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Indiana state senator Chris Garten announces run for leadership position

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Ariana Grande withdraws from London musical and will take a break from the public eye

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MLB trade deadline: Chicago White Sox acquire catcher Joey Bart in a trade with the Atlanta Braves

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Chicago Bears training camp report: Safety Coby Bryant exits with a knee injury — and the pads go on

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MLB trade deadline: Chicago Cubs acquire RHP Clay Holmes, send No. 2 prospect Jefferson Rojas to the Mets

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City adds Divvy stations across busy lakefront

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Proposed settlement would sell West Suburban and Weiss hospitals to Insight, pay current CEO as consultant

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Flight attendants at Canada's WestJet go on strike in dispute over pay

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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin sees DREAM Act slipping away: 'We've been on this bill for 25 years'

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Durbin, Foster decry legal services funding halt for immigrant children

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Two more Chicago immigration judges fired as court becomes epicenter of removal orders

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Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them

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Mayor Brandon Johnson brushes off Alexi Giannoulias candidacy, says days of school closures are over

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Indiana Historical Society ends sponsorship of National History Day contest

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Crime and Public Safety

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Franklin Park man sentenced in six bank robberies

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Authorities seek a motive in the mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger

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Illinois State trooper charged with sexual assault of a woman in Tinley Park

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Indiana man, 20, convicted of cyberstalking

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Washington state fires destroy hundreds of structures and force Spokane-area residents to evacuate

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Eastern Washington fires have burned 600 structures and forced the evacuation of 60,000 people

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Brown Sugar Bakery, business next door broken into on South Side

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Plastic surgeon's license suspended after Tribune investigation exposed 8 deaths

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Bill aims to curb abandoned oil and gas wells in Illinois through stiffer fines

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Read the Tribune's investigation into Illinois' abandoned oil wells

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Today in Chicago History: Bears greats Steve McMichael and Devin Hester inducted into Hall of Fame

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Today in History: Statue of Liberty opens again to visitors

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Community celebrates the coming renewal of the Brown Mansion

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Remembering the College All-Star Game, an American football classic ended 50 years ago with a ghostwritten note

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