Pitchfork Music Festival joins Mothers Against Senseless Killings and Everytown for Gun Safety in its community outreach this year.
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Trump shades Cubs during White House visit: ‘Your team’s doing OK,’ and other Chicago news
Also, a GOP state representative says Rauner and Madigan need to “sit on the sidelines” to let lawmakers reach a compromise on the long-overdue state budget.
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Madigan’s wish list of demands required for budget deal with Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, a tour of DuSable Museum of African American History is now required for Chicago police recruits.
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Alderman Reilly places ‘urgent request’ for more police downtown, and other Chicago news
Also, the parents of a college student who disappeared downtown ten years ago are still looking for answers.
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Chicago hit 300 homicides over Father’s Day weekend, and other news
Also, less than a quarter of Chicago teens reportedly attend their neighborhood public high schools.
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Black Lives Matters sues Chicago Police Department over reform consent decree, and other news
Also, Lin-Manuel Miranda might star in a Chicago Hamilton performance during the last week of August.
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Chris Kennedy: J.B. Pritzker does not ‘deserve’ to be governor, and other Chicago news
Also, the city removed 12 red-light cameras after a study showed they were not preventing crashes.
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The New York Times: There are ‘some signs of hope’ in ‘Chicago’s crisis of violence,’ and other news
Also, an anti-Muslim group is organizing the Chicago March Against Sharia.
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Chicago Teachers Union considering merging with charter school union, and other news
Also, Emanuel tried to refute Census Bureau data with unscientific U-Haul report.
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The Illinois General Assembly is back in session with little hope for a budget deal, and other Chicago news
Also, CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson is “ready” for his kidney transplant.
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Crushers Club teaches West Englewood boys to fight for their futures
The boxing club for at-risk youth empowers kids in and out of the ring.
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Report: The demand for legal guns is on the rise, and other Chicago news
Also, a study has linked high blood pressure to segregated neighborhoods.
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Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news
Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
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Alderman Raymond Lopez under police protection after retaliatory threats from gangs, and other Chicago news
Also, former mayor Richard M. Daley’s photo has finally been added to the wall of mayors at City Hall.
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Emanuel launches new climate change section on city website using information deleted from EPA, and other Chicago news
Also, there’s speculation that Forrest Claypool’s days at Chicago Public Schools are numbered.