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Inside AT&T’s alleged ‘conspiracy’ to bribe powerbrokers at the Illinois Capitol

WBEZ and the Sun-Times have learned the identities of three former top phone-company lobbyists with ties to a Springfield corruption scandal as former AT&T President La Schiazza, pleaded not guilty to five criminal counts in federal court Friday.

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Cardinal Blase Cupich is still keeping secrets on child sex abuse by order priests

The Archdiocese of Chicago for the first time has posted the names of credibly accused sex-offender priests from multiple Catholic religious orders — with many unexplained omissions.

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Picture Chicago: The Sun-Times’ best unseen photos of the week

The Field Museum’s newest exhibit, a star turn from Lizzo at the United Center and more in our favorite photos from the last week in Chicago.

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Cooking class on West Side a healthy heart repast

Participants in the class are part of an ongoing eight-week health and fitness challenge in Garfield Park.

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Garbage hauler the FBI once said was mob-controlled now doing work at O’Hare Airport

In a once-secret 2003 memo, the FBI said the company was secretly “controlled” by brothers John DiFronzo and Peter DiFronzo, reputed Chicago Outfit leaders who died in the past few years.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks the importance of civic engagement, her career on the bench

In a visit to Chicago, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discusses her work as a judge and reckoning with increasing polarization in today’s politics.

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Afghan refugees in Chicago urge Congress to provide long-term immigration protections

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who is a co-sponsor of the bill in the House, said she feels cautiously optimistic that the legislation will pass by the end of the year. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said there aren’t yet sufficient sponsors in the Senate to get the legislation passed — but…

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Chicago cop who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo now facing dismissal

Officer Eric Stillman chased Toledo into an alley in Little Village in March 2021 and fired a single shot into the teen’s chest, a split-second after the teen dropped a handgun and raised his hands.

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Thousands of diapers given away at West Side hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital in North Lawndale launched the program this year, providing free diapers to infants born at the hospital.

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I’m a Halloween grinch no more

As I contemplate my newfound affinity toward Halloween, I realize it’s actually an extension of my love for the fall season. Summertime Chicago is legendary. But fall is right behind it.

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Lightfoot, feds in talks over environmental racism probe

The move heads off a potential battle with federal housing officials who are calling for a change of zoning and land-use practices that they say put polluters in Chicago’s communities of color.

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An immigrant’s life: City of opportunity brings struggle for stability

“You come with an idea that you will work as soon as you arrive,” one new Venezuelan immigrant in Chicago said. “But it’s not like that. You find a situation where people need people, but they are scared to hire undocumented people.”

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Former Teamsters boss John Coli asks judge for home confinement, probation

Coli admitted in 2019 he’d taken $325,000 in cash payments from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios between 2014 and 2017. Worried at one point the money would stop, Coli told Cinespace president Alex Pissios, “I will f---ing have a picket line up here, and everything will stop.”

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Forget DoorDash. Robots could be the future of food delivery. And they don’t ask for tips.

A fleet of robots are cruising around the Near West Side, bring meals and other goods to students and faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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Pulse of the Heartland: Peoria yearning for the middle in a nation of angry extremes: ‘It just makes your heart sink’

Some Peoria residents say it feels like politicians are less and less interested in finding the center their city has long represented — and instead are more focused on playing to extremes. “It seems like there is no middle ground out there anymore,” one resident said.

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Put Kroger and Albertsons merger plan under a Senate microscope

Given the escalating price of groceries and the amount of food insecurity locally and nationally, a Senate subcommittee should move ahead quickly with hearings on the merger plan.

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Support forest preserves for a cleaner, healthier Cook County

Clean water, clean air, more jobs and protected wildlife — that’s what this referendum is all about.

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West Ridge residents unnerved after third fatal shooting in less than a week: ‘We need more security’

Zehra Parnaby, who is in her 80s, lives steps from where two people were shot, one fatally, in the North Side neighborhood, where homicides are up by 80% this year.

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‘Rock star’ of family support services, Bernice Weissbourd, dies at 99

Bernice Weissbourd launched Family Focus centers, where toddlers and parents learn about one another and thrive together.

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Blackhawks’ business operations entering new era after significant structure, personnel changes

Five of the six vice presidents who form the Hawks’ new business leadership group joined the organization in either 2021 or 2022. The Hawks have also gone from “having the smallest analytics and strategy team in the league to the largest,” business president Jaime Faulkner said.

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Southwest Side pizza joint owner cheated drivers out of wages, lawsuit claims

Santos Nava, Javier Castillo, Asael Espinosa and Juan Rosales, drivers for Naty’s Pizza in Gage Park, say they deserved an hourly wage and overtime, instead of being paid per delivery.

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Marine vet Ald. Villegas urges city to reinstate Veterans Affairs Office

The office was disbanded in 2019, but the need remains for former U.S. service members who need help with homelessness, joblessness, substance abuse and other issues, the 36th Ward alderperson said.

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Poll shows voters against public cash for Bears stadium, a look at Field Museum’s new exhibit 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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Latest fundraising has Vallas eager for campaign fight

A $500,000 donation from prominent GOP donor and golf course magnate Michael Keiser has left an opening for some opponents, including the Chicago Teachers Union, to attack Vallas, a former CPS CEO, as a closet Republican.

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Young’s Dalen Davis ‘shifts the narrative’ and commits to Princeton

Dalen Davis admits he was like every young hotshot basketball prospect. He wanted the bright lights of high-major basketball.

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