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Tracy Baim to leave the Chicago Reader by year-end

She took over the alternative publication in 2018, overcoming a dispute with an owner to convert it to nonprofit ownership.

Chicago Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 21 must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

Chicagoans rock out at Lollapalooza, new U.S. citizens share their joy, and sailboats and rubber ducks take to the water in our best unseen pics of the week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Canopy Growth & Other Cannabis Operators Just Made Some Key Executive Changes You Should Know About

As Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference returns on September 13-14 to Chicago, gathering top CEOs, investors and leaders in the industry, let's scroll through the latest leadership changes within the space.

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More claims made about former lead prosecutor in R. Kelly’s federal case in Chicago

Lawyers for one of Kelly’s co-defendants say the prosecutor identified an alleged Kelly victim as “Boss Baby” in her phone contact list and developed an inappropriate relationship with her.

Chicago Sun-Times

2 killed by gunfire in Chicago Thursday, 3 teens among 17 wounded

The fatal attacks occurred in Roseland and East Garfield Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man killed, woman seriously wounded while sitting in parked car in Roseland

The shooting happened around 8 p.m. in the 10400 block of South Emerald Avenue when a dark sedan pulled alongside their car and someone inside began firing, Chicago police said.

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Seven months before smokestack’s botched implosion smothered Little Village in dust, Chicago city inspector issued dire warning

Of the steps that John Kryl urged his City Hall bosses be taken, “Not a single one of these things was done,” a community activist says.

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May Nakano, Chicago HUD building manager who was interned in Canada during WWII for being Japanese, dead at 79

A gifted home cook, she did demonstrations on making artful boxed lunches, sushi, gyoza and somen noodle salads at Marshall Field’s and for the Japanese American Service Committee.

Chicago Sun-Times

David Axelrod has done 500 episodes of ‘The Axe Files’ and talked with every stripe of politician — here’s what he thinks of the mess we’re in now

CHICAGO — You’ve likely heard this before, or felt it in your bones, but it’s horrifying, debilitating and worth repeating, especially right now, as we head into a political season: At least half of this country hates the other half. According to the Pew Research Center, 75% of Democrats think…

Chicago Tribune

Hack Wilson: the hard-living Chicago Cubs star whose epic 1930 endures

The mercurial Cubs outfielder was one of the most rambunctious hitters in MLB history and still holds of one of the sport’s most impregnable records

The Guardian - US

Illinois joins 3 other states to create EV charging circuit along Lake Michigan shoreline route

CHICAGO — Illinois has joined with three other states to build a 1,100-mile EV charging circuit along Lake Michigan, creating a scenic tourism route with enough juice to get electric vehicles from fish boils in Green Bay to cherry picking in Traverse City.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Why I am steering clear of LIV Golf tournament

Should Chicago-area fans of professional golf boycott the Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf Invitational being held at Rich Harvest Farms in September?

Chicago Tribune

Keanu Reeves Takes Rare TV Role in Historical Thriller

Keanu Reeves will star in a TV adaptation of “The Devil in the White City,” the bestselling nonfiction thriller about ambition, a killer and the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Reeves will portray Daniel H. Burnham, an architect “trying to make his mark on history” with his designs for the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Officials urge caution heading into Market Days weekend as Illinois monkeypox case count rises to 571

Monkeypox cases have been detected across 55 of Chicago’s 77 community areas, and while most have emerged among men who have sex with men, officials stress that anyone can become infected through close contact.

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Man who claimed he stabbed woman to death during struggle over knife is charged with felony count of ‘armed habitual criminal’

Claude Turner, 56, was arrested after the woman, in her late 30s, was found early Wednesday in a second-floor apartment in the 7100 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Keanu Reeves set to play Daniel H. Burnham in ‘Devil in the White City’

No one is cast yet as Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes in the Hulu adaptation of Erik Larson’s book.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lars Nootbaar's ninth-inning single completes Cardinals' rally past Cubs

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals drew even on the loss side with the Milwaukee Brewers at the top of the National League Central Division Thursday. Moments after the Brewers had been swept in a three-game series at Pittsburgh, the Cardinals completed a comeback to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 at…

The Independent UK

'Chicago' to welcome trans actor Angelica Ross as Roxie Hart

“Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in the musical “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart

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Illinois’ new public health leader faces big challenges, an Oak Park native sets sail 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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Myrna Salazar, co-founder and executive director of Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, dies at 75

A native of Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago, Salazar was a staunch advocate for equity and representation of Latino artists on Chicago’s stages.

Chicago Tribune

Great Chicago Fire slowed interest in wood buildings, but city's first mass timber tower could soon take shape

CHICAGO — Developer Sterling Bay is set to begin construction of Chicago’s first mass timber building, a nine-story, apartment tower in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. If approved by City Council, the $50 million development may kick off widespread use of the modern technique, already popular in other cities, which boosters…

Benzinga

Six Former Disney Stars Spill The Beans About Their Weed Use: From Miley Cyrus To Justin Timberlake, Could They Be At This Chicago Event?

The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference (CCC) is coming to the great city of Chicago on September 13-14, 2022 and we're thrilled to invite several Disney (NYSE: DIS) celebs to tell us their

Chicago Sun-Times

City announces 10 more neighborhood plazas to feature art space, walking trails — even an ice-skating rink

The public outdoor plazas will be funded by the Chicago Recovery Program. Eight out of 10 of the proposed plazas are on the city’s South and West sides.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks workers in North Park vote to unionize

The store becomes the sixth in the Chicago area to affiliate with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Tribune

Chris Jones: Chicago theater has a crisis of leadership — and it has to stop eating its own

CHICAGO — On Monday, Chicago’s theater and journalism communities were set to gather in celebration of the life of former Tribune critic Richard Christiansen in the theater space at the Biograph that bears his name. But the event, timed to what would have been the 91st birthday of the famously…

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