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Windy City Smokeout headliners include Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan and Zac Brown Band

CHICAGO — Windy City Smokeout has announced its music lineup for this coming July, with headliners including Zach Bryan, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan and Zac Brown Band. The four-day festival devoted to country bands and barbecue will be back outside of the United Center July 13-16. Tickets are on sale…

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State regulators approve Medinah Temple landlord of proposed temporary Chicago casino

State regulators are still evaluating Bally’s overall casino proposal, which they submitted in August. But regulators gave the OK to entities controlled by the politically connected owner of the Medinah Temple.

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Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn endorses Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia for mayor

Quinn chooses Garcia over Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whom he supported in 2019, and Paul Vallas, whom Quinn chose as his running mate in 2014.

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Watch: Sun-Times, WBEZ and U Chicago host Chicago mayoral forum

Watch the second of two mayoral forums hosted by the Sun-Times, WBEZ and University of Chicago, featuring mayoral candidates Roderick Sawyer and Ja’Mal Green

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POLL: Chicago voters feel unsafe from crime, unhappy with police relations — and looking for a candidate to fix it all

As they prepare to elect their next mayor, city voters chose crime and public safety as the top issue guiding their decisions — and a whopping 63% of them don’t feel safe, a Sun-Times/WBEZ/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 Poll found. But differences of opinions emerged among voters of different racial…

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Chicago movie lovers give AMC Theatres’ best seats surcharge 2 thumbs down

Seats in the middle sections of auditoriums will cost an additional dollar or two, while seats in the front row will be slightly cheaper, the theater chain announced.

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Paul Sullivan: Cubs and White Sox are equally eager for spring training to begin — regardless of how their offseasons went

CHICAGO — Depending on which team you root for, this has been the longest or shortest offseason in baseball history.

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Office occupancies are picking up in Chicago, but the comeback is slow

For the first time since the pandemic began, data from Kastle security systems show that 50% of staff are checking in at Chicago offices, but work-from-home is still popular.

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Supt. David Brown likely to leave Chicago Police Department

Even if Mayor Lori Lightfoot is reelected and allows CPD Supt. David Brown to keep his job, he could be forced out anyway. In October, Brown turns 63, the mandatory retirement age for Chicago’s police officers and firefighters.

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Johnson’s education plan includes free CTA rides, City Colleges tuition for CPS students

“Why are we making children pay for a ride to get to a school that’s not in their neighborhood?” Johnson asked. “Children should be able to focus on learning and not trying to figure out how they’re gonna get a ride to school.”

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New poll forecasts trouble for Lightfoot’s reelection bid, how to help Turkey and Syria and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Naperville named safest city in America

Another Chicago suburb, Joliet, was named eighth safest, according to the MoneyGeek survey based on FBI crime data.

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Watch: Sun-Times, WBEZ and U Chicago host Chicago mayoral forum

Watch the first of two mayoral forums hosted by the Sun-Times, WBEZ and University of Chicago, featuring incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot and mayoral candidates Chuy Garcia, Paul Vallas, Kam Buckner and Sophia King.

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CVS buying Chicago’s Oak Street Health in deal valued at $10.6 billion

CHICAGO — CVS Health plans to buy Chicago-based Oak Street Health in a $10.6 billion deal that aims to expand CVS’s reach into primary care.

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Two Corvette drivers charged with deadly drag racing that killed a woman crossing street with her boyfriend

Aaron Guerrero, 27, was charged with reckless homicide. And he and the other driver, Noe Garcia, 36, face charges of aggravated street racing in the death of Shawman Meireis, 40, killed a day before her 41st birthday.

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Chicago cops fatally shoot person during ‘exchange of gunfire’ near Irving Park bar

The person who was killed early Wednesday allegedly pointed a gun at a security guard and other people after being kicked out of Christina’s Place, 3759 N. Kedzie Ave.

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Income tax ‘surcharge,’ other measures needed to pay down pensions, business group says

The report by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago is a new message from a group that opposed Gov. J.B. Pritzker on the graduated income tax in 2020.

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POLL: Bleak numbers spell trouble for Mayor Lightfoot’s reelection bid

With the election less than three weeks away, three out of five voters disapprove of the job the mayor has done in her first term and 71% think the city is on the wrong track, according to a Sun-Times/WBEZ/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 poll of Chicago voters.

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A former Tribune writer’s new book ‘Puddin” is told by a baby, but was inspired by a brother’s suicide

CHICAGO — During the more than 30 years that Patrick Reardon worked at the Chicago Tribune, he wrote thousands of stories about politics, crime, transportation, neighborhoods, people, and all the other joys and troubles that pepper and define our urban life.

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Man shot to death in Avalon Park

The man, 27, was on the street in the 8100 block of South Kenwood Avenue about 8:15 p.m. when he was shot in the right side, Chicago police said. He later died.

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Lightfoot scolds rivals during testy mayoral forum for trying ‘to mansplain’ and ‘treat me like I’m some child’

The debate included many personal attacks, mainly directed toward and between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and ex-Chicago schools boss Paul Vallas. Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia was in Washington for the State of the Union address.

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My ties to Chicago run deep. The next mayor needs a ‘gumbo coalition’ and a Marshall Plan for the city.

Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, will write a column for the Sun-Times twice a month. In his introductory column, Morial tells readers about his past experiences in Chicago and offers some advice for the next mayor.

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Woman charged with fatally stabbing romantic rival in front of her 3-year-old son

Tyteanne Bell, 34, faces a count of first-degree murder in the Jan. 20 attack on 24-year-old Jamilah Brown, who was walking in the 3700 block of West Chicago Avenue with her 3-year-old son.

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Chicago groups rally for earthquake relief in Turkey, Syria; here’s how to donate

As the death toll rises above 5,000 in Turkey and Syria and rebuilding efforts begin, Chicago residents can contribute to fundraisers, donation drives and medical supply collection.

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‘Piles of mail,’ stolen IDs and key-making materials found in downtown Chicago hotel room

Investigators are working with the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service, which investigates mail fraud and a practice called check washing.

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