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Frank Galati, pioneering Chicago theater artist and Oscar nominee, is dead at 79

CHICAGO — Frank Galati, a pivotal figure over five decades in Chicago theater, a Tony Award-winning Broadway director, a beloved longtime teacher at Northwestern University, an ensemble member at both the Steppenwolf and Goodman theaters and a pioneer in the adaptation of novels and other narrative sources into exciting drama,…

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Despite legal limbo, Illinois' elimination of cash bail set to take effect Jan. 1

CHICAGO — The Illinois criminal justice system is set for a major makeover beginning Sunday, replacing a cash-bail structure with one that requires judges to more carefully weigh who among the accused should be held in custody before trial without using money as a factor.

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Texas 2022: Year in Photos

Texas Tribune photographers captured a historic year of challenges and resilience.

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It’s been fun. It’s been real. It’s been a calling more than a job. And it’s been an honor — the honor of my lifetime.

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Greg Abbott calls for investigation into Atmos Energy following disrupted natural gas services during freeze

Atmos, a major natural gas provider for the state, apologized for last week’s service disruption that left some Texans without heat during freezing weather.

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Lucas Giolito pitches in to clean up beaches in the Dominican Republic. ‘We have one planet,’ the Chicago White Sox starter says.

When Lucas Giolito arrived in the Dominican Republic earlier this month for a beach cleanup project, he noticed a group of young baseball players going through agility drills with a trainer.

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Violent crime rate began to drop on Chicago el trains in 2022, but it was still double pre-pandemic levels

CHICAGO — The rate of violent crime on CTA trains began to drop this year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic emptied public transit of many riders, but it remains near the highest levels seen in the past decade — and more than twice as high as the…

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LZ Granderson: The lonely exit of Adam Kinzinger

In January 2011, the Chicago Tribune published a Q&A with Illinois' five freshmen in the U.S. House. Among them was Republican Adam Kinzinger, who had run for Congress after three tours in Iraq. When the quintet were asked, "Whom do you admire from the other side of the aisle?" four…

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Texas superintendent removed LGBTQ books

The Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the district

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Texas greenlighted a felon to train school board members. Now education officials are examining their rules.

Records show James Dunn was convicted twice for defrauding federal government agencies. He registered his school board training, which he described as an alternative to “woke” programs, with the Texas Education Agency this fall.

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School calls 911 on kids every other day

An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline

Salon

West Texas parents are suing their schools over racism as others demand action over antisemitic bullying

School leaders have said they don’t tolerate racism and that they regularly train teachers how to deal with bullying. But parents say inaction by officials tells a different story.

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White voters helped propel Lori Lightfoot to the mayor’s office in 2019. Will they stick with her in February?

CHICAGO — When Willie Wilson finished his remarks before the Illinois Polish American Congress in November, the lull in the room lasted long enough for the audience to begin awkwardly fidgeting.

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‘Tall claim’: Tribune reporter calls out India Today for taking credit for LAC clash report

It could have been just another day in the unexamined life of the breaking news ticker.

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Chicago Plan Commission endorses Bally’s casino plan

The action sends the zoning proposal to the City Council, but 27th Ward Ald. Walter Burnett Jr.’s objection could delay its consideration.

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Friends recall lives of Illinois family killed in murder-suicide: ‘She was just coming into her own little person’

CHICAGO — Vivian Kisliak was a child who took charge. When her friends all tried to pile into her family’s golf cart, she’d maintain order, determining whose turn it was to take a spin in it and begging one of the adults to drive it.

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Editorial: America revels in Brittney Griner’s return. Now Biden must do the same for Paul Whelan and Marc Fogel

The people who become Vladimir Putin’s pawns never realize the vicious game ensnaring them.

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Freedom Center has a fan

Hardly celebrated as great architecture, the Tribune’s printing plant earned admiration for the trains that supply it.

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50 years ago, a plane crashed into homes outside Chicago's Midway, killing 45 people. The neighborhood hasn’t forgotten

CHICAGO — Evan Cotter Jr. was getting ready to play hockey after school on a cold December afternoon in 1972 when the wing of a Boeing 737 slammed into the back of his family’s house.

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‘South Side’ review: Season 3 is as funny and resolutely Chicago as ever

The Tribune’s William Lee and Nina Metz previously reviewed Season 1 and Season 2 of “South Side,” an absurdist comedy about working stiffs on Chicago’s South Side. We’re back for its third season, premiering Thursday on HBO Max.

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Poetry has a new editor — and now a new issue. It’s time to give a fresh look at this important Chicago magazine.

CHICAGO — The new editor of Poetry magazine, one of the city’s most important and influential publications, is Adrian Matejka, a great poet and a good guy.

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Sam Bateman: Who is the breakaway Mormon polygamist who married nine underage girls?

Mr Bateman filled a power vacuum in the secretive religious community, which allegedly led to the sex trafficking of minors and obstruction of justice charges

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Meet the winners of the Chicago Tribune’s 2022 Holiday Cookie Contest

CHICAGO — In 1995, Agnes Da Costa won fourth place in the Tribune’s 10th annual Holiday Cookie Contest with the sweetly named Friendship Cookies.

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Migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue “Perla,” who recruited them for flights

The flights, financed by Florida at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, were filled by Perla Huerta of San Antonio, who was added to a lawsuit against DeSantis and others on Tuesday.

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Mother of 10-year-old Uvalde shooting victim sues school district, police and gun manufacturer

The lawsuit accuses Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the shooter’s weapon, of marketing that primes “young buyers to purchase AR-15-style rifles as soon as they are legally able.”

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