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Picture Chicago: 20 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

The Bears lose their first game of the season, Chicago’s first casino opens, and the fire department honors Lt. Kevin Ward.

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UChicago Medicine returns to requiring staff to mask during patient interactions

The hospital reported COVID-19 cases are doubling for employees and patient cases are increasing across all locations.

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Back to the kitchen? Mayor’s floor leader rejects latest restaurant industry compromise on subminimum wage

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) said the restaurant industry’s latest proposal to raise the minimum wages for tipped workers to $20.54 an hour at Chicago restaurants with more than $3 million in annual revenue is “dead on arrival.”

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‘Hamilton’ remains as compelling and relevant as ever in return visit to Chicago

But this touring version raises the concern that the producers now prioritize a certain level of corporatized consistency over performative inspiration.

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Jeanie Buss says John C. Reilly is ‘absolutely breathtaking’ as her father in HBO’s Winning Time

Dr. Jerry Buss apparently loved John C. Reilly in the movie version of Chicago.

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US Soccer Federation to move HQ from Chicago to Atlanta

The Soccer Federation plans to build a national training center in Atlanta with financial support from Arthur Blank, who owns the Atlanta Falcons and MLS’s Atlanta United.

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Chicago-area officials say they’re ready for bail reform as Illinois becomes first state to eliminate cash bail Monday

Despite dire warnings, the experience of other jurisdictions that have made similar reforms largely shows they have had a negligible impact on crime.

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Packers vs. Falcons: 5 things to watch and a prediction in Week 2

Five things to watch and a prediction when the Packers (1-0) take on the Falcons (1-0) in a Week 2 showdown in Atlanta.

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Review: In The Bear, a Restaurateur Battles Government Bureaucracy

A Chicago sandwich shop's survival depends on cutting through red tape.

Reason

In one 1977 front-page photo at Southwest Side school, the human story of school desegregation era

Protests had erupted in Chicago as minority students were bused to majority-white schools. Amid all of that, two young girls, one white, one Black, sat together as new friends. One was my daughter.

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Garcia, Quigley, Ramirez to visit New York, meet with Mayor Adams to discuss migrant crisis

Chicago Democratic Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Delia Ramirez and Mike Quigley hit New York Friday with other House members to tour facilities helping new arrivals

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Two major Chicago-area hospitals are unaffected so far in national blood shortage

Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center officials say the shortage hasn’t touched them or affected surgical schedules. But both call on Chicagoans to donate blood and platelets.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda says he’s done with history musicals

The actor/singer/director was in town Thursday to herald the return of “Hamilton” to Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre.

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Ohio Republican senator will block confirmation vote for next U.S. attorney in Chicago

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” said he will put all Department of Justice nominees on hold because of his objection to Pentagon abortion policy.

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The Chicago Bears destroyed an offseason of goodwill in 5 days

The Bears already feel like they're on the edge of complete collapse.

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City Council OKs spending another $34.5 million on burgeoning migrant crisis

Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.

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In El Chapo fallout, one of Chicago ‘cartel wives’ should get stiffer sentence than accomplices, feds say

They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.

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Herb Alpert leans into Disney, Beatles and Jerry Reed for eclectic new album mix

Trumpeter and his wife, vocalist and Chicago native Lani Hall, are set to perform Sept. 16 at the Vic Theatre.

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Updated COVID-19 vaccine expected to be available next week in Chicago

Doses of the vaccine are expected to be widely available within five to 12 days at clinics and pharmacies throughout Chicago.

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Suburban Chicago tent collapse injures at least 26, including 5 seriously, police say

Police say a tent collapse in suburban Chicago injured at least 26 people

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City Council members urge colleagues to reject ruling that would keep serious police misconduct hearings out of public view

“Let’s not take steps back,” Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) told reporters Thursday. “Let’s keep working together to make sure that cops are held accountable.”

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Bibliotecas del centro de Chicago y suburbios reciben amenazas de bomba

Los usuarios de la biblioteca no sabían que había una amenaza activa.

The Independent UK

Cindy Crawford says her father initially thought modelling ‘was another form of prostitution’

‘My dad really didn’t understand that modelling was a real career,’ Crawford says

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Bears delay Springfield stadium legislation drive this year

The team’s president says the Bears won’t push for the legislation they argue is key to their plans for a massive development in Arlington Heights.

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Campaign to create funding to reduce homelessness finally launched in City Council

The “Bring Chicago Home” Coalition and its City Council allies introduced a measure to put a referendum on the ballot to allow a revised tax on high-end home sales,

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