Articles filed under Chicago Sun-Times
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Sterigenics trial: $363 million verdict against company in first trial over emissionsSep 19, 2022 1:00 am - A Cook County jury on Monday ruled that Sterigenics and two other companies should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a woman and thousands of other Willowbrook re...
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Vice president urges Illinoisans to protect abortion rights at ballot boxSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - In a visit to Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday urged Democrats to fight for abortion rights at the ballot box, capping a polarizing week that included a n...
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Police board votes to fire cop who shot unarmed manSep 15, 2022 1:00 am - The Chicago Police Board on Thursday voted unanimously to fire an officer who shot and killed an apparently unarmed man during a 2018 foot chase on the South Side. Offic...
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Pritzker lifts final COVID mitigation for classroomsSep 15, 2022 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday lifted his COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated workers in Illinois schools and day care centers, essentially marking a full retu...
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Asian American candidates aim to break state records - and 'the bamboo ceiling'Sep 13, 2022 1:00 am - It took 174 years for Chicagoans to elect the first Asian American to sit in the city council - and nearly two centuries for Illinois voters to send the first member of ...
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Ex-manager says no one would have bought R. Kelly's records if abuse allegations were trueSep 08, 2022 1:00 am - R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago resumed Thursday with the R&B star's former business manager on the stand for a second day. Derrell McDavid has spent more than six h...
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Elk Grove Village man admits to breaching CapitolSep 08, 2022 1:00 am - An Elk Grove Village man pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Thursday for breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in what he had previously d...
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This time, Fioretti will challenge Preckwinkle as a RepublicanSep 07, 2022 1:00 am - Former Chicago Alderman Bob Fioretti on Wednesday announced his candidacy for Cook County Board president. He'll be taking on Board President Toni Preckwinkle in the gen...
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'Building-wide system failures' force shutdown of federal court in ChicagoSep 06, 2022 1:00 am - The Dirksen Federal Courthouse will reopen Wednesday after "building-wide system failures" prompted authorities to close the building Tuesday, delaying the trial of R&B ...
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Former Sun-Times reporter fights subpoena to testify in R. Kelly trialSep 06, 2022 1:00 am - The former Chicago Sun-Times reporter whose work first drew national attention to allegations of sexual abuse of minors by R. Kelly is seeking to avoid becoming a witnes...