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NASCAR noise: Muffled Chicago Street Racers still pump out more than 100 decibels, Sun-Times test shows

Using a cellphone app, Sun-Times reporters measured more than 110 decibels of noise at various points of NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race course, which is about as loud a having someone shout directly in your ear.

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NASCAR in Chicago gives fans thrills until the threat of lightning puts the brakes on things

“We were walking up and heard the noise of the cars,” said Jessie Mitchel, 42, who came with her friend Casar Ybarra. “We got goosebumps, and we’re not even into it.”

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Highland Park parade shooting victim Nicolas Toledo’s family will always remember him as their hero

“We’re all still a little bit scared knowing that the Fourth of July is coming up,” his granddaughter Kimberly Rangel says. “We don’t know how we’re going to feel in the moment.”

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NASCAR fans flock to Chicago Street Race course for a peek at final preparations

The bustle was palpable less than 24 hours before drivers start their engines.

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Chicago student borrowers on the hook — again — after high court rejects Biden’s loan forgiveness program

Supreme Court ruling could mean more Illinois residents will have to tighten their budgets. More than 1.5 million people in Illinois out of an estimated 26 million people across the country with student debt applied for the federal program.

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Picture Chicago: 20 must-see Sun-Times photos from the week in news

Thousands turned out for the Chicago Pride Parade, President Biden visited the Old Post Office to kick off “Bidenomics,” and NASCAR has come to town.

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NASCAR drivers, officials answer Sun-Times reader questions about Chicago Street Race

Maybe this will help get all our motors running.

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Here’s every Chicago restaurant spotted during Sydney’s food tour in ‘The Bear’

Avec, Publican Quality Meats and Margie’s Candies are among the Chicago spots featured in a montage of restaurants in the second season of the series.

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Supreme Court ruling on websites for same-sex couples ‘allows LGBTQ+ discrimination,’ Pritzker says

The decision from the conservative-majority Supreme Court comes at the end of Pride Month.

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After surviving Highland Park parade mass shooting, ‘some days ... it’s just really hard to still get out of bed and go outside’

A year later, Zoe Pawelczak and her father, Scott Vanden-Heuvel, are still trying to figure out how to live with what happened the day they ran for their lives.

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NASCAR’s not the first to use Chicago as a sports arena, venue

As the NASCAR drivers take to Chicago’s streets, we remember other times this city has opened its roadways to provide a venue for national and local sports events.

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‘The community stood behind us,’ say couple who owned Highland Park store from which shooter fired on Fourth of July parade

Ross Cosmetics had to shut down for a week. But then store owners Earl and Arden Edelcup and all of Highland Park began working to help each other recover from the horror.

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Hundreds of kids get free NASCAR tickets at West Side community event

For two days in a row, NASCAR has given out race tickets to thousands of people at events on the South, West Sides.

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NASCAR’s gold standard for protecting Chicago Street Race spectators

The temporary, 2.2-mile course around Grant Park is lined with concrete barriers, built in south suburban Lynwood.

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Migrant crisis reverses decade-long enrollment decline at CPS, top mayoral aide says

To ensure better educational outcomes for the new arrivals, the Johnson administration plans to open an “enrollment center” at Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School in time for the first day of school on Aug. 21.

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STEM workshops gets students behind the wheel in an eRacing simulator

Chicago-area students take part in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math course with hands-on racing time and a chance to build a component for an automobile.

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Highland Park one year later: Advocacy becomes a way of coping, ‘doing the work they can’t do’

Several people who witnessed last year’s massacre rallied outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, where judges heard a challenge to the Illinois assault weapons ban.

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Like him or not, NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace isn’t trying to reach ‘people who will never change’

The Cup Series’ only Black full-time driver brought insight and advice along with the No. 23 Toyota to Chicago, where he will compete Sunday in the Grant Park 220.

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NASCAR’s Harrison Burton delivers gifts to patients at Chicago hospitals

The 22-year-old NASCAR driver brought blankets to patients at Lurie Children’s and Mount Sinai hospitals Thursday. He also handed over $10,000 checks to each hospital from the NASCAR Foundation.

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Closing Greyhound bus station would hurt those who need affordable transportation

The West Loop location is safe, convenient, easy to navigate and close to public transportation. It is a place people who may be vulnerable, physically handicapped or unable to afford other transportation options can access.

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Six candidates advance to semifinals of Chicago police superintendent search

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a new civilian oversight body charged with leading the search, has until July 14 to pick three finalists and deliver those names to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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Bubba Wallace throws a block party in Hyde Park to introduce NASCAR to a new audience

NASCAR’s sole Black driver plays the role of ambassador ahead of the Chicago Street Race by bringing a taste of the track to die-hard NASCAR fans and the NASCAR-curious.

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Bidenomics Chicago takeaways: Biden ‘loves’ the slogan, says Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a campaign co-chair

For the record...Reporters on Air Force One heading back to Washington had Chicago deep dish pizza for dinner.

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Family fights potential deportation of longtime Northwest Side resident

Francisco Panuco lived in Belmont Cragin for 18 years before ICE detained him on May 31. Friends and supporters have since rallied to keep him in Chicago.

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CPS unveils new process for schools to drop racist namesakes

Chicago Public Schools officials have been working on an updated naming policy for more than two years after a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders.

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