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The infectious disease expert steered Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic. Also a pediatrician, Arwady was appointed by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Officer Karol Chwiesiuk and his sister, Agnieszka, were convicted of entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

James McNamara, 61, was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of assaulting a federal officer.

The number of Chicagoans living over a mile away from a supermarket or superstore — a major grocer — has jumped by 63% in the past decade, a WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.

Cox, tapped to lead the former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Invest South/West initiative, is the third star of her Cabinet to leave Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.

They will be responsible for leading local ad revenue, sales strategies and operations across CBS’ 27 local stations, as well as Paramount’s local digital and streaming revenue

He’s seeking a reduced sentence of 15 years for his role in Guerreros Unidos. In 2014, he asked the drug cartel to let him leave, but his bosses told him to keep unloading heroin hidden on buses, prosecutors say.

In 2009, inside the legendary Timeout at Shannon’s barbershop, the question was posed: Is Wade the best player to ever come out of Chicago?

Bailon was most recently the executive editor at KERA, Dallas’s NPR affiliate. Prior to KERA, he spent nearly 15 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.