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US: Ticket Bought in Illinois Wins $1.337B Mega Millions Jackpot

Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won the $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines. The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega…

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Polling Place: Should taxpayers contribute to a state-of-the-art stadium for the Bears?

This Bears move, assuming it happens, is bound to rip open quite the can of worms.

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Chicago outdoors: Scofflaw bluebird, young angler exhausted, biggest black bear, E. Peoria/Chicago

A photo of a scofflaw bluebird on the North Side, a young angler exhausted catching, the world record black bear, and a discussion on East Peoria/Chicago and the Izaak Walton League of America are among the notes from around Chicago outdoor and beyond.

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Kennedy Leonard: The Scotland 3×3 basketball star raised in Michael Jordan-mad Chicago

Leonard is part of Scotland’s 3×3 basketball squad in Birmingham

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‘You just feel like you’re a part of something’: How fan-powered communities are helping to grow the WNBA audience

CHICAGO — For many, fandom goes beyond a team or city. It’s an opportunity to build a community and find their people, often spilling into real life. And WNBA fans might be organizing exactly what the league needs to grow its audience.

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Creating a network of care for Chicago’s mental health care needs

A 211 number for mental health and social service needs will debut this fall, and the city is continuing to implement its mental health equity plan into all 77 neighborhoods.

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Seth Brown returns from paternity list and powers A's to 7-3 victory vs. White Sox

If Seth Brown was stressed out over the birth of his firstborn son, one could not tell in his Friday night return from the paternity list.

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Ebony, Jet photo archives are headed to the Smithsonian

The museum and J. Paul Getty Trust will digitize and make available material that documents African American life for most of the 20th century.

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Lollapalooza Day 2: Fans crush on Dua Lipa, concertgoers say they hope festival stays in Chicago

CHICAGO — The second day of Lollapalooza opened with questions swirling outside the Grant Park gates about the music festival’s future in Chicago, and about contract talks between Texas-based producer C3 Presents and the city. Inside, the focus was on the experience and the music.

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Dr. Randall McNally dies at 92, Cook County’s issue with revoked FOID cards 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.

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Man charged with choking Chicago police officer unconscious in Lawndale

Police had responded to a call of a group who was brandishing firearms while filming a music video in the 3600 block of West 15th Street.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s can’t miss photos

Music strikes a chord with Chicago as visits from Chris Stapleton and Roger Waters, along with the start of Lollapalooza, fill the air.

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City Council members want to put the brakes on NASCAR’s Chicago street race

Alderpersons Pat Dowell (3rd), Sophia King (4th) and Brendan Reilly (42nd) are upset NASCAR could occupy part of Grant Park for two weeks next summer.

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Dr. Randall E. McNally, Chicago plastic surgeon who treated ‘napalm girl’ in Vietnam, dead at 92

He did skin grafts for Kim Phuc Phan Thi, a 9-year-old South Vietnamese girl, who was seen in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo running down a road, screaming in pain.

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‘Hoop Dreams’ filmmaker Steve James to premiere new project at the Venice Film Festival on atomic spy Theodore Hall

CHICAGO — The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.

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Talks to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago after this year hit a snag

CHICAGO — Lollapalooza organizers and the Chicago Park District reached a stalemate Thursday night in crafting a new contract to keep Chicago’s largest music festival in Grant Park for years to come.

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Back-to-school spending expected to hit record high as inflation soars. ‘It’s kind of adding up now’

Nicole Sebastian has been “a little choosier” when buying school supplies for her two kids this year. With inflation at its highest since the early 1980s, prices are up across the board, and notebooks and markers are no exception.

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Brother says he was assembling a ghost gun when it went off accidentally, killing his 15-year-old sister

Lawrence Daniels, 20, was arrested shortly after his sister, Shaniya Daniels, was shot in the head Tuesday evening, Chicago police said.

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The coming close of Henry’s Sports and Bait viewed through decades of its and Chicago’s history

Going back to the beginning of Henry’s Sports and Bait, the powerhouse of Chicago outdoors and fishing, then going through decades of the history of Chicago and Henry’s.

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Chicago police officer exchanges gunfire after stopping to check on traffic accident on Northwest Side

The officer and a partner had stopped to check on the car’s occupants in the 5200 block of North Nagle Avenue early Friday when someone in the car opened fire, police said.

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Raymond Allen Murray Jr., one of the Montford Point Marines who broke color barrier in the service in WWII, dead at 99

Despite being treated as “less than a human being,” the members of the segregated unit “fought gallantly,” says James T. Averhart, president of the National Montford Point Marine Association. “This is not just Black history. It is not just Marine Corps history. It is American history.”

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Paul Sullivan: With the futures of Toews and Kane in flux, Blackhawks' rebuild is ‘draining’ — and has only just begun

CHICAGO — Jonathan Toews had an apt description of the Chicago Blackhawks rebuild during a recent interview with The Athletic.

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Disabled athlete crosses Lake Michigan on paddleboard in quest to traverse all the Great Lakes: ‘It’s really something to witness’

CHICAGO — A small dot on the horizon grew larger as a group of 10 paddleboarders prepared to join it. Some of them whistled, hooted and yelled words of encouragement, waving their paddles in the air.

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We must protect Great Lakes shorelines at a time of extreme lake levels

Climate change is causing unexpected weather events and fluctuating lake water levels. That results in lakefront erosion, beach loss, flood risks and damage to homes and businesses.

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Fresh take on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ comes to 5 Chicago parks for free performances through Aug. 21

Outdoor production of the Shakespeare comedy aims to connect the Bard with modern audiences.

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