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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Get out the swimsuits we’ve cracked freezing!
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Jahmal Cole, right, talks to young people in the My Block, My Hood, My City nonprofit that he founded. | Photo courtesy Jahmal Cole
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TGIF, Illinois. “Ice along the Chicago shoreline may look like how your spirit feels: flattened like a pancake,”
BREAKING this morning: The Senate approved a budget resolution early Friday morning to speed passage of President Joe Biden’s pandemic aid plan without the need for Republican buy-in. And Vice President Kamala Harris broke the tie, reports POLITICO’s Caitlin Emma and Jennifer Scholtes
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Happy Thursday, Illinois.
HISTORIC! Donald Trump was impeached a second time, and now the most press-hungry president in history has gone dark (and yes, there are other ways for the leader of the free world to get his views out besides Twitter).
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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Just because it’s the shortest day of the year doesn’t mean there will be any less news.
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Chicago corporation counsel Mark Flessner stepped down Sunday in the wake of recent disclosures about a police raid gone wrong that have struck the biggest upset of Mayor
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Happy Tuesday, Illinois. We re off to another historic day in another historic year.
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President-elect Joe Biden and VP-elect Kamala Harris’ 2020 victory was confirmed Monday, and valiant health care workers started receiving coronavirus vaccines. But the greatest drama in Illinois unfolded during a special legislative hearing to examine whether House Speaker