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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson turned 81 last week, and will celebrate at a birthday gala on Friday. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, he told the Chicago Sun-Times he has no intention of taking it easy. Right now, his focus is on registering voters for the upcoming election.

N’Keal Harry is healthy — and a healthy scratch.

Police closed Persona Lounge after a security guard was charged with killing another guard there, but should have shut it down after a July shooting outside the club left two people dead and three wounded, Sigcho-Lopez says.

Luke Getsy doesn’t like to make grand statements. Still, the Bears’ offensive coordinator was willing to concede Tuesday that his quarterback improved in his Week 5 showing against the Vikings.

The move clears the way for the 2019 first-round pick to return for Thursday night’s game against the Commanders.

“We were in the same political family,” former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. says. “We were able to elect a county commissioner, we were able to elect state reps, senators — and it all came out of that organization.”

Pets saved from Hurricane Ian arrive in Chicago and a lot more are highlighted in our best pictures of the week.

Family and friends honored Mama Gloria Allen, on what would have been her 77th birthday, at the Center on Halsted, where Allen, a Black transgender woman, ran a charm school to teach youth life skills and to be proud of who they are. Allen died in June.

Cook County Board President Preckwinkle is offering bold spending plans, armed with roughly $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money. But she needs workers to pull these plans off, and faces more than 4,000 vacancies. “We’re working towards a more just, prosperous and equitable future,”…

The move to include a nonbinary race division in the Chicago marathon has been hailed as major progress, but some worry the changes, made without public announcements, are only superficial.

Delivering the 2023 budget address that will serve as her reelection platform, Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion spending plan has a laundry list of new and continued investments intended to ease violence, homelessness and poverty.