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Former Chicago Bear recalls son's strength during treatment | Tackle Cancer with Marcus Robinson
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- Former Chicago Bear recalls son's strength during treatment | Tackle Cancer with Marcus Robinson
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- 1 year ago
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- Former Chicago Bears wide receiver Marcus Robinson discusses his son's struggle with leukemia and how the great doctors and his son's attitude got them through cancer.
This video is sponsored by AARP Chicago, the American Cancer Society and the Chicago Bears.
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- Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. joins Lynn Sweet to discuss work on Senate Judiciary Committee
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- 1 year ago
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- Lynn Sweet is joined by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. as he starts his second term as the Senate Judiciary Committee chair.
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- Rising U.S. figure skating stars Alexa Gasparotto & Nathan Chapple prepare for competition
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- 1 year ago
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- This month Gasparotto competing at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and Chapple competing at the World University Games, will make history as the first Black figure skater to compete for the U.S.
Read the full story by Annie Costabile at
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-saturday/2023/1/7/23507929/the-future-of-u-s-figure-skating-includes-rising-stars-alexa-gasparotto-and-nathan-chapple
Video by: Brian Ernst
Photos by: Pat Nabong
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- Discussing Illinois politics w/ GOP strategist Eleni Demertzis & Dem consultant Ron Holmes
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- 1 year ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by colleagues Tina Sfondeles, chief political reporter, and WBEZ's state and government reporter Dave McKinney to discuss the state of Illinois politics and what's in store for Chicago's mayoral election with Republican strategist Eleni Demertzis & Democratic consultant Ron Holmes.
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- April Ryan on her new book 'Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem'
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- 1 year ago
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- American reporter, author, and White House Correspondent for The Grio April Ryan sits with Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet to discuss her latest work.
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- Sun-Times, WBEZ experts and Dem, GOP strategists discuss mayor's race, April Ryan's new book
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Woman robbed at gunpoint while walking with dog in Lincoln Park
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- 1 year ago
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- Diana Dejacimo, 70, had just exited her vehicle with her dog in the 1300 block of Webster Avenue when a male approached her with a handgun and demanded her purse.
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- Replica of Michelangelo statue removed from St. Adalbert in Pilsen
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- 1 year ago
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- The statue is a marble replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta, depicting the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother, Mary, after the crucifixion.
Read the full story at: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/11/29/23483946/st-adalbert-church-pieta-statue-removed
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- Zach Allen an Oboist with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra practices with his Oboe
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- 1 year ago
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- Child falls 24 feet from Navy Pier climbing wall after operators fail to attach rope: lawsuit
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- 1 year ago
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- New York Times reporter & best-selling author Maggie Haberman discusses her new book on Trump
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- New York Times reporter and best-selling author Maggie Haberman joins Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet at the University Club of Chicago to discuss her new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America."
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- Political experts on the midterms, "Chuy" enters race for mayor, & a sit down with Maggie Haberman
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by WBEZ government and politics reporter Dan Mihalopoulos, Sun-Times chief political reporter Tina Sfondeles and Demoractic political consultant Ron Holmes to discuss the results of the midterms and what it means for Lori Lightfoot now that U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia has entered the race for mayor of Chicago.
Later in the show, Lynn sits with New York Times reporter and best-selling author, Maggie Haberman, to discuss her new book "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" from the University Club of Chicago.
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- 11 of 14 people wounded in East Garfield Park were members of family gathered to remember loved one
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The vigil Monday evening in East Garfield Park was meant to be a brief moment of joy for a family in mourning.
Relatives of Shakia Lucas sent red, white and black balloons into the air just after 8 p.m., then remained on the corner of California and Polk, catching up and sharing memories of the 38-year-old who had died just days earlier.
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- Sun-Times & WBEZ political experts on the gubernatorial race and midterm elections
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet welcomes Sun-Times chief political reporter Tina Sfondeles, WBEZ state and politics reporter Dave McKinney and WBEZ investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos to discuss the upcoming gubernatorial election.
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- Bestselling author David Corn in conversation with Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet | American Psychosis
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by David Corn, author of "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy."
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- Maxwell Street Klezmer Band performs at the Highland Park Public Library
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Maxwell Street Klezmer Band tuba player Howard Prager said the concert “was all about bringing peace and joy. And this community needs all the peace and joy it can have after what happened.”
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- At the Table with Lynn Sweet | October 20, 2022
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Community group met with confrontation distributing clothing to immigrants outside Salvation Army
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Video provided by the Mural Movement and William Guerrero, who is known as "TheKID from Pilsen."
A Pilsen-based community group at odds with city and shelter officials over how to get donations to immigrants bused from Texas says it plans to continue providing items directly to the newly arrived community.
For weeks, the Mural Movement along with other community leaders have stopped by the Salvation Army’s Humboldt Park shelters to greet those arriving from the Texas-chartered buses. But late last week, that effort led to a confrontation between the group and a Salvation Army worker that can be heard on a video posted online using expletives while telling the community group to leave.
