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St. Patrick’s Day parade steps off in Chicago’s Loop with bagpipes, politicians

CHICAGO — St. Patrick’s Day festivities returned to Chicago on Saturday, bringing young families, couples and college students downtown for the historic river dye and parade.

Chicago Tribune

Rick Kogan: 100 years old, the Chicago-born Golden Gloves are continuing to mold boxers and inspire lives

CHICAGO — Have you ever watched two men or two women battle one another in a boxing ring?

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Texas Senate’s priority bills on higher ed would end tenure, diversity policies

The bills are part of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s list of priorities and, if passed as filed, could have profound impacts on how Texas universities recruit top faculty and other employees.

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Christopher Borrelli: This column is iconic. Somewhere back there, ‘iconic’ became the most meaningless word in the world

CHICAGO — Oscar weekend seems as good a time as any to break the news:

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Lawmakers offer stark choices for ending the crisis in Texas’ youth prisons — shut them all down, or build more

Plagued by decades of scandals over sexual and physical abuse of children, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is at a crossroads.

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U.S. Rep. Chip Roy offers warm reception to Biden border proposal as Democrats recoil

The Austin Republican’s tacit approval only adds fuel to the fire for Texas Democrats recoiling at the report that the Biden administration could detain asylum-seekers.

The Texas Tribune

Why the Bears helped launch the first intramural girls flag football league in the UK

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears — in partnership with Chicago Public Schools — launched the first high school girls flag football league in Illinois in 2021.

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Texas lawmakers propose historic investments to broadband and water infrastructure — but voters will have the last word

If passed during this legislative session, this would be the state’s biggest investment in broadband, but some local officials question whether it would make the service more affordable in areas with few providers.

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First ever lawsuit against abortion bans

Women denied abortions sue Texas to clarify exceptions to the laws

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Women denied abortions sue Texas to clarify exceptions to the laws

Five women announced a new lawsuit Tuesday, marking the first time patients directly affected by new abortion laws have sought to challenge them in court.

The Texas Tribune

When will former top prospect Brailyn Marquez get back on a mound for the Chicago Cubs?

MESA, Ariz. — Brailyn Marquez’s winding road to get back on a baseball field continues to challenge the Chicago Cubs’ former top prospect.

Chicago Tribune

Police are still ticketing students in Illinois schools. A new bill would make that illegal.

CHICAGO — A new bill in the Illinois House aims to stop schools from working with police to issue students tickets for minor misbehavior, a harmful and sometimes costly practice that many districts have continued despite pleas to stop from the state’s top education officials.

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Debate over Texas drag shows intensifies

A lawmaker is accused of hypocrisy after it emerges that he once wore a dress. He says it wasn’t sexual.

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In 2012, the Chicago Police Department vowed to catch a cop’s killers. Now those cases are falling apart

CHICAGO — There was a moment of thunderous applause at the January 2012 funeral for slain Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.

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‘Dilbert’ comic strip widely dropped after creator Scott Adams’s Black ‘hate group’ comments

Publications including the Chicago Tribune are dropping the comic strip after Adams, during his online video show, described people who are Black as members of “a racist hate group.”

The Texas Tribune

Google contractors on strike in Austin hope to rally support among tech workers

The several dozen contractors for YouTube Music are fighting a push to return to in-person work. Their strike has gained the support of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott promises to be “heavily involved” in push for education savings accounts

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

Chicago Tribune

How Nick Lovullo, son of the Arizona Diamondbacks manager, is forging his own coaching path in the Chicago Cubs system

MESA, Ariz. — Nick Lovullo always knew he wanted to stay in baseball after his professional career ended.

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Why three longtime Texas lawmakers are now eligible for an extra $140,000 a year

A few of Texas’ most veteran lawmakers may have seen their part-time legislative compensation skyrocket from $7,200 to nearly $150,000 annually, thanks to a law passed quietly at the end of the 2021 legislative session.

Chicago Tribune

O’Hare Airport, mayor address homelessness at the airport after social media uproar

CHICAGO — Amid a growing population of homeless people taking refuge in Chicago’ O’Hare International Airport, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city won’t allow homeless people to sleep at the airport anymore.

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Michael Phillips: Raquel Welch was the star who came in from the Chicago cold

CHICAGO — Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 82. From her teenage pageant years onward, her career was defined and in many ways confined by a gilded cage of marketable, exploitable beauty, sold primarily to men who couldn’t quite believe their eyes.

Chicago Tribune

Spring training travel: A guide to what’s new in Arizona for Cubs and White Sox fans

When the Chicago Cubs signed papers in 1951, to make Mesa, Arizona, their new spring training home, the Tribune lauded one local amenity — a mineral bath — 9 miles away.

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Bally’s moves to boot Tribune Publishing printing plant from casino site

CHICAGO — Bally’s has given Tribune Publishing its walking papers, exercising a relocation option to force the newspaper company to vacate its mammoth River West printing plant to make way for a casino.

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Abbott: Ban transgender college athletes

NCAA vowed to only hold championships in which transgender student athletes can participate without discrimination

Chicago Tribune

Chicago-area postal carriers ‘traumatized’ after recent armed robberies and other crimes, says head of union

CHICAGO — Mail carriers in the Chicago area are traumatized, fearing for their lives, following a string of armed robberies and thefts targeting postal workers in recent months, the head of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers told the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday.

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