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Mother of slain Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston wants community center built to remember daughter, support city’s youths

“Aréanah was a community person,” Dionne Mhoon told the Sun-Times. “So what better way to celebrate her and remember her name than by doing something for the community?”

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NW Side residents express support and disapproval of plan to house immigrant families at Wilbur Wright College

The shelter would alleviate pressure on police stations, which have turned into temporary shelters for more than 700 asylum-seekers across the city, officials said.

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Man shot, killed in Edgewater

The man was found in an alley with a gunshot wound to the back, police said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died.

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Lightfoot’s security detail dramatically reduced

A police spokesperson refused to reveal specifics of the reduction, fearing it could invite more threats against a former mayor who already has had her share.

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Brandon Johnson’s first City Council meeting certain to be tamer than Lightfoot’s

Senior adviser Jason Lee said the mayor has been doing some rehearsing to make sure he’s comfortable with the gavel in his hand and running the meeting smoothly.

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Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds

At the start of a five-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the Archdiocese of Chicago had “posted all of the names” of predatory clergy. As the investigation neared its end, Cupich kept adding names.

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Convicted ComEd CEO’s attorney warns ‘we may be trying this case again,’ but judge won’t allow contact with jurors

Defense attorney Scott Lassar told the Chicago Sun-Times he was referring to possible rulings by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, or even the U.S. Supreme Court.

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3,000 youth singers to converge on Millennium Park for Paint the Town Red

The annual event, scheduled for Thursday, is organized by the nonprofit organization Uniting Voices.

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Millennium Park fox family is the latest Chicago wildlife to go viral

The viral fox family joins other recent animals to gain fame, including giant turtle ‘Chonkosaurus,’ piping plover couple Monty and Rose, and alligator ‘Chance the Snapper.’

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Workers’ rights groups protest restaurant industry convention at McCormick Place

Demonstrators rallied outside the National Restaurant Association gathering at McCormick Place, demanding the City Council raise tipped workers’ minimum pay.

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Taking guns off the street, one at a time

St. Sabina Catholic Church held its annual gun buyback event Monday.

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Migrant children to join CPS, Cook County Jail chess program forges connections and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Closed Chicago schools, link to population decline needs more explanation

The graphic and a Sun-Times/WBEZ story do not show whether school closings led to population decline or whether the pre-existing population decline lead to the closings, after which the population continued to decline, a Glen Ellyn reader writes.

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A closed Chicago public school turned private, and it’s now draining taxpayer dollars

Is it good public policy to underfund CPS, which serves students who need special services, while sending dollars to private schools that do not accommodate them?

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From inside Cook County Jail, chess spreads across the globe

Chicago hosted an international conference on teaching chess to detainees in jails and prisons. Officials from the International Chess Federation and corrections agencies from around the world are exploring how chess can be used to help rehabilitate incarcerated people.

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New Little Village sculpture celebrates arriving immigrants: ‘We underestimate how courageous people are’

The work by Chicago-based artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores was made after Flores won the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit’s Richard Hunt Award. It’s one of 42 the exhibit is installing this month.

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Polling Place: Who’d win a head-to-head best-of-seven series, the Cubs or the White Sox?

Also: Who’s going to win it all in the NBA and the NHL?

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From dealing drugs to working for CTA, Hostess: Cook County Drug Court program grads get felony records expunged to begin new lives

Cook County Judge Charles Burns, who’s presided over 23 graduations in 13 years running the court, sped the process for the 10 participants to get felonies removed from court records.

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State lawmakers fail to finish budget, school district map, so they plan to try again next week

The General Assembly had planned to adjourn Friday, but Democratic leaders blew that self-imposed deadline. So lawmakers will return to Springfield on Wednesday to wrap up unfinished business, which includes the state budget and the elected school board map.

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Vivek Ramaswamy came to South Shore to talk migrants. South Shore mostly stayed away

I guess for Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate supposedly bent on “out-Trumping” Donald Trump, watching a clip of Chicagoans shouting “We don’t want them here” and “Close the border” was incentive to rush back to the city, like his immigrant mother and father did years ago when they…

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Suburban Chicago gynecologist’s strange death in Texas now ruled a strangling

After Dr. George Chronis was found dead in a fire in 2018 at his hunting getaway ranch in rural Texas, authorities said the Palos Park physician died accidentally. Then, his widow authorized a new autopsy in Illinois last year.

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Food truck festival returns to Daley Plaza to serve up fresh favorites

The event — which runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays through Oct. 6 — is in its eighth year.

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Picture Chicago: 18 of the best Sun-Times photos this week

A mournful city said goodbye to Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston, Mayor Brandon Johnson was sworn in, and hundreds gathered in Evanston to celebrate Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander art and culture.

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‘Mural of Heroes,’ version 3, honors 3 fallen Chicago firefighters

Earlier versions stood for decades in the park at Diversey, Kimball and Milwaukee avenues. South Shore artist Damon Lamar Reed created the new one.

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After fleeing Russia over war in Ukraine, Chicago family joins asylum-seekers in legal limbo

Aleksei Eremenko is among those struggling to find legal aid as his family searches for stability in a new country.

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