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The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Apartment building blast injures 8; COPA video shows police shooting in Pilsen 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

Boy, 15, shot by Chicago police faces aggravated assault, weapons charges

Officers noticed the teen was armed and began shooting at him, according to Chicago police and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jury awards Illinois woman $363M in suit over plant's gas

A jury has awarded $363 million to a woman who alleged that a now-shuttered suburban Chicago plant that sterilized medical equipment exposed residents to a toxic industrial gas and gave her breast cancer

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Video shows two CPD officers opening fire from unmarked car — a shooting that led to criminal charges against both

The video is among materials and records released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability as it investigates the shooting that wounded two unarmed men in Pilsen on July 22.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayoral challenger touts ‘Bank of Chicago’ as way to create 10K homeowners, ‘repopulate’ South, West sides

Ja’Mal Green’s version of a public bank would start with $500 million in assets — half from the city’s “cash on hand,” the rest possibly from federal stimulus funds.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago apartment building explodes, injuring at least six

Fire officials said three people were in critical condition

The Independent UK

Officials: 6 injured in Chicago apartment building explosion

Officials say at least six people were rushed to hospitals after being injured when an explosion Tuesday tore through the top floor of a Chicago apartment building

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Man shot in Calumet Heights dies

The man, 30, was shot in his neck and lower back Monday. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man killed, 9 other people wounded by gunfire across Chicago Monday

The man, 30, died after he was shot in the neck and lower back while walking in Calumet Heights.

Chicago Sun-Times

Person found dead in garbage can in Roseland

The body, a male, was found about 7 p.m. in the 100 block of West 110th Place, Chicago police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Thumbs up for return of Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2023

The biennial has been a good ambassador for the city, a reminder of Chicago’s continuing contribution to the world’s art and architecture.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Offering real refuge: We must rethink our approach to arriving asylum seekers

Serious people should have a lot of questions about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing asylum seekers to New York, the most serious of which concern whether he and other governors sending migrants here, Chicago, D.C., Martha’s Vineyard and elsewhere are breaking the law by misleading people and transferring them under…

Tribune News Service

Chicago’s Chris Redd leaves ‘SNL’ after five years

Comedian says he had ‘the experience of a lifetime’ on the NBC show, where he won an Emmy and impersonated Cory Booker, Kanye West and Eric Adams.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lurie Children’s Hospital takes action after its gender development program is targeted on Twitter

Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago has increased security and moved a transgender youth support group from in-person meetings to virtual ones after it became the latest children’s hospital to face criticism online over its gender development program.

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Ald. Vasquez seeks to cap City Council pay raises

Ald. Andre Vasquez is not one of 17 council members who have declined the latest pay raise. But he’s not oblivious to the pre-election dilemma. In fact, he’s proposing a cap of 5% or the inflation rate, whichever is yes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Despite downtown gridlock, Chicago’s top cop defends his response to caravans of revelers for Mexican Independence Day

“By and large, the celebration [had] thousands of cars — if not tens of thousands of cars — with very little violence, if any,” Chicao Police Supt. David Brown said Monday. “This was traffic congestion.”

Chicago Sun-Times

More guaranteed income pilots launch as Chicago wraps enrollment for ‘Resilient Communities’ program

As of September, officials said, 5,000 Chicago residents have received at least one $500 payment. They will continue to get $500 a month for 12 months.

Daily Mirror

LIV star Cam Smith laughs off cruel question about Rory McIlroy's "tears" after Open win

Cameron Smith, who won his first LIV Golf event in Chicago over the weekend, refused to answer a controversial question put to him about beating Rory McIlroy to the Claret Jug at St Andrews

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Exhiben en Chicago obras de arte raramente vistas de un museo de Puerto Rico

Titulada “Nostalgia por mi isla: Pintura puertorriqueña del Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1786- 1962”, es la primera muestra del museo puertorriqueño que viaja fuera de la isla y muchas de sus 21 obras nunca se han visto en Estados Unidos.

Chicago Sun-Times

$363 million verdict in Sterigenics trial, Navy vet freed by Taliban 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

Judge won’t block release of video showing shooting that led to charges against 2 Chicago police officers

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is set to release video this week from the July 22 shooting in Pilsen, just days after Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced the charges against the officers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hostile work environment in Chicago’s Department of Water Management triggers $950K settlement

Dilan Abreu, a 40-year veteran bricklayer, claims he was harassed, physically abused and retaliated against by the son of former Ald. Bernard Hansen due to an “unrestricted culture of overtly racist behavior and attitudes.”

Chicago Tribune

‘Good Night, Oscar’ with Sean Hayes is headed to Broadway

CHICAGO — The smash hit Goodman Theatre production of “Good Night, Oscar” is headed to Broadway in the spring with most of its original Chicago cast — including its acclaimed star, Sean Hayes, likely to be a formidable contender in the upcoming awards season.

Chicago Tribune

Data centers booming in Illinois with addition of $2.5 billion site planned for former United Airlines headquarters

Construction has begun at the site of the former United Airlines headquarters in Mount Prospect, Illinois, with recent demolition at the property clearing the way for the creation of a $2.5 billion data center campus expected to launch in 2024.

Daily Mirror

Cameron Smith takes swipe at critics as he banks staggering prize money in first LIV win

Cameron Smith earned a whopping $4m (£3.5m) in prize money for winning LIV Golf's fifth event in Chicago, more than the $2.5m (£2.2m) he earned for winning the Open Championship in March

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