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Ald. Anthony Beale’s proposed referendum would have asked voters in the March 19 primary: “Should the city of Chicago limit its designation as a sanctuary city by placing spending limits on its public funding?”

The tavern-restaurant announced Wednesday that it will shut down at the end of dinner service on New Year’s Eve.

Volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City decorated South Side homes for Christmas, a man was killed and a woman was critically injured in a house fire in Lawndale, and theater-goers enjoyed the opening night of “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical.”

Antonio Romanucci, an attorney for the family of Jack Murray, is conducting a civil investigation of the shooting, focusing on ‘officers’ treatment of a known emotionally distressed person and their use of deescalation tactics.’

The owner planned to renovate the top two floors to create space to house migrants, according to a lawsuit. But a blaze broke out in a back stairwell before the work could begin, tenants and owners say.

The new system was approved as part of the decision that also saw regulators cut a rate hike requested by Peoples Gas from $402 million down to about $301 million.

More than eight miles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on the South Side were brightened with lights, inflatables, ornaments and wreaths.

For the 24th year, volunteers gathered to offload 1,200 Christmas trees, promised to families in need, from the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw.

Public officials celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new American Blues Theater on the Northwest Side, activists held a vigil for people who have died while detained at Cook County Jail, and construction workers began framing a “winterized base camp” for asylum-seekers in Chicago.