Toni Preckwinkle is unanimously re-elected head of the Cook County Democratic Party
Preckwinkle said she expects the Democratic Party will be united behind President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection.
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Preckwinkle said she expects the Democratic Party will be united behind President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.
Officer Luis Huesca, 30, was returning home from work about 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street when a ShotSpotter alert went off, police Supt. Larry Snelling said. No one has been arrested.
The Catholic church’s transparency on accusations of sexual abuse by clergy members, including the Rev. Mark Santo, remains inconsistent and lacking across the United States, clouding the extent of the crisis more than 20 years after it exploded into view.
The answer for non-Equity actors, it turns out, has gotten more complicated post-COVID.
The British conductor, who led nearly 700 Lyric performances of 62 operas, died in Chicago from leukemia.
The officer, a 30-year-old man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died due to his injuries.
Milas is performing thorugh May 5 at Steppenwolf Theatre’s Merle Ruskin Garage Space.
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives facility is the latest effort to disrupt violent crime in Chicago, where police have been taking 12,000 guns off the street every year.
About 14% of those in the apprenticeship program found permanent full-time employment with the transit agency, a Sun-Times investigation found. Others, some strung along for years, remained in low-paying roles with no benefits.