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CHICAGO — A new bill in the Illinois House aims to stop schools from working with police to issue students tickets for minor misbehavior, a harmful and sometimes costly practice that many districts have continued despite pleas to stop from the state’s top education officials.

John Catanzara Jr. captured nearly 57% of the 7,192 votes for president of Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7. His opponent, Robert Bartlett, had argued that Catanzara’s confrontational approach alienated potential union allies.

CHICAGO — A downstate judge on Friday struck down the ban on high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law earlier this year, a ruling the Illinois attorney general’s office immediately appealed to the state Supreme Court.

National cutbacks from tech giants such as Amazon and Google have put the local industry on tilt. The gossip gets traded at the arcade.

Sneed: Twist and turns of South Carolina case are reminiscent of our on Spilotro case from the ‘70s.

A coalition of activists, faith-based organizations and labor groups celebrate their success drafting candidates who won election to the newly formed Chicago police district councils.

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge ordered an 18-year-old man held without bond Friday after he was accused of murder in the death of Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, who was shot and killed responding to a domestic-related call this week.

A suburban Chicago police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges that he punched a 17-year-old boy during an arrest last summer that led to protests by members of the Arab American community

A judge ordered a teenager held without bond Friday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer

In 1995, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley seized control over the Chicago Public Schools and asked his budget director and chief of staff to take charge at CPS. On Friday, the “dream team” of Paul Vallas and Gery Chico reunited.