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Illinois poised to mandate paid leave for nearly all workers

East St. Louis-area hotel restaurant server and single mother of three Joan Van said she works doubles, sometimes triples, to make up the money when she or one of her children gets sick, or she needs to call out

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Chicago racial politics heats up as Mayor Lori Lightfoot rallies Black voters to ‘keep the seat’

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged Black residents to support her campaign for reelection or risk losing the seat and told people who don’t support her not to vote in a vivid display of the city’s racial politics Saturday at a Grand Crossing neighborhood church.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Hounds looking to build a sustainable franchise

The Hounds, a first-year team in Major League Rugby, begin play Saturday and are hoping to be in a position to capitalize on the 2031 Rugby World Cup coming to the United States.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Outdoors notes: Huge sturgeon, Flatfoot Lake, early crocuses and Teddy Roosevelt’s world-record cougar

A huge sturgeon speared in Wisconsin, a note on Flatfoot Lake, remarkably early crocuses, and Teddy Roosevelt’s world-record cougar are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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The great sports stadium scam

As the Chicago Bears move closer to leaving the city for the suburbs, taxpayers need to remember that billionaires have fleeced the public time and time again when it comes to public funding of sports stadiums.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago-based ‘Judge Mathis’ canceled after 24 seasons

The Hollywood trades report Greg Mathis’ syndicated legal series, shot at the NBC Tower in Streeterville, will not return for a new season this fall.

Chicago Sun-Times

Florida Gov. DeSantis now a factor in Chicago’s mayoral race

The GOP governor will be headlining an event for police in Elmhurst on Monday. Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas distanced himself from the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed him, after it promoted the event.

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Paul Sullivan: Can the White Sox regain fans’ trust?

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Normalcy returned to Chicago White Sox camp on Day Two of spring training, or whatever passes for normalcy these days at Camelback Ranch.

Chicago Tribune

FBI’s secret political support for ex-Harvey Mayor Eric Kellogg could be an issue in brother’s upcoming corruption trial

An undercover agent posing as a strip club manager lent $143,300 to a committee that backed Kellogg in his 2007 reelection for mayor — part of an investigation that never resulted in charges against the politician.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally’s begins luring new dealers to the table for Chicago casino

“I have no experience but I’m very eager to learn,” said Latasha Gilmer of Englewood, who attended Bally’s first informational session Friday at Harold Washington College as the casino looks to hire 300 upbeat people who can make it through “dealer school.”

Chicago Sun-Times

The decades-old mystery of a missing Chicago girl, Illinois pols’ Boeing ties and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Garcia questions whether Johnson, a CTU organizer, can be an objective mayor

Brandon Johnson is a paid organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union who helped lead it in two strikes and two job actions since 2012.

Chicago Sun-Times

What’s new in NASCAR 2023? Six things to look out for

After its wild premiere at the La Coliseum, the NASCAR Cup season proper kicks off this weekend with the Daytona 500. Here are the six major changes to look out for in the new campaign

Motorsport

Picture Chicago: Check out 14 must-see photos from the last week in news

Monday was the first day of in-person early voting in Chicago for the Feb. 28 election, the country’s first major auto show of the year kicked off at McCormick Place, and more from Sun-Times photographers’ best recent photos.

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O’Hare Airport, mayor address homelessness at the airport after social media uproar

CHICAGO — Amid a growing population of homeless people taking refuge in Chicago’ O’Hare International Airport, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city won’t allow homeless people to sleep at the airport anymore.

Autosport

What’s new in NASCAR 2023?

After its wild premiere at the La Coliseum, the NASCAR Cup season proper kicks off this weekend with the Daytona 500. Here are the six major changes to look out for in the new campaign

Chicago Tribune

Michael Phillips: Raquel Welch was the star who came in from the Chicago cold

CHICAGO — Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 82. From her teenage pageant years onward, her career was defined and in many ways confined by a gilded cage of marketable, exploitable beauty, sold primarily to men who couldn’t quite believe their eyes.

Chicago Tribune

Feds want 25 more years in jail for R. Kelly on Chicago conviction, saying he’s shown no remorse for years of sexual abuse

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in Chicago are asking for a 25-year consecutive prison sentence for R. Kelly for his conviction last year on child pornography charges, saying he’s a “serial sexual predator” who has shown no remorse for his crimes and tried to blame his victims for their own abuse.

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US officials say all debris from suspected Chinese spy balloon has been collected – as it happened

Pieces collected off ocean floor after US fighter jet shot down balloon off South Carolina’s coast and will now go to FBI lab for analysis

WEKU

U.S. prosecutors ask for 25 more years in prison for R. Kelly

The additional sentence from last year's child pornography and enticement convictions in Chicago would add to 30 years the R&B singer and songwriter recently began serving in a New York case.

USA Today Sports Media Group

2023 NFL mock draft roundup: Top trade partner emerges for Bears at No. 1

We've rounded up the latest 2023 NFL mock drafts, where the Bears find themselves a popular trade partner for the No. 1 pick.

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds seek R. Kelly sentence that would virtually guarantee singer never walks free

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to sentence Kelly, 56, to a quarter-century in prison as a result of his conviction in Chicago last summer. They said Kelly should not begin serving that sentence until after he has finished serving a 30-year federal prison sentence for racketeering.

Chicago Sun-Times

Whatever happened to Mary Agnes Moroney? DNA tests appear to solve 1930s mystery of missing Chicago girl

A new investigation into the kidnapping led her family to conclude she grew up as Jeanette Burchard, became a nurse and had three children, and died in Florida 20 years ago. “She was loved very much,” her daughter said.

Chicago Sun-Times

How a Cook County sheriff’s detective apparently solved the nearly 100-year-old mystery of a missing Chicago girl

The detective’s work has convinced two families that Mary Agnes Moroney — kidnapped from her home in Chicago in 1930 — was raised as Jeanette Burchard and became a nurse in Florida. She died 20 years ago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Boeing’s misconduct hasn’t stopped Illinois politicians from taking campaign cash from the company

Based in Chicago until last year, the aerospace giant has given $50,000 to legislative leaders and other politicians since it admitted in 2021 it deceived regulators about a new aircraft that crashed twice overseas.

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