Chicago police officer bikes for heroin awareness
October 8, 2019Kim Conte thought of her brother often during her fundraising 300-mile bike trek. Conte’s brother died two years ago from a heroin overdose. “I remembered how funny he was, how…
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Chicago offers sticker-debt relief
October 7, 2019Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and City Clerk Anna Valencia have announced efforts to offer residents a fresh start on city stickers and related fees. The two-step program will give residents…
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Officials, community kick off work on new Auburn Park Metra Station
October 7, 2019Metra isn’t expected to start building the new Auburn Park station in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood’s 79th Street corridor until next spring, but area elected officials…
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Chicago firefighter remembered
October 5, 2019A Chicago firefighter will be remembered Oct. 6, during the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service. Juan Bucio is among 92 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2018 and…
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South Suburban Community College gets $35.8 million for new health facility
October 5, 2019Governor J.B. Pritzker released $35.8 million for construction of an Allied Health Facility at South Suburban Community College in South Holland. The funding was included in the bipartisan…
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Pritzker calls on Sandoval to step down from Transportation chairmanship
October 4, 2019SPRINGFIELD — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker Oct. 2 called on Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) to step down as chairman of the powerful Senate Transportation Committee in the wake…
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Leavitt: The GOP’s presidential also-rans could be politics’ super-heroes
October 3, 2019President Trump is under Constitutional attack in the middle of a game of chicken with China. No one is talking about a credible solution. Not Trump, not Congress, and not his Democratic…
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Is luck running out for Illinois casinos?
October 2, 2019(Second in a series looking at the expansion of gaming in Illinois) Illinois faces long odds in getting anywhere close to the revenue it has projected through an expansion of gaming,…
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