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Dorothy from Chicago is now the oldest person in the world to tandem #skydive out of an airplane!
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- Dorothy from Chicago is now the oldest person in the world to tandem #skydive out of an airplane!
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Chicago's own Dorothy Hoffner is now the oldest person ever to tandem skydive from an airplane
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023 at 104 years and 289 days, Chicago's Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person ever to tandem skydive out of an airplane.
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- Coach's passion for youth football helped him overcome tragedy, trauma, and heartbreak
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- 9:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Throughout his life, James has faced adversity in many forms. As a child, he grew up with a mother addicted to drugs, making it hard for the family to make ends meet. Football provided an escape for him, but a tragic car accident left his football career in doubt, he persevered. A violent encounter on the streets made him reevaluate his life, and the loss of his high school sweetheart thrust him into the role of a single father.
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- The goal is to play violin with his son, but an uphill climb awaits Sun-Times reporter
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sun-Times reporter Stefano Esposito has been learning the violin for four months in attempts to one day duet with his son.
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- Considering President Biden 'The Last Politician' - Author Franklin Foer joins Lynn Sweet
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- 43:04
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Franklin Foer discusses new book "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future.”
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- We made Bolognese! #recipe #pasta
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Want to make Bolognese? Our Sun-Times reporter gave it a go
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- 2:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sun-Times reporter Stefano Esposito makes Chef Sarah Grueneberg's Bolognese from Monteverde in Chicago.
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- CPD bodycam footage reveals fatal shooting as suspect Louis Gordon-Hay refuses to drop gun
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- COPA said while inside the home, officers told the Gordon-Hay to drop the gun, as they struggled over his weapon. During the struggle, one of the officers and Gordon-Hay fired their weapons.
In the body camera footage, a man’s voice can be heard “let the gun go before they kill your ass, dog!” before two shots go off.
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- Why this Chicago house has been crashed into several hundred times…
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Family of 17-year-old seriously injured in Wicker Park hit-and-run sues vehicle owner
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The family of a 17-year-old girl who was seriously wounded in a hit-and-run earlier this month in the Wicker Park neighborhood has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the vehicle.
READ THE FULL STORY: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/8/31/23853811/family-of-17-year-old-seriously-injured-in-wicker-park-hit-and-run-sues-vehicle-owner
Nakari Campbell was walking in the marked crosswalk on Ashland Avenue, with the right away, about 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 4, when she was hit by a Mercedes turning left onto Division Street, according to the complaint.
The Mercedes, traveling at a high rate of speed, then dragged Campbell along the pavement, the complaint states.
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- 2 shot during White Sox Game at Guaranteed Rate Field, unclear if bullets came from outside stadium
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Stadium footage showed confusion in the left field bleachers after the shooting, which happened around the third inning. Security cleared people out of the section — but the game was completed despite the active crime scene.
Read the full story: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/8/25/23846670/shooting-white-sox-game-guaranteed-rate-field
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- Emmett Till's cousin, recounts history in his own words
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- 6:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr. to discuss his account of Emmett Till's horrific fate 68 years ago in Mississippi.
Recorded August 24, 2023.
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- Emmett Till's cousin Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr....the last surviving witness to the lynching
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- 35:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Emmett Till's cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the last person alive to see him before he was lynched and murdered, tells the story of what happened on Aug. 28, 1955, and what led up to his brutal slaughter by white supremacists. Join the At the Table conversation with Parker, a south suburban minister, and Christopher Benson, who co-authored the memoirs of Parker and Till's mother Mamie Till Mobley.
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- 'Get out of my house!' Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- MARION, Kan. (AP) — Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny. It shows her visibly upset and demanding: “Get out of my house!” Video released by the newspaper Monday shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son. She died the day after the raids of the Marion County Record and the homes of the Meyers as well as a Marion city council member.
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- Decorated young boxer sets eyes on Olympics and academics
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- At 6’3” Joseph “Jo Jo” Awinongya Jr. towers over some of his fellow classmates but remains a role model known for making positive choices.
Video by Anthony Vazquez.
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- Justicia Social en Chicago: La nueva ola de inmigrantes
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- 1:12:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A fines de Agosto de 2022, un autobús lleno de solicitantes de asilo llegó inesperadamente a Chicago. Los autobuses continuaron llegando durante semanas, como parte de un plan del gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, para enviar inmigrantes a las ciudades lideradas por los demócratas. En seis meses, más de 5140 inmigrantes llegaron a Chicago y alrededor de 2100 vivían en el sistema de albergues, según funcionarios de la ciudad. Si bien algunos intentos de albergar a esta creciente población en vecindarios han provocado una reacción violenta, una encuesta reciente encontró que los habitantes de Chicago quieren más ayuda para esta comunidad.
