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Area creatives are leaning into local storytelling through short documentaries and stories that celebrate differences and community in the 42nd annual Chicago Latino Film Festival. This year’s film festival, kicking off Thursday, features four locally produced films, including a short …

Soon, voters will elect all 21 members of the Chicago School Board for the first time. It’s a significant shift for the governing body, which was under mayoral control for decades. The city held its first-ever school board elections in …

Record Store Day is an annual tradition that, while celebrated around the country, gets special treatment in Chicago. This Saturday, expect more than three dozen shops in the area to fete the day with live events and fresh pressings, including …

In November 2023, about a year after Elon Musk took over Twitter, Media Matters for America made a splash with a report claiming that the platform, by then rebranded as X, was “placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and …

DEAR ABBY: My mother passed away recently. She suffered from dementia and was a cancer survivor, but she lived well into her 80s. It was difficult for me to witness her mental decline when I spoke to her on the …

Illinois state police fatally shot an armed man during a domestic incident Wednesday night in Woodlawn on the South Side. State troopers responded to a domestic battery call on Interstate 57 at around 10:50 p.m. and found the armed man …

By Dana Hull | Bloomberg Sales of Tesla’s Cybertruck were propped up in recent months by Elon Musk’s other companies, an unusual arrangement that further indicates the polarizing pickup is failing to appeal to everyday buyers. SpaceX, the Musk-led rocket and …

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is likely to face tough questions about his vast financial holdings at a hearing next week by …

By ALI SWENSON Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday faced federal lawmakers for the first time since September as he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed cut to his department’s budget and dodge arrows from angry …

By JOSH FUNK, AP Transportation Writer New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department said Thursday that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit …

LONG BEACH — As a new father, Alexander Rossi says his induction into the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame has a deeper meaning. The two-time winner of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach took his place on the …

SEATTLE (AP) — Chinese government officials are encouraging travelers to be wary and avoid entering the United States through Seattle, citing a pattern of continual harassment by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. Related Articles New York loses nearly $74 …

It was a bittersweet — and brief — reunion for the Gonzalez family. Three Big Bear Lake sisters, whose father was detained by immigration officials for nearly two weeks, were briefly reunited with him and their mother, who was dying …

NEW YORK — The Angels have demonstrated this week that, if nothing else, they are resilient. They suffered two gut-wrenching ninth-inning losses this week, and followed both times they rebounded to win the next day. It helps to do that …

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) — DNA analysis has identified the remains found in a car in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family that went missing in 1958 while on a trip to find Christmas greenery, authorities said …

LOS ANGELES — Despite adding 55 newcomers to its roster less than six months ago, the UCLA football team has quickly developed a family environment among its players. Just ask senior wide receiver Landon Ellis, who spoke Thursday after the …