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The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Inside Chicago’s street takeover scene, the latest on the R. Kelly trial 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

Balloons for Khalil, prayers for peace: Celebration’s joy followed by yet another killing

Khalil White, 18, was excited about getting a new job, telling others about that at St. Sabina Church’s back-to-school block party. Four days later, he was shot to death.

Chicago Sun-Times

County Commissioner Brandon Johnson portrays himself as the ‘collaborative’ and ‘visionary’ leader Chicago needs

A former teacher and an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, Johnson told the Sun-Times he is “humbled by and grateful for the vote of confidence” from working people urging him to run for mayor and he’s “listening.” He promised a final decision in the next few weeks.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Music of the Baroque marking pavilion debut at Ravinia with celebration of Haydn, Bach

The relaxed atmosphere at Ravinia is ideal to present audiences with new styles or periods of music with which they might not be familiar, like the sounds of the 17th and 18th centuries in which Music of the Baroque specializes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Strategic Leadership Changes At Cannabis Firms: What's New At Vertosa, Rubicon And Galexxy

Top CEOs, investors and leaders in the cannabis industry will soon convene at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference on Sept. 13-14 in Chicago.

Benzinga

This week in history: Dr. Jorge Prieto makes house calls

A prominent physician and advocate for Chicago’s Mexican American community, Prieto worked hard to make health care available to the city’s Spanish-speaking residents. He died Aug. 21, 2001.

Chicago Sun-Times

R. Kelly: Tale of the tape; reporter Jim DeRogatis recounts how it began

Three teams of criminal defense lawyers have tried to cast doubt on the origins of the central video, questioning who gave it to me before the Chicago Sun-Times turned it over to the police. Here’s the story behind the tape.

Chicago Sun-Times

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‘Exhausted’ key witness breaks down at R. Kelly‘s federal trial

CHICAGO — The continued cross-examination of a key witness against R. Kelly got off to an extraordinarily contentious and emotional start Friday. Within 15 minutes, the exchange had grown so argumentative and circular that the judge intervened, and within about 20 minutes the witness had broken down in tears.

Chicago Tribune

Bird in Niles mural is helping flowers ‘break free,’ artist says

Chicago artist Joseph Renda Jr. and Dutch artist Collin van der Sluijs created the mural this summer at the Une Année Hubbard’s Cave craft brewery in the north suburb.

Chicago Sun-Times

Want to own Illinois’ very first automobile license plate? It’s on auction now

The “No. 1” plate was issued by the City of Chicago in 1904.

Chicago Sun-Times

New ownership brings continuity to C.J. Smith Resort, the oldest family bait shop around Chicago

The bait shop was sold Aug. 12. The new ownership brings plans for a few tweaks.

Chicago Sun-Times

5 wounded in shootings across Chicago Thursday

The attacks included the wounding of two women who were shot as they sat in a parked car in West Rogers Park, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Billions of people may face "unprecedented" and deadly heat within 78 years

Using data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, new research forecasts future scenarios of global temperature rise due to climate change.

Inverse

Billy Corgan makes magic as rock star, pro wrestling promoter

Billy Corgan vividly remembers the rush he got when he first listened to the Beatles as a preteen in his Chicago basement. It’s a feeling that eventually propelled him to rock superstardom as lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins.

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Chicago Tribune

After some heartbreak during the pandemic, jazz couple Mark and Anne Burnell find peace making music

CHICAGO — Time flies but music endures. A couple of weeks ago I could hear the voice of the late piano bar wizard Buddy Charles and he was saying, “There is something primitive about being close to live music. What makes it work is that people are inherently eager for…

WEKU

A rare, first-of-its kind Chicago license plate is up for auction

Before Illinois took over the issuing of license plates, Chicago made plates from thin, stamped aluminum. Of those, the first-ever made is expected to sell for upwards of $4,000.

Salon

Fence jumper nabbed at Chicago FBI HQ

The man is also said to have been throwing rocks at the building

Tribune News Service

Heidi Stevens: Darren Bailey keeps calling Chicago a hellhole. I call it humanity.

State Sen. Darren Bailey, Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, is holding firm to his assertion that Chicago is a hellhole, a designation he first bestowed upon us during a May primary debate, when he called the city, to be precise, “a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole.”

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Chicago Tribune

Nervous and somber, students at Chicago high school return to campus as more details about shooting emerge

CHICAGO — As the Carl Schurz High School students passed under the school’s brown iron gates Thursday morning, community members greeted them with doughnuts and flowers outside the Northwest Side school, a day after a shooting that left four teens wounded, including two Schurz students.

The Independent UK

Witness: R. Kelly manager threatened her over stolen video

A former R. Kelly girlfriend wept on the witness stand as she testified that a Kelly business manager told her in 2007 she should have been killed for causing the R&B star so much trouble

Chicago Sun-Times

Relentless string of canceled days off blamed for spike in Chicago Police suicides “pared down significantly,” top mayoral aide says

“There were obviously an extra amount of days off canceled throughout this last spring and summer period. That has been scaled back,” said Elena Gottreich, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s fourth deputy mayor for public safety.

Chicago Tribune

NASCAR exec to set up shop in Chicago as plans for first-ever street race take shape

NASCAR has named a veteran racing executive to oversee its first-ever street race in Chicago as it gears up for a Lollapalooza-like festival at Grant Park for next July 4th weekend.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Goldschmidt soars, Dakota Hudson stays grounded as Cardinals thump Cubs

CHICAGO — What the Cardinals have come to expect from the National League’s MVP favorite overshadowed what the Cardinals have long been expecting all year from a young sinkerballer.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago street takeovers: They’re secret, dangerous, illegal — and have a devoted following

A crackdown has had little impact on the events, which feature cars drifting and doing other stunts. They are organized in minutes across the city through a social network that taps into the culture of street racing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inspector general pokes holes in Chicago’s process of building inspections

In her first full-blown audit, Inspector General Deborah Witzburg takes the Department of Buildings to task for fulfilling its inspection mandate only when certificates of occupancy are required.

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