Nuestra moderadora del evento, Elvia Malagón, reportera de justicia social y brecha salarial del Sun-Times, estará acompañada por invitados especiales:
Dra. Evelyn Figueroa, directora de Pilsen Food Pantry que ha ayudado a los recién llegados a Chicago.
Frank Sandoval, abogado de Venezuela que se defendió p...
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- 'Anonymous' in 2018, but now Miles Taylor has more inside Trump info in new book 'Blowback'
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- 33:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- On the next episode of At the Table, Lynn Sweet will be joined by Miles Taylor, the Trump administration insider known as "Anonymous" who warned the world in 2018 that the president was unfit for office.
Taylor is also the author of the just-released book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump."
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- Q&As with Chicago drag performers | Hear My Story
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- 27:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An inaugural Sun-Times event, Hear My Story brings you a storytelling experience for all ages. Drag performers from Chicago told their stories of perseverance, truth, love and acceptance, answering the question “Why do I do drag?”
Last July, a family-friendly drag show at UpRising Bakery and Cafe was canceled after an anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crime and dispute with Lake in the Hills officials. In response, the Sun-Times Editorial Board published an editorial, citing that “hate is not effective.”
Learn more about LGBTQIA+ performers in Chicago and the surrounding communities.
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- Jakki Love | Hear My Story: An Evening with Chicago Drag Performers
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- 8:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An inaugural Sun-Times event, Hear My Story brings you a storytelling experience for all ages. Drag performers from Chicago told their stories of perseverance, truth, love and acceptance, answering the question “Why do I do drag?”
Last July, a family-friendly drag show at UpRising Bakery and Cafe was canceled after an anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crime and dispute with Lake in the Hills officials. In response, the Sun-Times Editorial Board published an editorial, citing that “hate is not effective.”
Learn more about LGBTQIA+ performers in Chicago and the surrounding communities by watching one of their stories.
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- Starr Stallion | Hear My Story: An Evening with Chicago Drag Performers
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- 13:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An inaugural Sun-Times event, Hear My Story brings you a storytelling experience for all ages. Drag performers from Chicago told their stories of perseverance, truth, love and acceptance, answering the question “Why do I do drag?”
Last July, a family-friendly drag show at UpRising Bakery and Cafe was canceled after an anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crime and dispute with Lake in the Hills officials. In response, the Sun-Times Editorial Board published an editorial, citing that “hate is not effective.”
Learn more about LGBTQIA+ performers in Chicago and the surrounding communities by watching one of their stories.
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- Allegra Dee Love | Hear My Story: An Evening with Chicago Drag Performers
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- 9:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An inaugural Sun-Times event, Hear My Story brings you a storytelling experience for all ages. Drag performers from Chicago told their stories of perseverance, truth, love and acceptance, answering the question “Why do I do drag?”
Last July, a family-friendly drag show at UpRising Bakery and Cafe was canceled after an anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crime and dispute with Lake in the Hills officials. In response, the Sun-Times Editorial Board published an editorial, citing that “hate is not effective.”
Learn more about LGBTQIA+ performers in Chicago and the surrounding communities by watching one of their stories.
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- Arlington Heights man captures largest python in Florida history
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- 3:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Andrew Sokolowski, 22, is now destined to become something of a legend in Florida, after he and his buddies wrangled a 19-foot-long Burmese python — the longest ever captured in that state, according to the Naples-based Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
The hunters loaded the snake into the back of the truck and brought it to the conservancy, where it was measured at 19 feet — three inches longer than the previous record, according to the conservancy website.
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- Chicago trans couple blocks public rhetoric with education, joy & care in raising their child
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- 3:35
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- “We’re just like any other family, we just do the simple things,” Jessica Gorden-Song said, adding that they also enjoy watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and cooking together.
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- Severe flooding on I-290 Eastbound approaching United Center
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Video by Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
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- #nascar in #chicago your #questions answered
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Everything you wanted to know about the NASCAR Chicago Street Race
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- 4:08
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- During the past week, the Sun-Times invited readers to submit questions about the weekend. Several of those questions are summarized below, with answers from a variety of NASCAR drivers and officials. Hopefully, this will help get all our motors running.
