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What happened when a Chicago police officer fatally shot his partner, Krystal Rivera?
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- What happened when a Chicago police officer fatally shot his partner, Krystal Rivera?
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- 6 days ago
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- Bodycam footage of fatal shooting of Chicago police officer Krystal Rivera
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- 6 days ago
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- Body camera footage released Friday shows that Chicago police officer Carlos Baker sat in a stairwell for more than 90 seconds after shooting his partner Krystal Rivera last summer, leaving her bleeding from a gunshot he initially said had been fired by someone else.
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- Body-worn camera footage of Officer Carlos Baker from when his partner, Krystal Rivera, was killed
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- 6 days ago
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- Local News Day with Lynn Sweet
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- 7 days ago
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- Local News Day is a nationwide day of action that brings communities together around something we all rely on: trusted, independent local news. To mark the day on April 9, 2026, we joined newsrooms across the country in reminding readers and listeners why local news matters. We asked our reporters to share, in their own words, what they love about Chicago and serving the community.
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- Local News Day with Michael Puente
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- 7 days ago
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- Local News Day is a nationwide day of action that brings communities together around something we all rely on: trusted, independent local news. To mark the day on April 9, 2026, we joined newsrooms across the country in reminding readers and listeners why local news matters. We asked our reporters to share, in their own words, what they love about Chicago and serving the community.
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- Local News Day with Somer Van Benton
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- 7 days ago
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- Local News Day is a nationwide day of action that brings communities together around something we all rely on: trusted, independent local news. To mark the day on April 9, 2026, we joined newsrooms across the country in reminding readers and listeners why local news matters. We asked our reporters to share, in their own words, what they love about Chicago and serving the community.
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- Local News Day with Araceli Gómez-Aldana
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- 7 days ago
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- Local News Day is a nationwide day of action that brings communities together around something we all rely on: trusted, independent local news. To mark the day on April 9, 2026, we joined newsrooms across the country in reminding readers and listeners why local news matters. We asked our reporters to share, in their own words, what they love about Chicago and serving the community.
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- Immersive VR experience let's you explore the Titanic — a Sun-Times reporter tried it
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- 8 days ago
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- Sun-Times reporter Stefano Esposito climbed aboard. The actual Titanic sank 114 years ago on April 15.
Yes, “Titanic: A Voyage Through Time” is realistic — no, that’s not quite the right word.
But you do have the sensation of being in a three-dimensional world, even though you’re actually on dry land, wearing a virtual reality headset as you traipse through a giant gallery space in the Old Town neighborhood.
Story by Stefano Esposito
Video shot by Anthony Vazquez
Video edited by Phyllis Cha
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- Local News Day with Chicago Journalists
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- 14 days ago
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- Local News Day is a nationwide day of action that brings communities together around something we all rely on: trusted, independent local news. To mark the day on April 9, 2026, we joined newsrooms across the country in reminding readers and listeners why local news matters. We asked our reporters to share, in their own words, what they love about Chicago and serving the community.
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- Restoring vintage Coach bags is more than Yoonie's hobby, it's like 'therapy'
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- 16 days ago
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- Helena Kim isn’t a naturally organized person. But her compact West Loop home studio, about 12 by 12 feet, keeps a place for every tool. Her closets conceal an eye-popping variety of glues, dyes, conditioners, thread and other supplies. Floor-to-ceiling shelves boast the fruits of her labor: vintage Coach bags, luxury purses rescued from thrift shops and restored to their original blues, greens, rich browns and chic black.
“I do have a very, very large collection at this point,” Kim admitted. “It was nothing I set out to do. But every time I went thrifting, I’m like, I need to rescue her! She needs help!”
Across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, Kim is known by her nickname, Yoonie, which is derived from her Korean name; she has more than 1.2 million followers. Her soothing short videos, where she explains how to hunt for and rehabilitate the saddest of bargain bin finds, feel like tagging along with your coolest friend or kind big sister. She prefers...
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- One of the last shoeshine guys in Chicago
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- 17 days ago
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- Magic Johnson’s size 14 wingtips. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s size 8 brogues. Forty-dollar shoes. Thousand-dollar shoes. And everything in between.
Steve Fullerton has cared for them all, the snap of his buffing rags echoing beneath the vaulted marble ceiling of the Cook County Building for the past 20 years.
Standalone shoeshine guys like Fullerton are an endangered species.
Still, Fullerton shows up each morning at 8:30 a.m. sharp, with a pack of Newport smokes, a can of ginger ale and a White Sox or Bears cap on his head.
