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Kamala Harris’ sorority sets up its own PAC

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority was founded over 110 years ago at Harris’ alma mater, Howard University

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Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy challenged in Illinois for 2024 elections

Five people working with a voting rights organization filed an objection, making Illinois the 18th state challenging Donald Trump over his ties to the 2021 insurrection.

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Maria and José, Chicago-style 2023

Scott Fornek, an assistant news editor at the Sun-Times, wrote this updated take on the classic Mike Royko column.

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Jack Smith took his case against Donald Trump straight to the Supreme Court. Here’s what that means.

The special counsel asked the high court to rule quickly on Trump’s weak claim of immunity from criminal prosecution. Jack Smith’s strategy has implications for democracy, a University of Chicago legal scholar explains.

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Weird depictions of Diana tarnish final episodes of ‘The Crown’

Uneven season of Netflix’s celebrated series about the British royal family does better with sophisticated storylines about Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and the final days of Princess Margaret.

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Thalia Hall loses Dusek’s, seeks to expand building

The tavern-restaurant announced Wednesday that it will shut down at the end of dinner service on New Year’s Eve.

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So long, Solis? Defense rests in Burke trial after briefly questioning ‘hostile’ witness, FBI mole Danny Solis

Burke’s defense attorneys made good on their promise to call Solis to testify, forcing him out into the open nearly five years after the Chicago Sun-Times revealed his cooperation with the feds in January 2019.

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How baseball endured through World War II

History sometimes forgets that Pearl Harbor also triggered one of the most significant letters in presidential history: the Green Light Letter in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged baseball owners to keep playing.

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Chicago Public Media CEO Matt Moog stepping down

Moog had served as CEO since 2020, overseeing the merger of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, creating the largest local nonprofit news organization in the country.

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Five years ago today: Butcher paper signals FBI raid on offices of ‘untouchable’ Ed Burke — and changes Chicago history

Reporters could only speculate about what prompted the raid, but ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot admits she “rode that wave ‘till it crashed on the beach.”

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Block 37 poses as a mansion for ‘Clue: A Walking Mystery,’ an interactive whodunit that’s lots of fun

Challenging crime-solving game continues in Chicago through New Year’s Eve.

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Catholic order, New Lenox school pay $2 million over accusation ex-principal raped a student

The payout is in a lawsuit regarding the Rev. Richard McGrath, an Augustinian priest who ran Providence Catholic High School — and took the Fifth when asked about child pornography.

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Jury selection begins as Ed Burke, ‘figurehead of the old regime,’ faces historic corruption trial

The stage has been set for another legal clash at the Dirksen courthouse. But it’s unclear whether another central political figure, former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis, will make an appearance in the courtroom.

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Oak Park takes emergency steps to help with migrant crisis

The village has approved emergency spending and recently provided emergency shelter for more than 100 migrants staying at a Chicago police station.

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National Association of Realtors CEO stepping down; ex Chicago Sun-Times CEO tapped as interim hire

The CEO of the National Association of Realtors is stepping down nearly two months before his planned retirement

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Springfield man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot has died

Roy Franklin had been set to plead guilty Dec. 15, but died Oct. 15 of lung cancer.

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Teen reaches $1.9 million settlement after officer shot him in gun battle with bank robbery suspect

A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des Plaines

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When it comes to transgender women in sports, inclusion is our best bet

In this conversation about trans women in sports, people often speak for me. They say including trans women is unfair to me, a cisgender woman. But they are wrong, writes a former cross country runner.

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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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Rupert Murdoch’s brief cloud over Chicago newspaper world led to one ray of sunshine — Sneedless to say

It’s still a calumny Murdoch continues to poison the nation’s inkwell with fake Fox news; but I am ever so grateful for the day he was forced out the door of the Sun-Times, thus enabling this journalist to witness the golden age of Chicago’s two great American newspapers.

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Shoe leather is the soul of good journalism, and famed Sun-Times Editor Jim Hoge knew it

Thousands of journalists are following in Jim Hoge’s footsteps, and the state of the world depends on their investigative work, a board member from the International Center for Journalists writes.

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Prosecutors drop felony charges against Iowa man who had guns, ammunition in Chicago hotel room

Prosecutors have dropped all felony charges against an Iowa man who was arrested in 2021 by Chicago police for having guns and ammunition in his hotel room overlooking a popular tourist attraction

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Top officials out at state emergency agency

Three top officials at IEMA, the state agency tasked with responding to disasters across the state including the COVID pandemic and a record number of tornadoes this year, were pushed out late last month.

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Trump’s been indicted twice for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Here’s how the two cases differ.

Neither the Georgia indictment nor the federal case will lead directly to his exclusion from office, a University of Chicago law professor writes. But ultimately, the two cases might have very different consequences.

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Veteran journalist Gilbert Bailon named executive editor of WBEZ

Bailon was most recently the executive editor at KERA, Dallas’s NPR affiliate. Prior to KERA, he spent nearly 15 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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