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FBI: Gardiner may have given developer who’d been ‘good to me’ ticket to Lightfoot reform inaugural during bribery scheme

Ald. Jim Gardiner has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing as a result of the feds’ investigation, which dates back more than three years. FBI affidavits show the feds spent a year struggling to view thousands of text messages.

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Half of city neighborhoods lack electric vehicle chargers for public use

Building a robust network of chargers to make EV ownership feasible, whether you live in a rural town or a big city like Chicago, is proving difficult.

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Don’t be scared — Black history is your history, too

Many Americans say “No” to most history, but particularly Black History — an unfortunate impulse being cemented into law in states all over the country.

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Group hopes to restore Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, preserve it for future generations

Friends of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse hopes to partner with schools and other organizations to bring children from under-served communities to the aging icon in the lake.

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With sometimes self-deprecating humor, Johnson presides over first City Council meeting

The new mayor more than made it through his first Council meeting with grace, style and plenty of jokes.

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Housing plan for migrants proposed by group of Latino City Council members

The plan, backed by Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) and others, includes finding unused buildings that, with community approval, could be temporary shelters — and the first step on the road to permanent housing for migrants and homeless people.

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Mother of slain Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston wants community center built to remember daughter, support city’s youths

“Aréanah was a community person,” Dionne Mhoon told the Sun-Times. “So what better way to celebrate her and remember her name than by doing something for the community?”

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NW Side residents express support and disapproval of plan to house immigrant families at Wilbur Wright College

The shelter would alleviate pressure on police stations, which have turned into temporary shelters for more than 700 asylum-seekers across the city, officials said.

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Man shot, killed in Edgewater

The man was found in an alley with a gunshot wound to the back, police said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died.

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Lightfoot’s security detail dramatically reduced

A police spokesperson refused to reveal specifics of the reduction, fearing it could invite more threats against a former mayor who already has had her share.

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Brandon Johnson’s first City Council meeting certain to be tamer than Lightfoot’s

Senior adviser Jason Lee said the mayor has been doing some rehearsing to make sure he’s comfortable with the gavel in his hand and running the meeting smoothly.

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Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds

At the start of a five-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the Archdiocese of Chicago had “posted all of the names” of predatory clergy. As the investigation neared its end, Cupich kept adding names.

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Convicted ComEd CEO’s attorney warns ‘we may be trying this case again,’ but judge won’t allow contact with jurors

Defense attorney Scott Lassar told the Chicago Sun-Times he was referring to possible rulings by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, or even the U.S. Supreme Court.

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3,000 youth singers to converge on Millennium Park for Paint the Town Red

The annual event, scheduled for Thursday, is organized by the nonprofit organization Uniting Voices.

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Millennium Park fox family is the latest Chicago wildlife to go viral

The viral fox family joins other recent animals to gain fame, including giant turtle ‘Chonkosaurus,’ piping plover couple Monty and Rose, and alligator ‘Chance the Snapper.’

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Workers’ rights groups protest restaurant industry convention at McCormick Place

Demonstrators rallied outside the National Restaurant Association gathering at McCormick Place, demanding the City Council raise tipped workers’ minimum pay.

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Taking guns off the street, one at a time

St. Sabina Catholic Church held its annual gun buyback event Monday.

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Migrant children to join CPS, Cook County Jail chess program forges connections and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Closed Chicago schools, link to population decline needs more explanation

The graphic and a Sun-Times/WBEZ story do not show whether school closings led to population decline or whether the pre-existing population decline lead to the closings, after which the population continued to decline, a Glen Ellyn reader writes.

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A closed Chicago public school turned private, and it’s now draining taxpayer dollars

Is it good public policy to underfund CPS, which serves students who need special services, while sending dollars to private schools that do not accommodate them?

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From inside Cook County Jail, chess spreads across the globe

Chicago hosted an international conference on teaching chess to detainees in jails and prisons. Officials from the International Chess Federation and corrections agencies from around the world are exploring how chess can be used to help rehabilitate incarcerated people.

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New Little Village sculpture celebrates arriving immigrants: ‘We underestimate how courageous people are’

The work by Chicago-based artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores was made after Flores won the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit’s Richard Hunt Award. It’s one of 42 the exhibit is installing this month.

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Polling Place: Who’d win a head-to-head best-of-seven series, the Cubs or the White Sox?

Also: Who’s going to win it all in the NBA and the NHL?

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From dealing drugs to working for CTA, Hostess: Cook County Drug Court program grads get felony records expunged to begin new lives

Cook County Judge Charles Burns, who’s presided over 23 graduations in 13 years running the court, sped the process for the 10 participants to get felonies removed from court records.

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State lawmakers fail to finish budget, school district map, so they plan to try again next week

The General Assembly had planned to adjourn Friday, but Democratic leaders blew that self-imposed deadline. So lawmakers will return to Springfield on Wednesday to wrap up unfinished business, which includes the state budget and the elected school board map.

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