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Fact-check: Lightfoot wrong in claim Chicago had lower unemployment rate than any other large U.S. city for most of 2021

Chicago’s unemployment rate in 2021 was consistently worse than other comparable cities, with the exception of only New York and Los Angeles. Even accepting the clarification from Lightfoot’s office that she meant only the four largest cities, the statement is still wrong.

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Chicago picks team to redevelop Silver Shovel dumpsite on West Side

City officials have selected a Chicago-based partnership to put an industrial project with community improvements on the 21 acres at Roosevelt Road and Kostner Avenue.

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Editorial: A flap over racial-equity training and a costly burrito. Strange week for an upscale suburb

The quiet Chicago suburb of Hinsdale has had an unanticipated and unpleasant few days in the spotlight as a plan for racial-equity training dissolved into avoidable acrimony and a New York Times story about a Hinsdale man fighting the rising cost of a burrito at Chipotle was seized upon by…

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Editorial: A grieving mother’s question for Chicago. ‘How is it possible that a little girl dies in broad daylight?’

For children in Chicago’s Little Village, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood on the Southwest Side, there’s no buffer between a moment of family joy and the sudden terror of bullets flying. Broad daylight gives no cover. Neither does Halloween trick or treating on a street full of costumed children, nor the…

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Horoscope for Monday, Jan. 31, 2022

Moon Alert After 4 a.m. Chicago time there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. Today’s new moon is in Aquarius. Aries (March 21-April 19) Today you will meet a character or...

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Sam Lafferty’s speed, energy making immediate impact with Blackhawks

Reunited with longtime friend Riley Stillman in Chicago, Lafferty has kept opponents "on their toes" during his first eight games.

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Packers lose assistant coach Luke Getsy to Chicago Bears

The Packers are losing QBs coach and passing game coordinator Luke Getsy to the Chicago Bears.

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Refugees drive West Ridge’s growing Asian population

Rohingya refugees are drawn to West Ridge not by the proximity to work, but rather by the neighborhood’s diverse culture, as well as its access to social services.

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Chicago is a fine place and worth saving

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new initiative hopes to buff city’s tarnished pride.

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Cautious optimism greets Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus

After a decade of high hopes dashed by disappointment, Chicago is welcoming the arrival Monday of Poles and Eberflus — two more fresh faces with new ideas — with anticipation but not celebration.

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Chicago’s leaders fail, over and over, to find a solution to gun violence

A summit including the Chicago Police Department, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, church youth group leaders and anyone else who works with youth needs to be held.

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4 killed, 16 wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago

A 16-year-old boy died in an attack that also critically wounded a 17-year-old Saturday afternoon in Little Village on the Southwest Side.

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BBC's Big Night of Musicals: All the productions featured on the show coming to Bristol this year

From The Lion King and Les Miserables, to Waitress and The School of Rock - Bristol has quite the lineup this year

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Man found shot to death inside West Pullman store

The man was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest inside a store in the 11600 block of South Halsted Street, Chicago police said.

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With some creative thinking, the Mars candy factory closing could have a sweet aftertaste

It’s intriguing to think about what might happen to the Far West Side complex after production stops.

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Baseball quiz: January feels even colder

This year is starting oddly without certainty that baseball is beginning in mere weeks. Here’s another quiz to tide you over.

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Every newly vaccinated show-goer brings Chicago’s live venues closer to fully reopening

When you’re ready, we’ll be here. We’ll see you at the show.

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For John Murges, it was the bet time of his life

Bet on It: The former bookie recounts his past life working with the Chicago mob and how he got out.

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Chicago outdoors: Thoughts on hawks/small dogs, a nocturnal buck, biggest "Big Year," big-game women

Reactions on hawks and small dogs, a nocturnal buck on a trail cam, the biggest "Big Year" and women in the Boone and Crockett Club books are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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2 wounded in citywide shootings Friday

In one of the attacks, a man was grazed by a bullet while sleeping in his West Pullman home on the Far South Side.

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DeMar DeRozan scores 32 points in his return to San Antonio, but the Chicago Bulls fall to the Spurs 131-122 for their 7th loss in 10 games

The Chicago Bulls defense crumbled Friday in San Antonio, extending a theme of slipshod security in a 131-122 loss to the Spurs — their seventh in 10 games.

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Horoscope for Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022

Moon Alert After 3:15 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Capricorn. Aries (March 21-April 19) You know what you want today and you...

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Jonathan Jackson, son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, enters race for Bobby Rush’s congressional seat

CHICAGO — Jonathan Jackson, a son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, announced Friday his intention to seek the Democratic congressional nomination for the congressional seat being vacated when U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush retires at the end of his term.

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Primary candidates are getting creative during election petition-gathering season

Petition season was always during the fall. But because the primary was moved to June 28, petition circulators now have to get out there in the dead of winter, during the Omicron and crime surges.

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Obama Presidential Center will have space named for Hadiya Pendleton, murdered South Side teen

Pendleton was caught in gang gunfire on Jan. 29, 2013, days after traveling to Washington to celebrate President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.

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