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Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: A network of 277 monitors keeping tabs on air quality in Chicago’s neighborhoods faces its first summer, when pollution tends to worsen. 🗞️ Plus: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart considers a unified transit police force, teens …

Accusing Mayor Brandon Johnson of dividing Chicago and “alienating and demonizing” its business community, Chicago Housing Authority board member Matthew Brewer on Thursday became the first African American challenger to join the race for mayor of Chicago. At a time …

Even the Hallmark Channel is betting on this being a big season for the Bears. The team and the network announced plans for a Christmas-related romance movie that will air leading up to the holiday. The Bears already have plans, …

MINNEAPOLIS — On Tuesday night at Target Field, Alex Call had what the Dodgers right fielder himself dubbed “an Alex Call-branded game” as the visitors took down the Minnesota Twins, 12-3. What does an Alex Call-branded game look like? Let’s …

PHILADELPHIA — Ivory Coast got goals from Nicolas Pépé in each half and advanced to the World Cup knockout round for the first time in the West African team’s history with a 2-0 victory over Curaçao on Thursday. Les Éléphants …

By The Associated Press World leaders and Venezuelan celebrities reacted Thursday with messages of solidarity and offers of assistance after two powerful earthquakes shook the South American nation, killing at least 164 people, injuring more than 1,000 and trapping many …

Let’s say a government agency pays for a study and is involved in the study’s design, data collection, analysis, writing, and interpretation. Would you find it plausible that the agency had zero influence on the study’s results? Last year, the …

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Gonzalo Plata poked the ball past Manuel Neuer in the 77th minute, and Ecuador advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup by rallying for a 2-1 win over Germany on Thursday. Germany, which clinched …

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein instead of trying it a fourth time. His accuser supported Thursday’s decision, which puts an end to one piece of a landmark …

A Democrat vs. a Republican in the general election for California governor might not seem out of the ordinary. But because of California’s open, all-candidate primary, there’s a key difference: Democrats, Republicans, and the state’s fastest-growing bloc of voters, Independents, …

By JIM MUSTIAN The federal Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate a whistleblower’s claims that DEA agents permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico. The …

Pasadena police and firefighters will have extra patrols around the city throughout the Fourth of July weekend searching for fireworks about a year and a half after the deadly and destructive Eaton fire. Officials reminded community members that all fireworks, …

For the third year in a row, drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths dropped in Los Angeles County in 2025, with health officials crediting increases in prevention and treatment programs. According to the county Department of Public Health, overdose and poisoning …

Ian Moore played all over the ice for the Ducks last season and he’ll be doing so for two more campaigns after signing a contract extension with a total value of $2.3 million Thursday. Moore, 24, skated in 77 of …

Earlier this week, we asked Southern California members of Congress about their hopes and their practical fears about the efforts to end the war against Iran. We asked: What are your thoughts on the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and …

The Kings will roll into Day 1 of the NHL draft Friday with the 17th overall selection, the highest of any playoff qualifier, and eight more picks for Saturday. But that’s all subject to change. In consecutive seasons, the Kings …

By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. Some of these changes include allowing low-rise apartment buildings to have just one stairway, reducing how often …

The jury is deadlocked in the Palisade fire trial, in which 30-year-old ex-rideshare driver Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of setting what eventually became the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles city history. More details on the jury’s note to the …

With great power – or a great contract – comes great responsibility. (Yeah, I know. I stole most of that line from the comics page. But it fits.) The point? The pressure is on the Lakers’ Austin Reaves, once his …

Charges are pending for a man who allegedly shot a woman — critically hurting her — late Wednesday in the Kenwood neighborhood. The 46-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man were inside a home at about 11:30 p.m. in the 4600 …