Ex-Chicagoans, former Mayor Lightfoot's relatives among 180,000 displaced by raging Los Angeles fires
"For those of us who are not physically there, we’re still trying to wrap our minds around that this really happened," ...
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Column: Trump’s immigration crackdown will be swift and ugly. Here’s how
As Inauguration Day nears, it’s clear that President-elect Donald Trump believes he has a mandate to enact the largest ...
Dallas Cowboys reach decision on Chicago Bears' request to interview head coach Mike McCarthy
The Chicago Bears were interested in trying to bring Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy back to the NFC North. But the Cowboys and their owner, Jerry Jones, have other plans.
Mayor Brandon Johnson reopens Roseland mental health center as Treatment Not Trauma plan moves forward
Mayor Brandon Johnson cut the ribbon surrounded by activists who led the charge to reopen a dozen city-run mental health ...
Feud over hemp bill dominates final days of Illinois legislative session
The legislation passed and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk during the General Assembly’s brief lame-duck session was ...
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Mayoral Candidates Are Feeling the Heat as New Yorkers Grow Fed Up With Subway Crime
Mayor Adams is running for reelection this year, but a spate of violent subway crimes is tarnishing his former-cop, ...
Local hemp store owner calls out ‘Big Cannabis’ as Illinois regulation bill fails
Since spring of 2024, lawmakers in Springfield considered a crackdown on hemp and Delta 8 products; the Illinois senate passed the regulation bill 54-1. Governor JB Pritzker threw his support behind ...
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7 Chicagoans charged in Waukesha luxury vehicle theft
Four are still on the run, but three other suspects are in custody in Milwaukee County. Tremaine Walton, 18, Correnthis Neal, 19, and Lamont Stanton, 20, were convicted of killing a man at a Milwaukee ...
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Johnson, Pritzker at odds over a crackdown on hemp products: bill regulating those products dies
Sales of the weedlike substances have increased, in part thanks to a loophole in federal law, prompting smoke shops that sell ...
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Illinois bill to regulate delta-8, hemp intoxicants dies in statehouse
A bill that would have effectively banned the sale of delta-8 and other hemp intoxicants outside of dispensaries is likely ...
Weed war of Capitol proportions
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A four-hour House Democratic Caucus meeting in Springfield was so contentious that a member of Gov. JB Pritzker ’s team left in tears and the hemp legislation that was at the ...
Hemp regulation bill stalls after lobbying battle between Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker
Legislation championed by Gov. JB Pritzker to strongly regulate hemp sales stalled in the Illinois House late Monday after intense lobbying by both the governor and Mayor Brandon Johnson, who opposed ...