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Back of the Yards family desperate for news about missing 13-year-old girl

Lesly Morales has been missing since late April, family said.

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Urban Prep senior gets 73 college acceptance letters

For the past 13 years, Urban Prep Academies, with campuses downtown, in Bronzeville and in Englewood — has boasted that 100% of its graduating seniors are accepted to four-year colleges.

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Heading to ‘high’ risk? City, county public health chiefs split in predictions for Chicago’s COVID-19 future

Masks would be urged for all residents in indoor public spaces in counties that rise to the high risk level. One of Cook County’s top doctors says she doesn’t expect the county to hit that level anytime soon. But Chicago’s Dr. Allison Arwady has said it “could happen potentially even…

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‘Ghost’ busters: Illinois becomes first state in Midwest to ban untraceable do-it-yourself ‘ghost guns’

The Illinois law requires all firearms, including 3D-printed guns, to have serial numbers. Ghost guns are largely untraceable because they lack such identifying numbers.

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Black developers to build 3-flats in a single Woodlawn block, replacing 11 vacant lots

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle appeared at the ground-breaking to show her support, speaking candidly about how South and West Side neighborhoods have suffered from “racist disinvestment for generations” as predominantly white neighborhoods in Chicago have received the “lion share of…

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With Harris Theater show in sight, South Chicago Dance Theatre growing by leaps and bounds

In addition to its performing troupe, the organization hosts the annual South Chicago Dance Festival, which is tentatively scheduled for September this year, and sponsors educational programs in 11 public schools and a youth training company.

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Chicagoans rally across the city for abortion rights: ‘Everything else is up for grabs’

Demonstrations took place at Union Park, Millennium Park and in the Beverly neighborhood, as part of the national “Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action.”

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Freedom here, murder there

What will our country be like with abortion legal in some states and considered homicide in others?

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President Biden seeks to unite electricians in Chicago and farmers in Kankakee behind him — and against Putin

In Kankakee, Biden sought to focus farmers’ anger on Russian President Vladimir Putin and “Putin’s war.” In Chicago, an animated Biden detailed his infrastructure plan’s creation of jobs at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ International Convention.

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Chicago artist Hebru Brantley’s first statue inspires ‘wonderment’ outside children’s museum at Navy Pier

The 16-foot statue “The Great Debate” was dedicated Saturday. The museum also will have a newly renovated art studio Brantley designed to give young people space to be creative.

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Chicago protesters flood downtown in support of abortion rights with Roe v. Wade in the balance

More than 1,000 demonstrators, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker, gathered in downtown Chicago Saturday to rally for abortion rights.

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After shooting nearby, gas station remains closed, and owner wants to know why

Gas station co-owner Ahmed Mohsin said he has “a closed business and questions I cannot answer.” A business group is calling attention to the issue of city-mandated closings of stores owned by Muslims and Arab Americans, ostensibly due to crime.

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CPS students battle it out for best food truck recipe

On Friday, four Chicago Public Schools pitched business plans for a food truck, along with a menu, to several judges. Then, they offered samples the students had cooked that morning at school.

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Do you want to build a robot?

Teams of students were on the clock to build robots out of a pile of Legos.

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Mother’s Day celebrations kick off with free makeovers for CHA moms

One hundred women were selected by the Chicago Housing Authority and the nonprofit Daisie Foundation to receive makeovers just in time for Mother’s Day.

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Thousands of Chicago residents apply for chance to receive $500 for 12 months: ‘There’s a lot of need’

Within days of the program’s launch, more than 100,000 people had applied for the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot that will provide 5,000 people hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic with a $500 monthly benefit for a year.

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The brothers whose mural spoke to a community — and will again

In 2008, twins Alan and Aaron Hicks refurbished a painting at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. When the church caught fire April 15, the brothers decided they would create a new, better mural in a new facility.

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Judge says no to resentencing teen killer David Biro in death of couple’s unborn child

Judge Mary Brosnahan denied Biro’s latest petition Friday in his post-conviction attempts to be resentenced for the 1990 murders of Nancy and Richard Langert and the death of their unborn child.

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Parents protest school budget cuts as CPS CEO defends against ‘incomplete’ claims

About 150 parents with several community groups rallied outside CPS’ Loop headquarters Wednesday ahead of the monthly Board of Education meeting to decry budget cuts at their schools.

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Family of woman believed murdered blasts judge after not-guilty verdict

Authorities said 65-year-old Daisy Hayes was murdered in 2018 at her Woodlawn apartment by her ex-boyfriend, who carried her body away in a suitcase — but Judge Diana Kenworthy acquitted him last week.

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Community leaders kick off planning for Bronzeville Trail, a years-long project

Leaders expect the trail to rival the popular 606 Trail, but fundraising is still an issue.

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Willie Wilson brings 3rd free fuel ‘blessing’ to Chicago-area drivers: ‘Call it buying a vote, but he bought mine’

Free fuel never seems to gets old. Thousands of Chicagoans woke up early once again to get their $50 worth of free gas in Willie Wilson’s third giveaway in two months.

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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.

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PHOTOS: Stations of the Cross procession moves through Pilsen on Good Friday

The Via Crucis procession reenacts the before, during and after of Jesus’ crucifixion.

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From CPD to CBD: Burnt out Chicago cop now selling hemp derivative to help officers de-stress

Jamay Nellum-Fane first turned to the cannabinoid to deal with job-related stress and treat postpartum depression. Now she’s retired and encouraging other cops to try it.

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