The worker in the video has since been reassigned, said Brian Duewel, spokesman for the Salvation Army North and Central Illinois Division. He said the group can continue doing distributions on sidewalks near the shelters, but the Salvation Army can’t let them in...
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- Illinois Gubernatorial debate | Incumbent J.B. Pritzker (D) & challenger Darren Bailey (R)
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- 2 years ago
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- The stage in Illinois State University’s Braden Auditorium will be the setting for the live television broadcast of a gubernatorial debate between Democratic Governor JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 6.
The debate will be hosted by Nexstar Media Group and presented by AARP and Illinois State University. The event will be televised live on Nexstar affiliates throughout the state including Central Illinois’ WMBD-TV, radio broadcast on NPR affiliates WGLT and WCBU, and will be covered by La Voz, the Spanish-language section of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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- Your robot’s here! UIC students get food delivered by automated robot pilot program
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Starship Technologies robots deliver food to University of Illinois Chicago students. The robots operate in the area within Halsted Street, Ogden Avenue, Roosevelt Road and the Eisenhower Expressway during its two-year-long pilot.
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- An off-duty CPD cop wounded in apparent road rage shooting ‘no longer a member of the department’
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Pilsen shooting left 2 people wounded & prompted criminal charges against 2 cops accused of lying
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Police oversight officials on Tuesday released videos and other records related to an officer-involved shooting in Pilsen earlier this year that left two people wounded and prompted criminal charges against two cops accused of lying about what happened.
The move comes four days after Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso were hit with felony charges and just a day after a Cook County judge refused to block the Civilian Office of Police Accountability from publicly releasing the surveillance videos.
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- Checking in Highland Park 2 months after July 4th mass shooting with Lynn Sweet
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this segment from the September edition of At The Table, Lynn sweet returns to Highland Park to meet with Mayor Nancy Rotering, a family affected by the shooting, a first responder, and the artist currently curating a temporary memorial.
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- Best-selling author Tim Miller joins Lynn Sweet to discuss the future of the Republican Party
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this segment of the September edition of At The Table, Tim Miller, author of "Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell," discuss Trump and what's ahead for the Republican Party.
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- At the Table with Lynn Sweet | September 15, 2022
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Mexican community's fight to stay in Chicago | Author Mike Amezcua from Georgetown discusses
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- 2 years ago
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- The Chicago Sun-Times presents Social Justice in Chicago: The Mexican community's fight to stay in the city.
Host: Elvia Malagón. Guest: Mike Amezcua, author of Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification.
Recorded at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022.
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- A tribute to Chicago environmental justice activist Hazel Johnson
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Chicago Sun-Times presents The Environmental Justice Exchange: A tribute to Hazel Johnson, the Mother of
Environmental Justice.
Host: Brett Chase.
Guests: Cheryl Johnson, Hazel's daughter and executive director of People for Community Recovery;
Tarnynon Onumonu, poet and author of "Greetings from the Moon, the Sacrificial Side";
Luis Carranza, poet and author of "Viva la Resistencia".
Recorded at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022.
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- Danyel Smith on Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight amongst other Black women in pop
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- WBEZ Presents Danyel Smith, author of “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop” in conversation with WBEZ's Natalie Moore at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022.
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- “Life’s too short to read depressing novels” | Discussing period and contemporary romances
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- WBEZ Presents Adriana Herrera, author of “A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, and Sarah MacLean, author of “Heartbreaker: A Hell's Belles Novel” in conversation with WBEZ's Greta Johnsen, host of Nerdette at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022.
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- Halas Intrigue Episode 234: Poles talks — plus stadium news
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Patrick Finley and Mark Potash break down Ryan Poles' take on Roquan Smith and Teven Jenkins — and detail the news that broke about the Arlington Heights stadium project Thursday.
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- Abortion rights sign outside Lake View church damaged by rock throwers
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- 2 years ago
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- A sign declaring a Lake View church’s unwavering support for abortion rights was damaged Wednesday by two people throwing rocks.
The sign, which has been on display outside the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, read, “We support abortion on demand without apology.”
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- Chicago street takeovers: They’re secret, dangerous, illegal — and have a devoted following
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- 2 years ago
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- Chicago City Council has passed an ordinance that empowers police to impound vehicles used in such stunts — whether or not the vehicle’s owner is present. | Video by Ashlee Rezin and Manny Ramos/Sun-Times
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- Southwest Side mom furious after city crews blast lead painted viaduct with water
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- 2 years ago
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- Over the last several years, Alejandra Frausto pleaded with city officials to address high levels of lead in paint covering viaducts stretching along Central Park Avenue in her Southwest Side neighborhood.
So she was shocked Tuesday to see city crews blasting water that sent paint chips flying into nearby grass, yards and sidewalks where school children pass through every day at 64th and Central Park.
