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NFL owners approve playing up to 10 international games after 2026 season — plus Super Bowl and draft updates

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Women's flag football on track to gain NCAA championship status before sport makes its Olympic debut

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Editorial: Citizen Mike Madigan at your service, President Trump. And should you be thinking about a pardon …

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Editorial: University of Chicago Lab Schools strikes a blow for making classrooms indoctrination-free zones

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Michael Peregrine: The Union Stock Yards burned in a city still holding on to a century of progress

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State lawmakers: Donald Trump's cuts broke Illinois' budget. It's time to make the wealthy pay to fix it.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson makes last-minute push to name permanent CTA leader

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Chicago Bears' proposed stadium site in Hammond would be built on giant slag heap, near hazardous waste sites

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Ald. Jessie Fuentes sues feds for $100K, alleging agents shoved and detained her during immigration raids

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$1.7 million grant from Lollapalooza to expand CPS arts education access

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Area athletes preparing to head north for Special Olympics USA Games in Minnesota

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Preorder Our New Bears Book

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Photos: Sam Sianis, owner of the Billy Goat Tavern

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Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting: Read the stories and see the photos

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Game 3 photos: White Sox beat the Cubs 9-8 in City Series at Rate Field

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Game 2 photos: White Sox beat Cubs 8-3 in City Series at Rate Field

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Game 1 photos: Cubs beat White Sox 10-5 in City Series at Rate Field

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Photos: NBA draft combine at Wintrust Arena

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Route 66: Photos from the 'Main Street of America'

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Remembering Route 66: Readers share their memories of the 100-year-old highway

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Photos: The Big House Ballgame at the Old Joliet Prison

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Photos: Chicago Bears rookie minicamp at Halas Hall

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Photos: Chicago Bulls introduce Bryson Graham as VP of basketball operations

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297 luxury apartments proposed for CityGate Centre in Naperville

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Welcome to the future: National Restaurant show features robot baristas and sushi-makers

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Busiest US commuter rail system resumes operations as deal reached to end strike

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OpenAI avoided a costly court loss to Elon Musk, but neither side is unscathed

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Judge to review grand jury transcripts as 'Broadview Six' trial set to kick off next week

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ICE detains Chicago Public Schools senior and his mother: 'We had done everything by the rules'

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Chicago restaurants and bars become spaces for political protesting: 'Everyone's experiencing some level of rage'

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Latin American nationals deported by the US to Congo face an uncertain future

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Charges expected after Lake Central fight Monday

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Valparaiso council selects Kaye Frataccia-Seibert for school board seat

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New ban prohibits phones in school and on school bus in Gary

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Gene Cernan's Apollo 10 spacesuit gets a 'retirement party' at Triton before shipping back to Smithsonian

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Crime and Public Safety

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Valparaiso woman convicted of animal cruelty before neglect charges in daughter's death

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Two teens charged with weapons offenses after foot chase on East Side of Aurora, police say

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21-year-old man shot and killed in Skokie, per police

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Glenview woman charged with defrauding state program for people with disabilities $44,000

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La Grange to pay part of lead water line replacement cost, but rest of the bill may fall on homeowners

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As data centers seek more power, Constellation launches nuclear plant upgrades to meet rising demand

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At Montrose and Waukegan beaches, piping plovers lay the first eggs of the season

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A mysterious company abandoned 603 oil wells, costing Illinois millions. Here's how they did it.

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Restaurants, Food and Drink

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Memorial Day guide: 14 Chicago restaurant and bar specials for the long weekend

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Clarendon Hills to address 'community clamor for ice cream' with new Rita's Italian Ice outlet

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Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat, Chicago's most famous saloonkeeper, dies at 91

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Rescinded dinner invitation is at the center of a suit filed against the Union League Club of Chicago

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Restrictions on private guardianship of vulnerable adults advance in Springfield

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Hundreds march in Pilsen, demand answers in unsolved fatal hit-and-run

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A 69-hour-workday? City of Chicago paid head-scratching legal bills

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Court battles hit taxpayer wallets

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Today in Chicago History: Union Stock Yards fire injures 50 firefighters and kills hundreds of cattle

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Today in History: Tennessee Valley Authority created

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Vintage Tribune: Late-night TV talk shows display Chicago's creativity

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Gages Lake water tower adds 1.25M gallons of storage for county: 'We have never run out of water … and we don't want to'

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Waukegan expecting $600K budget surplus next fiscal year

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Indian Prairie D204 mulling curriculum changes for some middle school English Language Arts courses

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Gary offers $25,000 grants for city small businesses

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