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Five months before elections, candidates for Chicago’s first fully elected school board have raised more than $830,000, with board president hopeful Sendhil Revuluri accounting for nearly one-third of that total.
The Chicago Teachers Union and special interest groups that spent heavily on the 2024 board race have yet to make significant contributions. But many are mobilizing for what may well be the largest school board election in the country.
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Filippo “Gigi” Rovito leaves the Hammond Federal Courthouse following a hearing in the “Operation Porterhouse Parlay” case on May 14, 2026. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
‘Our friend in Burr Ridge’: Restaurant owner in Indiana gambling case once featured in Outfit beating plot
The plot to hire some mob-connected tough guys to break the legs of a debtor allegedly began in May 2013 with vague talk over a wiretapped phone call about a popular restaurateur in Chicago’s western suburbs, federal court records show. Read more here.
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Owner Lisa Fleischmann hangs a Trump sign on the wall in her soon-to-open Trump Truth Store and Hangout on Jan. 13, 2026, in Crystal Lake. Fleischmann shut down the business on March 26, 2026, citing a drop in sales amid the broadly unpopular U.S.- and Israel-led war in Iran. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Controversial Trump Truth Store is reopening after abrupt closure amid drop in sales, Iran war
Store owner Lisa Fleischmann shut down the business on March 26, citing a drop in sales amid the broadly unpopular U.S.- and Israel-led war in Iran. Read more here.
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Libertyville’s Brock Williams works in the end zone against Lemont’s Ewald Trickle (21) during a nonconference game, Aug. 29, 2025. in Lemont. (Steve Johnston/for the News-Sun)
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Brock Williams, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end ranked 79th nationally in the 2027 class in the 247Sports composite ratings, had received offers from nearly 40 Power Four programs but shortened his list to finalists Georgia, Ohio State and Texas. Read more here.
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The Billy Goat Tavern’s Sam Sianis at his famous restaurant and bar at Hubbard Street and lower Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Feb. 18, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat, Chicago’s most famous saloonkeeper, dies at 91
Sam Sianis, a Greek immigrant who became one of the most successful saloonkeepers and a popular figure in the sports and media worlds, died in Endeavor Swedish Hospital in Chicago early this morning. Read more here.
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The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Justice Department to seek death penalty for Chicago man charged with killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers
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