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Free Range, fronted by gifted Chicago songwriter Sofia Jensen, is growing up
The band Free Range started as a bedroom project of Chicago musicians Sofia Jensen and Jack Henry. The band just released its sophomore album, Lo…
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Sixth and final promised Save-A-Lot opens in West Lawn
The sixth and final promised Save-A-Lot store has opened in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood. We’ll bring you up to speed on the years-long process t…
1 year ago
Chicago is among many US cities facing a decline in tourism from Canada
Chicago is among many US cities facing a decline in tourism from Canada. Travel companies in Canada are reporting massive losses in revenues as b…
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Michael Shannon, movie director, sinks into the dark aftermath of an American school shooting
Academy Award-nominated winning actor Michael Shannon is making his directorial debut with his highly anticipated movie Eric La Rue … the story follo…
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UIC faculty, students decry proposal to cut language classes
At the University of Illinois Chicago, students who grew up speaking Spanish can take classes to learn how to read and write in the language — and ho…
1 year ago
Here's how one doctor is grappling with Fulbright funding being frozen by Trump
A Chicago gynecologist is in the East African nation of Uganda [you-GAHN-duh] on a Fulbright Scholarship. It’s a longstanding international excha…
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Gun turned over to Chicago police wound up in the hands of a teenager
Over the last two decades, Chicago police have taken in 35 thousand weapons at gun buybacks. And sometimes, the guns taken into police possession… go…
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Illinois home insurance prices jumped 50% in three years — second-highest in the country, study shows
A new study finds that Illinois homeowners on average paid almost $1,000 more on their home insurance in 2024 than they did three years ago. We’ll br…
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New National Public Housing Museum in Chicago tells the story of residents
Twenty years ago, when many of Chicago’s public housing apartments were being torn down after years of neglect, some former residents rallied to pres…
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Chicago’s murder drop ‘mirrors a lot of big cities,’ a leading crime data analyst says
Chicago finished the first quarter of the year with 96 murders. That’s down more than 15 percent from the first three months of last year. New …
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