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Story by Stefano Esposito
Video filmed by Pat Nabong
Video edited by Zubaer Khan
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- Lake View's spice store creates opportunities in Afghanistan with saffron
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- 21 days ago
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- The smell of saffron reminds Mohammad Salehi of home. Heray Spice, Salehi’s fair trade business, imports saffron grown by farmers in Herat in western Afghanistan where he grew up.
Saffron, known as the world’s most expensive spice, lends its vibrant yellow hue to dishes such as paella, seafood and bouillabaisse. During Nowruz, the Persian New Year, many Afghans drink saffron tea and eat tahdig, a crispy rice dish with saffron, yogurt and butter. This year, Nowruz started on Mar. 20 and ends Apr. 2.
Salehi started Heray Spice in 2017 with half a pound of saffron from his relatives’ farms in Herat. Now it sources from nearly 300 farmers in Herat, employs eight in Afghanistan and six at its office near Lake View.
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- Chicago "No Kings" rally at Grant Park
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- 25 days ago
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- The rally is part of a nationwide movement, dubbed “No Kings,” to protest President Donald Trump’s policies including mass deportations, the rollback of transgender rights and the war in Iran. The “No Kings” protests started last year to make the point that Trump has acted more like a despot rather than the leader of a democracy answerable to the public.
Across the Chicago area Saturday, many participants took their children to the rallies, pointing to the importance of teaching them to speak out. Although many expressed frustration with Trump, some said they took comfort in the solidarity surrounding them.
Video: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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- Chicago's South Side is dominating competitive cheerleading
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- 26 days ago
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- Black Onyx Allstars, a nonprofit organization, was started in by Imani Cobb and Endigo Allen, former elementary school cheer teammates at Betty Shabazz Academy in Greater Grand Crossing. In 2023, the school asked them to hold a cheer clinic for a few months, then put on an exhibition. But that turned into coaching a cheer team for a full season, and by 2024, the two had decided to go independent, starting the nonprofit Black Onyx to expand access to cheer in the Black community.
“A lot of girls that look like us don’t even know that All Star cheer is something that’s an option for them because of the lack of resources and how underrepresented we are in those spaces,” Cobb said. “We’ve always just been kind of like the diamond in the rough.” At competitions, they’re usually the only mostly Black team. At most, they’re one of two, Cobb and Allen said.
Through fundraising, the nonprofit is able to pay for the larger costs including travel, lodgi...
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- Opening Day 2026 at Wrigley Field
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- 28 days ago
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- It's a great day to be a Chicago Cubs fan as the team kicks off the 2026 baseball season with a home matchup against the Washington Nationals on Thursday afternoon.
Good vibes and optimism filled the streets around Wrigley Field as fans gathered and hung out in anticipation of the season opener.
"We're going all the way, that's what it is," Lisa Neenan said. "That's what it feels like. We're ready."
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- The Wiener's Circle Chicago Mini Crossword Pop-Up
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- 1 month ago
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- To celebrate Chicago’s 189th birthday, the Chicago Sun-Times teamed up with The Wiener’s Circle for a crossword puzzle showdown.
Those who attended tried completing the Sun-Times’ Chicago Mini Crossword in under two minutes for a free hot dog — all while getting roasted.
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- Chicago’s own Savannah Banana-style exhibition baseball teams are rolling out
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- 1 month ago
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- The Snowballs, which have no affiliation with the Banana League, take the field for their first game in front of paying customers on May 2 at Kerry Wood Cubs Field in Roscoe Village.
Tickets go on sale April 1 and will run $15 for kids 12 and under and $30 for everyone else, said Snowballs CEO Cherie Travis. She likens the team, which has no home field at the moment, to a traveling circus, with about 10 games a month scheduled through September at ballparks largely in the Chicago area but around the Midwest, too.
Travis got the idea to form the team after watching a television interview last year with Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole. She remembers thinking: “What a great way to spread joy in this world.” Travis, an attorney, real estate investor, adjunct professor at the DePaul College of Law and instructor at the Chicago Police Academy, is learning on the job with an undeniable excitement and energy for her new role.
The opposing team was...
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- Kat Abughazaleh's concession speech
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- 1 month ago
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- Teary eyed, Abughazaleh conceded in front of a crowd in Andersonville on Tuesday and told the supporters that the last year was not for nothing.
“We forced our opponents to the left and to be more aggressive against this administration,” she said. “We did all of this together from the ground up with everything against us.”
