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Where to play golf around Chicago: Golfweek’s Best 2023 public-access courses

Anyone in a window seat on a flight into Chicago can see there are plenty of golf courses in the area.

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Billions of birds collide with glass buildings – but architecture has solutions

At least 1,000 birds were killed in one day in early October, when they collided with a single Chicago building, McCormick Place – the largest convention centre in North America. A paradigm of architectural modernism, McCormick Place was built in stages from 1960 to 2017, and is a steel, concrete…

The Conversation

A Palestinian mother fled to the US for safety. 12 years on, war in her homeland fueled her son’s murder

Hanaan Shahin left the West Bank in 2011 in search of a better life in the US. More than a decade later, she and her six-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume were targeted in a deadly attack allegedly driven by fresh violence in her homeland. Martha McHardy reports

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Man slain in South Shore late Friday

The man, 25, was in a vehicle about 10:45 p.m. Friday in the 7800 block of South Jeffery Boulevard when he was shot multiple times in his body, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rent prices dip slightly in Chicago metro area, report finds

The median monthly rental price for the Chicago area stands at $2,389, a decrease of about 2% from September 2022, when that figure reached $2,437, according to a newly released report.

Chicago Sun-Times

FBI director warns of increase in threats amid Israel-Hamas war

Warning comes after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death in Illinois in what police say was an anti-Muslim hate crime linked to the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent UK

Stock up, stock down in Vikings 19-13 win vs. Bears

Multiple players saw their stock rise or fall in Sunday's win

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Devastated father says Muslim son was trying to hug attacker who killed him over Israel-Hamas war

Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times in the shocking incident where police say he and his mother were ‘targeted’ due to their Muslim faith

The Independent UK

Biden condemns Chicago hate crime attack on Palestinian mother and child: ‘Shocked and sickened’

Six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times ‘for being Muslim’

The Independent UK

Illinois man kills Muslim boy in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war

The mother-son duo had lived on the ground floor of the house for two years, according to the organization, saying the suspect was their landlord. Citing text messages from the mother to the boy’s father, the suspect reportedly yelled, “You Muslims must die!” ahead of the stabbing, according to CAIR-Chicago.

The Hindu

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

Authorities say a suburban Chicago man has been charged with a hate crime, accused of fatally stabbing a young boy and seriously wounded a woman because of their Islamic faith and the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent UK

Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death in Gaza war-related killing in US

The boy, 6, was stabbed 26 times with large military-style knife, according to autopsy, while his mother is in hospital.

Al Jazeera

South Side artist Max Sansing repaints, and reimagines, 79th Street mural

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at the recently restored 79th Street ‘Culture is Power’ mural, a 50-year-old mural on a North Side church and an Oak Park piece centered on joy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bear Necessities: Previewing Chicago’s Week 6 game vs. Vikings

The Bears face the Vikings today. We preview that and recap Saturday's headlines.

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‘We don’t want people to die’: Thousands attend downtown rally on Saturday in support of Palestinians

“We’re here to pressure our own government,” one demonstrator said. “But we’re also here as part of a global mobilization to show all the complicit parties that we are watching, and we are paying attention.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Open House Chicago gives a rare look at usually closed-off architecture: ‘It’s like nothing else’

The annual, self-guided history and architecture festival that spans the city gave residents a look into buildings and spaces often closed to the public.

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Report: Kwesi Adofo-Mensah watching Caleb Williams in person

The Vikings are taking advantage of the game in Chicago by traveling to nearby South Bend to scout Caleb Williams

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Vikings vs. Bears: Who has the edge?

Going into Sunday's week 6 matchup with the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears, who has the edge at each position?

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Chicago outdoors: The wonder of nature’s resilency and fly agaric

A photo and stories of fly agaric and a fine example of the resilency of nature are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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Patrick Williams predicted to be ‘breakout player’ for Bulls this season

Heading into the 2023-24 season, could Patrick Williams have a breakout year for the Chicago Bulls?

Chicago Sun-Times

100-year-old Far South Side church destroyed in fire, no injuries reported

The fire was mainly contained to the roof, and the steeple of the church collapsed from the flames, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson is wrong. Bally’s casino won’t secure a ‘fiscally strong and vibrant future’ for Chicago.

It is a shiny, noisy and glitzy distraction that allows the well-connected to get wealthier at the expense of hard-working Chicago families and individuals who will lose their paychecks gambling there.

Chicago Sun-Times

No threats found as Chicago police pay ‘special attention’ to Jewish, Palestinian areas on so-called ‘day of rage’

A former Hamas leader’s call for a “day of rage” Friday motivated by the Israel-Hamas war has sparked uneasiness and confusion in cities across the U.S.

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Behind enemy lines: Previewing Bears/Vikings w/Bears Wire

We spoke to Alyssa Barbieri of Bears Wire to get the lowdown on the Chicago Bears before they face the Minnesota Vikings

Chicago Sun-Times

Migrants sleeping outside Chicago police stations brace for winter: ‘We aren’t prepared’

With room for only dozens inside at each police station, hundreds, like the Leal family, are sleeping outside. Some have been able to get tents but many have not, putting them at risk of hypothermia or other illness, advocates say.

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