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Top officials out at state emergency agency

Three top officials at IEMA, the state agency tasked with responding to disasters across the state including the COVID pandemic and a record number of tornadoes this year, were pushed out late last month.

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Trump’s been indicted twice for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Here’s how the two cases differ.

Neither the Georgia indictment nor the federal case will lead directly to his exclusion from office, a University of Chicago law professor writes. But ultimately, the two cases might have very different consequences.

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Veteran journalist Gilbert Bailon named executive editor of WBEZ

Bailon was most recently the executive editor at KERA, Dallas’s NPR affiliate. Prior to KERA, he spent nearly 15 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Cook County’s good news and bad news: No new taxes or fees — but deficit now projected at $86 million

While the estimated budget hole is larger than the $18.2 million gap projected last year, it is one of the county’s smallest deficits in the last decade. Government leaders said that hiring hasn’t budged much in the past year. “We do need to staff up,” Cook County Board President Preckwinkle…

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Trial begins for businessman charged in bribery scheme that brought down former lawmaker Luis Arroyo

Like the ComEd bribery case, the trial of James T. Weiss is expected to feature secret FBI recordings, revolve around the business of lobbying and feature testimony from current and former state lawmakers.

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Huge ‘river monster’ dinosaur unveiled at Field Museum

The semiaquatic Spinosaurus, which lived about 95 million years ago, is 46 feet long.

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75 years, 10 mayors: How Sun-Times coverage of City Hall evolved

The newspaper has praised and scourged the city’s chief executives for three-quarters of a century.

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Brandon Johnson in no rush to get rid of ShotSpotter despite campaign promise

“The mayor was clear that there were some real questions about the effectiveness of ShotSpotter .... There might be individuals who have different perspective. He’s gonna hear everyone out and make a decision on that,” senior adviser Jason Lee told the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson names Fred Waller as interim police superintendent

Waller, who retired from the Chicago Police Department in 2020 after 34 years on the force, will take over when Johnson is sworn in on May 15.

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