Abughazaleh supporter Jessica Lui said the candidate “changed the conversation around what a Democrat can be.” Charles Douglas, executive director of the Seattle-based political action nonprofit Common Power, called her “an example for other candidates for the rest of the country.”
“There are progressives all over this country taking a chance just like we did, and we have to help them win no matter how hard it is,” Abughazaleh said.
“We are not done, and I’m not going anywhere.”
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- Raja Krishnamoorthi's Senate race concession speech
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- 1 month ago
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- Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s momentum was enough to overcome an astounding $29 million Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi spent on campaign ads.
It began with a commanding debate performance in January and was amplified by strong ads in the final weeks of the campaign. Stratton outperformed Krishnamoorthi in the Metro East region, Sangamon County, Chicago and some suburbs of Cook County — which took away any lead the congressman had in some collar counties. Stratton led Krishnamoorthi 39.7% to 33.4% with 85% of votes counted. U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly was in third with 18.4%.
Krishnamoorthi conceded about 9:30 p.m Tuesday.
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- Juliana Stratton wins Democratic primary for U.S. Senate
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- 1 month ago
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- Ill. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton spoke to supporters just after 10 p.m., thanking her family, her supporters and her political allies, including Gov. JB Pritzker and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who both endorsed her.
“I am humbled and honored to stand before you tonight as your Democratic nominee for United States Senate,” Stratton said.
“We did it tonight. We showed what’s possible when you listen to the people and give the people what they want.”
She called Pritzker and Duckworth “steadfast partners and friends who have cheered me on and stood by my side day after day.”
Stratton spoke directly to her Senate competitors Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly: “Running for office is never easy. It requires grit, determination and sacrifice. Thank you for stepping up to run.”
Of the rest of her campaign, Stratton said, “We’re ready to take our democracy back into our own hands.”
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- Smashing things in a Chicago-area rage room with Sun-Times reporters
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- 1 month ago
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- Can a rage room take the edge off stressed out journalists? The Sun-Times’ Mariah Rush and Zubaer Khan recently visited Breaking Point Rage Room, a new rage room location in the Chicago area, to give it a test run.
Breaking Point, where the idea to release stress or anger by breaking everything in sight, opened in 2021 with a 600-square-foot space in Homewood. After closing the location in 2023, owner Melody Billups reopened the all-ages space last month in Chicago Heights.
Looking back at the opening, Billups says her first client was a young mother, who was crying when she arrived with her baby.
“She was crying, and she was just like, ‘I needed this because I felt like I was gonna hurt myself or my baby,’” Billups said. “And that solidified that we were supposed to open.”
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- Mayor Brandon Johnson answers listener's questions live on In The Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
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- 1 month ago
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- This will be the final resting place for Rev. Jesse Jackson — Oak Woods Cemetery
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- 2 months ago
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- Greenwood Avenue, just south of 67th Street, marks the entrance to one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city, in a manner of speaking, with its wooded, rolling landscapes, curved roads and a quartet of small lakes.
You’ll find a who’s who of mayors, civil rights leaders, athletes, scientists and business people, along with Chicagoans from nearly every walk of life.
The locale is the 173-year-old Oak Woods Cemetery. And this week, its solemn, historic and picturesque grounds will become the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
“Graceland Cemetery [on the North Side] is very well-known and casts a very long shadow and is one of those places where if you’re looking at historic cemeteries in the U.S. is sort of in that top 10,” Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, said. “But Oak Woods is yet another great cemetery of substantial scale that is part of the city...
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- Chicagoans arrested for protesting ICE beat charges, but say it took a toll
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- 2 months ago
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- Prosecutions for non-immigration crimes tied to Operation Midway Blitz have disintegrated at an alarming rate at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago since October. Cases against 17 of 32 known defendants have already collapsed, including the ones against Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo.
Photographs of Collins and Robledo in federal custody are just a Google search away, as easy to find as the social media posts calling them “armed rioters” and “deranged individuals.”
Authorities arrested the Englewood couple five months ago outside of an immigration processing center in Broadview, just weeks after President Donald Trump launched a pummeling deportation campaign across the Chicago area last September.
Their assault cases quickly fell apart when a grand jury refused to indict. Collins still found himself being called “everything from a thug to a predator.” And he now has a warning for potential employers who might try to look him ...
