Illinois
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Will DNC bring migrant influx to Chicago? Municipalities, organizations prepare for possible bumpAug 05, 2024 6:16 pm - Suburban officials and community organizers say they will be ready if the Texas governor sends busloads of migrants to Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.
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With DUI-related ejection from Army, deputy who killed Massey should have raised flags, experts say
Jul 29, 2024 12:27 pm - The Illinois sheriff's deputy charged in the shooting death of Sonya Massey was kicked out of the Army for the first of two drunken driving convictions in which he had a weapon in his car, authorities said, but that didn't stop multiple law enforcement agencies from giving him a badge.
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Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless
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Survivors sue Illinois over decades of sexual abuse at Chicago youth detention centerJul 23, 2024 9:05 pm - CHICAGO — Temarkus Washington says the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager at a troubled Chicago youth detention center still gives him nightmares. The 35-year-old ...
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Attacked by right wing, Deere farm machinery dumps diversity efforts
Jul 17, 2024 10:27 am - Deere & Co., the world’s top farm machinery maker, is pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative criticism, the second agriculture-related company i...
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Pritzker signs bill targeting ‘predatory’ health insurance practicesJul 10, 2024 7:48 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that puts new controls on the state’s health insurance industry, including bans on practices companies have used to reduce costs by controlling the amount of health care services a patient receives.
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Transit agency leaders push back on calls to merge Pace, CTA, Metra
Jul 10, 2024 2:01 pm - It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs.
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Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to assault weapons ban in Illinois
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Struggling with falling demand for farm equipment, Deere & Co. announces nearly 600 layoffs
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Officials evacuate area after train derails in suburban ChicagoJun 27, 2024 6:46 pm - MATTESON — Emergency officials ordered what turned out to be a relatively brief evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago on Thursday. The Canadian Na...