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Top CPS officials privately warned a new Near South school could undermine neighboring schools, harm Black students

While Mayor Lori Lightfoot has touted the new school to serve Chinatown and other neighborhoods, CPS alumni and even staff inside CPS fear it will do damage to existing schools that serve predominantly African American students.

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Picture Chicago: 22 must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

A blast in Austin tears through an apartment building, pieces of history arrive at the Field Museum, Chicagoans rock out at Riot Fest and more in our best unseen photos of the week.

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Man dies after explosion at Austin apartment building

The cause of the blast was determined to be the “ignition of natural gas,” fire officials said.

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‘I’m going to read them all.’ Grade schoolers get excited about book donation during Bernie’s Book Bank’s crosstown charity walk

The volunteers were midway through their 20-mile “Walk As One Chicago” fundraiser, marching from Guaranteed Rate Field to Wrigley Field and back. They stopped at schools along the way to promote book ownership and literacy.

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Street artists compare styles at mural painting under Skyway: ‘It’s beautiful’

The artists were taking part in the international “Meeting of Styles” festival, which returned to Chicago this weekend for its fourth year. Some of the artists came from Mexico and Germany to paint viaduct walls near Commercial and South Chicago avenues.

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Crowds flock to South Chicago Mexican Independence Day Parade: ‘This is a day we get to celebrate our culture’

Although overshadowed by the popular Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade, held two weeks ago, the one in South Chicago claims to be Chicago’s oldest. The parade dates back to the late 1930s in one of the city’s first Mexican immigrant communities, which settled on the Southeast Side.

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Vice President Harris lauds Illinois as model for nation on protecting abortion rights: ‘This is the home of hope and change’

In her fourth trip to Illinois since taking office, the vice president warned that reproductive rights are under assault across the nation. “And so we need you to get the vote out this November because truly, truly, this election, I do believe will determine the future of not only your…

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Picture Chicago: The Sun-Times’ photos of the week

Illinois takes in immigrants sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Bears beat the 49ers in a rain-soaked season opener in our best photos of the week.

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Farmers market-on-wheels brings the farm stand to Garfield Park seniors

The venture aims to deliver fresh produce from local community gardens to homes for seniors — saving them the trip.

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Picture Chicago: 15 must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

Kids enjoy the final days of summer, Chicago police honor fallen officers, the Sky reach the end of the line and more in our best unseen pics of the week.

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Fallen Chicago Police officers remembered at Gold Star Families Memorial

“There’s no greater love than this, that I would lay down my life for a friend. They gave their lives in protection of the residents of the city of Chicago,” Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said.

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Black union pioneers honored on Labor Day

“Despite Jim Crow and the challenges that Black people faced, people who worked on the railroad had an opportunity to build a better life,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said during an event at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site.

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Steel mill closings explored in new documentary

Steven Walsh’s film, “Southeast: a City Within a City,” explores the impact of the decline of the city’s steel mills on the people who lived nearby and worked in the mills.

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Picture Chicago: Sun-Times’ photos you might have missed this week

Migrants are welcomed from Texas, the Chicago Sky tie its series 1-1 in the WNBA Semifinals, a mural goes up at Mahalia Jackson Court and more in our best unseen pics of the week.

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Bears president/CEO Ted Phillips to retire in February

Phillips is the fourth president in team history — and the only one not related to founder George Halas.

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Invest South/West here to stay, no matter who wins mayoral election, planning chief says

Since arriving from Detroit three years ago, Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox has focused on delivering Lightfoot’s mayor’s signature plan to leverage $750 million in public money already in the pipeline” to lure private investment to areas neglected for decades.

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Chicago welcomes immigrants bused out of Texas with open arms

Nearly 80 people seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border were sent to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as part of his plan to move them to Democrat-led cities; Blasting Abbott’s actions as racist, xenophobic, Lightfoot said, “We’re ready. We are the village.”

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Cops remove activists protesting planned luxury high-rise at Weiss Hospital parking lot in Uptown

They want the city to deny permits for the project and instead provide more affordable housing for the area or expand the hospital.

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South Chicago artist tells story of steel mills, drugs, gangs in first major retrospective

Self-taught painter and sculptor Roman Villarreal’s work is on view at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art until January.

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Arlington Heights residents want the Bears — but they don’t want to foot the bill, poll finds

SNEED EXCLUSIVE: A new poll shows that more than two-thirds of voters in the northwest suburb say the Bears shouldn’t get a dime of taxpayer money if they decide to leave Soldier Field for Arlington Heights.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s can’t miss photos

Bears football is back, Chicagoans enjoy the dog days of summer and the Blue Angels ready for the Air and Water Show in our best unseen photos from the last week.

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13-year-old girl saved by CPR after being struck by lightning in Garfield Park

“It was only because the patient received high-quality CPR immediately that she survived,” said a trauma physician at Stroger Hospital.

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Hundreds of boxes filled with mental health support, resources assembled for CPS students

Find Your Anchor partnered with CPS, Children First Fund and Born This Way Foundation — founded by singer Lady Gaga, who performs tonight at Wrigley Field — to give city teens care packages containing mental health resources.

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Chicago’s top cop fired reformer even after getting heat from federal monitor

At a meeting with the monitor tracking compliance with court-ordered reforms, Supt. David Brown struggled to explain how he would meet a key deadline while deeply cutting staff that was implementing those changes.

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Whitney Young H.S. selects new principal, only its 4th in 47 years, to replace retiring Joyce Kenner

Assistant Principal Rickey Harris takes over the prestigious Near West Side school. Harris has served two stints at Whitney Young, his first from 2006 to 2010 as the school’s dean of students before returning in 2020.

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