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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s reelection petitions will hit the streets Tuesday — the first day to start gathering the 12,500 signatures needed to qualify for the mayoral ballot — but that doesn’t mean the embattled incumbent has decided to seek a …

David P. Sopys’ family grew worried after he missed their Fourth of July barbecue. Sopys, 46, lived on and off at various facilities while living with a learning disability, but he always came home for the holidays, said Chamille Sopys, …

DEAR ABBY: I have just retired and want to spend the summer taking a long road trip from Florida to Alaska and back. I’ve dreamed about it all my life and finally have the time and money to do it. …

Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter. Data centers are going up everywhere. They need enormous amounts of electricity. Somebody must pay to connect them and build the …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: At a Joliet prison designed to treat people with serious mental illness, desperate men are setting themselves on fire. 🗞️ Plus: Temporary protected status ends for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, storms batter the Chicago area, data …

In the same way that our methods of music discovery continue to evolve, so do the ways musicians work to be discovered. Ahead of this year’s Lollapalooza, WBEZ contributor and illustrative journalist Eda Uzunlar asked members of the Chicago-based rock …

La comida ha sido el centro de la vida de Teddy y Alexis Vejar desde que eran niños. Recuerdan caminar por su vecindario en Morelia, Michoacán, donde la gente abría sus puertas o garajes y servía la cena desde sus …

Cicero officials believe there could be plans in the works for a data center to replace the Hawthorne Race Course, which recently closed after 135 years of horse racing. In a symbol of how unpopular data center developments have become, …

Chicago Public Schools officials say they will not furlough staff for five days in the upcoming school year to save money, and to keep the budget balanced the district is now counting on the city to send it even more …

Three men have been charged with stealing and vandalizing controversial license plate readers over the weekend in the west suburbs. Anthony Pareigis, 34, Jacob Steichmann, 32, and Thomas Yano, 31, face charges of theft and criminal damage to government property, …

Customs agents at O’Hare Airport on Tuesday announced the seizure of a massive shipment of “unapproved medications” from China that included erectile dysfunction and weight-loss drugs. The shipment destined for Syracuse, New York, was intercepted by a U.S. Customs and …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser break down the state of the Bears on training camp report day — and share what GM Ryan Poles and coach Ben Johnson had to say about their roster. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will …

La representante estadounidense Delia Ramírez fue una de las tres legisladoras demócratas que visitaron el lunes un centro de detención del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en Kentucky para verificar la situación de dos habitantes de Chicago …

The Bears will open training camp Wednesday morning without their best defensive end. The team put Montez Sweat on the Active/Non-Football Illness list Tuesday with a short-term illness that is expected to cost him the first few days of camp. …

A day before driving his oldest son to college, an emotional Brandon Johnson said Tuesday he would like to “hold on to this moment for a little while longer” — both as father and as Chicago’s mayor — before deciding …

People across the greater Chicago area on Tuesday were dealing with the effects of the heavy thunderstorms and damaging winds from the day before. A clear, sunny day brought some relief, as floodwaters receded, basements started to dry out, damages …

Bears coach Ben Johnson said his message to cornerback Kyler Gordon is two words long — “Get healthy.” It could also be four words long — “We don’t trust you.” Or, at the very least —“We don’t trust you yet.” …

Not that Bears quarterback Caleb Williams needed a reminder of it, but even after a thrilling playoff win and buoyant offseason pushed his popularity to a new peak, this is still very much Ben Johnson’s team. Johnson runs the show, …

Las autoridades de Cicero creen que podría haber planes para un centro de datos que reemplace al Hawthorne Race Course, que cerró recientemente tras 135 años de carreras de caballos. Como símbolo de lo impopulares que se han vuelto los …

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday intended to keep students’ eyes off their phones and on their school work, adding Illinois to the list of states that ban distracting devices in the classroom. All local school districts will be required …