do more to help our city’s immigrants

It is hard to know whether we will see comprehensive immigration reform in our lifetimes, but there are steps that higher-ed can take, right here and now, to partner with the organizations that serve immigrant communities.

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Editorial: Black mayors lead America’s 4 largest cities, but their skin color is largely beside the point

It is historically significant that America’s four largest cities have Black mayors. Eric Adams of New York, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston run municipalities where 18 million of us live. They are chief executives in charge of some of the most…

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Brandon Johnson once said it was a ‘political goal’ to defund police. He’s been less precise running for mayor.

As thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020′s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.”

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Horoscope for Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

After 3 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The Moon is in Taurus.

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Chicago mayoral candidate Vallas’ Twitter account liked offensive, racist posts, which he denies doing himself

CHICAGO — Since losing the 2019 mayor’s race, Paul Vallas has been a prolific poster on social media.

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