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Bears hosted 1st girls flag football championship in Illinois. Officials want to make the game an IHSA-sanctioned sport by 2024.

CHICAGO — Kenwood Academy High School senior Kennedy Scott started tossing around the football with her twin brother in 2021 when he was getting ready to play tackle football for Urban Prep Academy.

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President Biden, Vice President Harris headed to Chicago area to stump for Democrats in closing days of campaign

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will both make appearances in the Chicago area in coming days to try to shore up Democratic congressional candidates’ election chances in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

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Avalanche of mail hitting Illinois voters, but funding behind partisan ‘newspapers’ not disclosed

The publishers of controversial newspapers with heavy political messaging targeting Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker are able to avoid disclosure requirements covering campaign committees.

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Illinois AG sues to stop Jewel-Osco parent Albertsons from paying $4 billion dividend

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has sued grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, which announced in October they plan to merge, over a nearly $4 billion payment scheduled to go out to Albertsons shareholders in November.

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Proud Boys member from Illinois pleads guilty to assaulting officers in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

An Aurora, Illinois, man who is an admitted member of the far-right group Proud Boys pleaded guilty Wednesday to using a flagpole to assault officers trying to hold back the violent mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then later bragged in a text message that he’d…

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Northwestern performs first heart transplant in Illinois using ‘heart-in-a-box’ device

For the first time in Illinois, surgeons have successfully taken a heart that stopped beating inside a patient and transplanted it into another person with the help of a new, science fictionlike device.

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State attorneys general sue to block Albertsons' $4B payout

The attorneys general of California, Illinois and the District of Columbia are suing Albertsons to stop the grocery chain from paying nearly $4 billion to its shareholders

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Another Chicago-area corporate HQ hitting the road as auto parts supplier Tenneco plans move to Michigan

Lake Forest, Illinois-based auto parts manufacturer Tenneco is the latest Chicago-area company to announce it is hitting the road, with plans to shift its headquarters to Michigan.

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Proud Boy from Aurora bragged he ‘bonked 2 cops,’ pleads guilty to Jan. 6 role

James Robert Elliott is the only known member of the Proud Boys from Illinois charged in connection with the Capitol riot. He admitted his membership in the group as part of his plea Wednesday.

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Anti-Pritzker PAC tries to suppress the Black vote in Chicago, Biden plans visit to Illinois and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Illinois Voters Asked Whether To Give Government Unions Veto Power Over Laws They Don't Like

Amendment 1 would grant public workers collective bargaining power over just about anything that affects them, ignoring the will of voters and lawmakers.

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How a national book-banning trend erupted at a suburban Chicago library, with pushback aimed at LGBTQ materials

It all started with one parent’s complaint about a book in the children’s section of the Lincolnwood, Illinois, library this summer.

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Billionaire Gov. Pritzker uses trust to skirt contribution limits in Illinois Supreme Court races

CHICAGO — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is using his personal trust fund to circumvent contribution limits in two races that will determine whether his party maintains its 4-3 majority on the Illinois Supreme Court.

Chicago Tribune

Pritzker gives shoe leather and big bucks to Democrats running for state’s top court — but GOP says he’s skirting the law

Pritzker gave $500,000 each to the candidates from his campaign fund — and another $500,000 to each from a personal trust fund. Republicans accuse him of skirting limits he himself signed into law. But the Illinois State Board of Elections says the contributions are allowed.

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Madigan skips arraignment as lawyers enter plea of not guilty on new AT&T conspiracy charges

CHICAGO — Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan didn’t say a word during his first arraignment on federal racketeering charges in March.

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After a tumultuous first term, Gov. J.B. Pritzker spends big and plays it safe in reelection bid

In late August, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, billionaire scion of one of America’s wealthiest families, sat at a folding table at City Hall in Christopher, a town of fewer than 3,000 people 300 miles south of his Gold Coast mansion.

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Darren Bailey’s uphill candidacy for farmers, cops and Illinoisans who feel ‘pushed aside’

DU QUOIN, Ill. — In his thick country drawl, Darren Bailey stood at a lectern clutching a microphone, trying to convince a crowd in his rural home base of southern Illinois that he speaks their language.

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Lying Illinois prison officers go unpunished in 2018 inmate death, despite convictions of three guards

Testimony in the case came from six Illinois Department of Corrections employees who admitted they lied to investigators. None has faced punishment, and they all continue to get regular pay increases.

Chicago Sun-Times

Six candidates from three parties fighting for two offices voters know little about — but probably should

Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza and state Treasurer Michael Frerichs are facing challenges from Republicans Shannon Teresi and Tom Demmer and Libertarians Deirdre McCloskey and Preston Nelson.

Chicago Tribune

A way to get solar energy — no rooftop panels required — is making headway in Illinois: ‘Community solar is about to explode’

CHICAGO — There are no shiny black solar panels on the roof of his condo building, but Paul Dickerson is enjoying the benefits of clean energy just the same.

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Records: Lying officers unpunished in 2018 inmate death

Three former Illinois prison guards face life in prison for a beating that led to the death of inmate Larry Earvin in 2018

Chicago Sun-Times

“Birds are congregated where there is food with water on its feet,” INHS’s aerial waterfowl survey

The latest blog from Joshua Osborn and data off the latest Illinois Natural History Survey’s aerial waterfowl survey.

Chicago Tribune

Federal lawsuit threatens validity of potentially tens of thousands of Illinois mail-in, military ballots

CHICAGO — A pending federal lawsuit, brought by a downstate Republican congressman and two GOP officials, could invalidate potentially tens of thousands of mailed general election ballots that are cast by Illinois voters, including military members serving overseas, and postmarked on or before this coming Election Day but received by…

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A new poll showed 52% of Illinoisans think state is on wrong track. That’s actually good news.

Residents have overwhelmingly agreed on one thing over the years: Illinois sucks. The new sentiment shows something different.

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