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Chicago’s South Side is heart — and soul — of Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’

The opera is among the first with an entirely Black and BIPOC cast and creative team, and it is the first to incorporate an onstage DJ as part of its 18-piece orchestration.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 14 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

Among them, Fall Out Boy’s surprise homecoming show, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Public Safety Training Center on the West Side, and the first day of early voting for the 2023 municipal elections.

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Walking with the victims of Chicago’s gun violence

In the face of the city’s violence, Cecilia Mannion refuses to give up hope. The former gang member relentlessly pursues peace and healing.

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Clusters of pandemic relief loans went to the same Chicago addresses, including homeless shelters, Sun-Times finds

One Paycheck Protection Program loan recipient who used a Salvation Army address said he was a farmer. A dozen others said they operated barber shops or beauty salons. Most got loans of about $20,000, the maximum based on a yearly income of at least $100,000.

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‘The voice of the Board of Education’ longtime secretary Estela Beltran to retire after 37 years

Best known for her calm, recognizable voice leading board meetings, Beltran started her career at Chicago Public Schools in 1986.

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Public safety training facility, once center of controversy, opens its doors

Mayor Lori Lightfoot had slammed the project before launching her first mayoral campaign, but did an about-face once in office, making the facility even bigger and more expensive.

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Picture Chicago: Must-see photos from this week in news

From capturing a UIC Faculty United union strike to Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations, the Cubs Convention, city politics and more, Sun-Times photographers were out capturing another week in our city.

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Community activists want answers, hiring commitment as Amazon’s giant Humboldt Park site remains dormant

Amazon plans to open the distribution center later this year. Community activists want jobs to go to people in the neighborhood.

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Lord Herald, the least adoptable dog ever? Nawwww.

A social media post by the Chicago dog rescue that saved him from the city’s pound goes viral.

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Bears’ Kevin Warren has ‘greatest amount of respect’ for Justin Fields — and that matters

While Warren will be judged by how he shepherds the Bears toward their next stadium, he knows that winning will also shape his legacy. And nothing in the sport affects winning more a quarterback.

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Obama Foundation volunteerism on MLK Day makes comeback after COVID hiatus

Music pumped through the South Side YMCA gym as members of the community got to work preparing meals, making birthday cards for seniors, planting seeds and packaging self-care kits for people in need.

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield building honors MLK with ‘I have a dream’ lighting display

The message honoring the slain civil rights leader will be displayed on the building at 300 E. Randolph Street until 5 a.m. Tuesday, Blue Cross Blue Shield said in a statement.

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Food businesses pop up in 875 N Michigan to offer ‘a little taste of the South Side’

It’s a chance for these shops “to have exposure outside their neighborhoods,” said Tamieka Hardy of the Greater Chatham Initiative. The group is one of a few vendors popping up at the Magnificent Mile building until mid-March.

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Picture Chicago: Check out 12 must-see photos from the last week

Behind the scenes at the boxing gym, candid shots of local politicians and more in our best recent photos.

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Lane Tech sophomore is Chicago’s only national master chess player under 18

Lane Tech’s Avi Kaplan earned a national master’s title in 2022. “He demonstrates maturity levels that many 16-year-olds do not typically have,” one mentor says.

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Friendship starts with a fight, blossoms into a boxing club training at-risk youth

‘The vision for the gym is to be able to serve the community we’re in and the neighborhoods we grew up in,’ said Antonio Beniquez, co-founder of the Barracks Boxing Club on the Northwest Side.

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The Rev. James Meeks conducts final service at Salem Baptist Church: ‘A bittersweet day’

The Rev. James Meeks stepped down as senior pastor of the Roseland-area church Sunday on its 38th anniversary. His next mission: building 1,000 homes in Roseland.

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Why does this Field Museum scientist live in Madagascar? Because that’s where you find the oddest creatures.

Of the Chicago museum’s 150 or so scientists, Steve Goodman is the only one who’s permanently in the field. For 35 years, he has worked in the island nation whose isolation makes it one of the planet’s most biologically rich places.

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Picture Chicago: Check out 11 must-see photos from the last week

A new K-9 for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Vice President Kamala Harris’ latest visit and more in our best recent photos.

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Chicago-area siblings heading to finale on Peacock series ‘Baking It’

The unique creations of Reema and Ravi Patel for each episode’s themed competition have incorporated culinary cues from the Indian traditions they have grown up with.

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Community activist turns attention to safety locks to promote responsible gun ownership

“It’s pretty simple: Children are getting a hold of the guns and shooting themselves or turning it on their brothers and sisters accidentally,” Andrew Holmes said Monday

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South, West side residents gear up for city sale of vacant lots

More than 2,000 city-owned lots will go on sale next year; the new incarnation of an old program is getting mixed reviews from residents.

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The Sun-Times’ best photos of 2022

Our photographers covered everything from the mass shootings in Chicago and Highland Park to Chicagoans’ protesting the war in Ukraine and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Take a look at some of the top images they captured.

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Picture Chicago: 11 can’t miss Sun-Times photos from this week in news

From the heartbreak of a shooting outside Benito Juarez high school to the joy of a toy giveaway, the harshness of the season’s first winter storm and more, Sun-Times photographers were out capturing another week in our city.

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For Chicago artist Rahmaan Statik, painting ‘Black Panther’ murals was ‘a childhood dream come true’

He used one he’d painted in 2020 on a building in South Chicago to get Marvel and Disney to commission him to do a ‘Wakanda Forever’ promotional mural in Woodlawn.

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