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Updated look at Bears’ 2023 draft picks after Robert Quinn trade

The Bears now has seven draft picks in the 2023 NFL draft. Here's an updated look at Chicago's picks by round:

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Amendment ‘right thing’ for workers? Or ‘government union power play’? Proposal stirs debate on union rights, worker safety

Supporters say the amendment will enshrine collective bargaining rights as fundamental Illinois law and help workers bargain for measures that affect public safety. Detractors call it a power grab by organized labor that will raise the cost of government and, therefore, property taxes.

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Clouted owner of senior home fined $1,500 after 3 residents died during hot spell as heat was left running inside their building

Newly released autopsy results show the primary cause of death for all three women was “environmental heat exposure due to hot residential building during heat-related weather event.”

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Brandon Johnson joining crowded race for mayor

The Cook County commissioner said he is running because incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot has failed progressives. “The hopes and desires of working families have been ignored,” Johnson told the Sun-Times.

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Meet Boots, the poet who leaves inspirational messages on Chicago’s sidewalks

CHICAGO — After a 10-year relationship ended, she started writing poetry to heal a broken heart. Seven years later, she continues to write — but now she does so on the sidewalks of Chicago.

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Officers wounded in line of duty awarded for bravery

Twelve Chicago police officers, a U.S. Marshal and a canine officer receive the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation’s Valor Award.

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Former Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. sentenced to 19 months in federal prison in extortion case

CHICAGO — Former Teamsters union boss John Coli Sr. once basked in a reputation as a tough-nosed, nationally known organized labor figure, rubbing elbows with the state’s political and business elite, running up $15,000 tabs at Chicago steakhouses, and cruising around the Mediterranean on other people’s yachts.

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15-year-old fatally shot in Greater Grand Crossing

The teen was shot in the 7700 block of South Vernon Avenue by someone in a white Jeep, Chicago police said.

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It sets a bad precedent when cop with Proud Boys ties gets a pass

It’s deeply troubling that the Chicago Police Department overlooked incriminating evidence and didn’t even consider firing Bakker for making inconsistent statements to authorities about his ties to the insurrectionist group.

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West Rogers Park school drops its slaveowner namesake

The school becomes the third — and second named after a slaveowner — to change its name since a Chicago Sun-Times review in late 2020 found 30 CPS schools are named after slaveholders.

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Robert Quinn trade grades: Who won the deal between the Eagles and Bears?

Who won the Quinn trade to the Eagles?

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The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Oct. 27-Nov. 2

The Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade, “A Christmas Story, The Musical” and Tammy McCann performing “Yes, Mahalia!” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

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Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ and WTTW to host U.S. Senate candidates forum Thursday ‘to help voters comb through key issues’

Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Republican challenger Kathy Salvi will meet and take questions at 7 p.m.

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‘Call Jane’: Elizabeth Banks film portrays crucial time for abortion in Chicago’s history

In nuanced drama about the real-life underground network that served women in the ’60s and ’70s, the actor plays a housewife spurred into action.

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Bears trade pass rusher Robert Quinn to Eagles for 4th-round pick

The Chicago Bears are trading star pass rusher Robert Quinn to the Philadelphia Eagles for a fourth-round draft pick

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Ex-Teamsters' boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

A once-powerful labor leader in Chicago has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison for extorting $325,000 in cash payments from the head of a film studio in the city

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Chicago’s veterans deserve city department dedicated to their needs

Chicago has had an influx of federal relief funding and enough budget capacity for free bikes, gasoline and Ventra card give-aways, and $500 monthly guaranteed income checks. We should be able to find money to help veterans.

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Lightfoot proposes annual pay raise for Chicago’s mayor capped at 5%

The salary of Chicago’s mayor hasn’t gone up since Mayor Richard M. Daley held the job in 2005. Also on Wednesday, the council approved a resolution of support for the Jewish community, citing recent antisemitic comments by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

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Former Teamsters boss John Coli gets 19 months in prison for illegal payments from Cinespace Studios

The feds enlisted Coli as a cooperator in 2019, just as a set of aggressive investigations into old-school, Chicago-style corruption turned public. He was seen as particularly significant given his ties to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, former Chicago Mayors Richard M. Daley and…

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1 killed, 4 others wounded by gunfire in Chicago Tuesday

A woman was killed and a man critically wounded when they were shot while driving on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Kenwood neighborhood.

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Pay-up time for parking and pier passes for anglers on the Chicago lakefront

For the first time since pier and parking passes were started for anglers on the Chicago lakefront, there is a price increase; plus some other lakefront notes from the Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee meeting.

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Bear Necessities: Chicago boasts the NFL’s best run game

The Bears are averaging 181 rushing yards per game, which is the best in the NFL.

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A grassroots project at DePaul publishes Chicago stories — the books are free for the asking and you might even be in one

CHICAGO — Big Shoulders Books are free. You can request one. They’ll send you one. You might even be in one. Big Shoulders Books, founded at DePaul University a decade ago, has been one of the more quietly ambitious projects in Midwest journalism, though, in practice, the work is not…

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South Asian women get diabetes at higher rates. A study aims to fight those stats with exercise

CHICAGO — Like many moms, Asmita Patel has struggled to find time to exercise in recent years.

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