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Investment firm Wellington Management heads to Fulton Market

In an expansion of its Chicago operations, the company is leasing space from developer Sterling Bay.

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Northwestern University names next president

University of Oregon President Michael Schill will replace former president-elect Rebecca Blank, who stepped down after learning of a cancer diagnosis.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s top cop fired reformer even after getting heat from federal monitor

At a meeting with the monitor tracking compliance with court-ordered reforms, Supt. David Brown struggled to explain how he would meet a key deadline while deeply cutting staff that was implementing those changes.

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Bally’s files application with state for first Chicago casino

Bally’s filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board on Wednesday, taking a major step in the process to build Chicago’s first casino and the flagship property for its fast-growing company.

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5K race will raise funds for colon cancer awareness

Saturday’s Get Your Rear in Gear! charity 5K helps fund local colon cancer screenings, financially supports Chicago area cancer patients, and assists research.

Chicago Sun-Times

Newest mayoral challenger vows to tackle issue of allocating police to neighborhoods most in need

A University of Chicago Crime Lab model offered a way to assign officers, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt. David Brown chose a more timid approach. Ald. Sophia King said if elected mayor, she’ll act more boldly.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s how much KC Chiefs’ starters might play in Saturday’s preseason opener at Bears

ST. JOSEPH, Kan. — The Chiefs open their slate of three preseason games on Saturday when they take on the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.

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Roquan Smith remains out of practice even after Bears declare him healthy enough to participate

CHICAGO — Roquan Smith is healthy. Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus expects healthy players to practice. Smith didn’t practice Thursday at Halas Hall.

Chicago Tribune

Whitney Young’s new principal, Chicago’s favorite places to thrift 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

I’m saying goodbye to Chicago. I won’t miss what the city has become.

With the benefits of living in Chicago becoming more difficult to enumerate and skyrocketing property taxes making it unaffordable, the only choice my family has is to leave.

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Health insurance broker GoHealth laying off 800

The cuts include 100 jobs in Chicago and represent about 20% of the company workforce.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally’s play for long-awaited Chicago casino now up to state regulators — but hopes to open temporary site next year face long odds

Bally’s has filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board seeking approval for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino-resort. The city is hoping a temporary casino can open by next summer. But the board has up to a year to review the application, with the possibility of an extension beyond that.

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Uptown has the most friendships between lower and higher income residents in the city, a new study finds

How common are cross-class friendships across the Chicago area? Look up your ZIP code here.

Chicago Sun-Times

Family files lawsuit as Pilsen mom remains on life support after I-55 road-rage shooting involving off-duty Chicago cop

Lizbeth Urbina is a single mother of two daughters, ages 1 and 3, and works at a shoe store in Little Village. “People love her in the neighborhood,” Baltazar Enrique said. “This is one of our children. She’s one of our family.”

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Chiefs HC Andy Reid says starters will play first quarter vs. Bears in preseason Week 1

#Chiefs HC Andy Reid confirmed that Patrick Mahomes and the starters will get the first quarter in Saturday's preseason opener in Chicago.

Benzinga

Top Cannabis Regulator Jumps To Another Gig, Bhang CEO Steps Down & Other Strategic Marijuana Industry Leadership Changes

As Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference returns on September 13-14 to Chicago, gathering top CEOs, investors and leaders in the industry, let's scroll through the latest leadership changes within the space.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Matt Nagy talks return to Chicago for Bears-Chiefs preseason opener

Former Bears HC Matt Nagy on returning to Chicago: "I don’t know how I’ll feel when I get out there."

Chicago Sun-Times

3 teens among 7 wounded by gunfire across Chicago Wednesday

In one of the attacks, a 14-year-old boy was shot while riding his bike Wednesday evening in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.

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Lowell Thompson’s movie ‘Channels Changers’ shows how Black Chicagoans changed the ad game in the ‘Mad Men’ era

CHICAGO — Someone, I’ve long thought, should make a movie of Lowell Thompson’s life and finally that is happening. A painter/writer/former ad man/legendary storyteller, Thompson is making the movie himself, collaborating with some old colleagues from the advertising world and some new friends. He is typically enthusiastic, saying, “I’m thinking…

Chicago Tribune

Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking

CHICAGO — If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

Chicago Tribune

4 of the top 5 picks in this year’s MLB draft were Black — the result of minority development and other grassroots programs

CHICAGO — History was made in the first round of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft. For the first time in 30 years, nine Black players were drafted in the first round, including four of the top five selections.

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Vahe Gregorian: Even as Matt Nagy returns to Chicago, here’s why homecoming with Chiefs matters more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Moments after the end of the Chiefs’ training camp practice on Monday at Missouri Western State University, senior assistant and quarterbacks coach Matt Nagy was headed off the field when fans started chanting his name (“Nagy, Nagy”) seeking to lure him over for autographs.

Chicago Tribune

It’s been a rough summer for air travel. But for some, the trip to or from the airport is just as frustrating

CHICAGO — Standing outside Terminal 2 at O’Hare International Airport, a phone in each hand, Mervyn Wright weighed the options to get to his suburban hotel.

The Independent UK

Fans breaks down the outfits worn by Jeremy Allen White in The Bear

Jeremy Allen White stars as Chicago’s hottest chef in FX series, The Bear

Chicago Sun-Times

67-year-old man found dead in Rogers Park was killed in assault: Autopsy

Vincente Antunez was found dead at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 7300 block of North Rogers Avenue, according to Chicago police.

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