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Comcast strikes 15-year deal to use massive solar development to power Chicago operations beginning in 2025

Channel surfing may soon be a solar-powered activity in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

18-year-old arrested in fatal shooting at Chicago-area mall

Police have arrested an 18-year-old Chicago man wanted in last week’s fatal shooting of a man and wounding of a girl at a suburban Chicago shopping mall

The Independent UK

Ethereum Is Like New York, Avalanche Is Chicago And Solana Is LA — Grayscale Matches Blockchains To Cities

The world’s largest crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has drawn a comparison between the smart contract platform Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and New York City.

Benzinga

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‘How We Roll’ sweetly follows a formula as well-worn as rented shoes

On CBS sitcom, likable former Chicago comedian Pete Holmes stars as a dad with pro bowling dreams.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Chicago-bred filmmaker Graham Moore turned his grandfather’s brush with the mob into ‘The Outfit’

CHICAGO — Graham Moore is 40, a relatively new husband (married in 2019), an even newer father (son born in 2021), an Academy Award winner (for his screenplay “The Imitation Game”) and a Chicago-raised resident of L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood. He’s half a novelist, half a screenwriter, though already the…

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: When you gotta go, you gotta go — comedian Natasha Leggero reveals all

CHICAGO — Natasha Leggero describes “Rat in the Kitchen,” her new cooking competition series on TBS, as “a cooking whodunit, almost in the vein of "Knives Out" or "Clue." We have all these chefs that are coming on to win a cash prize, but what no one knows” — including…

Chicago Tribune

6 people wounded in shootings in Chicago Wednesday

In one attack, two men were shot in East Garfield Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Police searching for 14-year-old boy with autism missing from Woodlawn

Andrew Wilburn, 14, was last seen Wednesday near 66th Street and Stoney Island Avenue, according to Chicago police.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois mall shooting suspect taken into custody, police say

CHICAGO — The subject of a nationwide arrest warrant has been taken into custody Wednesday in connection to the fatal shooting of a Skokie man and the wounding of a 15-year-old girl in a mall in Rosemont, police said.

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Lori Lightfoot again says Christopher Columbus statue will return to Grant Park. But almost 2 years after its removal, will it?

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.

Chicago Tribune

Families of crime victims head to Illinois capital to plead for more support and alternatives to traditional law-and-order methods

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Maria Pike found her calling after her son Ricky was shot and killed in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in August 2012.

Chicago Tribune

From smoke-filled rooms to rickety Wigwam to a ‘police riot,’ Chicago’s political convention history is a rich one

Although Chicago hasn’t hosted a major party gathering in more than a quarter of a century, the city was historically the nation’s most popular site for national political conventions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago COVID-19 cases up 34% in a week, but city still ‘in good control,’ top doc says

Case counts have remained relatively flat across most of the state, but the average seven-day positivity rate is at the highest point seen in a month. COVID deaths across the state have continued to plummet. The city is averaging less than one viral death per day.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago mulls a possible bid to host 2024 Democratic National Convention

CHICAGO — Illinois’ top Democrats have put together an organized effort to consider pitching Chicago to national party leaders as the site for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominating convention, officials said Wednesday.

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Chicago police ‘brain drain’? Retirements have stabilized, but 660 cops retired in 2021

CHICAGO — Officer Mahir “Mike” Affaneh panicked after he heard Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot make a statement in October that officers might have to go on a no-pay status if they refused to be vaccinated.

Chicago Sun-Times

Relax: Chicago has done this before

Organizers of the 2024 Democratic National Convention consider Chicago with its 162 years of experience.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago March 31-April 6

The Rhinoceros Theater Festival, the Chicago Flamenco Festival and the opening of the 2022 Maxwell Street Market are among the fun things to see and do in the week ahead.

Chicago Tribune

Microempresas evalúan subir precios conforme la inflación pasa factura. 'Sufren más que las corporaciones más grandes'

CHICAGO— En 2018, Reyna González compró Dulcería La Fiesta, una tienda de dulces y fiestas mexicanas en Clark Street, en el vecindario Rogers Park en Chicago. Unas tres semanas después, el edificio se incendió. "Lo perdimos todo", dijo González.

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Trans Visibility Pageant to highlight talent, honor lost advocates

On Thusday, Life Is Work’s will host its first annual Chicago Trans Visibility Pageant in an effort to “uplift trans community leaders across the Chicagoland area.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker, Lightfoot, Duckworth working on pitch for 2024 Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is working with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s team and a litany of other top Democrats in the state to start laying the extensive groundwork needed to put together a bid for what would the city’s first major political convention since 1996.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: As opening day approaches, have the White Sox and Cubs done enough this offseason?

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox made their biggest offseason move Tuesday, bringing Miller Lite and other Molson Coors beverages back to Sox Park.

The Independent UK

Judge dismisses suit to block construction of Obama Center

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in a park on Chicago’s South Side

Chicago Sun-Times

Afternoon Edition: March 30, 2022

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

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot chooses Deborah Witzburg as new city inspector general

The overriding question was whether Lightfoot was willing to appoint Deborah Witzburg even though she was chosen by former Inspector General Joe Ferguson, with whom the mayor clashed repeatedly and ultimately forced out.

Dublin Live

Irish-American actor John C Reilly speaks about his love of 'really dangerous' hurling

The Chicago native, who was recently guest of honour at the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin city centre, compared the drama of hurling to the theatre.

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