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- Cooper Roberts, the Highland Park boy injured in mass shooting, races wheelchair in recovery
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In a weekly update, the Roberts family said that the boy’s spirits are improving as he’s taken off an IV as he rehabilitates from gunshot injuries that badly damaged his internal organs and severed his spinal cord. The family released the first video of the boy since the shooting, a short clip of him racing his wheelchair in a rehabilitation center hallway.
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- Turning 103, ‘Sister Jean’ is getting ready for another year at Loyola
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- 2 years ago
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- Sister Jean Dolores Bertha Schmidt — or Sister Jean as she’s better known to legions of Ramblers basketball fans — celebrates her birthday Sunday, August 21, 2022.
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- Rep. Brad Schneider speaks in Highland Park on one month anniversary of Fourth of July mass shooting
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Read continuing coverage at: https://chicago.suntimes.com/highland-park-parade-shooting
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- WWII vet dies before last wish: a pipe organ performance at 100th birthday. Hear it played
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- 2 years ago
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- Robert Heinzen didn't make it to hear his favorite songs played on the pipe organ at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Wilmette. Heinzen died of heart failure Sunday at Glenbrook Hospital, one day before the celebration was to take place.
But in line with Heinzen’s love of theater and music, the family concluded: The show must go on. Hear one of the songs he requested played now.
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- Thompson Center sculpture heading to new home
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- 2 years ago
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- 17-year-old who fled from a traffic stop punched repeatedly by Oak Lawn police
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- 2 years ago
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- Oak Lawn’s police chief defended the conduct of police officers seen on video repeatedly punching a 17-year-old who fled from a traffic stop in the south suburb Wednesday.
At a press conference that began as the last of several hundred protesters were leaving the Village Hall grounds, Police Chief Daniel Vittorio broke down the action filmed by car-mounted cameras during the arrest of 17-year-old Hadi Abultelh. The images of three officers holding the teen on the ground and repeatedly punching him in the head and legs was much the same a phone-camera video filmed by a bystander that had gone viral in the hours after the arrest, but Vittorio said officers’ actions were in line with their training.
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- Video shows Chicago police shoot 13-year-old boy
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Newly released videos show a 13-year-old raise his arms and extend one toward Chicago police officers before one of the officers shoot him, leaving the boy paralyzed.
The May 18 shooting happened as officers chased the child on the West Side, after he ran from a vehicle wanted in a carjacking a day earlier.
The videos were released by the child’s attorneys a week after they were given by a police oversight agency to the family.
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- Marchers gather on Capitol Hill for a ban on assault weapons in wake of Uvalde, Highland Park
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet captured footage of marchers gathering on Capitol Hill for a ban on assault weapons in wake of mass shootings in Uvalde and Highland Park.
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- Highland Park parade shooting: Community gathers for moment of silence
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It was supposed to last two minutes, but the silence stretched for nearly 10. “It was very powerful,” said local business owner Brian Caponi. “I was amazed, and it kind of overtook me.”
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- Highland Park Mayor: Charges expected "later this afternoon" in wake of Fourth of July mass shooting
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering gives a brief interview with Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet regarding the Fourth of July parade shooting.
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- Highland Park Fourth of July parade disrupted by gunfire
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet captured this footage on the morning of July 4, 2022, at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. People begin running after they hear gunshots.
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- Jackson on Bailey slamming Chicago : "If he's going to govern, he has to govern the entire state"
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Illinois' 1st congressional district Democratic nominee Jonathan Jackson joins Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet to look ahead at his general matchup against Republican nominee Eric Carlson and what ideas he'll bring to Congress if elected.
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- Video shows an armed driver opening his door and firing point-blank at a CPD officer
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Newly released police video shows an armed driver opening his door and firing point-blank at a Chicago police officer after being pulled over in an Englewood alley earlier this month.
As the officer fell back, the driver jumped out of the car, gun raised, and was shot at least twice by other officers on the scene, collapsing on the pavement not far from where the wounded officer knelt, blood dripping down his left arm.
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- At Trump rally in Illinois, Rep. Mary Miller calls reversal of Roe a ‘victory for white life’
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- At the Table with Lynn Sweet: Looking to the gubernatorial primary and Chicago mayoral race
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the run-up to the June 28 primary - and with the Chicago mayoral race already heating up - get the latest analysis on county, state and federal races:
From the Sun-Times, Tina Sfondeles and Fran Spielman
From WBEZ, Dave McKinney, Dan Mihalopoulos and Mariah Woelfel
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- Sun-Times and WBEZ political teams dissect Ken Griffin's moving of Citadel from Chicago to Miami
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by the Sun-Times' Tina Sfondeles and WBEZ's Dave McKinney, Dan Mihalopoulos and Mariah Woelfel to dissect Ken Griffin's influence on the Illinois Governor's race and why now is he deciding to move his hedge fund to Miami.
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- Looking ahead to the Chicago Mayoral race
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by the Sun-Times City Hall reporter Fran Spielman and WBEZ City Hall reporter Mariah Woelfel to discuss the current candidates and who is likely to join the race for Chicago mayor.