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Behind Enemy Lines: Previewing Commanders’ Week 5 game with Bears Wire

We preview the Bears with Bears Wire managing editor Alyssa Barbieri. She gives us some excellent insight into the Chicago Bears.

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3 in custody after Chicago police squad car struck by gunfire in New City

An officer suffered minor cuts from shattered glass when a round of fire penetrated the squad car Wednesday night, police said.

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Lionel Messi misses Inter Miami's game at Chicago because of scar tissue ailment

Inter Miami's Lionel Messi missed his fifth match in six with the MLS club due to a scar tissue ailment. Despite his absence, the Fire sold a record 61,000 tickets to the match.

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Lawsuit seeks to stop city from using public buildings to house migrants

In an amended suit, South Shore residents accuse the city of violating zoning ordinances and creating a public nuisance by placing new arrivals in schools, police stations.

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‘Hillbilly Elegy’ senator rebuffs Sen. Dick Durbin’s 4th bid to confirm Chicago federal prosecutor

Offering shifting stories, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio is blocking the confirmation of April Perry and Rebecca Lutzko, tapped to be the U.S. attorneys in Chicago and Cleveland.

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Mayor Johnson to visit Southern U.S. border, assess migrant situation

‘This is serious,’ said the mayor, who recently met with Mexican officials. Fourteen buses of migrants arrived in the city on Wednesday, with as many as eight more on the way.

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Chicago Marathon 2023: Where to watch, course map and more

The Bank of America Chicago Marathon returns to the city Sunday, Oct. 8.

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Things to do in Chicago Oct. 5-11: The Mix

Bonnie Raitt’s post-Grammy victory tour, a Broadway-bound Louis Armstrong musical and the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns are among this week’s entertainment highlights.

Chicago Sun-Times

Small steps, slight delay for key parts of Johnson’s progressive agenda

Eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been teed up for a final vote on Friday. The City Council also created a working group to study reopening shuttered mental health clinics and held a hearing on a plan to create a dedicated fund to combat homelessness.

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Lena McLin, CPS music teacher of Jennifer Hudson and Chaka Khan, dies at 95

Mrs. McLin learned from the best. Her uncle was Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the father of gospel music.

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NASCAR Chicago Street Race returning in 2024 with briefer road closures

Despite pushback from politicians and downtown residents, the race will be back under new financial terms.

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Push to give Chicago City Council more control over pot zoning a ‘nonstarter’ for advocates

Weed firms would have to be OK’d by the local alderperson and the Zoning Committee, which typically defers to City Council members’ authority over zoning matters in their wards.

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City Council should pass ordinance to require new buildings be all-electric

Transitioning away from the gas system will take decades, but the first step is to end wasteful, unnecessary spending on the gas system by moving to all-electric new construction.

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A Chicago woman died in a hotel freezer in 2017. Now her mother has reached a settlement

The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party has reached a settlement in her lawsuit over her daughter's death

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Bulls legend Michael Jordan’s net worth eclipses $3 billion, makes history

Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan's net worth just surpassed $3 billion, making some history in the process.

Chicago Sun-Times

University of Chicago statistics professor awarded MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’

Rina Foygel Barber is one of 20 to receive $800,000 stipend for her work “to reduce false positives and improve confidence in high-dimensional data models.”

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Chicago Bears Stock Exchange: Who’s up, who’s down entering Week 5?

Let's take a look at the players whose stock is rising and falling in this week's edition of the Chicago Bears Stock Exchange.

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Trading Justin Fields this season would be a mistake

Hypothetical trade scenarios involving Justin Fields are popping up on social media. But trading the QB now would be a bad move.

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NFL teams believe Bears will end up releasing Chase Claypool

The belief around the league is the Bears will release Chase Claypool, according to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler.

Chicago Sun-Times

New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message for asylum-seekers: ‘We are at capacity’

New York’s Eric Adams will travel to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia in a four-day trip this week. Chicago is sending a delegation to Mexico to warn migrants of the city’s winters.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson establishes city’s first chief homelessness officer

The move comes a day before a public hearing before the City Council on the mayor’s proposal to raise the real estate transfer tax on high-end home sales to create dedicated funding to combat homelessness.

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Seen any good theater lately? Now is the time

Live theater in Chicago is in trouble. But the show must go on — and all of us have a role to play in making sure it does.

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Chicago’s public schools need a ‘Green New Deal’ to modernize aging buildings

To address the breadth and depth of the need to remediate outdated schools at a time of worsening weather extremes, Chicago needs an estimated $30 billion, two educators write.

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Aside from everything being terrible, don’t you just love Chicago sports?

The Bears gave us the mother of all chokes, the Cubs went and got themselves eliminated, the White Sox took their 100th “L” — and all in about 24 hours. Man, we’re good at being bad.

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New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message for asylum seekers: 'We are at capacity'

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's traveling to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants

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