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- This Chicago couple fought charges brought by the Trump administration — and won
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- 2 months ago
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- Rev. Jesse Jackson memorial in Chicago brings out hundreds to honor civil rights leader
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- 2 months ago
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- Slow inspirational music played from the speakers outside Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Kenwood as the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family procession arrived after 8 a.m. Thursday. The civil rights leader, who died at 84 on Feb. 17, is lying in repose throughout the day at the headquarters of his historic nonprofit.
Inside the sanctuary, community members gathered with quiet reverence as they viewed Jackson, who lied in repose. White flowers, a black and white portrait of Jackson, as well as the U.S., Chicago and Pan-African flags decorated the area near the pulpit.
Attendees were greeted by Jackson’s children, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Live musical selections included a performance of “A Change is Gonna Come” by former members of the Soul Stirrers gospel group.
Outside, hundreds of people were arriving to line up along Drexel Avenue, as recordings of Jackson’s speeches blared from speakers. Among them were people of all gener...
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- Inclement Craft is a fine fiber retailer and studio space that has created its own community
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Irving Park studio gets visitors to 'slow down' by spinning wool into yarn.
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- Ask the Mayor: An hour with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
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- 2 months ago
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- Chicago police officer ‘inadvertently’ fired Taser a year before fatally shooting his partner
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- City officials have said Officer Carlos Baker unintentionally shot his partner Krystal Rivera last June. He had previously reported that he mistakenly discharged his Taser after engaging in a high-speed chase that ended in a seven-vehicle crash and went unreported to dispatchers.
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- Chicago Paczki maker still serves them the old-fashioned way at age 77
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- 2 months ago
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- At Polish Pączki Cafe, 7210 W. Foster Ave., every now and then, a customer unfamiliar with the classic Polish delicacy walks in, lured by the activity inside and the boxes others carry out. If co-owner Anna Niziołek is around, she will educate newcomers on the pronunciation (“two PAWNCH-key but one PAWN-chek”), the origins and the process of making pączki.
“Our pączki are special because we make them fresh every day from scratch by hand, using a very old Polish recipe,” Niziołek said.
How many pączki are fried, and when, depends on the length of the line in the store. Here pączki never sit on display. Still warm, they are glazed with a mixture of lemon juice and powdered sugar, topped with orange zest, packed in boxes and taken straight to the customer.
The recipe comes from Niziołek’s mother. Niziołek first introduced it at Old Warsaw Buffet in Harwood Heights, where she started working in 1980.
The 77-year-old sti...
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- Chicago's ice-breaker boats keep the waterways flowing during winter
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- 2 months ago
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- How does Chicago keep its waterways flowing in freezing weather? A giant boat plows through the ice, shattering it apart, of course.
Since 1957, when the James J. Versluis first came into service, the ship’s primary job has been to clear the ice from around the city’s water intake “cribs,” each sitting two miles out into Lake Michigan. The massive cribs act like straws, sucking in water that then sloshes through tunnels — hand dug and dynamite blasted — beneath the lake bed to a water purification plant just north of Navy Pier and another at 79th and the lakefront. From there, the water is pumped to homes like yours and mine, about five million in all.
It is a near-constant winter battle to keep the ice from plugging up the crib openings some 20 feet below the surface of the lake. The water that deep doesn’t freeze, but the metal grates can get clogged with ice. When there’s ice on the lake, the Versluis is out every day.
“I alwa...
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- Border Patrol footage contradicts claims against Marimar Martinez
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- 2 months ago
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- The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez in October appeared to turn his steering wheel to the left, toward Martinez’s car, in body-camera footage of the incident released Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Chicago.
The agent did so right after agents inside the Chevrolet Tahoe he was driving said, “it’s time to get aggressive” and “we’re going to make contact, we’re boxed in.”
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- West Chicago teens on ICE watch in Minneapolis
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- 3 months ago
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- On Jan. 24, 17-year-old Ben Luhmann was behind the wheel with his 16-year-old brother Sam in the passenger seat, like they had been countless times before. As they drove through frigid Minneapolis to yet another scene where federal immigration agents had taken over the streets, their phones went off, alerting them of pepper spray being deployed.
Then another alert came through. Shots fired.
They pulled up to the scene, greeted by a swarm of federal agents, anguished neighbors and flashing lights. They were ready to record.
Sam asked someone on the scene if the person who was shot had died.
“He said, ‘There were so many shots,’” Sam recalled. “‘I don’t know how somebody would live through that.’”
The man was Alex Pretti.
Pretti, a VA nurse, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents as he recorded them and then tried to help a woman who was shoved to the ground.
