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City’s unhoused population ‘do what they can’ to get through still-freezing temperatures

With temperatures rising above zero after a winter storm battered the Midwest over the holiday weekend, Chicago’s unhoused community, advocates are asking for “stability.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Unrivaled winter storm engulfs Lower 48 as power outages and delays mount.

Add flash freeze, bomb cyclone, Arctic blast and Great Lakes seiche to your weather lexicon.

Axios

Deep freeze grips North America

A deep freeze enveloped most of the United States early Friday, while a massive winter storm brewing in the Midwest left two-thirds of the country under extreme weather alerts, confounding Christmas travel plans for millions.

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Wild winter weather brings drastic temperature drops within minutes across the U.S.

Just as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, an arctic front in the Midwest and and record-breaking cold temperatures along the Gulf Coast and in the Eastern U.S. could bring dangerous conditions.

WEKU

"Historic" Arctic outbreak, bomb cyclone grip the Lower 48 states

Blizzard conditions and the coldest December weather in decades are sweeping across the Lower 48.

Axios

Airlines have started rebooking flights across the U.S. as winter weather intensifies

Several airlines are waiving the fees to change flights as snow storms, high winds and low temperatures are expected across the U.S.

WEKU

Arctic air, dangerous bomb cyclone blizzard to sweep U.S. this week

"Life-threatening" conditions are likely for tens of millions.

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A severe arctic storm could threaten holiday travel across the U.S.

Biting wind and heavy snow are expected across 17 states this week, sending temperatures plummeting as low as minus 30 F in some areas. Blizzard conditions could hit the Upper Midwest on Thursday.

WEKU

Midterm results are in: Custom-fit drivers win in a landslide

Despite living on the East Coast, I've had an undeniable thirst this year for 10-day weather forecasts in the Midwest. No, meteorology isn't normally my thing. But, Golfweek has been in the midst of a season-long research study tracking the effects ...

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Commentary: Corporate America thrives where abortion is protected

Gina Raimondo doesn't “know why any woman would want to live in a state that criminalizes full access to health care.” The assertion by the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce is especially relevant after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June that upheld…

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900,' by Jon K. Lauck

NONFICTION: Jon K. Lauck argues that the history of the Midwest reveals an advanced democratic society and refutes stereotypes about the region's repressive culture.

Tribune News Service

Midwest soil eroding faster than ever

How do researchers know? Stardust.

Salon

From blizzards to tornadoes, US braces for wild weather week

Millions of people in the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest are bracing for blizzard-like conditions from a massive storm blowing across the country

The Independent UK

Commentary: UCLA rushes for the Big Ten and the big payday. But what about the players?

Big Ten football means something in the national psyche. It’s the Midwest. It’s Frigidaire-snowy Saturdays after a crisp fall. It’s teams defined by tough running games and rounded shoulders. One thing it is not and has never been is a coastal operation of golden beaches and year-round sunshine.

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‘Monstrous’ storm to slam Midwest with everything from tornadoes to blizzards

A major storm will slam the Midwest with everything from tornadoes to blizzards next week, meteorologists said Wednesday.

Fortune

Home prices are down in every one of the top 58 metros according to the latest AEI data. But cities in this region have taken the biggest hit so far

The latest housing price numbers highlight a continuation of the most striking trend: the sharp pullbacks in Western cities. Of the fifteen metros showing the largest drop, the metro farthest east is Austin.

The Guardian - US

Largest LGBTQ+ health center in US midwest to lay off 15% of staff

Staff cuts at Chicago community health center come at a time of high-profile attacks on queer and trans healthcare across the US

Tribune News Service

Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party tries to improve odds of being early presidential primary state

MINNEAPOLIS — Leading Democratic-Labor-Farmer elected officials are trying to sweeten Minnesota's pitch as it competes with other states for an early Midwestern spot in the 2024 presidential primary.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois bid to become early Democratic primary state likely to be rejected this week

President Joe Biden has yet to signal what states he wants to have early primaries. Michigan, Minnesota are front-runners for the Midwest early primary spot in 2024.

The Conversation

How South Korea uses technology to bring together local residents and World Heritage sites

The Baekje kingdom was one of the earliest states on the Korean Peninsula (18 BEC to 660 CE), and UNESCO’s Baekje Historic Areas offer a unique testimony of its history, culture and legacy. Located in South Korea’s Midwest, the kingdom was at the crossroads of exchanges of art and Buddhist…

Chicago Sun-Times

White supremacist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who met with Ye and Trump, raised in suburban Chicago

“Fuentes is among the most prominent and unapologetic antisemites around,” David Goldenberg, the Anti-Defamation League director of the Midwest regional office, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday.

WEKU

Her father's fudge recipe brings back childhood memories of the Midwest

A young Jan Kincaid Clifford wasn't even tall enough to reach the stove. That didn't stop her from stirring the pot. And stirring. And stirring. Her dad's recipe requires patience, but it pays off.

ABC News

Bones and All transforms Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell into teenage cannibal runaways on a road trip

Chalamet and rising star Taylor Russell play cannibal teen lovers on a journey through the Midwest in the new film from director Luca Guadagnino.

Chicago Sun-Times

Special kringle, cheesecake minis from two Midwest makers just might fill the bill for holiday desserts

Consider two special holiday options from two of the oldest dessert purveyors in the region.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Young lovers have thirst for blood, and belonging, in 'Bones and All'

The most romantic movie of the year is a teenage dirtbag road trip featuring a couple of crazy cannibal kids colliding unexpectedly before embarking on a meander across the Midwest. It’s “Badlands” with ‘80s punks who feast on flesh, and one of the most moving and authentically beautiful love stories…

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