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Labor Day a time to kick back, relax — and remember the heroes of the past and the tumultous road behind

History has not forgotten Chicago’s Haymarket Square Riot, a peaceful labor protest that morphed into mayhem and death. However, history’s fading ink can lose heroes along the way, specifically Illinois Gov. John P. Altgeld and the famous Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay.

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Two women were struck by bullets inside Guaranteed Rate Field during a White Sox game, first lady Jill Biden visited Chicago in an event aimed to highlight the Biden administration’s support of organized labor, and athletes competed in the 2023 Chicago Triathlon.

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What to expect on the road and in the sky while traveling this Labor Day weekend

Get to the airport early. TSA expects to screen about 14 million passengers from Friday to Wednesday.

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At O’Hare Airport, hundreds of migrants are stuck at a shelter that’s overcrowded, unsanitary

A curtained-off portion of the airport has been used for months as a migrant shelter, and advocates worry about the conditions.

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What would you do if trucks kept backing into your house? Past tenant moved out but current North Side homeowner is hoping to stay

Truckers pass close by Robert Christie’s house at North Cicero Avenue and West Ainslie Street, see the low-clearance bridge ahead and start backing up. Often not so well.

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Tempel Lipizzans expected to be sold in wake of Illinois show’s closure

The final show is Sunday, and it’s sold out.

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Hey Chicago, don’t smother the Friday Morning Swim Club in regulations

The “club” started with a couple of young professionals jumping into the lake at Montrose Harbor to start off their busy weekends. Hundreds, then thousands, of young folks started joining them. Then the Park District weighed in.

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In Rogers Park, love notes from artist Gina Caruso to her husband Keith Lord inspire a lakefront mural

She painted it featuring Post-It Notes with images of her husband over the years to show her love, and celebrate his role in creating the Artists of the Wall Festival at Loyola Park.

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Chicago Labor Day weekend forecast: ‘Unseasonably hot and sunny’ — but not so sticky

National Weather Service predicts “much more modest humidity than a week ago,” when a heat wave broke temperature records before a cooldown this week.

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Chicago cycling advocates want more protected bike lanes, lower speed limits

The number of crashes involving bicycles is on the rise in Chicago.

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Chicago State’s warning of ‘significant financial strain’ during faculty strike proves no strain on big bonus for CSU president

In a recording posted last week, Chicago State Board of Trustees Chair Andrea Zopp can be heard justifying the $50,000 bonus to Zaldwaynaka Scott in part to the CSU president’s handling of the faculty strike earlier this year.

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‘I am absolutely livid.’ Residents decry plan to turn Kenwood hotel into migrant shelter

The Lake Shore Hotel, where some migrants were housed this year, would begin taking up to 300 asylum-seekers.

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Teachers at Chicago art-focused school set strike deadline

The staff at the Humboldt Park high school announced a Sept. 6 strike deadline at a Wednesday rally.

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Chicago Democrats are pushing Biden hard to speed up work permits for migrants. Will they succeed?

Top Illinois Democrats are pushing the Biden White House to speed up work permits for noncitizen migrants in Chicago, but the effort is complicated and nuanced.

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What we know — and don’t — about the White Sox game shooting

Theories and rumors and unconfirmed reports have circulated on social media, but police and the Sox have released virtually nothing about the shooting that wounded two women Friday night.

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Malcolm X College’s Far West Side satellite campus to get $9.5 million expansion

A 3,000-square feet addition to the satellite campus will be called the Community Center for Teaching and Learning. Besides boosting student capacity by 50% to 2,000, the community center will also serve as an events space.

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Piping plover quartet has left Montrose Beach, gone south for winter

Local birders now must wait to see if Imani, Searocket, Prickly Pear or Wild Indigo return next year. They’re especially concerned about Searocket, who left before they could remove some fishing line caught on the bird’s leg.

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New South Side, North Side migrant shelters planned as crisis intensifies at police stations

The first, located at a Kenwood hotel, is expected to open next week. The city’s real estate committee also approved the purchase of a former North Park Marine Corps site to become another shelter.

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Despite barriers to Black women breastfeeding, supporters extol benefits: ‘It’s a superpower, basically’

Black Breastfeeding Week — which runs through Thursday — provides education and uplifts families who may face social, health care roadblocks over breastfeeding. Black people have the lowest rate of breastfeeding of any other demographic.

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Groups rally at Federal Plaza to end overdose deaths in Illinois

Organizers called for Illinois to allow safe-use sites, where people can use drugs under supervision of medical professionals and be guided toward recovery resources.

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After man’s heroic effort to reverse overdose, Cook County Sheriff receives donation of 2,000 naloxone devices

A Kentucky-based pharmaceutical company made the donation after seeing a local TV news segment where Matthew McFarland saved someone from overdosing last month at a West Side gas station.

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Bygone-era Fine Arts Building elevators will soon be gone

In a building full of musicians, dancers and artists, the manually operated elevators make their own music — a sound soon to be silenced.

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Man gets life sentence in killing of off-duty Chicago cop Clifton Lewis in 2011; vows to appeal, says he was framed

Alexander Villa was convicted of gunning down Lewis during the armed robbery of a convenience store at Division Street and Austin Boulevard, where Lewis was working as a security guard.

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Amazon prepares its rapid response with new center in West Humboldt Park

Monday, the company will post job openings for the facility at 1260 N. Kostner Ave., which is expected to open in September, focusing on items “that people want and need in a hurry.”

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After backlash, and muscle from the mayor, Logan Square Farmers Market reopens

Vendors protested a plan to pause the popular market this week. A street closure permit was approved through the end of October, and the market operated as usual.

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