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Titanic survivor descendants honored at Skokie exhibit
Wednesday marks 112 years since the maiden voyage of the Titanic. Days later, it would hit an iceberg and sink.
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Chicago pays $5.5 million in wrongful imprisonment case as 7 more men ask for exoneration
The city of Chicago agreed to pay $5.5 million in another wrongful imprisonment settlement involving former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Chicago sues gunmaker over Glock switches that convert pistols into ‘illegal machine guns'
The city of Chicago and the gun safety group Everytown Law filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Glock, Inc., alleging the gunmaker “unreasonably endangers Chicagoans by manufacturing and selling … semiautomatic pistols that can easily be converted to illegal machine guns.”
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Girls flag football will be an official high school sport in Illinois starting this fall
The IHSA announced Wednesday that girls flag football will become an official high school sport in Illinois starting this fall.
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Charges dropped against Northwestern students over parody newspaper protesting war in Gaza
The students’ parody newspaper, which they placed on top of hundreds of copies of The Daily Northwestern, criticized the university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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Judge rules to delay police board discipline until Chicago council votes on the issue
Chicago’s City Council on Wednesday again deferred a vote on how to discipline police. Hours later, a judge ruled to delay any police board discipline until Feb. 24.
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Chicago organization reports record-high antisemitism in 2023
A newly released report shows hate and violence against Jewish people nationwide reached a new record in 2023.
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Meetings held in Chicago suburbs as many grapple with unscheduled migrant bus drop-offs
Meetings in multiple Chicago suburbs were held on Tuesday night as several communities are rapidly trying to address an increase in unscheduled drop-offs from buses transporting asylum-seeking migrants.
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Chicago reports drops in murders and shootings, uptick in robberies throughout 2023, data reveals
The Chicago Police Department released end-of-year crime statistics on New Year’s Day, revealing shootings and murders were down over the past year despite increases in other crimes across the city.
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Man shot and killed during fight at suburban Wheaton bar
Police were investigating on Friday after a man was shot and killed during an altercation with a fellow customer at a Wheaton bar, according to authorities. The shooting was reported at around 8:45 a.m. at Rosie O’Reilly’s Bar, 0N131 Gary Ave. The bar’s owners said the argument started over leftover pizza between the victim — a regular — and...