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Five days paid leave guaranteed for Illinois workers under law signed by Pritzker

Starting next year, workers will begin to earn paid leave on their first day at a rate of one hour of leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 40 hours of paid leave for the year.

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Pilsen Food Pantry finds permanent space, plans to expand assistance

Following renovations, the pantry will open at 2124 S. Ashland Ave. this summer. Plans call for offering other assistance, such as help with utilities and home improvements.

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With Lightfoot a lame duck, City Council looks to declare independence

Three committee chairs are working behind the scenes to reorganize and empower the City Council before a new mayor and Council are seated.

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Lease signed: Chicago Fire to build $80M training center on Chicago Housing Authority land

Chicago’s next mayor will have to live with the controversial zoning change Mayor Lori Lightfoot muscled through the City Council allowing the Chicago Fire soccer club to build an $80 million training center on CHA land formerly occupied by the CHA’s ABLA Homes.

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As SNAP recipients see reduction in funds, Chicago residents make adjustments: ‘I make do’

Starting this month, recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see a decrease in their benefits after a coronavirus pandemic-era funding boost ended.

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Program for suicidal kids struggles amid a youth mental health crisis, ComEd bribery trial spotlights Madigan and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about a 10-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Groups sue to halt expansion of lakeside dump on Southeast Side

The area should be converted to parkland, say organizers who want dredged toxic sediment from the Calumet River sent elsewhere.

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Chicago’s summer festival dates announced; Taste moved to September in Grant Park

The city-sponsored major summer festivals are all returning this year, including the Chicago Blues Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival and the Chicago Air and Water Show.

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On the frontlines for 75 years of blizzards, heat waves, floods and other calamities

Throughout our history, Chicago Sun-Times photographers, reporters and editors have worked hard to capture our icebound, storm-tossed, sun-baked city.

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Free agency 2023: Bears transaction tracker

Tracking the Bears’ moves as they approach the start of the league season on Wednesday afternoon.

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Runoff campaign: Vallas’ and Johnson’s pension, property tax plans underwhelm fiscal experts

Brandon Johnson is proposing a slew of new revenues, mostly new taxes on big businesses. Paul Vallas promises to use budgetary acumen to work within the existing budget’s bounds. Neither plan is failsafe, experts say.

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Iggy Pop unstoppable in electrifying performance at the Salt Shed

The septuagenarian delivered what is sure to be one of the best shows of 2023.

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Photos: Chicago goes green for St. Patrick’s Day

Revelers crowded around the Chicago River Saturday morning to see the annual river-dyeing.

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Chicagoans must reclaim all public parks

Public parkland was not put here to make money, it was established as part of the grand plan of the city to ensure the health and well-being of the inhabitants.

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Rev. Michael Pfleger: New top cop needs to bring a new approach to crime in Chicago

The activist priest is calling for the next superintendent to be promoted from within the ranks of the Chicago Police Department.

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A veteran’s fight for GI Bill benefits, how Chicago’s green river tradition began and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Chicago firefighter’s wife dies from injuries in house fire that killed 7-year-old son, badly injured their 2 other children

Summer Day-Stewart, 36, died about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her son, Ezra Stewart, 7, was pronounced dead a day earlier.

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Le dan el último adiós al oficial caído Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso

Oficiales de todo el área de Chicago se encontraban entre los dolientes que se reunieron a lo largo de una procesión de 6 millas en el lado sureste mientras el cuerpo de Vásquez Lasso era escoltado a la iglesia Sta. Rita de Cascia, 7740 S. Western Ave.

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A 61-year-old tradition: How and why Chicago dyes the Chicago River emerald green

The 61-year-old tradition is happening again this weekend a few hours before the start of the downtown Chicago St. Patrick’s Day parade.

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Patrick Daley Thompson denies wrongdoing despite conviction, says he never wanted to be mayor, wants to ‘rebuild my life’

Ex-Chicago City Council member didn’t testify when he was convicted of cheating on income taxes and lying about how much money he got from a crooked Bridgeport bank. Now, trying to get back his law license, he makes his case.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

A grateful city said goodbye to slain Chicago Police Officer Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, the mayoral runoff candidates participated in their first forum, and more in our best photos of the last week.

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Artist Ruth Garcia came to Barrett Park as a little girl to play. Now, she has restored a mural there.

The newly vibrant public work of art is titled “Libertad” and features faces of people the teenage volunteers who helped create it in 2008 saw as faces of freedom.

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Jim Frost, who captured Mirage tavern bribes as a Sun-Times photographer, dead at 79

He worked incredibly hard to get to a big city paper. His fresh face that no one would recognize got him on the Mirage assignment and a place in the history books.

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Decorated vet’s last stand: FBI agent wants Supreme Court to make VA stop shortchanging veterans on GI Bill benefits

Army vet James Rudisill has enlisted a Chicago lawyer to convince the Supreme Court to force the VA to provide mandated educational benefits to himself and two million other veterans. Ex-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says Rudisill is right.

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ICC chief Carrie Zalewski pulling plug on job, says it’s not sparked by looming ComEd trial involving father-in-law

She says she doesn’t expect to be a witness in the trial of four people accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan to benefit ComEd. Ex-Ald. Mike Zalewski, her father-in-law, has a role in the trial but isn’t charged.

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