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South Side residents upset by Walmart closure, community group fills the gap by handing out free food

Sunday marked the last day for Chicago-area Walmart locations in Little Village, Kenwood, Lakeview and Chatham— where residents shopped among ‘ghostly’ aisles. My Block My Hood My City hands out food in the parking lot.

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Chicago outdoors: Unusual dragonfly, great coho season in Chicago

An unusual dragonfly and a quote on the great coho season around Chicago fishing are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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How Black labor leaders propelled Brandon Johnson to the Chicago mayor’s office

CHICAGO — One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet.

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Off-duty Chicago police officer dies by apparent suicide in Chicago Lawn District

The department says it is hiring more counselors to serve officers.

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Man killed, another wounded in Austin shooting

About 3:55 a.m., two men were on a sidewalk in the 500 block of North Lamon Avenue when two people approached them and opened fire, Chicago police said.

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Orioles can’t hold late lead in 7-6 walk-off loss to White Sox in 10 innings

CHICAGO — The Orioles took four leads Saturday but couldn’t hold any of them.

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Illinois first lady M.K. Pritzker appointed to committee charged with the preservation of the White House

CHICAGO — Just days after President Joe Biden selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, his administration said Friday that Illinois’ first lady M.K Pritzker has been appointed to serve on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

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Suspect who turned to cops with gun is shot dead by police: Chicago police

CHICAGO — Police fatally shot a man who turned to them while holding a gun during a foot chase Saturday morning on the West Side.

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Heat to sleet: Snow possible days after Chicago sets record high for April

“A few tenths of an inch to a half an inch of snow” could fall in the city early Monday, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Ratzer.

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Love is in the air — and in the sumptuous dance — of American Ballet Theatre in dazzling Chicago program

ABT celebrated romance in all its incarnations in a quartet of works at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre.

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Person fatally shot by Chicago police during Lawndale foot chase

After a foot pursuit with officers, the person turned toward the officer and “brandished a handgun” before the officer discharged his weapon, Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad told reporters.

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Feds reveal Heather Mack texts in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ killing of her Oak Park mom at Bali resort: ‘Im sneaky … Im smart … and I watch’

The newly released messages between the Chicago area resident and her boyfriend come as she faces trial July 31, accused of plotting to kill her mother, whose body was found in a suitcase at a posh resort in 2014.

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Take a walking tour of free art popping up around the Loop

Pegged to EXPO Chicago, we put together a walking tour of four exhibitions for anyone near the Loop in the coming weeks. Each is free.

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Walmart closures show that small business, not big box stores, are the answer for food deserts

Business experts designed a project that helped hundreds of small Mexico City businesses thrive. A similar effort to help mom-and-pop businesses in Chicago’s low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods might well have the same impact.

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Three steps Brandon Johnson can take to move quickly on police reform

Once he’s in office, Johnson has a chance to take Chicago in a new direction to achieve better public safety for everyone, writes Alexandra Block of the ACLU of Illinois. But it will take immediate action.

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Largest Catholic university in US faces $56 million budget gap

DePaul University is facing financial pressure after the pandemic intensified declining enrollment and widened the Chicago private school’s budget gap.

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Adley Rutschman’s clutch double keys Orioles’ rally in 6-3 comeback win over White Sox

CHICAGO — The Orioles were walking the walk Friday until Adley Rutschman got sick of the free bases.

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As Walmart closes stores in Chicago, community leaders raise concerns about health care, pharmacy access

Kimberly Jackson-Miller, a resident of Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, has been a customer of the Walmart in Chatham since it opened more than a decade ago.

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Elevated air pollution, ozone found in Chicago near Lake Michigan, expressways

Northwestern University scientists say pollution levels they studied were highest over the lake and in lakeside neighborhoods and near expressways.

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Jonathan Toews scores in his final game with Blackhawks: ‘I really felt almost unworthy of a moment like that’

CHICAGO — It was no ordinary warmup for Jonathan Toews.

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Silicon Valley Bank was repaid millions by distressed custom furniture retailer Interior Define before both collapsed

When Interior Define began a liquidation process in late December, the Chicago-based custom furniture retailer left thousands of customers with unfulfilled orders and little hope of recovering their money.

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Walmart fought hard to open the stores it’s closing Sunday on the South Side, West Side

Four Walmart locations are set to close, a shock to those who remember the retailer clawing its way to do business in the city.

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Walmart’s plan to close stores slammed, an El Chapo crime saga update and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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One of the nation’s largest solar energy projects, being built near Springfield, will provide electricity to Chicago city properties

Construction has begun on the Double Black Diamond Solar farm, which City Hall plans to buy from to provide most electricity used at O’Hare, Midway and two water-purification plants.

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Eastern Illinois University and faculty union reach tentative agreement, suspending strike after 6 days

CHICAGO — A tentative agreement was reached between Eastern Illinois University and union-represented faculty and staff Thursday evening after almost a year of bargaining and a six-day strike.

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