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Patients in Illinois starting to receive experimental pancreatic cancer drug: 'Game changer'

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Mayor Brandon Johnson's top aide intervenes in city dispute with antiviolence group

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Chicago State builds its inaugural Division I football program behind a whole lot of energy — and ambition

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Review: Foo Fighters leans hard into its history for its concert at Soldier Field

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From piping plovers to dragonflies, federal changes could threaten endangered Midwest wildlife

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Two longtime Naperville businesses close but slew of restaurants on horizon

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Former Bears player Tremaine Edmunds lists Northbrook home for nearly $2M

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Letters: Illinois is one of the worst-run states

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Today in History: Marilyn Monroe found dead

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Today in Chicago History: The Dave Matthews Band bus incident

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Chicago Bears training camp report: Cam Lewis the latest DB to leave injured and Luther Burden III also exits

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Editorial: Brandon Johnson's City Hall can't find anyone willing to collect debt on the city's behalf

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Edward Keegan: Donald Trump's design depravity and disregard for expertise

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Kris Brown: Taxpayers can end up funding gun violence. Chicago is trying to stop it.

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Jim Nowlan: The liberal arts college tradition doesn't have to die, just evolve

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Guest column: Republican education policies have left Indiana's children behind

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Funding patch passes Senate to head off fall shutdown

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Darline Graham tests value of a famous name in South Carolina primary

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Hunter Biden says his father's prostate cancer is causing him pain even as he continues to speak out

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Animals, rides are the highlight of opening day at the Lake County Fair

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Review: 'Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares' is sharp-elbowed satire from a recovering ingenue

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Why celebrities from Zendaya to Kylie Jenner are wearing Fecal Matter

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Lake County Fair opens with new vendors, entertainers in its 174th year

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Column: After a lifetime of laughs, Chicago White Sox legend Ozzie Guillen gets emotional at number retirement

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DiJonai Carrington's ejection undercuts the Chicago Sky in a 90-86 loss to the Indiana Fever

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Column: Chicago White Sox shake off their freaky Friday with a 6-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians

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Photos: Wildfire smoke blankets the Chicago area

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Photos: A look inside the Obama Presidential Center

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Photos: Chicagoland celebrates America's 250th birthday

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Former Blackhawks player Jake McCabe lists Lincoln Park home for $1.75M

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Back in the Big Ten, Pat Fitzgerald says he and Michigan State have 'a bag of chips on our shoulder'

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Quantum campus project raises questions about residents' agency in community development

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Pritzker signs bill that aims to protect 340B drug discount program

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American Airlines to end some free business class upgrades for elite flyers

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ICE takes issue with AP reporting on policy to release body-worn camera footage

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Oak Lawn High School festival to celebrate Hispanic food and culture

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ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests,' policy says

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President Trump signs immigration actions to limit birthright citizenship and curb 'birth tourism'

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Tri-Creek facing sports, clubs and busing cuts without referendum passage

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'Pulling together': School district organizes for Hazel Crest tornado relief

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CPS says schools will open on time but offers few details on reversing layoffs

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Bradshaw: Rating the benefits of top public, private universities

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Crime and Public Safety

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1 dead in triple shooting Friday night in Englewood

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Agonized families await answers after remains recovered from Chicago funeral home: 'It's unimaginable'

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Fraud convictions of former Outcome Health executives upheld by appeals court

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Hammond man gets 30 years for fatal shooting inside minivan

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Federal court upholds Oak Park ordinance requiring new buildings be all electric

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Waukegan's piping plover population grows with three new chicks, as three others earn names

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How to regulate data centers in Illinois at the center of latest proposal

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Where extreme heat is having the biggest impact on Americans' lives, according to a new AP-NORC poll

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Restaurants, Food and Drink

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Chicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: 'We need to bail out this industry'

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Restaurant news: Wishbone to close — and Ann Sather to move into former Stella's Diner space

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Restaurant review: Longman & Eagle has a new chef who revels in vegetables

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From the Farm: Tabor Hill Winery 'ramps' up 60-year anniversary with inventive menu

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An Indiana pastor became an Illinois oilman. Spills and pollution followed.

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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 History: Wrigley Field hosts its first-ever night baseball game

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A moment's madness, or murder? 1876 debate on religion in Chicago schools took a deadly turn

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Today in Chicago History: Cubs Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux gets 300th win

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Stolp Island Block Party puts spotlight on downtown Aurora

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Column: Yorkville man gets 70 years in prison for 2003 murder of Tyesha Bell of Aurora

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Indiana Dunes State Park veteran hired to lead Portage parks

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Gary breaks ground on new Brothers' Keeper shelter

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