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What connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage?

By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate

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Jon Scheyer’s journey — and time in Illinois’ FAAM league — prepared him for this moment

This was the first time Jon Scheyer felt any kind of pressure to prove himself. The first time he could sense others’ doubt and skepticism. He was in the sixth grade when he walked into a gym in Evanston, Ill., not far from his hometown of Northbrook, a well-off suburb…

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Celtics make winning plays late, overcome DeMar Derozan’s 46 points to hold off Bulls

BOSTON — As far as early-season losses go, the Celtics’ opening week loss last month in Chicago left a mark.

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Bulls at Celtics: Boston takes the wind out of Chicago, wins 123-119 at TD Garden

Some of the best plays captured in images from the Celtics' eighth game of their 2022-23 campaign.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chicago principal removed from duties over response to student dressed up in apparent Nazi uniform on Halloween

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools announced Friday that Jones College Prep Principal Joseph Powers has been removed from “principal duties, effective immediately, pending the results” of an investigation into his response to a student who came to school on Halloween dressed in a German military uniform, goose-stepped across a stage…

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Supreme Justice Barrett refuses again to block Biden’s student-debt relief plan

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Last winter’s heating costs were bad. This year could be worse, with Chicago-area gas bills expected to spike another 30%

It may cost hundreds of dollars more to stay warm this winter in Chicago and the suburbs, with rising natural gas prices and ongoing ratepayer-funded repair work projected to raise bills by as much as 30% over last year.

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Judge rules against group suing to stop Obama Presidential Center

CHICAGO — The long-waged fight by the group Protect Our Parks to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s Jackson Park museum and campus has reached the end of the road in the federal district courts. But the plaintiffs plan to take the case to the appellate level, continuing a…

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch the NBA

The Chicago Bulls will meet the Boston Celtics in NBA action on Friday night from the TD Garden, stream all the action right here.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to buy Chicago-area cannabis operations in deal connected to $2 billion Cresco-Columbia Care merger

Sean “Diddy” Combs has agreed to buy nine cannabis retail stores and three production facilities in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts for $185 million as part of required antitrust divestitures for the pending $2 billion Cresco-Columbia Care megamerger.

Chicago Tribune

Ex-dealers say McDonald’s was the business model, students sue Loyola for ‘mishandled’ sex misconduct claims 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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Data should be driving Police Department dollars, civilian oversight panel says

“We need to spend better and more strategically,” to cut city’s violence, eliminate “untenable” working conditions for officers, commission’s president says.

Chicago Sun-Times

With tensions high ahead of Tuesday’s election, top cop says there are no threats ‘specific to Chicago’

The heightened concerns over safety and political violence come two years after former President Donald Trump falsely blamed widespread fraud for his loss — a claim that fueled the riot at the U.S. Capitol and further polarized the political landscape.

Chicago Sun-Times

After descent into alcoholism cost him City Council seat, Proco Joe Moreno hits the comeback trail

In a soul-searching interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, former Ald. Proco Joe Moreno (1st) talked about going into his own tailspin after failing to talk a beloved friend out of committing suicide.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to gain stake in cannabis trade

The music and fashion mogul will acquire stores in Chicago and Villa Park and a growing operation in Aurora in a deal with Cresco Labs and Columbia Care.

Chicago Tribune

Black Harvest at the Film Center: Some films to see at the fall perennial, this time without co-founder Sergio Mims

CHICAGO — The 28th Black Harvest Film Festival, which kicks off this weekend and continues through Nov. 20 in person at the Gene Siskel Film Center, will not be like the previous 27.

Chicago Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 13 must-see photos from the last week in news

Chicagoans enjoy the spooky season, step up to support the rights of the homeless and more in our best photos of the last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’: For 35 years, the great road trip movie has taken us to all the right places

The Thanksgiving comedy with Steve Martin and John Candy achieves the ideal combination of big belly laughs and poignant moments of emotion.

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For Riverwalk mural, artist Kate Lewis drew inspiration from classic Chicago architecture

“The Radiance of Being” celebrates iconic Chicago structures with Art Deco elements, including The Rookery, the Palmer House and the Palmolive Building.

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1 killed, 6 wounded in Chicago shootings Thursday

A man was fatally shot during an argument Thursday morning in the 8300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.

Chicago Sun-Times

Loyola University Chicago ‘mishandled and underreported’ sex misconduct complaints involving students, lawsuit says

Three women are suing the school run by the Jesuit Catholic religious order, saying administrators “maintained a de facto policy” to “suppress reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment.”

Chicago Sun-Times

New Illinois law gives cops choice not to jail people for small amounts of drugs — a follow-up to our ‘Costly toll of dead-end drug arrests’ investigation

The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Maxine Duster, Chicago educator, civic leader, dead at 83

She was a teacher and principal and helped kids interested in medicine follow a doctor around to see what the work was like, helping many pursue careers in medicine.

Chicago Sun-Times

From flipping Big Macs to importing tons of cocaine: Chicago twins who helped bring down El Chapo say McDonald’s was their business model

In a new podcast, Margarito Flores and Pedro Flores say they got jobs at a Little Village McDonald’s when they were teenagers and honed management skills they used in their drug business.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bronzeville woman cooks for the homeless: ‘Cooking is my love language’

Shara Washington cooks and delivers as many as 60 meals for homeless people around Chicago, four days a week.

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