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Life expectancy gap widens among Black and white Chicagoans during first year of pandemic; Latinos suffer steepest drop

COVID-19 deaths drove much of the change but wasn’t the leading factor for it. The deadly virus was second to heart disease deaths — which increased with other chronic diseases like diabetes.

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Man charged with stealing CFD ambulance, leading police on 80-mile chase downstate

A person entered the ambulance as it sat empty, parked on the street outside a fire station in Chinatown Monday afternoon.

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Labor groups join aldermen in critique of casino plans over lack of living wage guarantees

The president of the Chicago Federation of Labor said none of the proposed casino operators has agreed to negotiate union contracts.

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Chicago police should not abandon positive community interaction program

If there must be some retooling, then do it. But the idea has been a staple in law enforcement for years.

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Afternoon Edition: April 25, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Chicago woman dies in Broadview crash involving PACE bus

The crash happened early Monday morning when a speeding northbound black Kia sedan went through a red light and struck a southbound minivan at Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue, police said.

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2 men dead in separate West Side shootings within 20 minutes Monday

The shootings happened in Humboldt Park and in the Austin neighborhood.

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Mayoral allies oppose suspending rules to allow vote on revised City Council map proposal

Finance Committee Chairman Scott Waguespack and Ethics Committee Chair Michele Smith launched a pre-emptive strike, hoping to head off a vote on a new ward map Wednesday — a vote that could aid an eleventh-hour switch by the Latino Caucus and CHANGE Illinois.

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Young playwrights use words to seek ‘power,’ tackle gun violence on stages nationally

CHICAGO — Echaka Agba and Adhana Reid read the parts of Joy and Eva, a mother-daughter duo in the play “Southside Summer,” describing at his funeral how the character Eva’s younger brother Emmanuel was killed.

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Two men shot during fight in Edgewater

Three men were fighting in the 6000 block of North Winthrop when one of them opened fire around 11 p.m., Chicago police said.

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Lizzo making a ‘Special’ tour stop in Chicago

Her special guest on the trek will be Atlanta rapper Latto.

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Mask mandates in Illinois hospitals, doctors’ offices not going anywhere, for now

CHICAGO — It may be some time before people can walk through Illinois hospitals, doctors’ offices and nursing homes barefaced, despite mask mandates dropping on buses, planes and trains last week.

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‘Bye Bye Chicago’ faces death and friendship in this year’s Chicago Latino Film Festival

The locally produced feature-length film is about a young Colombian college student and the unlikely friendship she shares with an aging Mexican immigrant.

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Chicago company’s answer to food waste is all in the box

Hazel Technologies, which has moved to Fulton Market, is pioneering packets that extend the shelf life of produce.

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Is ‘flu’ really hurting ‘birds?’

Peddlers of paranoid conspiracy theories, hiding behind First Amendment, might destroy the Chicago Reader.

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25 years and a lot of beer: As Two Brothers Brewing celebrates anniversary, its founders look back

CHICAGO — Few Chicago-area breweries are as underappreciated as Two Brothers.

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Chicago sees most violent weekend this year: 37 hurt and 7 killed by gunfire

In January, just days after Chicago closed the books on its deadliest year in a quarter-century, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared 2022 a “make-or-break year” for tamping down surging violent crime. This weekend, however, proved to be the year’s first major stumbling block.

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Kevin Newman, Pirates rebound from historic loss by beating Cubs, 4-3, and taking four-game series

CHICAGO — Kevin Newman needed a rebound. So did the Pirates. They both found what they were looking for Sunday during Pittsburgh’s 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, one that helped the visitors secure a four-game series win.

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‘Cooley High’ stars look back at ‘glorious experience’ of making an enduring Chicago favorite

TCM Classic Film Festival brings together Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and other actors from the influential coming-of-age movie from 1975.

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Chicago Bulls lose at the United Center again — and now are down 3-1 in their playoff series to Milwaukee Bucks

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls delivered hope in Game 4 of their series with the Milwaukee Bucks. That was an improvement, at least, for fans at the United Center after the beatdown of Game 3.

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Teamsters boss bragged ‘you can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk’ years before deal with feds

It’s yet another made-for-Hollywood scene straight out of real-life Chicago corruption, according to an FBI affidavit recently obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. It happened more than two years before John Coli struck a deal with the feds and admitted he’d taken $325,000 in cash payments from…

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Toddler airlifted to Chicago hospital following Gary crash

Officials have not yet released information on the toddler’s condition.

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Republican Bailey vows to ‘take Illinois by storm’ in conservative campaign for governor

Darren Bailey’s conservative campaign is targeting those he says have been forgotten and left behind. “The Republican establishment and the Democrats, they don’t have any idea some of these people exist and what they’re thinking,” he told the Sun-Times. “I think that what we do here in Illinois,…

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White Sox OF Eloy Jiménez Out 6-8 Weeks With Hamstring Strain

Jiménez will be re-evaluated when Chicago returns from its road trip.

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Stop using Chicago’s speed cameras as a cash machine

Instead of providing safety improvements, the speed camera ticketing policy has become a huge cash machine for a city constantly on the financial edge.

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