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Preservationists say the designation would save St. Adalbert Church from being demolished by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which closed the church in 2019. The hearing is on Monday.

I hereby renounce the sin of being critical of Aldi, and pledge myself to shop there from now until eternity.

Lollapalooza kicked off Thursday with performances from Carola, NewJeans, Portugal. The Man, Joy Oladokun, Lainey Wilson and more.

A rising star in a more progressive Chicago City Council, Fuentes shared her inspirational story hoping it will blaze a positive trail for young people making destructive choices. “I got lucky to have people who introduced me to a world of organizing and movement,” Fuentes told the Sun-Times.

Here’s a look at some of the fun happening Thursday on Day 1 of Lollapalooza in Grant Park.

Sales of weed in Illinois are concentrated among a few retailers, according to a Headset study. And the state tacks on taxes.

Dozens of kids from an independent immigrant shelter and others in transitional housing trained with coaches from the German professional soccer team as a way of fostering community.

“While this iconic structure remains structurally sound and safe, aesthetic improvements are needed to the coating,” the city said.

Someone who needs a subsidy to live affordably should have just as many options of where to live as someone who does not. You cannot build affordable housing only where it’s cheapest, or where people will protest the least.

Over seven years, Janice Weston, vice president of the board of the clout-heavy bank, ordered bank employees to fool federal regulators by backdating loan documents.

The experience led Ramon Diaz, now 36, to try to kill himself by overdosing on painkillers in 2006. “My experience playing football at Northwestern University haunts me to this day,” Diaz told reporters Wednesday.