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CHICAGO — The secret is out in Evanston.

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

CHICAGO — Nearly a year after being sentenced to five months in jail, only to be released on bond days later, former actor Jussie Smollett has filed his long-awaited appeal claiming his indictment by a special prosecutor was invalid due to double-jeopardy concerns and that the trial judge was biased…

The lab will harness brain power from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

‘There were a lot of kids because it happened in front of the school,’ said a witness who called 911. ‘And they go there to play. And we thought it was safe, so we would go and let them play there. But now it’s changed.’

Authorities say a Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun

Chicago is preparing for one of the greatest snowstorms of the winter as March begins

CHICAGO — On a subfreezing day in January, John Feltham drove his two-seat Kawasaki utility vehicle over neatly furrowed fields glistening with snow. There were deer and coyote tracks, black crows flapping against a powder blue sky, and signs everywhere of Feltham’s deep roots in this fertile land.

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer who was badly wounded during a shootout with a gunman Wednesday evening on the Southwest Side succumbed to his injuries, officials said.

Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill allowing Chicago school principals to unionize and possibly go on strike. But Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, also a Democrat and in an equally liberal state, said just the other day she opposes legislation that would explicitly permit teachers to strike.

Authorities say a Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun