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Relatives of child orphaned in July 4 parade shooting are in court over guardianship and estate issues

After 2-year-old Aiden McCarthy’s parents were killed in a mass shooting on the 4th of July in Highland Park, Illinois, the boy, according to his maternal grandfather, asked, “Are mommy and daddy coming soon?”

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Why Dansby Swanson is buying into Cubs’ vision for winning now: ‘They definitely have a clear plan’

CHICAGO — Finding a new home with the Chicago Cubs carried deeper meaning for Dansby Swanson.

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Bulls guard Lonzo Ball ‘still a ways out’ from returning from knee injury: ‘Just trying to work through the pain’

CHICAGO — Lonzo Ball greeted a group of fathers as he made his way through Carter’s on North Halsted on Wednesday afternoon.

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As possible blizzardlike conditions barrel toward Chicago, advocates for homeless work to provide shelter, save lives

CHICAGO — As Chicago braces for possible blizzardlike conditions this week, Andy Robledo headed to West 16th Street and South Union Avenue Tuesday morning to check on two people living in black winterized tents he built. Although it was a cold morning, the weather was nothing like the extreme wind,…

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Chicagoan Natasha Tarpley brings us another ode to Black love with latest children’s book, ‘Keyana Loves Her Family’

The holidays can bring out the warm and fuzzies as familial traditions and classics are revisited as touch points to legacy. Published in 1998 and written by Chicagoan Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, “I Love My Hair!” can now be considered one such classic.

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Jetsons-style robots are invading Chicago-area hospitals, amid worker shortage

It’s not polite to stare. Especially in the hospital.

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Fusion energy isn’t a pipe dream anymore. The bid to make it practical should begin now

The timeline of history is etched not just by wars and revolutions but also by moments when science yields a discovery that forever changes the course of humanity.

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Commentary: India’s foreign policy is slowly changing thanks to China

Historically, India has preferred to stay away from aggressive power politics, formal security alliances and an us-vs.-them foreign policy. Maintaining businesslike relationships with all of the world’s great powers was, and some ways still remains, a paramount objective.

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Commentary: The tech meltdown will help the economy — eventually

Technology companies are shedding jobs at disturbing rates. Those with experience in computing are being laid off, sometimes with little warning. Freshly minted computer science graduates are facing employment headwinds not seen for well over a decade. Is this the next dot-com bubble burst, which could send the economy spiraling…

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Can a change of scenery and a familiar face with the Cubs turn around Cody Bellinger’s offensive production?

CHICAGO — Four seasons ago Cody Bellinger reached the height of personal accolades as one of the best young players in Major League Baseball. He amassed multiple awards — National League MVP, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove — to validate his all-around performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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‘Babylon’ review: The glory and cruelty of Hollywood in the last days of silent pictures

As a cinematic study in risk and reward, the first four features from director Damien Chazelle just plain work, often dazzlingly. He knows how and when to move a camera. You know how rare that is these days? Steven Spielberg; Paul Thomas Anderson; a few others. And Chazelle.

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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ review: A nonfiction gem about photographer and activist Nan Goldin

When director Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” snagged the top prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival, in a field of qualifying titles including “Tár” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” accusations of contrarian virtue-signaling were flung hither and yon, in some cases even by people who’d…

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Editorial: How old is ‘old,’ and when is a president ‘too old’?

President Joe Biden turned 80 on Nov. 20, and so far, he has given every indication he plans to run for reelection in 2024. If he were to win, his second term would conclude not long after his 86th birthday.

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Suburban Chicago businessman gets nearly 5 years in prison for bilking $2.6 million from hospitals desperate for COVID-19 masks, buying himself Maseratis

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Burr Ridge, Illinois, businessman to nearly five years in federal prison for swindling $2.6 million from hospitals seeking coveted protective gear in the traumatic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and blowing much of it on credit cards and luxury cars.

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Students at Chicago's Benito Juarez school stage walkout in first day since campus shooting

CHICAGO — More than 100 Benito Juarez high school students joined a walkout midday Monday on the school’s first day of classes since four teens were shot and two were killed Friday.

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Sister of Chicago cop arrested on charges stemming from Jan. 6 US Capitol attack

A Chicago woman was arrested Monday on federal charges alleging she participated in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol with her brother, a Chicago police officer who is already facing trial.

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Snack food giant Mondelez to sell its gum business, including brands like Trident

Chicago-based snack food giant Mondelez International will sell its gum business, which includes brands such as Trident, Chiclets and Bubblicious, to the European gum and confectionary maker Perfetti Van Melle Group for $1.35 billion, the company said in a news release Monday.

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‘The Whale’ review: Brendan Fraser does his best with a movie that lays the pathos on thick

I’m of two minds about “The Whale.” I don’t like it; that’s one mind. Yet I love what it has done for its star, Brendan Fraser, a highly likely Oscar nominee come early 2023 and — as he has been since the early 1990s — a wonderful actor.

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9 tried-and-true cookbooks that make perfect holiday gifts

If you’re the type of cook with well-thumbed cookbooks filled with your most-used recipes — or know someone who is — you understand how essential they are.

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Community mourns students killed outside Chicago high school, calls on officials to address violence in schools

CHICAGO — Community members gathered Sunday night to grapple with the Benito Juarez Community Academy shooting that left two teens dead and two more injured on Friday.

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Commentary: As we enter the peak of the respiratory virus season, parents should be prudent

Over thousands of years, viruses and humans have evolved together. The spread of viruses is a basic feature of nature, and it is an immutable fact that controlling nature is difficult, but not always impossible. In this respect, notable human accomplishments include agriculture, sanitation, hydroelectric power, vaccines and aviation. Those,…

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Commentary: Our youths don’t need access to assault weapons. Let’s put politics aside

Despite one’s position on gun control, or their political party affiliation, I hope most will agree that anyone under 21 years of age should not have access to assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition magazines.

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How a special guest of Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson serves as life lesson for his players: ‘One of the most selfless things someone could do’

CHICAGO — Coaches and players have friends and family attend games all the time, but Chicago Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson thought one of his old buddies from Ottawa, Ontario, Barrie Robillard, could set an example for his players.

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Police release pictures of person outside Chicago high school taken when 4 students shot, 2 fatally

CHICAGO — Chicago police released pictures of a person they are seeking to identify around the time four teens were shot, two of whom died Friday afternoon at Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood.

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Shortstop Dansby Swanson and Cubs reportedly agree to 7-year, $177 million contract

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs landed their new shortstop.

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