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Other cities also struggle with 'teen takeovers.' What can Chicago learn from them? (opens the original)
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Like Chicago and many other American cities, Baltimore has been grappling with “teen takeovers” becoming violent. In the summer of 2023, city leaders were under pressure after repeated teen gatherings downtown led to fights, assaults and other disorder around the Inner Harbor, while a mass shooting at Baltimore’s annual Brooklyn Day celebration that left two people dead and 28 wounded intensified concerns about keeping young people safe. City officials brainstormed and came up with a plan. It in
Why thousands packed Wrigley Field for the Savannah Bananas game — even those who dislike baseball (opens the original)
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Mary Miske, Diana Tabor and Priscilla Jones all “hate baseball.” Yet, the three women stood outside Wrigley Field near Clark and Addison Saturday afternoon decked out in gear supporting the Savannah Bananas’ opposing team, the Firefighters. They wore red flame sunglasses, cowboy hats and gave out Fireball cinnamon whiskey shots out of a fake fire hose (only to adults). Why did they come if they hate baseball so much? Because they love Banana Ball — the high-energy, entertainment-focused and fan-
Illinois added to CDC's investigation into diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak (opens the original)
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Illinois and three other states were added Friday to federal health officials’ investigation into a diarrhea-causing parasite that was first tied to shredded lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the list of states with confirmed outbreaks of the disease cyclosporiasis. The other states that are part of the agency’s investigation are Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. State an
111 years later, S.S. Eastland disaster victims remembered (opens the original)
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Holding a black-and-white photo of his great aunt, Scott Long leaned over the Chicago Riverwalk railing Friday and scattered a handful of flowers into the river, honoring a life the S.S. Eastland disaster claimed 111 years ago. Long, 62, took a photograph of the portrait of his great aunt, Mabel Deichmann, held against the backdrop of the river where she died on July 24, 1915. Deichmann was 21 when the Eastland, a passenger steamship, rolled onto its side while docked along the Chicago River, ki
What to know about the Rev. Michael Pfleger sex abuse investigation (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, the Archdiocese of Chicago launched an investigation into a decades-old child sexual abuse allegation against the Rev. Michael Pfleger, the longtime pastor of St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham. It was the fifth such accusation brought against Pfleger in five years, and the investigation continues. The archdiocese found the four previous allegations to be unfounded. The latest allegation has brought renewed attention to Pfleger, whose decades of ministry and community activi
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