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Daily Herald opinion: Swing, spin, slide: Today’s suburban playgrounds offer safer, more inclusive places to playMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: Modern playgrounds focus on safety and accessibility, with softer surfaces to prevent injuries. They also offer more inclusive and creative equipment to accommodate children with disabilities.
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Cubs or Sox? New pope’s Chicago roots lead to debate over baseball loyaltiesMay 08, 2025 8:16 pm - The election of a new pope brings all kinds of analysis and theorizing, about his chosen papal name, his views on reforms, his fluency in Italian, even his choice of footwear. But after learning they can call the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics one of their own, many Chicagoans and suburbanites also mused on something eternally sacred: Pope Leo XIV’s baseball allegiances.
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‘One of our own’: Chicago archdiocese leaders happily shocked by choice of popeMay 08, 2025 8:08 pm - The Rev. Gregory Sakowicz was dispensing communion at Holy Name Cathedral when he learned the news a fellow priest from Chicago had been chosen as the next pope.
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Justice Dept. investigating NY attorney general who has targeted Trump
May 08, 2025 7:19 pm - NEW YORK — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to a pers...
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White House overhaul of troubled US air traffic control system will cost ‘lots of billions’
May 08, 2025 7:08 pm - The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of a U.S. air traffic control system that it said still relies on floppy disks and replacemen...
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Pritzker signs order to protect personal autism data in response to federal action
May 08, 2025 7:07 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about autism to the federal government unless it's medically or legally necessary.
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Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, known as the ‘saint of the north’ in Peru for his closeness to poor
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Chicago man sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping, theft in Naperville, WestchesterMay 08, 2025 4:18 pm - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for his part in a kidnapping scheme in Naperville, Westchester and South Holland.
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Mount Prospect trustees approve Lions Club events, address conflict complaintsMay 08, 2025 4:16 pm - The Mount Prospect village board has approved licenses for the Lions Club's weekly car shows and farmers market held downtown, despite some concerns about trustees’ possible conflicts of interest.
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EU threatens tariffs on aircraft, car parts if US trade talks fail