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Childhood basketball courts: Where it all began for Clippers players and coach Tyronn Lue

LOS ANGELES — Years before they stepped onto pristine basketball courts as millionaires practicing a game whose rhythms had long ago become a daily routine, the kids and teenagers who would one day become Clippers stood in the driveway of their childhood home. Or a community center. Or an outdoor…

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Safety, justice, education highlight state Rep. Kam Buckner’s campaign for mayor

Buckner, chairman of the Black Caucus in the Illinois House of Representatives, said his campaign is focused on instilling trust in city government, improving Chicago Public Schools and reducing violent crime.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois goes on big second-half run to beat Nebraska

The Illini (16-6, 7-4 Big Ten) have won seven of their last eight games.

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Illinois parade shooting suspect makes brief return to courtroom for case update; 10,000 pages of reports have been shared

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Lake County prosecutors indicated the massive investigation into the July Fourth Highland Park parade shooting is still ongoing during a brief courtroom appearance Tuesday for alleged shooter Robert Crimo III.

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Why stop now? Sports scribe and radio host Loren Tate, 91, wouldn’t know how if he tried

Down I-57, Tate is in Year 57 covering University of Illinois basketball and football. “This is the way I live,” he said, and what a life and career it has been.

Chicago Sun-Times

As Old Navy leaves State Street, another reinvention is needed

There’s a bigger issue afoot than what will happen to the former Old Navy site: What’s next for the Great Street?

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When gun violence ends young lives, these men prepare the graves

Just outside St. Louis, a cemetery for children sits on a hill. A wooden, weather-worn sign welcomes mourners to "Baby Land." The gravediggers who made the special spot work quietly in the shadows.

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Bronzeville Trail Task Force launches petition to award Congressional Gold Medal to Black cyclist ‘Major’ Taylor

Chicago leaders say a plan by the Bronzeville Trail Task Force intends to spotlight “Major” Taylor — a champion Black cyclist whose name has often been lost in history books.

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Senate organizing resolutions on hold over GOP waiver issue - Roll Call

Organizing resolutions needed to constitute each party’s membership on Senate committees may still get votes this week, despite GOP holdup.

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A $30 million gift to build an addiction treatment center. Then staffers had to run it

DECATUR, Ill. — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction treatment facility, how would you do it?

Tribune News Service

Jesse Jackson Sr. shares hopeful message with Cook County Jail detainees during visit

CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson Sr. visited the Cook County Jail Saturday morning to speak to a gymnasium filled with inmates.

Chicago Tribune

New House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries hits Chicago on Sunday

Joining Jeffries at a luncheon in River North on Sunday will be Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., the new Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden picks Jeffrey Cummings, LaShonda Hunt for Chicago-based U.S. District Court spots

“These choices also continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country — both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds,” the White House said.

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Illinois weapons ban faces federal suit, mayor proposes CTA bus cams 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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West Ridge YMCA receives $3.75 million in U.S. funds for renovations, possible reopening

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky helped secure funds for the High Ridge YMCA, which is now being used to house migrants, two years after the facility was closed to the public.

Roll Call

Guide to House committee chairs for 118th Congress - Roll Call

These Republicans will use their gavels to advance a conservative agenda and ramp up probes of the Biden administration.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs comprehensive gun bill banning sale of military-style firearms

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

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Illinois House approves measure banning military style firearms, which Gov. JB Pritzker says he will sign

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final approval Tuesday to a comprehensive measure to ban military style firearms that was drafted by Democrats, which now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature even as gun rights advocates contend it is unconstitutional and vow a legal challenge.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sets out 2nd-term agenda as weapons ban bill heads for final vote

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Seeking to build on the successes of his four years in office, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered a second-term agenda Monday that called for a state constitutional right to abortion, making preschool available to every family and making public college free for children in working-class families.

Chicago Sun-Times

Logan Square boxing club offers city youths training, Madigan trial date set 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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Illinois Rep. Mary Miller, 20 other hardliners gain power in deal to back Kevin McCarthy for speaker

“I look forward to working with the House Republican Conference to stop Joe Biden’s destructive, radical, leftist agenda,” Rep. Mary Miller said in a statement.

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PHOTOS: The drama-filled process to elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

Friday was the fourth day of voting for House speaker. Photographers captured tense moments in the House chamber as lawmakers negotiated.

Chicago Sun-Times

The future of U.S. figure skating includes rising stars Alexa Gasparotto and Nathan Chapple

This month Gasparotto competing at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and Chapple competing at the World University Games, will make history.

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At the Table with Lynn Sweet

Lynn Sweet was joined by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. as he started his second term as the Senate Judiciary Committee chair on January 12, 2023.

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Biden signs bill to ease costs for prisoner calls to family

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends

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