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Amazon hits the road with the first of its 100,000 Rivian electric delivery vans

Amazon is ready to hit the road across the U.S. with the first of its custom-made Rivian electric delivery vans, and a lot may be riding on it for both companies.

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Review: ‘Anything’s Possible’ on Prime Video, a teen rom-com with a difference is a promising directorial debut from Billy Porter

Billy Porter’s classy, heartfelt directorial debut “Anything’s Possible,” premiering on Prime Video Friday, doesn’t work miracles. But it does work, and in ways more interesting than the average streaming teen rom-com with one eye on heart, the other on life lessons for the young and the smitten.

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‘The Last Movie Stars’ review: HBO’s portrait of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward plays out as some of the most irresistible hours of TV this year

Long before the line “Who are those guys?” became a running gag in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” the public wondered the same thing about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

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Review: Issa Rae’s newest HBO Max comedy series follows an aspiring female rapper duo from Miami

Working the grind in Miami, a pair of old friends from high school get back in touch and decide to form a rap group in “Rap Sh!t,” created by “Insecure” star Issa Rae, who remains off camera this time around. Music stardom might actually be in Shawna and Mia’s grasp,…

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Gun-makers have long been shielded from liability after mass shootings. That’s starting to change

As Highland Park officials ponder their legal response to the Independence Day mass shooting that killed seven people and injured dozens more, a slow-moving case just over the state line suggests one possible path.

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Commentary: Cryptocurrency is a peril for the Black community

“The future is crunk!” declares a digital re-creation of a young LeBron James in the ubiquitous TV commercial promoting Crypto.com.

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Commentary: I produce true crime stories. I know what comes next for Highland Park, my hometown

On Memorial Day weekend in 1998, 14-year-old Nicole Van Hyfte was attending church in Danville, Illinois. It was where she and the other members of her youth group gathered every Sunday.

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Commentary: Our world needs social change agents. Here’s how to be an effective activist

In my early years as an activist, I thought social change was about calling out all the ways that people in power were wrecking the world. Finding my voice meant telling other people what they were doing wrong, as loudly and self-righteously as possible.

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Commentary: Cryptocurrency is a peril for the Black community

“The future is crunk!” declares a digital re-creation of a young LeBron James in the ubiquitous TV commercial promoting Crypto.com.

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Highland Park mayor testifies before US Senate, calls for assault weapons ban: ‘Today is the day to start saving lives’

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering testified before members of Congress Wednesday in support of an assault weapons ban as she described the “horrific mass shooting” at the town’s Fourth of July parade that left seven people dead and at least 48 others shot and injured.

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4 things we learned from the Bulls’ 4-1 run in the NBA Summer League, including Dalen Terry’s promise

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls showed the first glimpses of next season’s roster during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, posting a 4-1 record from July 8 through Saturday.

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Speed camera ticket minimum will stay at 6 mph over the limit in Chicago

CHICAGO — Chicago aldermen failed to overturn Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s unpopular speed camera rules at Wednesday’s City Council meeting after a long, winding battle waged by one of the mayor’s top critics.

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Abbott reports strong earnings despite infant formula crisis

Abbott Laboratories reported strong earnings Wednesday, despite spending recent months responding to criticism over problems that led to the shutdown of one of its infant formula-producing plants.

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Billy Corgan on his Highland Park concert with Perry Farrell: ‘It’s almost impossible to put into words what this community is going through’

CHICAGO — Among the responses to the Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, news went out earlier this week that one of its residents was staging a benefit concert — Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan announced he would host and perform in a livestreamed concert event July 27. Newly…

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My worst moment: For ‘Stranger Things’ star Brett Gelman, an appearance on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ turned meta

CHICAGO — As Murray Bauman on “Stranger Things,” Brett Gelman said he channeled a number of Chicago performers into the character, from John Belushi to Harold Ramis to Bill Murray. “All those guys are very influential on the Murray performance because all those guys were omnipresent forces in ‘80s comedy”…

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What does ‘redlining’ in 1940s Chicago have to do with today’s Black exodus from the city? Plenty, a new study suggests

CHICAGO — Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer tries to return those properties to productive use during its biennial scavenger sale of delinquent taxes, often with little…

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Commentary: Baseball, vaccines and the triumph of selfishness

In April 1909, New York Highlanders first baseman Hal Chase was hospitalized with smallpox near the team’s spring training site in Georgia. The rest of the squad — which would be renamed the Yankees in 1913 — took an overnight train to Richmond, Virginia, where the Highlanders were scheduled to…

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Here’s the real problem with Joe Biden’s reversal on Saudi Arabia

President Joe Biden took a defensive tone in the run-up to his visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday. “I have never been quiet about talking about human rights,” he said at a news conference in Israel on Thursday. But his reason for going to Saudi Arabia, he said, was much…

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What’s on deck for MLB? A pitch clock and bigger bases could be coming in 2023 — and eventually expansion to 32 teams.

Monday at Dodger Stadium represented some of the best baseball has to offer.

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Macy’s will open Toys R Us shops inside all US stores

Macy’s announced it will launch in-store Toys R Us shops in all of its U.S. retail locations over the next several months.

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Tori Franklin medals in the triple jump at worlds — a history-making comeback for the Westmont native after Olympic disappointment

Westmont native Tori Franklin became the first U.S. woman to medal in the triple jump at the track and field world championships, leaping to bronze Monday with a fifth attempt of 14.72 meters.

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Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation funds

CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tests positive for COVID-19

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time and is experiencing mild symptoms, his office announced Tuesday.

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Chicago will transform the Grant Park area into the first-ever NASCAR street race in 2023

CHICAGO — Imagine cars racing down Lake Shore Drive at 130 mph, burning rubber on South Michigan Avenue and jockeying for position bumper-to-bumper on Balbo Drive. Welcome to the new rush hour in Chicago.

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Monkeypox concern grows as virus spreads in Chicago: ‘They need to get loud about this’

CHICAGO — Chicago public health officials reported 173 monkeypox cases on Monday — up from 105 last week — and with vaccines scarce and hard to find, alarm is growing among doctors and those in the gay community that the city is not doing enough to address the spread.

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