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Talks to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago after this year hit a snag

CHICAGO — Lollapalooza organizers and the Chicago Park District reached a stalemate Thursday night in crafting a new contract to keep Chicago’s largest music festival in Grant Park for years to come.

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Back-to-school spending expected to hit record high as inflation soars. ‘It’s kind of adding up now’

Nicole Sebastian has been “a little choosier” when buying school supplies for her two kids this year. With inflation at its highest since the early 1980s, prices are up across the board, and notebooks and markers are no exception.

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Brother says he was assembling a ghost gun when it went off accidentally, killing his 15-year-old sister

Lawrence Daniels, 20, was arrested shortly after his sister, Shaniya Daniels, was shot in the head Tuesday evening, Chicago police said.

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The coming close of Henry’s Sports and Bait viewed through decades of its and Chicago’s history

Going back to the beginning of Henry’s Sports and Bait, the powerhouse of Chicago outdoors and fishing, then going through decades of the history of Chicago and Henry’s.

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Chicago police officer exchanges gunfire after stopping to check on traffic accident on Northwest Side

The officer and a partner had stopped to check on the car’s occupants in the 5200 block of North Nagle Avenue early Friday when someone in the car opened fire, police said.

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Raymond Allen Murray Jr., one of the Montford Point Marines who broke color barrier in the service in WWII, dead at 99

Despite being treated as “less than a human being,” the members of the segregated unit “fought gallantly,” says James T. Averhart, president of the National Montford Point Marine Association. “This is not just Black history. It is not just Marine Corps history. It is American history.”

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Paul Sullivan: With the futures of Toews and Kane in flux, Blackhawks' rebuild is ‘draining’ — and has only just begun

CHICAGO — Jonathan Toews had an apt description of the Chicago Blackhawks rebuild during a recent interview with The Athletic.

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Disabled athlete crosses Lake Michigan on paddleboard in quest to traverse all the Great Lakes: ‘It’s really something to witness’

CHICAGO — A small dot on the horizon grew larger as a group of 10 paddleboarders prepared to join it. Some of them whistled, hooted and yelled words of encouragement, waving their paddles in the air.

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We must protect Great Lakes shorelines at a time of extreme lake levels

Climate change is causing unexpected weather events and fluctuating lake water levels. That results in lakefront erosion, beach loss, flood risks and damage to homes and businesses.

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Fresh take on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ comes to 5 Chicago parks for free performances through Aug. 21

Outdoor production of the Shakespeare comedy aims to connect the Bard with modern audiences.

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Nearly 20,000 Cook County residents holding revoked FOID cards — enough to populate a medium-sized suburb

Cook County sheriff’s police told Illinois legislators Thursday that “manpower” issues are the main reason why the revoked cards are still in the hands of potentially dangerous people.

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Man, 20, charged with fatally shooting father of two who was playing Pokemon Go with daughter

Servando Hamros’s 6-year-old daughter reportedly ran away from the shooting while FaceTiming her family shouting, “Daddy’s shot”

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Woman charged in January murder at South Loop home

Chrystal Martin, 28, was arrested Wednesday in Lyons after she was identified as a participant in the Jan. 4 murder of Timothy Vallianatos, Chicago police said.

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Chicago leaders confident of Lollapalooza security plans in wake of Highland Park mass shooting

CHICAGO — Less than a month after a gunman climbed a fire escape and positioned himself on a rooftop to fire rifle rounds into a mass of Independence Day paradegoers below in Highland Park, Chicago officials said they are confident they can keep one of the city’s largest festivals safe…

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The Highland Park shooting suspect is indicted on 117 charges

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,

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4 killed by gunfire in Chicago Wednesday, 2 teens among 10 others wounded

Two people were fatally shot about five minutes apart on the South and Near West Sides.

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2 neighborhood news sources, the Hyde Park Herald and the South Side Weekly, team up

The merger under nonprofit ownership marks the retirement of the Herald’s longtime owner, Bruce Sagan, a leading figure in Chicago publishing.

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Editorial: We can’t leave police to fight their stress battles alone

As the third Chicago Police Department officer to commit suicide in less than a month was laid to rest this past weekend, arguments and anger over the city’s overtaxed police force took on a new sense of urgency.

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Editorial: A domed Soldier Field? Not if taxpayers have to pay.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bid to keep the Bears in Chicago by topping Soldier Field with a dome has the feel of desperation. It’s like the old hook-and-ladder play. Your team is 90 yards away from a touchdown with just a few seconds on the clock, and tries to lateral the…

Newcastle Herald

Guitar virtuoso Adam Miller is going back to the USA

IT'S been two and a half years since the pandemic forced Newcastle jazz guitar master Adam Miller to pack up his six-strings, pedals and amps along with plans to return to the US full-time. Finally next week Miller will touch down on American soil to play his first shows there…

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Thompson Center, luckily, shows up in Google’s search for office space

The sale bodes well for the Thompson Center, but also for a downtown that’s still staggering from the pandemic and needs all the help, energy — and new office workers — it can get.

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The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago July 28-Aug. 3

Lollapalooza, ‘Fun Home’ and the Newberry Book Fair are among the highlights in the week ahead.

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Man found shot to death near alley in Roseland

The man was discovered near an alley in the 11200 block of South Eggleston, Chicago police said.

Chicago Tribune

Google will be new occupant of Chicago's iconic, controversial James R. Thompson Center

CHICAGO — Google has agreed to buy the soon-to-be-renovated James R. Thompson Center in heart of the Loop, a victory for Chicago’s central business district and for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as he seeks reelection and fends off criticism over recent high-profile corporate departures.

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Suspect in Chicago July 4 shooting indicted on 117 felonies

Robert E Crimo III indicted on 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 of attempted murder and 48 of aggravated battery.

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