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Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ and WTTW to host U.S. Senate candidates forum Thursday ‘to help voters comb through key issues’

Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Republican challenger Kathy Salvi will meet and take questions at 7 p.m.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Call Jane’: Elizabeth Banks film portrays crucial time for abortion in Chicago’s history

In nuanced drama about the real-life underground network that served women in the ’60s and ’70s, the actor plays a housewife spurred into action.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bears trade pass rusher Robert Quinn to Eagles for 4th-round pick

The Chicago Bears are trading star pass rusher Robert Quinn to the Philadelphia Eagles for a fourth-round draft pick

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Ex-Teamsters' boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

A once-powerful labor leader in Chicago has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison for extorting $325,000 in cash payments from the head of a film studio in the city

The Independent UK

Chicago’s veterans deserve city department dedicated to their needs

Chicago has had an influx of federal relief funding and enough budget capacity for free bikes, gasoline and Ventra card give-aways, and $500 monthly guaranteed income checks. We should be able to find money to help veterans.

Chicago Sun-Times

The truth about the SAFE-T Act, Lightfoot asks for raise and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot proposes annual pay raise for Chicago’s mayor capped at 5%

The salary of Chicago’s mayor hasn’t gone up since Mayor Richard M. Daley held the job in 2005. Also on Wednesday, the council approved a resolution of support for the Jewish community, citing recent antisemitic comments by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

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Former Teamsters boss John Coli gets 19 months in prison for illegal payments from Cinespace Studios

The feds enlisted Coli as a cooperator in 2019, just as a set of aggressive investigations into old-school, Chicago-style corruption turned public. He was seen as particularly significant given his ties to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, former Chicago Mayors Richard M. Daley and…

Chicago Sun-Times

1 killed, 4 others wounded by gunfire in Chicago Tuesday

A woman was killed and a man critically wounded when they were shot while driving on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Kenwood neighborhood.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pay-up time for parking and pier passes for anglers on the Chicago lakefront

For the first time since pier and parking passes were started for anglers on the Chicago lakefront, there is a price increase; plus some other lakefront notes from the Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee meeting.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bear Necessities: Chicago boasts the NFL’s best run game

The Bears are averaging 181 rushing yards per game, which is the best in the NFL.

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A grassroots project at DePaul publishes Chicago stories — the books are free for the asking and you might even be in one

CHICAGO — Big Shoulders Books are free. You can request one. They’ll send you one. You might even be in one. Big Shoulders Books, founded at DePaul University a decade ago, has been one of the more quietly ambitious projects in Midwest journalism, though, in practice, the work is not…

Chicago Tribune

‘The most Prideful house in the city’: Chicago couple responds to anti-LGBTQ harassment incidents with message of love, positivity

CHICAGO — Erica Hungerford and Peter Charnley’s garage is not just any garage. For months, it’s been the repeat target of political vandalism that has damaged the couple’s Jefferson Park neighborhood home. But now, the defaced garage has newly embellished bright rainbow colors with a large mural reading, “Love Wins.”…

Chicago Tribune

South Asian women get diabetes at higher rates. A study aims to fight those stats with exercise

CHICAGO — Like many moms, Asmita Patel has struggled to find time to exercise in recent years.

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Health: New Enzyme Inhibitor Offers Hope For Treatment Of Cancer

A small molecule that can control an immune process that is crucial in the development of cancer and autoimmune disorders have been discovered by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. Read more on Dynamite News:

Miami Herald

Florida Panthers’ awful power play hits new low with loss to Blackhawks in Chicago

The Florida Panthers’ last season came to a premature end largely because of the abysmal play of their power play.

Chicago Sun-Times

After blowup, Reps. Garcia, Newman, 28 other progressives retract letter urging Biden to seek Ukraine cease-fire

Garcia, mulling a run for Chicago mayor, was blindsided by the Monday release of the letter he signed back in June.

Chicago Sun-Times

Watchdog: CPD overlooked incriminating evidence while investigating cop’s ties to far right Proud Boys and should have fired him

“This case represents a determination that someone who made ‘false’ and ‘contradicting’ statements about his association with the Proud Boys should continue to wear the uniform of the Chicago Police Department,” the city’s inspector general told the Sun-Times.

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$380 million flyover project expected to ease rail congestion

Planners hope a new rail bridge will resolve one of the largest chokepoints for passenger and freight rail traffic in the nation.

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Time for Chicago to act boldly on climate change and bring back the Department of Environment

In early 2020, City Council declared a state of climate emergency. Hiring a few people in the mayor’s office is not enough to tackle the crisis.

Chicago Sun-Times

Urban Prep faces CPS takeover, veterans home endures another COVID outbreak and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

The Independent UK

Which Love Is Blind couples from season two are still together?

The cast of ‘Love Is Blind’ season two have gone through manys ups and downs since cameras stopped rolling

The Independent UK

Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore'

Kirill Petrenko will lead the Berlin Philharmonic on its first U.S. tour in six years, conducting from Nov. 10-21 in New York, Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Naples, Florida

Chicago Sun-Times

Man giving high-quality tents to homeless people says city has failed them, but his tents could get tossed too

Andy Robledo said the $350+ tents are necessary to help homeless people survive the winter while they wait on a long city list for permanent housing.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Timely but opaque, 'Call Jane' doesn't resonate as it should

“Are you Jane?” It’s a question that Chicago housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) repeatedly asks, as she calls a number from a flyer, is picked up, blindfolded, driven to a nondescript office where she receives an illegal, but safe, abortion from an unfeeling doctor (Cory Michael Smith), and is then cared…

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