00:00 Intro
00:10 Challenging surfaces?
01:12 Car modifications?
01:46 Lake Shore Drive Top Speed?
02:11 Lots of turns = slow race?
02:29 Tickets sold?
03:00 Safety
03:44 Will NASCAR fix any damage?
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- Students get hands-on in STEM-focused eRacing wrorkshop
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Last month, high school students from the INROADS College Links program experienced driving a simulation of the course around downtown Chicago.
Video by Pat Nabong
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- Video released of Willowbrook shooting at Juneteenth event
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Video provided.
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- US man arrested over attack in Germany
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An American man has been arrested over the death of one U.S. tourist and an assault on another near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany. AP Video.
Video thumbnail: AP Photo
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- Trump's indictment & GOP primary | Peter Baker, NY Times chief White House correspondent
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- 36:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet is joined by Peter Baker, New York Times chief White House correspondent and co-author of "The Divider, Trump in the White House, 2017-2021" to discuss Trump's latest indictment and the upcoming GOP primary.
Thumbnail photo by AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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- Catalytic Converter #thefts are sweeping #chicago. The #suntimes reports on the damage being done.
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Catalytic converter thefts in Chicago lead to shockingly low arrests
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- 5:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Thieves have taken more than 17,000 in Chicago since 2019, and that’s surely an undercount. Of those reported thefts, only 34 had an arrest, a Sun-Times analysis finds. How you can protect yours.
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- North Avenue Beach closed Friday after shots were fired during a large fight
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- North Avenue Beach was closed Friday, hours after it officially opened to swimming, after shots were fired during a large fight, according to Chicago police. No injuries were reported.
About 80 to 100 teenagers were gathered at the beach around 1:30 p.m. when the fight broke out and one person pulled out a gun and fired it, police said. No one was struck by the gunfire. A juvenile was taken into custody but police said they had not recovered the gun.
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- Retired Chicago cop grazed in shootout with carjacker, police say
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- 0:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The former officer, 78, tried stopping a person from carjacking his neighbor in the 300 block of North Mayfield Avenue, police said.
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- The Environmental Justice Exchange: An Air Pollution Fight in Pilsen en Español
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- 1:21:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Únase a nosotros para The Environmental Justice Exchange, una conversación sobre la contaminación del aire en Pilsen. Grabado el 10/05/2023.
Una controvertida operación de chatarra en Pilsen tiene a los vecinos preocupados por su salud.
Únase a los expertos de la comunidad para debatir sobre cómo vivir junto a Sims Metal Management en un área de la ciudad que sufre de mala calidad del aire.
Nuestro moderador del evento, Brett Chase, reportero ambiental del Sun-Times, estará acompañado por:
Mary Gonzales, chair of the Social Justice Committee at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pilsen
Tanya Lozano, director of Healthy Hood Chicago and a local community activist
Theresa McNamara, chairwoman of the Southwest Environmental Alliance
Olga Bautista, executive director of the Southeast Environmental Task Force
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- The Environmental Justice Exchange: An Air Pollution Fight in Pilsen
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- 1:21:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Join us for The Environmental Justice Exchange, a conversation about air pollution in Pilsen. Recorded 5/10/2023.
A controversial scrap-metal operation in Pilsen has neighbors concerned about their health.
Join community experts for a discussion about living next to Sims Metal Management in an area of the city that suffers from poor air quality.
Our event moderator, Brett Chase, Sun-Times environmental reporter, will be joined by:
Mary Gonzales, chair of the Social Justice Committee at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pilsen
Tanya Lozano, director of Healthy Hood Chicago and a local community activist
Theresa McNamara, chairwoman of the Southwest Environmental Alliance
Olga Bautista, executive director of the Southeast Environmental Task Force
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- Social Justice in Chicago: The new wave of immigrants
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- 1:12:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In late August, a bus filled with asylum seekers unexpectedly arrived in Chicago. The buses continued to come for weeks, part of a plan by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send immigrants to Democrat-led cities. Within six months, more than 5,140 immigrants arrived in Chicago, and about 2,100 were living in the shelter system, according to city officials. While some attempts to house this growing population in neighborhoods has led to backlash, a recent poll found that Chicagoans want more help for this community.
