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NEW: Chicago will no longer allow residents to apply online for a municipal ID card after ICE officials subpoenaed records identifying applicants for the ID, known as the City Key, City Clerk Anna Valencia announced @wttw.bsky.social

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Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in downtown Chicago and across the country Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration. The day began in Chicago with a family-friendly event in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

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Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ Protests Kick Off in Chicago, Across the Country as Tens of Thousands Expected to Gather Downtown news.wttw.com/2025/06/14/a...

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Chicago will no longer allow residents to apply online for a municipal identification card after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials subpoenaed records identifying applicants for the ID, known as the City Key, City Clerk Anna Valencia announced news.wttw.com/2025/06/14/c...

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Liz Callaway returns to Chicago this weekend to perform “To Steve with Love” at the Studebaker Theater and celebrate the composer through his words and music. WTTW News spoke with Liz Callaway: news.wttw.com/2025/0...

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The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion. news.wttw.com/2025/0...

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Liz Callaway returns to Chicago this weekend to perform “To Steve with Love” at the Studebaker Theater and celebrate the composer through his words and music. WTTW News spoke with Liz Callaway: to.wttw.com/4kQXiKg

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According to the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort, there have been 82 breeding pairs counted in 2025. That’s one more than the previous record and the most since the birds were placed on the endangered species list in the 1980s. to.wttw.com/43GcYdo

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Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the nation’s longest-serving state legislative leader, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison following his landmark corruption convictions, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social

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Michael Madigan, once the nation’s longest-serving state legislative leader, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison on federal bribery and wire fraud convictions. to.wttw.com/43GeVqe

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It's official ... Michael Madigan, once the nation’s longest-serving state legislative leader, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison on federal bribery and wire fraud convictions, thus bringing to a close one of the largest corruption cases in recent Illinois history.

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Dwindling enrollment has left about 150 Chicago schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than 1/3 capacity. One city school is down to only 28 students. New, @propublica.org @chalkbeat.org @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & Mila Koumpilova:

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Me on socials watching for the Madigan sentence…. Refresh Refresh Refresh Refresh REFRESH

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Local and statewide organizations representing Haitian American and African immigrants are condemning the Trump administration’s recent travel ban that mainly targets people from African and Middle Eastern countries.

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Hamlet is known for being a complex character with deep internal struggles. The play, which tackles death, madness and revenge, has now been compacted into a six-part podcast series. Make-Believe Assocation founder Jeremy McCarter talks how this came about. to.wttw.com/45nMxuf

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The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

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In a year when many state agencies received little or no funding increase, state lawmakers this year approved an increase of $15.7 million, or 22.4%, for general operating expenses in Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office.

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On Saturday, Chicago and hundreds of other cities are set to rally against President Trump and his efforts to carry out mass deportations. "Chicago Tonight" guests discuss how clashes between demonstrators and police are representative of these protests. to.wttw.com/4kLLqcO

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Douglass High School on the city’s West Side now has 27 employees for 28 students. The cost to run the school is $93,000 per student. “'Is a Douglass student getting a $93,000-a-year experience? No.'" From @chalkbeat.org / @propublica.org - Mila Koumpilova / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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Chicago operates 150 schools that are half-empty and another 47 at less than 33% capacity. It's extraordinarily expensive. The most extreme example: Douglass high school has 27 employees for 28 students this year and a per-student cost of $93,000. Story w/ with @chalkbeat.org's Mila Koumpilova.

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Chicago taxpayers should pay $14.75 million to a man who spent more than 29 years in prison after being convicted of a double murder he did not commit, city lawyers recommended.

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The last time Chicago & ComEd negotiated a new deal to keep the lights on in homes & businesses, President Clinton was in the White House, flannel shirts were in fashion & Mayor Johnson had just celebrated his 16th birthday. There's no sign of a new deal on the horizon. @wttw.bsky.social

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Tragedy, betrayal, revenge. Those are the themes of most any Shakespearean drama — but audiences are now getting a twist with the classic “Hamlet.” Rather than a stage production, creators are delivering an audio adaptation.

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NEW: Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students. With @chalkbeat.org

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No Kings protest: Organizers are planning to gather in Daley Plaza at noon Saturday to join in on the anti-Trump movement. Dozens of other gatherings are planned across the Chicago area, from neighborhoods like South Chicago and Edgewater to suburbs like Evanston and Schaumburg.

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The lack of a contract between the city and ComEd inked in the 21st century has tied the city’s hands in the fight against climate change and halted efforts to transition the city to clean energy, reducing the use of fossil fuels. (via @heathercherone.bsky.social)

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Deep dive by @chalkbeat.org & @propublica.org into a vexing issue in Chicago: Dwindling enrollment has left about 150 Chicago schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs and limited course offerings.

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Members of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights gathered in support of immigrants and to denounce the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the state

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Members of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights gathered in support of immigrants and to denounce the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the state, during a Thursday news conference. to.wttw.com/4l7Stwb

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The House narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut about $9.4 billion in spending on foreign aid programs, NPR, PBS as well as thousands of public radio and television stations around the country. The vote was 214-212. to.wttw.com/3TkqbT1

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Illinois state health officials are criticizing a decision by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oust the entirety of a 17-member advisory committee on vaccines, calling the move “deeply concerning." to.wttw.com/443Wkn7

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Just days after Brookfield Zoo issued the exciting announcement of the first bottlenose dolphin born at the zoo in more than a decade, staff is mourning the sudden death of the calf on Wednesday night. to.wttw.com/4n0t09E

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From the Old Town Art Fair to ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ Here Are 5 Arts Picks for the Weekend

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Honestly, I can't even tell what is a clock or a crosswalk or a bike on the CAPTCHAs anymore - the bots and I are now the same

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Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday steadfastly defended Illinois’ handling of the migrant crisis and laws designed to protect undocumented immigrants, urging Republicans on the U.S. House Oversight Committee to help him fix the nation’s “broken immigration system.” to.wttw.com/44dRxAz

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A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen for clues to the origin of life on Earth.

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BREAKING: Taxpayers should pay $14.75M to a man who spent 29 years in prison after being convicted of a double murder he did not commit, city lawyers recommended. James Gibson has said he was tortured by detectives supervised by Jon Burge, a disgraced former CPD commander. @wttw.bsky.social

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Yusef Jackson, Rainbow PUSH’s executive director, said activists & Rainbow PUSH Coalition staff will peacefully protest the lack of corporate support for civil rights at the Target downtown. On Saturday, the coalition plans to join up at Chicago’s No Kings rally.

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The report found that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow-era segregation, industrial disinvestment and mass incarceration have blocked Black men from opportunities to build wealth. It showcases the stories of African American men and fathers, including 100 formerly incarcerated men from Chicago.

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The board voted to approve Macquline King, Mayor Johnson’s senior director of education policy and a former CPS principal, as Chicago Public Schools’ interim CEO.

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“I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “Whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next.” @wttw.bsky.social

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