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City Council OKs more video surveillance — and more automated tickets

A new batch of cameras will be mounted on CTA buses and other public transit vehicles. Drivers caught impeding traffic flow in bus and bike lanes and loading zones will be fined automatically after one warning.

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‘I think it’s beautiful.’ Organ donations allow at least 8 lifesaving transplants after mom and 3 kids die in fire

“I think she would have liked knowing that was her final act, saving lives,” said Sarah Day, the sister of Summer Day-Stewart.

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Judge allows secret ComEd recordings to be released, emergency COVID benefits end for SNAP recipients and more in your Chicago news roundup

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With Lightfoot a lame duck, City Council looks to declare independence

Three committee chairs are working behind the scenes to reorganize and empower the City Council before a new mayor and Council are seated.

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On the frontlines for 75 years of blizzards, heat waves, floods and other calamities

Throughout our history, Chicago Sun-Times photographers, reporters and editors have worked hard to capture our icebound, storm-tossed, sun-baked city.

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Free agency 2023: Bears transaction tracker

Tracking the Bears’ moves as they approach the start of the league season on Wednesday afternoon.

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Chicago firefighter’s wife dies from injuries in house fire that killed 7-year-old son, badly injured their 2 other children

Summer Day-Stewart, 36, died about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her son, Ezra Stewart, 7, was pronounced dead a day earlier.

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Le dan el último adiós al oficial caído Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso

Oficiales de todo el área de Chicago se encontraban entre los dolientes que se reunieron a lo largo de una procesión de 6 millas en el lado sureste mientras el cuerpo de Vásquez Lasso era escoltado a la iglesia Sta. Rita de Cascia, 7740 S. Western Ave.

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Patrick Daley Thompson denies wrongdoing despite conviction, says he never wanted to be mayor, wants to ‘rebuild my life’

Ex-Chicago City Council member didn’t testify when he was convicted of cheating on income taxes and lying about how much money he got from a crooked Bridgeport bank. Now, trying to get back his law license, he makes his case.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

A grateful city said goodbye to slain Chicago Police Officer Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, the mayoral runoff candidates participated in their first forum, and more in our best photos of the last week.

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Hundreds gather to mourn slain Chicago Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso: ‘He had a lot ahead for him’

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, state Comptroller Susana Mendoza are among those paying respects to the officer shot and killed in a foot pursuit in Gage Park.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot remembers slain officer, praises outgoing police superintendent

Lightfoot tells graduating recruits the death of Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso has left a city of broken hearts

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‘A mail-biter’? Ald. La Spata ‘encouraged’ by slim margin in 1st Ward — but casts wary eye to ballots trickling in by mail

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) had 50.1% of the vote after the latest batch of mail-in ballots were tallied, putting him just 12 votes over the minimum needed to avoid a runoff against challenger Sam Royko.

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Dueling endorsements in race for mayor

U.S. Rep. Danny Davis lines up behind his West Side neighbor, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson. Retiring Ald. Roderick Sawyer chooses Paul Vallas, becoming the first mayoral challenger to pick sides in the April 4 runoff.

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Indicted Ald. Carrie Austin gets head start on political retirement

Austin’s decision to retire from rather than fight the new ward map has made it easier for the Black Caucus to accommodate the loss of more than 85,000 African-American residents over the last decade.

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Nelson Mandela Center planned for now-vacant West Side storefronts: ‘We are saving the community that once saved us’

Shrone Conaway, Marnell Brown and Malcolm Brown recently bought the Austin building with plans to open a community center that also will house two organizations, To Walk in My Shoes and The Herbert F. Ballard Foundation.

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Catanzara wins second term as FOP president

John Catanzara Jr. captured nearly 57% of the 7,192 votes for president of Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7. His opponent, Robert Bartlett, had argued that Catanzara’s confrontational approach alienated potential union allies.

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Picture Chicago: 19 must-see photos from the last week in news

First responders honor a fallen police officer, Election Day reaction and more in our photographers’ best pictures.

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How the CTU marched from picket lines to political powerhouse

From its battles between ex-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and its late leader Karen Lewis in 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union is now hoping to help homegrown candidate Brandon Johnson win the runoff to be Chicago’s mayor.

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Search is on for CPD Supt. David Brown’s replacement, but the bench of insider candidates is thin

The wave of high-level departures under Brown will make it difficult for the new mayor to find an insider who is qualified, battle-tested — and wants the job.

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Rejected before, Vallas aims to win over a city ‘in crisis’ — promising to get it ‘back on track’

After three unsuccessful previous runs for public office, the former Chicago Public Schools chief takes his tough-on-crime message to the city’s mayoral runoff.

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Madigan’s attorneys seek to dismiss part of his indictment, Lightfoot’s loss and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Former prosecutor Bill Conway wins aldermanic race in newly drawn Fulton Market, West Loop ward

Across the city’s West Side, freshmen and longtime City Council members awaited results an hour and half after polls closed.

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Bears keep preaching faith in QB Justin Fields

A few days before last year’s draft, general manager Ryan Poles brought a special guest into the Bears’ high-tech Halas Hall draft room: Justin Fields.

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Will the Bears trade the No. 1 pick? GM Ryan Poles says it makes sense

The Bears are widely thought to be sticking with Justin Fields at quarterback, making it sensible to trade down.

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