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Union vote scheduled for 3 Starbucks stores in Chicago

Workers at the locations have sought rights to bargain as members of Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

QAnot? Far-right conspiracy theorists knocked off Illinois GOP primary ballot — but they insist ‘We are not done’

Six Chicago-area candidates running for office on a platform of baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election came up short on their nominating petitions, officials say. But the group’s gubernatorial candidate countered that they “would be embarrassed to be on a fake ballot with fake…

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Cynthia Plaster Caster, artist known for rock-star penis sculptures, dies at 74

Cynthia Albritton, who as Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully channeled a teenage desire to lose her virginity to a rock star into a lifelong project creating casts of their erect penises, died on Thursday in her native Chicago after an undisclosed illness, according to a press release. She was 74.

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City announces plan to expand air pollution monitoring, cut greenhouse gases by 60%

By 2025, Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to have a “robust outdoor air quality monitoring network” and also is pushing for a big emissions cut by 2040.

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Chicago chiropractor took on the American Medical Association in the mid-1970s

Chester Wilk, who was 91, died Thursday at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.

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Woman, 68, shot and wounded in Albany Park

Gunshots rang out Friday afternoon, striking her in her arm in the 4500 block of North Central Park Avenue, Chicago police said.

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Afternoon Edition: April 22, 2022

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

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80-degree temperatures expected Saturday in Chicago after stormy Friday

The last 80-degree day in Chicago was over six months ago, on Oct. 9.

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Updated look at Bears offensive line depth after Julién Davenport signing

With Julién Davenport joining the Bears, here's a look at where Chicago's offensive line depth stands.

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61st Street Dramatizes Chicago's Brutal, Hostile Criminal Justice System

The innocent and guilty alike are ground down by cynical, self-serving officials.

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Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gas bills hit Chicagoans hard

Peoples Gas, despite record profits, has the most customers struggling to pay their bills of any Chicago-area utility, with the South Side and West Side hit hardest.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker touts state’s latest Wall Street bond rating upgrade: ‘Step by step we are putting Illinois on firm fiscal footing’

Pritzker held a last-minute Chicago news conference to take a victory lap over the upgrade. The Democratic governor, facing a reelection battle, has spotlighted the state’s fiscal rating upgrades and debt paydowns during his tenure in at least one campaign TV ad.

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Monty the piping plover is back at Montrose Beach

His mate, Rose, hasn’t been spotted yet this year after flying down to her usual winter getaway in Anclote Key, Florida.

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What would it cost to reduce crime in Chicago?

Experts peg the yearly costs at hundreds of millions — and as high as $1 billion — to make Chicago as safe as New York or Los Angeles.

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He walked away from a violent life in Chicago and still got shot. But he doesn’t even want to know who pulled the trigger.

Larice Nelson has no interest in getting revenge after the incident last summer. He just wants to help other potential victims turn their lives around.

Chicago Sun-Times

Arrests, shootings plunged among those who took part in anti-violence program, even as crime spiked in city, new study finds

U of C researchers found that those who took part in READI Chicago were two-thirds less likely to be arrested for a violent crime and nearly 20% less likely to be shot themselves than other at-risk residents of the South and West sides.

Chicago Sun-Times

Comedian Marc Maron gets animated when voicing his ‘Bad Guys’ role

The ‘WTF’ podcaster, who performs in Chicago this week, says his sessions for the new cartoon film were a time of bellowing and bonding.

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Cynthia Albritton, aka Cynthia Plaster Caster, superfan famed for making molds of rock stars’ private parts, dead at 74

She got the idea for her plaster casts from her art teacher at the University of Illinois Chicago and made them using Jeltrate dental mold, plaster and water.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pump the brakes on driving, especially SUVS

Clearly the price of gas has not led people to curb their driving nor their appetite for big vehicles.

Chicago Sun-Times

Every Illinois resident who may benefit from Trump's Jan. 6 pardons

President Donald Trump granted a sweeping pardon on Jan. 20, 2025, to nearly everyone "convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." He also ordered the attorney general to seek dismissal of all pending indictments.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lead water line replacements in Illinois may soar well past 1 million

The cost to replace just 380,000 in Chicago could reach $10 billion, an official said at a U.S. Senate hearing on getting rid of pipes with the brain-damaging metal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Afternoon Edition: April 21, 2022

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

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. military hopes to mine tech brains in the Midwest with opening of new Chicago office

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit also has offices on both coasts and in Texas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago air pollution among the worst in the U.S., new report finds

The American Lung Association ranked the Chicago metro area’s levels of smog and particle pollution among the top 25 in the country.

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