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Who’s the richest person in Illinois? According to Forbes, it’s no longer Ken Griffin
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA 36-year-old heir of the Walton family has replaced billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin as...
An estimated 68,440 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2021, new report says
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe number of people experiencing homelessness in Chicago increased between 2020 and 2021, according...
Justin Fields knows there’s a typical timeline in the NFL. The Chicago Bears QB thinks he’s ‘just at...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Sports· 5 months agoTwo years, eight months and one day ago, Chicagoan Carlos Nelson walked across the NFL draft stage,...
Concerned about climate change, more Chicagoans are buying all-electric home heating systems
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWhen Derek Eder started looking for an all-electric heating system for his 100-year-old home in Oak...
‘Let the Little Light Shine’ Film Review: Black Chicago Students Fight for Their School and Their...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVarious sets of cameras, far different from the national-news ones obsessed only with Black homicide...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Falls Short In Bid For Second Term
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had asked voters for four more years to continue her work reducing...
Chicago is spending over $17 million to add miles of new bike lanes — all in hopes of curbing...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChicago.Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Chicago's cycling community has exploded in recent...
City ID card event cancellations frustrate migrants desperate for official identification
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBefore even crossing the U.S. border, Carolina Olachea knew she wanted to be a Chicagoan. The...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposes 15-year deal with ComEd that critics on City Council call...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has reached a 15-year deal with Commonwealth Edison that the city bills as the “strongest municipal utility franchise deal in the country,” but some aldermen are ...
Brandon Johnson once said it was a ‘political goal’ to defund police. He’s been less precise running...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020′s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.” Following the murder of George Floyd ...