Our event moderator, Elvia Malagón, Sun-Times social justice and wage gap reporter, will be joined by special guests:
Dr. Evelyn Figueroa, director of the Pilsen Food Pantry who has assisted new arrivals in Chicago.
Frank Sandoval, an attorney from Venezuela who defended himself pro se and was granted asylum in the United States in 2022.
Karina Ayala-Bermejo, president and CEO of Instituto Del Progreso Latino.
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- As many as 18 people broke into the post office at the Thompson Center in the Loop early Monday
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The group broke through the front door of the post office in the first block of West Randolph Street around 12:35 a.m., Chicago police said.
It was not known if anything was taken. Police said they were investigating the incident as an attempted burglary.
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- The hunt for #chonkosaurus the #chicago #celebrity snapping #turtle
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Chonkosaurus: The hunt for Chicago’s celebrity snapping turtle
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A team of journalists and an expert from the Field Museum set out this week to find the renowned reptile that had recently been spotted on the Chicago River.
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- American Indian Center of Chicago's Melodi Serna's address at Inauguration of Brandon Johnson
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- American Indian Center of Chicago's Melodi Serna's address at Inauguration of Brandon Johnson
Video provided by CIty of Chicago.
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- Warning: CPD chatter audio from fatal shooting of Officer Aréanah Preston
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A ShotSpotter alert quickly picked up the barrage of gunfire that struck Officer Aréanah Preston, but it took another alert from the officer’s Apple Watch to send a traffic cop to the scene.
In the two days since the shooting, police officials haven’t provided an explanation why it took so long for police and emergency crews to respond to the shooting.
Anthony Riccio, the retired first deputy police superintendent, said it appears there was a backlog of calls and “the dispatcher didn’t have a car to assign to the ShotSpotter alert.”
“When they received the traffic accident from the Apple Watch, [the dispatcher] gave it to a traffic car,” he noted. “Typically it’s a one-man car, and the only thing they’re assigned to is traffic accidents.”
Traffic cops typically cover an entire police district, not a smaller beat like patrol cars, Riccio noted.
“Because they’re a one-man car, they don’t get ass...
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- Woman with a bat attacks 8 people on Northwest Side, suspect taken into custody
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- 0:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The woman struck five people within a half-hour Tuesday, including one victim with her young daughter who were chased down a street. One woman was hospitalized.
Read the full story: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/5/9/23717574/woman-with-a-bat-attacks-5-people-on-northwest-side
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- CPD scanner audio of fatal shooting of off-duty Officer Aréanah Preston
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Four suspects were apprehended after an armed standoff at a home in Auburn Gresham, according to a source with knowledge of the arrests. Another was taken into custody separately.
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- Man fatally shot by Chicago cop in Garfield Park turned toward officers while holding a gun
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Reginald Clay Jr., 24, ran from officers who approached him and a group of people in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street around 10 a.m. on April 14, according to statements released by the police department and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
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- Mayor-elect Johnson, DNC in Chicago & Kim Foxx not seeking reelection | At the Table with Lynn Sweet
- Runtime
- 48:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Lynn Sweet is joined by a panel with political strategists Aviva Bowen and Tom Bowen; political adviser Becky Carroll; WBEZ data projects editor Alden Loury; WBEZ race, class, and communities reporter Natalie Moore; and Sun-Times City Hall reporter Fran Spielman.
Sweet and our guests will cover Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson and the election that brought him to power, plus Chicago landing the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
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- 6 months ago, 100,000 tulip bulbs were planted on the South Side. Now they're blooming art.
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Williams transformed several vacant lots where houses once stood but were left to rot into fields and fields of red tulips.
The result: “Redefining Redlining,” an artwork intended to highlight the systemic disinvestment that led to the demolition of the houses that stood there and throughout Chicago’s Black neighborhoods after lenders began assigning the areas higher interest rates.
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- Anti-gun group founded after Highland Park massacre holds a march in DC
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- 0:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Video by Lynn Sweet
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- Vallas & Johnson | Chicago Mayoral Forum | March 30, 2023, WBEZ's Reset & Chicago Sun-Times
- Runtime
- 57:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Join Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons on Thursday, March 30, 2023 as Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson meet in the final days before the runoff election.
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- ComEd Case Evidence: Discussions of Madigan allies being paid by ComEd
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- 4:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Video of a February 2019 meeting between Michael McClain, Fidel Marquez and John Hooker, in which they discuss an arrangement in which allies of then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan were being paid by ComEd.
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