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Painting from rooftops and tagging trains, graffiti artist Zwon is making his mark on Chicago

The Chicago artist is doing that in alleys, on Loop towers, on freight trains, usually without permission.

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These Chicago tattoo parlors let chance (and a gumball machine) choose your design

Customers crank a gumball machine, and whichever of the sketches inside emerges is what they get for their tattoo. “It takes a lot of the thinking out of it,” Taylor Street Tattoo’s Brad Rearden says.

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New Chan Zuckerberg center will ‘put Chicago on the map’ for biomedical research

Dr. Priscilla Chan attended a launch event Thursday for the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, a medical research center funded by Chan and her husband, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Bears vs. Commanders — What to Watch 4

The Bears’ offensive line faces a big challenge against the Commanders’ front four of Chase Young, Montez Sweat, Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne that is one of the best in the NFL.

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Mayor Johnson to visit Southern U.S. border, assess migrant situation

‘This is serious,’ said the mayor, who recently met with Mexican officials. Fourteen buses of migrants arrived in the city on Wednesday, with as many as eight more on the way.

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Former Signature Room workers protest restaurant’s abrupt closure, seek back pay: ‘We are not going to stand for it’

Workers rallied outside the former John Hancock Center on Wednesday over claims the restaurant violated state law.

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Small steps, slight delay for key parts of Johnson’s progressive agenda

Eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been teed up for a final vote on Friday. The City Council also created a working group to study reopening shuttered mental health clinics and held a hearing on a plan to create a dedicated fund to combat homelessness.

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Temp worker advocates hail Illinois law that promises equal pay

The Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act aims to prevent ‘permatemping,’ where an employer keeps a temp worker indefinitely, by requiring that employers pay temps similar wages as direct hires after 90 days on the job.

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Banned any books lately?

Book banning is on the rise; Illinois has a law against it, but individuals get around the law with their own personal book bans.

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Bally’s casino at Medinah Temple will ‘secure Chicago’s fiscally strong and vibrant future,’ Johnson says

Johnson helped cut the ceremonial ribbon Tuesday at Medinah Temple, which is expected to take bets for the next three years while a bigger permanent casino is built in River West.

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Racist propaganda, antisemitic acts spiked in Illinois last year, report shows

“In some ways, we think that we live in Illinois and somehow we’re immune to this,” said David Goldenberg, the Midwest director of the Anti-Defamation League that issued the “Hate in the Prairie State” report.

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For Black journalists, Sun-Times’ 75th anniversary is a time to look back at those who came before us

The paper’s first Black journalists were trailblazers who reported on the plight of Black America while pushing to diversify the Sun-Times’ ranks, Mary Mitchell writes.

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At Pilsen community meeting on migrants, residents call for relief from spiking property taxes

Some are happy to offer a ladder to new arrivals. Others decry the lack of services for locals. About 400 migrants could move into an area shelter as soon as Tuesday.

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Signature Room operator violated law on layoff notices, union says

Hospitality union Unite Here Local 1 says 132 Signature Room workers got no advance notice of plans to close the restaurant and lounge at 875 N. Michigan Ave.

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Afternoon Edition: Bears reach new low with heartbreaking loss, Claypool mess

Plus: Ex-gang kingpin loses First Step Act bid, the chain restaurants that link us together and more Edit

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Former Chicago gang kingpin Jeff Fort loses First Step Act bid for freedom after 40 years in prison

Convicted of offering to bomb U.S. buildings for $2 million, ordering murder of a rival drug dealer, the 76-year-old El Rukn founder was denied release under legislation allowing judges to consider “compassionate release” for aging inmates.

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Menashe Properties takes a chance on West Loop’s elusive revival

In the first sale of a downtown building in more than a year, buyer Menashe aims to be ready as tenants move or expand their space.

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75 years covering race in Chicago: A newspaper for a diverse city

As the Sun-Times looks back during its 75th year of continual daily publication, race is a key lens through which to understand the newspaper’s history.

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Hands-on experience wows kids at South Side Science Festival: ‘Exposure is everything’

The second annual University of Chicago event brought a new generation of potential researchers closer to science.

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Why Chicago Rep. Mike Quigley was the only Democrat to vote no on the House stopgap funding bill

Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., the co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, protested funding for Ukraine dropped from the stopgap funding bill the House passed on Saturday. He was the only Democratic no vote.

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Black Cook County residents face scarcity of mental health resources as their suicide rates remain high after the pandemic

The county’s Black residents are the only racial group whose suicide rates are higher now than before the pandemic.

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Criticism of Red Line extension is off-base

The Red Line extension will provide Chicago’s South Side with the high-frequency, accessible and affordable rapid transit service people deserve.

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How ‘a Van Gogh on the block’ mural was restored on the South Side, then almost destroyed

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter explores how a decades-old mural in South Shore was almost lost, and the art that lines the walls of O’Hare Airport.

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Ed Burke once bragged about his work for Trump — now he doesn’t want jurors to know

Lawyers for the former Chicago City Council member argue that the former president is under indictment himself and “despised by a significant percentage of the population.”

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Picture Chicago: 17 of the best Sun-Times photos from this week in news

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling was sworn in as the city’s top cop, United Auto Workers members went on strike in Illinois, and a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee girl walked along Navy Pier.

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