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Northwestern graduate moving closer to home after spending time abroad
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Northwestern graduate marrying British guy rn
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They put out a damn paper.
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Amazon officially took over Whole Foods today, and prices have already dropped by as much as 43 percent
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Gov. Rauner drinks chocolate milk to demonstrate his commitment to racial diversity: “It’s really, really good. Diversity!”
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This tweet is re-surfacing on our feed today. To clarify: Clocks don’t skip ahead until *next* weekend, March 11. The specter of death, per usual, remains a constant — today, next week, forever. Enjoy your Saturday.
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Don’t forget: Clocks skip ahead one hour this weekend, but the slow trudge towards mortality continues unabated
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, saying Sanders represents the most progressive path that will help African Americans catch up socially and economically. "Our needs are not moderate," he said.
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Woman wrests gun from would-be robber and shoots him. When robber steals gun back and points it at her, it jams.
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Colin Kaepernick isn't currently playing in the NFL, but the players' union still named him its Week 1 MVP
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Seventy people who were camped out in tents in the bitter cold are instead spending the week in a South Side hotel, thanks to a currently anonymous good Samaritan
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Michael Ray Stepanek, who told police he drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in August because they needed “an attitude adjustment,” will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for 3 years.
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The Chicago River runs green once again.
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Campaign confirms photo of man arrested at 1963 protest on South Side is Bernie Sanders
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A 32-year-old nurse from Naperville will become the youngest black woman to ever serve in Congress later today
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Don’t forget: Clocks skip ahead one hour this weekend, but the slow trudge towards mortality continues unabated
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Video shows 13-year-old Adam Toledo with his hands empty and raised before a Chicago cop fatally shot him. Toledo appears to toss a gun before turning with his hands up moments before the shooting. (Warning: graphic content)
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Actress Olivia Munn and boyfriend break up, according to reports
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Last night, Evanston alderman approved the first expenditures in the city’s landmark reparations program designed to compensate Black residents for codified discrimination. It's believed to be first program of its kind in the nation.
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Megan Rapinoe on Sunday’s triple-feature of soccer finals (including one in Chicago): "It’s ridiculous, and disappointing"
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Four days each week, Othea Loggan takes two trains and a bus to his job at Walker Bros. Original Pancake House in Wilmette. He's worked there 54 years with no sign of stopping. The commute is nearly the same as when he started. So is his pay.
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Chicago has selected Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build high-speed transit tunnels between the Loop and O’Hare. Here’s a conceptual look, provided by The Boring Company.
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Watch the murky water of the Chicago River turn bright green for #StPatricksDay . Here's how it happens:
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Trump thinks he owns an original Renoir painting— but the real one hangs in Chicago
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LeBron James — who has been swept out of the NBA Finals twice — passes Michael Jordan for 4th on the career scoring list
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Chance the Rapper to perform at Grammys, where he's nominated for seven awards
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A guide to K-pop's cultural influence in Chicago before BTS arrives for two sold-out concerts at Soldier Field
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#BTSxChicago ARMY meet-up at Buckingham Fountain. Meeting fans from Dallas and Kentucky, equally as excited moms and dads, and tons of curious spectators
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Racing driver and Bears fan Danica Patrick confirms she's dating Bachelorette winner's brother
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Italy's Emma Morano turned 117 on Tuesday. She's believed to be the last person alive who was born in the 1800s.
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Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin just bought the most expensive U.S. home ever: A $238 million New York penthouse
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A Holocaust denier is running for Congress. Meet Auschwitz prisoner No. 27,276, who would be one of his constituents. "It happened. I was there," said Stasia Dorna of Chicago.
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Wisconsin man gets a pay raise
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If you hated the ending to HBO's "Game of Thrones," don't worry. Author George R.R. Martin said the show's ending won't affect the final two novels. But he's not worried about fan reaction. "You can't please everybody, so you've got to please yourself."
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Joe and Claryce Holcombe lost children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the Texas church shooting. In all, eight members of their family are dead.
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KFC's secret recipe revealed? Tribune shown family scrapbook with 11 herbs and spices
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Activist @deray arrested in Baton Rouge; police use smoke bombs to clear protesters in Minn.
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Review: Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett evoke a long-lost era at Ravinia, writes @howardreich http://t.co/ixhhq9VTjW http://t.co/KFuY0dwfD7
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Fact check: White House claims 109 affected by travel ban - it's more like 90,000
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A 13-year-old boy has been identified as the person shot and killed by Chicago police on Monday in Little Village.
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Austin Jones, a YouTube star from the Chicago suburbs, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercing underage girls to perform sexually explicit dances during online chats
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Stanford students support sex assault victim, call out university during graduation.
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Painting by Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall sold for $21.1 million at Sotheby’s. "Past Times" had for years been displayed in the South Building of McCormick Place, and was purchased by McPier for $25,000 in 1997 — an 84,358% return on investment.
