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Loyola University Chicago ‘mishandled and underreported’ sex misconduct complaints involving students, lawsuit says

Three women are suing the school run by the Jesuit Catholic religious order, saying administrators “maintained a de facto policy” to “suppress reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment.”

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New Illinois law gives cops choice not to jail people for small amounts of drugs — a follow-up to our ‘Costly toll of dead-end drug arrests’ investigation

The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.

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Maxine Duster, Chicago educator, civic leader, dead at 83

She was a teacher and principal and helped kids interested in medicine follow a doctor around to see what the work was like, helping many pursue careers in medicine.

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From flipping Big Macs to importing tons of cocaine: Chicago twins who helped bring down El Chapo say McDonald’s was their business model

In a new podcast, Margarito Flores and Pedro Flores say they got jobs at a Little Village McDonald’s when they were teenagers and honed management skills they used in their drug business.

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Bronzeville woman cooks for the homeless: ‘Cooking is my love language’

Shara Washington cooks and delivers as many as 60 meals for homeless people around Chicago, four days a week.

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Morton Grove family donates Chicago’s 2022 Christmas tree for Millennium Park site

A 55-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce that stood on a front lawn for decades has been selected to be this year’s official city Christmas tree.

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Joe Manniello's Week 9 NFL picks

Week 9 doesn’t have one marquee matchup, unless you count the last two Super Bowl champs battling to see who will move closer to missing the playoffs. Six teams are on the bye, including the Giants, and there are only two games in the 4 p.m. window (the aforementioned L.A.…

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Beware of fake ‘newspapers’ packaged as the old-school real deal

The right-wing “newspapers” that have been infiltrating Chicago-area voters’ mailboxes look like classic print products.

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Paul Sullivan: Pedro Grifol said all the right things about changing White Sox culture, but will his methods work?

CHICAGO — Pedro Grifol’s indictment of the 2022 Chicago White Sox season came early in during his introductory news conference as the team’s new manager Thursday at Guaranteed Rate Field.

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Pedro Grifol officially becomes White Sox manager — and has high expectations: ‘We will play with passion, pride for this uniform’

CHICAGO — Pedro Grifol put on a Chicago White Sox home jersey with the No. 5 and his name on the back Thursday morning at Guaranteed Rate Field.

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‘Extremely upsetting’: Chicago bar surrounded in controversy after racist puppet show

CHICAGO — On Tuesday, puppeteer Jerry Halliday brought out one of his puppets during a show celebrating Touché's 45th anniversary and put on a performance that attendees have called racist and transphobic — and which has since plunged the bar into controversy.

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Two Chicago cops face dismissal for allegedly lying about 2010 fatal shooting

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the officers repeatedly lied about the shooting of 25-year-old William Hope Jr., whose family was awarded $4.6 million in a lawsuit filed against the city.

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Former Bears DE Alex Brown standing out on NBC Sports Chicago’s ‘Football Aftershow’

“I love talking to people, and I love football,” Brown said. “If somehow I could convince someone to pay me to talk about football, it’d be awesome. That led me down that path.”

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DuSable Black history museum to host screening honoring Chicago artist Norman Parish

The documentary, titled “Walls of Respect: Norman Parish and the Parish Art Gallery,” honors the life, work and legacy of the artist and art dealer.

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South Shore residents talk midterms, the story behind fake ‘newspapers’ in your mailbox 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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Which Love Is Blind couples from season two are still together?

The cast of ‘Love Is Blind’ season two have gone through manys ups and downs since cameras stopped rolling

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Airlines to bring job training programs to Chicago as they search for more mechanics

Airlines are gearing up for their next big hiring need: airplane mechanics. And to meet that need, some are bringing new job training programs to Chicago.

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Chicago’s 1-year-old Committee on Design is helping shape the city’s most important development projects

Chicago developers worried last year that construction projects would face bureaucratic snarls after city planners added a layer to the approval process. Builders already had to run a gantlet of officials on several commissions and committees, as well as City Council. Some now had to face the Committee on Design,…

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Chicago nonprofit that helps people with disabilities gets $8 million gift from MacKenzie Scott

Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $12 billion in just three years.

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Cops: ‘Hood CNN’ reporter’s murder solved but no prosecution

Chicago police documents obtained by The Associated Press show investigators believe they solved the 2018 killing of a gangland journalist known as “ZackTV” but that prosecutors declined to prosecute

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Experts agree: Bears QB Justin Fields was a winner at the NFL trade deadline

With the Bears trading for Chase Claypool, most NFL experts are declaring Justin Fields a winner after the NFL trade deadline.

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Pulse of the Heartland: South Shore voters hope Obama center brings change to believe in — but they take nothing for granted

South Shore was long seen as a “first-house neighborhood” for middle-class residents, and it saw one of its favorite daughters go to the White House as first lady. Residents now hope the nearby Obama Presidential Center will make it “an area where people want to move into.”

Chicago Tribune

Bears hosted 1st girls flag football championship in Illinois. Officials want to make the game an IHSA-sanctioned sport by 2024.

CHICAGO — Kenwood Academy High School senior Kennedy Scott started tossing around the football with her twin brother in 2021 when he was getting ready to play tackle football for Urban Prep Academy.

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Gordon Hayward’s injury luck runs out in Hornets’ loss to Bulls

It’s too early to draw definitive conclusions, especially given how the Charlotte Hornets entered Wednesday’s game in Chicago still without three key players in their rotation.

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President Biden, Vice President Harris headed to Chicago area to stump for Democrats in closing days of campaign

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will both make appearances in the Chicago area in coming days to try to shore up Democratic congressional candidates’ election chances in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

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