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- Marimar Martinez speaks with WBEZ & Chicago Sun-Times reporters about getting shot by Border Patrol.
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- Woman shot 5 times by federal agent discusses her experience and the recent Minneapolis killings
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- In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Marimar Martinez discussed her shooting in Chicago, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.
Martinez is set to testify in Washington, D.C., in a public forum Tuesday about immigration agents’ use of force. She’s also expected to learn this week whether a judge will allow her to release evidence tied to her dropped prosecution, including an agent’s body-camera footage.
This all comes four months after the federal government splashed her photo online and labeled her a “domestic terrorist.” The government has yet to rescind the claim, two months after Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros dropped the charges against her.
A Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday that it “stands by our press releases and statements. The facts of what happened did not change.”
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- The quiet, wintry thrill of a freezing Illinois canyon hike
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- In winter, the physical features at Matthiessen and Starved Rock come into stark relief. Each was built up and carved out by the same geologic processes, including the layering of the 450-million year old St. Peter sandstone, followed by the melting glacial tidal wave of water and ice that geologists call the “Kankakee Torrent.”
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- New body camera footage shows aftermath of ICE officer allegedly attacking activist near Chicago
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- U.S. Rep Robin Kelly responds to criticisms of taking corporate PAC money
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- During the first live-broadcast debate in the heated Democratic primary race for retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly responded defiantly to Stratton’s criticisms of both candidates for taking campaign cash from corporate political action committees.
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- U.S. Rep. Krishnamoorthi comments on contribution from Palantir exec
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- During the first live-broadcast debate in the heated Democratic primary race for retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi responded to comments from Lt. Gov. Stratton about accepting money from a Palantir executive and thanking ICE.
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- Lt. Gov. Stratton goes on attack against U.S. Rep. Krishnamoorthi
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- Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton went on the offensive Monday night in the first live-broadcast debate in the heated Democratic primary race for retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat.
Stratton attacked U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi just a few minutes into the hour-long debate hosted by the Sun-Times, WBEZ and UChicago’s Institute of Politics and International House, slamming the congressman because he “voted to thank” the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and “accepted funding from ICE contractors.”
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- Open Seat in Illinois: U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Debate
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- The University of Chicago Institute of Politics, WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and International House are convening the three frontrunner Democratic candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in advance of the March 17, 2026 primary elections.
Join us in person, virtually or on air on Monday, January 26 for a free, live candidate debate at International House on the University of Chicago’s campus. The debate will be co-moderated by Chicago Sun-Times national political reporter Tina Sfondeles and IOP senior director Jennifer Steinhauer and hosted by WBEZ’s In the Loop host, Sasha-Ann Simons.
Featuring candidates Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL), Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton.
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- Chicago protesters rally against ICE after second fatal federal shooting in Minneapolis
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- Reporter Steve Greenberg grades the Chicago Bears' 2025-26 season
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- Man fatally shot in head by Chicago police 'posed no threat,' family's lawyers say
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- Can Caleb outduel Stafford? Sun-Times reporters preview Bears-Rams
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- Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser, the Sun-Times' Chicago Bears beat reporters, discuss the team's divisional round matchup against the Los Angeles Rams. Will the Bears be able to keep up with Matthew Stafford and the Rams' high-powered offense?
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- Meet the 'Bears Witch' trying to bring a Super Bowl to Chicago
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- Posting videos before every Bears game, Marron has gone viral for her witchcraft. As the team advances in the playoffs, “The Bears Witch” said her following has grown as hundreds interact with her posts. With the team posting a record of 11 wins and 4 losses since she began casting her spells, she said she has no intention of stopping.
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- The Bears Witch casts a spell for another Bears win
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- Posting videos before every Bears game, Marron has gone viral for her witchcraft. As the team advances in the playoffs, “The Bears Witch” said her following has grown as hundreds interact with her posts. With the team posting a record of 11 wins and 4 losses since she began casting her spells, she said she has no intention of stopping.
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- How to stay warm during Bears vs. Rams Sunday night: Sun-Times and WBEZ staff tips
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- If you haven’t already heard, the NFC Divisional round playoff battle between the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams is going to be a frigid one.
Here are Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ staff suggestions for how to stay warm throughout the game.
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- Video gambling establishments see alarming spike in burglaries
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- Mayor Johnson talks about the immigration crackdown, city budget, public safety, and more
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- In the Loop checks in with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for our monthly “Ask the Mayor” series and takes listener questions on the immigration crackdown, city budget, public safety, the Bears playoff victory and more.
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