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With opioid deaths at record levels, users now have a safe space on West Side

The facility is a partnership between the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Community Outreach Intervention Projects program and the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force. Their goal is curbing overdose deaths

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3-day festival at Ravinia celebrates women conductors, considers their challenges

Marin Alsop, the accomplished chief conductor spearheading the event, says there is much work to do ‘to create a more equitable landscape for the future.’

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Girls gear up to be firefighters for a day — and take steps toward a possible career path

Girls Inc. of Chicago’s summer camp members visit Quinn Fire Academy to get hands-on training from pros.

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Past redlining practices linked to present-day abandoned properties in Cook County, new report says

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas would like the report to spark discussions about reforms to the county’s scavenger sales that occur every two years.

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Picture Chicago: Must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

Mourners attend funerals for Highland Park parade shooting victims, the WNBA holds its All-Star weekend, supporters pray for an officer shot and more.

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Deeply Rooted Dance Theater celebrates Quincy Jones in outdoor musical program

The 10-member professional company is teaming with singers and musicians for its largest-scale offering ever as part of Chicago’s Night in the Parks summer series.

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Highland Park parade shooting: Community gathers for moment of silence

It was supposed to last two minutes, but the silence stretched for nearly 10. “It was very powerful,” said local business owner Brian Caponi. “I was amazed, and it kind of overtook me.”

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Picture Chicago: must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

The weekend began with fireworks, but two mass shootings on the Fourth of July in Highland Park and Chicago turned celebrations into grieving.

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Union Station could receive $418 million facelift if federal grant approved

“This vision has been years and years in the making, and now we finally have a chance to make it a reality,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at Union Station on Thursday.

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Another Wilson giveaway: ‘Of course, I’m going to vote for him. Look who’s helping out.’

At yet another Willie Wilson giveaway on Wednesday, grocery shoppers praised the millionaire businessman and mayoral candidate, saying they would remember his charity at the voting booth next year.

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Chicago’s ‘Big Three’ iconic foods explored in museum exhibit

Elmhurst History Museum will examine the roots of pizza, hot dogs and Italian beef alongside memorabilia and interactivity that gives new meaning to the taste of Chicago.

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Picture Chicago: Sun-Times’ photos you may have missed

Record-breaking high temperatures hit the Chicago area, hundreds demand stricter gun control laws at the March For Our Lives rally and the Chicago Blues Festival returns to Millennium Park.

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Picture Chicago: The Sun-Times’ Photos of the Week

A wounded CPD officer returns home, Mayor Lori Lightfoot officially launches her re-election campaign, and a new trading floor opens at the Chicago Board of Trade.

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Suburban Cook County voters to use new ‘intuitive’ devices to streamline check-in process

The Cook County Clerk’s office purchased 4,500 new devices voters will use to check in at suburban polling locations. According to officials, the digital system will eliminate the need for bulky paper ledgers of voters.

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General Iron owner says Lightfoot broke rules, politicized permit process

Lawyers in a new filing are seeking emails and other documents as they seek to reverse the city decision to deny the metal shredder’s permit.

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Woodlawn apartments named for affordable housing advocate

The Mattie Butler Apartments were named in honor of the Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors founder, who championed affordable housing for decades.

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Hundreds line up for Willie Wilson’s food giveaway

Wilson is planning to give away $1 million in food and gas this week.

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More cops and stricter curfews are not the answer to curb summer violence, groups say

Anti-violence activists and community leaders called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to address the “root causes” of crime, rather than relying on punitive measures that they don’t believe work.

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Campaign to rebuild Antioch Missionary Baptist Church kicks off with Sunday service

Rev. Gerald M. Dew hopes to open the new church complex on Easter 2024.

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Mothers of missing children mark ‘heartbreaking’ holiday by calling for help with stalled investigations

“I would like to say Happy Mother’s Day to her if she’s watching this,” the mother of missing postal worker Kierra Coles told her daughter Sunday. “But for the most part, I would like the police to step up and do more in Kierra’s investigation.”

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Illinois Safe Haven advocates ‘starting to panic’ about Supreme Court eyeing abortion rights

Illinois’ Safe Haven laws have been in place for over 20 years, but advocates say some people still don’t know it exists — which endangers the lives of abandoned infants.

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Helping others, again and again

Rodney Tabaniag trained as an EMT, just in case. On Friday, the American Airlines customer service agent won his sixth company award for taking potentially life-saving actions on the job.

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Thinking about adopting a pet, now’s a good time. PAWS Chicago’s Spring Adopt-a-Thon kicks off Friday

Puppies and kittens melted hearts Friday at PAWS Chicago as the group kicked off it’s Spring Adopt-a-Thon.

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Taxing times for popular South Side restaurant eased by county agency

Josephine’s Cooking in Chatham hasn’t paid its property taxes in 12 years. Thanks to the actions of the Cook County Land Bank Authority, it’s avoided losing the property through a tax sale.

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Wicker Park artist Megan Williamson shows faces of pandemic Zoom calls: ‘It looks like America to me’

The project consists of 100 small paintings of people who appeared in the media via Zoom during the height of the pandemic.

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