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The CTA will pay $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit after a city bus struck a woman last year.
Chicago resident Sherry Fisher, was struck by a CTA bus and pinned underneath it while she walked in a North Lawndale crosswalk last March, the lawsuit alleged. The crash caused her “severe injuries,” which she died from nearly three months later, according to the lawsuit.
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Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King speaks, along with Mayor Brandon Johnson, during an announcement of a historic expansion of Sustainable Community Schools at the South Shore Cultural Center, Aug. 4, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
Mayor Johnson’s CPS chief resists City Hall borrowing plan, pension payment as budget deadline looms
Chicago Public Schools interim chief Macquline King is resisting pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to make a controversial pension payment and borrow millions of dollars to settle the district’s budget, a notable twist in what has become a deeply uncertain budget cycle for the fourth-largest school district in the nation. Read more here.
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Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab maitre d’ Jim Herbert talks to customers during lunch in Chicago on Aug. 2, 2013. (Heather Charles/Chicago Tribune)
Longtime partner in Chicago Joe’s Stone Crab sues Lettuce Entertain You for fraud
A longtime business partner is suing Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You and its co-founder Rich Melman for allegedly squeezing him out of his ownership interest in the chain’s popular Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab restaurants. Read more here.
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Then-SMU quarterback Preston Stone smiles while talking with teammates during practice Aug. 9, 2024, in Dallas. Stone transferred to Northwestern in January. (LM Otero/AP)
Preston Stone, a graduate transfer from SMU, takes over Northwestern QB job with ‘earned confidence’
Coach David Braun was pleased with how quickly Preston Stone built relationships with his new teammates when he arrived on campus in January. Within three weeks, the Wildcats voted Stone onto their leadership council, well before it was publicly official that he would be Northwestern’s starter this season. Read more here.
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Guests stand near an entrance to the Floating Museum art collective’s “for Mecca” installation at the north lawn of S.R. Crown Hall on the IIT campus, Aug. 8, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Floating Museum lets the public walk through history with latest inflatable, ‘for Mecca’
In 2022, the Floating Museum collaborated with Indian artist Kushala Vora to produce a second inflatable, entitled “The Garden.” Vora looked at colonial plant histories between India and the United States and the impact the plants have in their respective landscapes. Read more here.
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National Guard troops arrive at the District of Columbia National Guard headquarters, Aug. 12, 2025, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
The president’s rhetoric echoed that used by conservative politicians going back decades who have denounced American cities, especially those with majority non-white populations or led by progressive politicians, as lawless or crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. Read more here.
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Originally Published: August 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM CDT