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A man reported to police for sleeping in a car blocking the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's was shot and killed in a late-night struggle with Atlanta cops after he failed a field sobriety test and resisted arrest, Georgia authorities say
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Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself in to a north suburban police department following the fatal shooting of two people in Kenosha, documents show
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Former Chicago police Detective J.J. Bittenbinder not amused by John Mulaney's parody in new Netflix stand-up special
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Obama will mark his re-entry into public life this morning with a discussion with University of Chicago students
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Thursday's Tribune is a keeper, so buy a copy. Heck, buy 5 copies. Story by @PWSullivan , photo by @briancassella #cubs #FlyTheW #WorldSeries
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A Chicago woman was found dead inside a hotel freezer about a day after she had gone missing from a party
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Pfizer and German pharmaceutical company BioNTech say their potential coronavirus vaccine began human trials in the U.S. on Monday. If the tests are successful, the vaccine could be ready for emergency use in September. From the NYT:
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The Associated Press is declaring Lori Lightfoot the winner in Chicago’s mayoral race, making her the first black woman elected to lead the city. Lightfoot’s win makes Chicago the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor.
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A lawsuit has been filed after one twin boy born to a gay couple was granted U.S. citizenship while the other twin was denied
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The United Steelworkers union was behind the weekend light display of a Biden/Harris logo on the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.
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Emails posted to Wikileaks show 1st evidence Emanuel used personal accounts as mayor beyond official government ones
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Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations
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Wife of a Bears' lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics
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Bernie Sanders, top Democrats call for "Day of Action" to oppose health care cuts under Trump
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After Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth had a baby girl recently, the U.S. Senate voted to change its rules to allow babies in the chamber – despite concerns from older men about "decorum"
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren will propose a new "wealth tax" on Americans with more than $50 million in assets. An economist familiar with the plan says it would raise $2.75 trillion over 10 years from 75,000 families — less than 0.1 percent of U.S. households.
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“When there’s shooting, Obama’s from Chicago. All the other times, he’s from Kenya.” Trevor Noah dishes on city in first of four “Daily Shows” from Chicago
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Democrat Lauren Underwood has defeated Rep. Randy Hultgren in Illinois’ 14th Congressional District race, AP reports. She is the first minority and first woman to represent the district once held by GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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1963 arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Chicago Tribune archives
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University of Chicago drops SAT/ACT requirement for U.S. students, becoming the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement
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Barack Obama has reported for Cook County jury duty. Although he’s the only would-be juror with a Secret Service detail, Obama will be paid the same rate, $17.20 a day.
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At least 48 people have been shot in Chicago since Friday evening, including a 5-year-old boy. Five were killed.
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The Donald J. Trump Twitter Presidential Library, at Union Station in Chicago this weekend only, spotlights inventive satire of "The Daily Show"
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Chicago will soon elect a black woman as mayor for the first time. Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have emerged from a crowded field to secure spots in the April runoff election, after Bill Daley conceded.
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Elizabeth Warren rebuked for quoting Coretta Scott King while debating Jeff Sessions' nomination
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Cook County prosecutors are considering hate crime charges against a Chicago man accused of berating a woman at a forest preserve for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt.
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Scan the flag section of Shepard High School teacher Eric Kallenborn's hoodie and you will be taken directly to a voter registration website. Kallenborn plans to wear the shirt, designed by Parkland students, every Friday through the November election.
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A kind of pandemic caste system has developed: The rich holed up in vacation properties; the middle class marooned at home with restless children; the working class on the front lines. COVID-19 and the class divide, via The New York Times.
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New Smithsonian museum chronicling black history opens today: "It's absolutely breathtaking”
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Former President Barack Obama called for Cook County jury duty — and plans to serve next month, chief judge said.
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Exclusive: Chicago's own literary wunderkind @eveewing will be taking on a new project at @Marvel comics — writing a Ms. Marvel and Spider-Man team-up.
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Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday.
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Go away with Korean pop group xikers: "The most important thing relates back to our performances, since they're so interconnected in a sense – and that is to just enjoy every part of the performance during our shows when we travel."
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After an "outpouring of support from the public," enough money has been raised for a monument to civil rights icon Ida B. Wells-Barnett on the South Side.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities.
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"Sopranos" actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, her voice quivering as she recounted a rape accusation she kept largely private for decades
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, making his second bid for the White House, stops in Chicago for a rally at Navy Pier tonight
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Yesterday, the Illinois Senate approved a sweeping abortion rights bill that establishes a “fundamental right” for women to get an abortion in the state, sending the plan to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk
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A California family thought their dog had died in the fires, but they found her waiting for them amid the ruins of their home
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The 70 people had set up tents and spent the night in a makeshift camp on Roosevelt Road, but will spend the rest of the week in a South Side hotel.
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Protesters block entrance to Trump Tower in Chicago, march through streets
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Protesters marching on Trump Tower promise resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency every day
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Media attorneys have gone to court in an attempt to unseal Jussie Smollett's court file days after prosecutors dropped all charges all charges against the “Empire” actor.
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Dwayne Haskins of Ohio State wins the 2018 Chicago Tribune Silver Football, awarded annually to the best player in the Big Ten
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Chance the Rapper sues bootleggers over merchandise sold outside his shows last year
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Grumpy Cat's owner has been awarded $700,000 in a lawsuit over a deal to sell a line of iced coffees called "Grumpy Cat Grumppuccino."
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