Articles filed under Chicago
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Lyric Opera names Enrique Mazzola as new music directorSep 12, 2019 1:00 am - Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola will be the next music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago starting with the 2021-22 season. The Lyric announced Thursday that Mazzo...
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Trailblazing Northwestern professor turns 100 next month. He's still doing 'incredibly complex' research on heart disease.Sep 12, 2019 1:00 am - Jeremiah Stamler's scientific work is so cutting-edge, it recently earned him roughly half a million dollars in funding from a competitive grant program at the National ...
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Plan would allow release of reports on police conductSep 11, 2019 11:00 pm - For years, Inspector General Joe Ferguson's reports on the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the death of David Koschman have been kept under wraps because city law...
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American Football talks Riot Fest, popularity and the band's Wheeling connectionSep 11, 2019 2:30 pm - Riot Fest's claim to fame on Chicago's summer fest landscape is its variety. Despite its punk-rock roots, year after year the three-day music festival promises an e...
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Woman sitting in Chicago house shot in head by passing carSep 11, 2019 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago woman is in critical condition after a bullet fired from a passing car pierced her front window and struck her in the head as she sat in her liv...
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Chicago-area woman charged in fatal hit-and-run crashSep 11, 2019 7:00 am - CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago-area woman is facing charges in the hit-and-run death of a motorcyclist. Crystal Lake Police say 53-year-old Carolyn A. Tyrell of Cry...
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Chicago man pleads guilty to Indiana armored truck robberySep 11, 2019 7:00 am - HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A Chicago man has pleaded guilty in an armored truck robbery in northwestern Indiana that netted several suspects more than $600,000 in cash. Thirty...
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Lisa Madigan joins Kirkland & Ellis law firmSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - Former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who has been relatively out of the spotlight after announcing she wouldn't seek reelection two years ago, has joined Kirkl...
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Watchdog alleges patronage in Cook County clerk's officeSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - A government watchdog has accused Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough of operating "an illegal patronage employment system" less than a year into her first term in the off...
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Anne Burke 'humbled and honored' to become chief justice of Illinois Supreme CourtSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke will become the next chief justice of the state's highest court. Burke, the wife of indicted Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, has ser...