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Kaegi leading Steele in early returns after tough fight for Cook County assessor

Cook County Assessor Frederick “Fritz” Kaegi was trying to fend off challenger Kari Steele. And in the Board of Review’s 1st District, first-term incumbent Tammy Wendt faced Chicago Ald. George Cardenas.

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Meet Alvaro Torres, CEO Of Lat Am & UK's Top Medical Marijuana Brand At Benzinga's Cannabis Capital Conference In September

After a prosperous Miami event this past April, the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference will take place in Chicago on September 13-14. As always, the meeting will host leading executives and investors who will talk about the industry’s present and future.

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NTSB investigators look into fatal Missouri Amtrak accident

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Missouri trying to determine how an Amtrak train carrying more than 200 people slammed into a dump truck, killing two train passengers and the truck driver

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Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Perch, catfish smallmouth, largemouth, bluegill, lakers

Perch and other summer fishing around Chicago leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; updated Wisconsin River and Northern Wisconsin reports.

Chicago Sun-Times

11 wounded by gunfire in Chicago Monday

Three people were shot in Lake View East, where police had stepped up patrols after the Pride Parade.

Chicago Sun-Times

Who will take on Gov. J.B. Pritzker this fall? Republican voters get final say in Tuesday’s primary

The winner of the primary will determine whether the state GOP continues as a center-right party in Illinois or gets recast as a subsidiary of former President Donald Trump.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago indie-rock band Así Así emerges from the pandemic with new album ‘Mal de Otros’

CHICAGO — The earliest iterations of Así Así may have begun in a different country and under a different name, but this rising indie-rock four-piece is now firmly a Chicago music act. And on their debut record, “Mal de Otros,” which comes out Aug. 19, listeners new and old alike…

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The top House security official has his sights on a safer Capitol. It’s a big task

“Security is a journey. There’s no destination,” said Walker J. Walker, who took over as House sergeant-at-arms after the Jan. 6 attack.

Roll Call

Amtrak derailment: Mother and aunt among four dead as Boy Scouts recall bloody scene in Missouri

The train was on its way to Chicago from Los Angeles when the accident occurred

The Independent UK

Horoscope for Tuesday, June 28, 2022

After 7 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The new moon occurs in Cancer at 9:52 p.m.

Chicago Sun-Times

Three dead in Missouri as passenger train derails after striking lorry

Several hospitals have received casualties after train carrying 243 passengers from Los Angeles to Chicago was shunted off track

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Wicker Park camp for boys cheered as ‘fun,’ ‘welcoming’ as it aims to build the ‘whole person’

Midtown Center’s summer program for Chicago youth opens in new Wicker Park location.

Chicago Sun-Times

Paul Sullivan: How Tony La Russa and David Ross are trying to change the script during Chicago’s summer of baseball discontent

It hasn’t exactly been the best of times for Tony La Russa and David Ross, the two baseball managers in a baseball town.

Chicago Tribune

Hero teacher on first ever Amtrak trip helps rescue passengers in Missouri derailment: ‘It was chaos’

‘Once it went over, it was one of those, you think, I can’t believe this is actually happening ... People were bleeding. People were banged up’

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Chicago Public Schools begins its summer meals programs

The CPS programs have locations throughout the city for kids to get free breakfast and lunch.

Los Angeles Times

3 killed and 50 injured when Amtrak train from Los Angeles to Chicago derails in Missouri

LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed and at least 50 others injured when an Amtrak train headed from Los Angeles to Chicago crashed into a dump truck Monday afternoon in Missouri, officials said.

France 24

Three killed, dozens injured in Amtrak train derailment in Missouri

A passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed Monday in a remote, rural area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more, officials said.

Al Jazeera

US: At least 3 dead after train hits truck, derails in Missouri

Amtrak says approximately 243 passengers, 12 crew were in train when it derailed en route to Chicago from Los Angeles.

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3 dead, as many as 50 injured in Amtrak train crash in Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several cars of an Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed Monday afternoon after it struck a dump truck at a crossing in northern Missouri, Amtrak announced.

Chicago Sun-Times

Abortion ruling figures in new pitch for Chicago jobs

A letter from World Business Chicago, signed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other civic leaders, urges Fortune 500 companies to invest here because local laws respect worker diversity and impose fewer limits on abortions.

The Independent UK

Amtrak train collides with dump truck, derails in Missouri

An air ambulance service official says at least eight helicopters are taking patients from the site of a passenger train that derailed in Missouri while traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times

Police getting different versions of what happened when 5-month-old girl was shot and killed in South Shore, top cop says

Cecilia Thomas was shot in the head in the 7700 block of South Shore Drive Friday evening.

Chicago Sun-Times

3 dead, dozens hurt after Amtrak train bound for Chicago hits truck and derails in Missouri

Two train passengers and one person in the truck were killed, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly fan charged with threatening federal prosecutors in New York

CHICAGO — An avid R. Kelly fan has been arrested in the Chicago area on federal charges alleging he threatened to “storm” the U.S. attorney’s office in New York.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County at high risk for COVID-19 but expected to improve this week

“I know everyone wants COVID to be over,” said Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady. “Unfortunately, we continue to see the COVID virus itself mutate quickly, with new, more contagious subvariants emerging every few weeks.”

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