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"Barrier-free" concert created for special-needs music lovers

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
Stay ahead of what’s hitting Chicago stages, galleries, museums and more with Green Room, WBEZ’s weekly arts & culture newsletter! ... By subscribing, you agree with WBEZ’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Cámara corporal de la Patrulla Fronteriza capta la detención de hombre en Chicago: ‘Es un ...

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
El primero de cuatro vehículos sin identificar de la Patrulla Fronteriza se detiene en una estrecha calle de un solo sentido en Albany Park ... WBEZ y el Chicago Sun-Times han revisado esos videos, publicados el mes pasado en un caso judicial federal.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson backs down, will not veto City Council's alternate budget

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he will not veto a 2026 budget that he has called “morally bankrupt,” instead allowing it to go into effect and staving off political gridlock and the risk of an unprecedented government shutdown ... Ald ... ....
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Hear how Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino became the face of Trump’s deportation campaign

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
WBEZ’s Dan Mihalopoulos went to Southern California, where Bovino got his start in the Border Patrol. In “Becoming Bovino,” they talk with WBEZ’s Patrick Smith about what ... WBEZ and Lauren FitzPatrick.
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Jake Connelly is Stranger Things’ new breakout star

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
Stay ahead of what’s hitting Chicago stages, galleries, museums and more with Green Room, WBEZ’s weekly arts & culture newsletter! ... By subscribing, you agree with WBEZ’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy ... Manuel Martinez/WBEZ.
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After fleeing the war in Ukraine, they thought they were safe. Then came Trump’s deportation blitz.

Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec 2025
When her husband Ilkhom left for his Uber shift in late October, he never expected to be arrested by federal immigration agents at O’Hare Airport during Operation Midway Blitz ... Last year, the family put up a tree for the holidays ... Sun-Times staff ... Rep.
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The best things we ate around Chicago in 2025

Chicago Sun-Times 23 Dec 2025
Stay ahead of what’s hitting Chicago stages, galleries, museums and more with Green Room, WBEZ’s weekly arts & culture newsletter! ... By subscribing, you agree with WBEZ’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy ... Beltran Quan Kiu for WBEZ.
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Escuela chárter Instituto sancionada por violaciones en educación especial

Chicago Sun-Times 23 Dec 2025
Los funcionarios estatales impusieron la sanción más severa posible a una escuela secundaria chárter de Chicago después de que una investigación encontrara tres años de violaciones “repetidas y no resueltas” en educación especial ... Síguenos.
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“It changes lives”: Inside the service dog training program at an Illinois women’s prison

Chicago Sun-Times 21 Dec 2025
December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer antlers ... He can sit. He can lift Blanca’s leg ... ....
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Children with life-threatening illnesses make a trip to the North Pole

Chicago Sun-Times 21 Dec 2025
Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont ... After a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, this year marked the organization’s return ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... Somer Van Benton/WBEZ ... ....
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Border Patrol agent’s camera captures detainee’s lament: ‘We don’t have the opportunity that you have’

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Dec 2025
The first of four unmarked U.S. Border Patrol vehicles rolls onto a narrow one-way street in Albany Park ... WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times have sorted through those videos, released to the public last month in a federal court case ... 12 in Albany Park. U.S.
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Property tax payment delay costs CPS almost a quarter million dollars a day

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Dec 2025
Every day that Chicago Public Schools goes without much-delayed property tax revenue, the school district is paying $220,000 in interest on short-term loans it took out to make payroll — that’s the equivalent of two teachers’ annual salaries ... 15 ... ....
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City Council sends alternate budget to Mayor Brandon Johnson — will he veto it?

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Dec 2025
A renegade coalition of conservative and moderate City Council members opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax has decisively passed the second half of a final budget balanced without the policy detested by Chicago’s business community.
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Sun-Times and WBEZ photographers pick their best photos of 2025

Chicago Sun-Times 19 Dec 2025
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Trump admin ending grants for support services at many Illinois schools

Chicago Sun-Times 19 Dec 2025
When students at dozens of schools across Illinois return to class in January, they may find that support services they depend on, such as mental health programs and food pantries, have disappeared ... 31 ... “The effects are just going to be catastrophic.”.
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