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Horoscope for Thursday, June 1, 2023

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Scorpio.

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Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout

Employees of the online retailer walked out to protest a policy requiring corporate employees to return to the office three days a week and want its carbon footprint reduced.

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House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate

The deal passed by a bipartisan coalition, despite pushback from conservatives and progressives, restricts spending for two years, suspends the debt ceiling until 2025 and imposes work rules for older people receiving food aid.

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Off-duty Chicago police officer shot on Near West Side

The off-duty cop, whose age wasn’t released, was shot in the arm, then returned gunfire but it wasn’t clear if anyone else was shot.

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Filipino American chefs — including team at Chicago’s Kasama — come into their own with multiple James Beard award nods

These chefs are part of a younger generation giving voice to the Filipino American experience through the language of food.

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Former ‘Family Feud’ contestant Timothy Bliefnick guilty in wife’s slaying

QUINCY, Ill. — A jury Wednesday convicted a former contestant on the television game show “Family Feud” of first-degree murder and home invasion in the slaying of his estranged wife in western Illinois.

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Alice Palmer, state senator who mentored Barack Obama, dies at 83

Mrs. Palmer was an activist who organized Chicago’s Anti-Apartheid movement and held the first fundraiser for Harold Washington’s first campaign for mayor.

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‘I’ll get you,’ brother of Goonie Boss gang leader allegedly warns witness at trial

Rosco Blackman is charged with witness tampering. He is suspected of threatening a witness during a break at Romeo Blackman’s racketeering trial Tuesday.

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3 men badly hurt in East Garfield Park crash

Two cars collided about 5:30 p.m. One struck a tree. Two of the men involved appear to have suffered gunshot wounds, fire officials said. They are hospitalized.

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New U.S. citizens sworn in at first naturalization ceremony at White Sox park

Two dozen people, ages 18 to 80, from 17 countries, were sworn in before the early afternoon game between the White Sox and Los Angeles Angels.

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Cubs lose to Rays, fall inches short of sweeping best team in baseball

The series win represented a bounce back for the Cubs, who were swept by the Reds over the weekend.

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Kyler Gordon ready to take giant leap in 2023

The Bears’ second-year cornerback is in a comfort zone after learning some tough lessons in an up-and-down rookie season.

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With his White Sox future uncertain, Lucas Giolito living in the present

“The fortunate part of it is that none of that stuff is relevant until after the season is over,” Giolito said of his impending free-agent status.

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A June assignment for all the Cubs: Just go ahead and be like Marcus Stroman

No one on the team has more confidence — or fun — than Stroman, the undersized right-hander who sometimes looks like a kid out there.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. tests NASCAR Chicago Street Race track, assesses ‘challenges’ for drivers

The two-time Daytona 500 champion stopped by Chicago as other drivers offered ride-alongs on the track in an SUV. Earnhardt rated each bump, crest and imperfection.

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Things to do in Chicago June 1-7: The Mix

The Chicago Gospel Music Festival, ‘The Lloyd Price Musical’ and an Andy Warhol art exhibit are among the highlights of the week ahead.

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Jaylon Johnson at home even as Bears tout ‘invaluable’ OTAs

Cornerback Jaylon Johnson hasn’t told the Bears when he’ll return to practice, though head coach Matt Eberflus presumes it will be in time for mandatory minicamp in two weeks.

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Are Republicans finally ready to embrace a Black presidential candidate?

Tim Scott reminds me of another Black Republican, former Oklahoma U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, who decided not to run for re-election in 2002, a reader from Itasca writes. Why didn’t Republicans do more to keep him around? Maybe they’ll do better with Scott.

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Cody Whitehair in a comfort zone at center

“It’s kind of like riding a bike,” said Whitehair, who has transitioned from guard to center and back since his rookie season with the Bears in 2016 — when he moved to center four days before the season opener.

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Wrongly convicted brothers who spent 26 years in prison get certificate of innocence, apology

Juan and Rosendo Hernandez were convicted in a 1997 shooting case investigated by former Chicago Police Department Detective Raymond Guevara. The brothers were released last year.

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Actor Danny Masterson found guilty of two rape counts

His prominence in the Church of Scientology was central to case against the former ‘That ’70s Show’ star.

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Arlington Park track’s property tax bill cut by half

The property tax bill for Arlington Park this year was reduced from $16.1 million to $7.8 million.

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It’s time to end the threat of another debt limit crisis

The End the Threat of Default Act would eliminate the manufactured debt limit crisis that is used as a political weapon to damage Democratic presidents.

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Shohei Ohtani, Angels pound White Sox and Lance Lynn to take series

Ohtani hits two of the Angels’ five homers as White Sox fall to 23-35 with their fourth loss in their last five games.

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Cubs’ Justin Steele leaves start vs. Rays with left forearm tightness

Steele retired all nine batters he faced in the Cubs’ 4-3 loss.

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