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‘We’re in the crosshairs’: Wildfires and wind push Chicago region’s air quality to worst in the world, global pollution index shows

CHICAGO — At Promontory Park in Chicago's Hyde Park, normally a spot for picnickers and parkgoers to admire an impressive view of the city, a group of four wore masks and looked across Lake Michigan at a whitish and gray skyline.

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Kevin Warren says Bears seek ‘legitimate partner’ in picking site for new stadium. Would that be Arlington Heights? Maybe.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren said at a forum Monday night the team wants to build a world-class NFL stadium but would not proceed with a multibillion dollar project in Arlington Heights without an agreement on the tax bill for the land recently purchased.

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Illinois governor signs bills giving state power over health insurance prices, Affordable Care Act exchange

Illinois will soon run its own Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace, and have the power to stop sky-high price increases of plans sold on it.

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Chicago’s minimum wage is increasing July 1. Here’s what to know

Chicago’s minimum wage will increase July 1, hitting $15.80 per hour for many workers across the city.

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Walgreens aims to cut more costs amid weaker demand for COVID vaccines, uncertain economy

Walgreens Boots Alliance is raising its cost-savings goal by 17% to $4.1 billion after a disappointing quarter — a move that comes just weeks after it said it was eliminating 10% of its corporate workforce.

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Chicago’s air quality is worst in the world after Canadian wildfire smoke blankets the region, global pollution index shows

CHICAGO -- Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires coated Chicago and the surrounding areas with haze as weather officials issued an air quality alert for parts of the Great Lakes, Lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys Tuesday morning.

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Chicago police log 11,000 complaints since consent decree went into effect, as monitor cites ‘real concerns’ about effort to analyze use-of-force issues

In the 4 ½ years since the city entered into a federal consent decree, the Chicago Police Department’s bureau of internal affairs has opened more than 11,000 investigations into allegations of officer misconduct, according to a Tribune analysis of police data.

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NASCAR and Bubba Wallace are bringing ‘Bubba’s Block Party’ to a South Side museum in Chicago

CHICAGO — Ahead of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race, Bubba Wallace — driver No. 23 of Michael Jordan co-owned 23XI Racing — will host “Bubba’s Block Party,” a nationwide community initiative at The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center on Wednesday.

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Commentary: A year after the Dobbs decision on abortion, women are wondering: Is anyone listening?

It’s been a year since the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, upending a nearly 50-year constitutional precedent set by Roe v. Wade that recognized a constitutional right to abortion, one that was reaffirmed by Planned Parenthood…

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Editorial: A sad end for the Titan submersible, but a titanic level of international cooperation

Submerged in the sadness for the loss of five people aboard the Titan submersible, and the criticism of the risky and poorly certified expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, was an extraordinary international rescue effort.

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Commentary: 20 short observations from a high school teacher at year’s end

As school wraps for the summer, these notes provide a view into today’s classroom.

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Paul Sullivan: What we know about the Cubs and White Sox — and what we don’t — as midseason approaches

As the 2023 baseball season nears the midpoint, here’s what we know and don’t know about the Chicago Cubs and White Sox.

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Chicago Blackhawks land former MVP Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno in a draft-week trade with Boston Bruins

The Chicago Blackhawks have reached a trade agreement with the Boston Bruins for forwards Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno, the team announced Monday.

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Commentary: Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts on a ‘house divided’ speak to our current national discord

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided against itself and in danger of collapse. We see dire prognostics about America’s future due to an array of…

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Review: ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ on Broadway: Britney Spears songs in an ill-shaped musical

NEW YORK — To use the Britney Spears catalog as the material for a musical preaching feminist enlightenment is, to put it mildly, a stretch. The now reclusive pop star’s heavily sexualized and self-objectifying body of work includes such fodder as “Baby One More Time,” (”hit me baby ...”), “Make…

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Louisa Chu: Drag brunch prevails at The Walnut Room, where history and radical acceptance collide

CHICAGO — Every other weekend or so, if you head up seven floors to The Walnut Room, in the store once known as Marshall Field’s on State Street in Chicago, you’ll feel the music before you see the spotlights beaming from the show.

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Paul Sullivan: To give drivers a true Chicago experience, NASCAR must change its course in 2024

CHICAGO — NASCAR is coming to Chicago this week, in case you haven’t heard, bringing some of the world’s best race drivers to compete on our downtown streets.

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Editorial: Illinois and immigrants lacking permanent legal status make for a health care conundrum

Should immigrants lacking permanent legal status arriving in Chicago in big numbers get free health care paid for by the state?

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Commentary: The debt ceiling deal was not perfect, but it was far better than a default

I was one of 165 Democrats to vote yes for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which ultimately passed the House earlier this month in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 314-117 vote. Raising the debt ceiling saved the U.S. economy from potential catastrophe. Democrats faced a Hobson’s choice or the illusion that multiple choices…

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Commentary: Antony Blinken’s visit to China didn’t resolve tensions, but it’s a start

For the first time in five years, a U.S. secretary of state set foot on Chinese soil for an official visit. Antony Blinken, America’s top diplomat, spent the weekend in multiple meetings with senior Chinese officials in the hope that a little jaw-jaw will begin the process of defusing the…

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‘We killed more of them than they killed of us’: Closing arguments begin in federal racketeering trial of Chicago’s Goonie gang involving 10 slayings

CHICAGO — Over the past five weeks, a federal jury has been immersed in a small section of Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, where prosecutors say a close-knit street gang named the Goonies acted as “urban hunters,” terrorizing residents and ruling its territory through an unrelenting wave of gun violence.

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Woman who was among 23 shot at strip mall near Chicago recounts how celebration turned to chaos

There had to be at least 200 people in the parking lot when Mariah Dixon arrived Saturday night for what has been billed as a Juneteenth celebration outside a strip mall in DuPage County, near Willowbrook.

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‘Asteroid City’ review: Love, loss, storytelling and aliens collide in Wes Anderson’s 1955 desert dreamland

Wes Anderson’s latest mirage, “Asteroid City,” carries a lighter and literally sunnier spirit than usual for this filmmaker, whose sense of whimsy can sometimes curdle into, well, a bit of a load. Shooting in Spain, creating a drolly imagined Eisenhower-era desert town out of both practical and digital design elements,…

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Commentary: Before Donald Trump’s indictment, there was Nixon VP Spiro Agnew’s plea in 1973

The news has been full of concerns about the fate of our republic following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. There have been questions about the politicization of criminal laws and the credibility of the judiciary, the polarization of the electorate and threats of violent domestic reaction.

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Commentary: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ law should draw attention to a bigger problem for the US

This June, as many people around the world celebrate Pride Month to commemorate those who fought to secure rights for the LGBTQ community, these rights still remain under threat in many countries. The United States should be doing more to press its partners to protect them.

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