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Barack, Michelle Obama vote early in Chicago

President Obama joked that he missed the days when voters could ‘punch’ a ballot for straight-ticket voting.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

Cook County’s basic income pilot: 155,000+ applicants, just 3,250 spots

The Cook County Promise Pilot Program is the latest pilot in the Chicago area that will give selected residents $500 a month for two years with no strings attached. The deadline to apply is Friday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

Ald. Derrick Curtis accidentally shot himself in his wrist while cleaning gun, police say

Curtis, who represents the 18th Ward on the Chicago City Council, suffered the gunshot wound around noon in the 8200 block of South Christiana Avenue, according to a Chicago police alert.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

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Ghost buses and trains haunt Chicagoans, Pritzker’s presidential poll numbers and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

Lizzo brings ‘Special’ vibes to Chicago in powerhouse concert

The Grammy winner was fierce as a singer and self-esteem advocate in a bedazzled production.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

Embattled Gardiner gives up Fire Department promotion to seek 2nd term on City Council

“My heart is still with the Chicago Fire Department. But my heart and my devotion lies with residents of the 45th Ward, a community that helped raise me,” Ald. Jim Gardiner said, though he objected to being forced to choose.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Illinois voters don’t want Pritzker or Biden to run for president – but they’d take either over Trump

Illinois voters aren’t as sour on President Joe Biden as other voters across the nation, but they are just as unenthusiastic about another four years of the Delaware Democrat as they are about Gov. J.B. Pritzker making a run for the White House.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

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Exercise your power and vote this fall

Expand your power by motivating the people in your life to get out and vote, too. Our democracy depends on it. Don’t wake up on Nov. 9 and wish you had used your power.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

New: Sen. Tammy Duckworth holds giant fundraising lead over GOP challenger Kathy Salvi

Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth raised to date about $18 million; GOP challenger Kathy Salvi raised about $1 million, according to new FEC reports.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

St. Sabina Church stands by Rev. Pfleger amid new sex abuse allegation: ‘Father Mike, this is your army’

During Sunday Mass, parishioners wore shirts saying, ‘We stand with Father Pfleger.’ The popular priest denies the latest allegation — the fourth against him.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

A Chicago love story interrupted ends in a wedding 43 years later

Dozens of friends and family were there in Beaverton, Oregon, to see Jeanne Gustavson, 69, wed Stephen Watts, 72, over the weekend.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

Analyzing the Bears through 6 games

One-third of the way through the 18-week season — the Bears play 17 games and have one bye — Sun-Times reporter Patrick Finley issues a report card.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

101-year-old St. Anne’s Convent to close

The last nun at the Near North Side convent is set to move out at the end of October.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

Buses, trains still ghosting commuters

Commuters Take Action, a coalition of riders bitter about being ghosted by buses and trains, say complaints of no-show buses have remained the same since CTA unveiled its “Meeting the Moment” plan.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

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Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 16, 2022

3 killed, 10 wounded in citywide gun violence since Friday evening

The three deaths included a 13-year-old boy who was shot Friday night at a park in West Ridge.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Rev. Michael Pfleger removed from St. Sabina again as archdiocese investigates another decades-old sex abuse claim

The new accusation comes less than two years after the popular priest was cleared by the Archdiocese of Chicago of separate accusations.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Roseland Hospital coat giveaway doubles down on care by providing info on free breast cancer screening

As part of its ninth annual coat giveaway, Roseland Community Hospital set out to inform the community on free mammogram programs in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Playmaker Breyahn Townsend leads Bremen to first playoff berth in five years

Bremen is averaging more than 300 rushing yards per game.

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Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Polling Place: Where will the Bulls end up in the Eastern Conference standings?

Not all that encouragingly, a majority of voters went with the play-in option.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Lawyer says Benedictine monk sexually abused him as a teen at Marmion school and Catholic order covered it up

‘Treat it as a dead subject,’ the victim says the dean of the Catholic school in Aurora told him. The Benedictines are still keeping secrets about clergy sex abuse, a Sun-Times investigation has found.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Albany Park’s fierce community spirit is what I love most

What started as a rural, suburban community soon became a vibrant city neighborhood swelling with newly arrived immigrants and working-class families.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Chicago crime rate the talk of other U.S. cities

It’s a common, media-driven perception in Little Rock that Chicago is a terribly dangerous place, but the Arkansas city’s per capita homicide rate is actually worse than Chicago’s.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 15, 2022

Charter school group’s support of state legislative candidate causes trouble for them at Statehouse

The Illinois Network of Charter Schools has sent out anti-SAFE-T Act mailers on behalf of state Rep. Chris Bos, who is being challenged by Nabeela Syed.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 14, 2022

Chicago cop will keep his job despite links to the Proud Boys and failing to disclose he was under FBI investigation

Officer Robert Bakker was suspended for 120 days after a lengthy internal investigation was resolved through a so-called mediation agreement, in which he agreed not to contest the allegations lodged against him.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 14, 2022

Heidi Heitcamp, new University of Chicago’s Institute of Public Policy boss, is ‘North Dakota nice’

She succeeds David Axelrod. Two things you didn’t know: Heidi isn’t her real first name. And she grew up in a town so small that “my family was one-tenth” its total population.

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