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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Tribune

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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,…

Chicago Tribune

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Independent UK

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 Sun-Times

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.

Chicago Tribune

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Tribune

With the addition of LB Roquan Smith, Ravens feel their defense can be ‘really, really special’

BALTIMORE — Roquan Smith did not believe he would be traded, not even with his Chicago Bears off to a losing start and his contractual future unresolved. If he was going to go, however, he wanted to be “playing for a title.”

Tribune News Service

Gun violence won’t stop until there’s accountability

Getting manufacturers on board to prevent illegal conversion to automatic fire is a good way to start but until gun crime offenders are held accountable for their actions nothing will change.

Chicago Sun-Times

Done with ‘SNL,’ Melissa Villaseñor savors her freedom and ‘feels like a little kid’

At her stand-up shows in Chicago, comedian and impressionist promises silliness and a bit of darkness

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‘I’m a playmaker.’ Chase Claypool expresses confidence and eagerness on his 1st day as a Bear. But how quickly can the receiver emerge?

CHICAGO — OK, Chicago Bears fans. This was probably the part of the Chase Claypool introduction you were most looking forward to.

Chicago Tribune

Another Chicago-area corporate HQ hitting the road as auto parts supplier Tenneco plans move to Michigan

Lake Forest, Illinois-based auto parts manufacturer Tenneco is the latest Chicago-area company to announce it is hitting the road, with plans to shift its headquarters to Michigan.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-Pritzker PAC tries to suppress the Black vote in Chicago, Biden plans visit to Illinois 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.

Chicago Sun-Times

After West Side mass shooting, leaders offer hope, call for more funding to combat violence: ‘We are not destroyed’

U.S Rep. Danny Davis called for “a massive infusion of cash money, resources to really reconstitute urban communities on the West Side of Chicago” and across the country — “the same kind of money” being sent to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

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3 keys for Bears offense vs. Dolphins in Week 9

The Bears will have an opportunity to beat the Dolphins if the offense does these three things on Sunday.

Chicago Sun-Times

North Side man charged with sending GOP gov hopeful Darren Bailey voicemail death threat: ‘I know where his kids sleep’

Illinois State Police say Scott Lennox left Republican Darren Bailey a voicemail threatening to “mutilate and kill” him. “This went above and beyond anything that is acceptable, even in the realms of political discourse,” Cook County Circuit Court Judge Susana Ortiz said. “It simply will not be…

The Guardian - US

Major League Rugby announces new team in Chicago after LA and Austin exit

US professional men’s rugby union league heads for sixth season after losing teams in California and Texas

Chicago Sun-Times

Coach houses, basement apartments would be OK citywide under housing proposal

Additional dwelling units, such as coach houses or in-law apartments, are limited to five pilot areas of Chicago after having been banned since 1957.

Chicago Sun-Times

Free mammogram program at U of C hospital aims to address health disparities

The program, called SCORE, offers the free scan to women age 40 or older without health insurance.

Chicago Sun-Times

Video shows Chicago cop fatally shooting man who fired gun during chase in Old Town

Video shows no police aid being given to Antonio Calmese Jr., 20, killed Oct. 2 in the 400 block of West Blackhawk Street after he fired at a police officer.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: A Kanye mural is painted over, another remains. It’s the Chicago way of conversing through public art

CHICAGO — We forget we are in a conversation with public art until something happens.

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