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Illinois U.S. Reps. Sean Casten and Jesús “Chuy” García added their names to the growing list of Democrats calling for President Joe Biden to step aside and not run for a second term.
Casten and García become the fourth and fifth Illinois congressional Democrats to encourage the 81-year-old Biden to abandon his effort to defeat former President Donald Trump in the November election. Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night in Milwaukee.
In a submitted opinion piece published online Friday in the Tribune’s opinion section, Casten, a west suburban congressman since 2019, said if the upcoming election was a referendum on performance, promises and character, he thinks Biden would defeat Trump.
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Flights disrupted. Radio stations knocked off the air. Business operations suspended. Global technology outage creates headaches in the Chicago area.
Busy O’Hare International Airport and Metra trains were hit with cancellations and delays. UChicago Medicine workstations malfunctioned. Radio stations were knocked off air. Read more here.
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- Madigan attorneys lay out plan to scrub potential jurors’ social media; feds say jury ‘not a fantasy team’
- Illinois has already experienced over 100 tornadoes this year, double the annual average
For the first time, billionaire Ken Griffin has publicly placed on the market his top-floor condominium unit on the 38th floor of the Gold Coast building at 9 W. Walton St. (VHT Studios)
Billionaire Ken Griffin lists Gold Coast condo for $11M
Griffin famously paid $58.75 million in late 2017 in four separate transactions for the top four floors of the building on Walton, but he never finished and moved into the units. Read more here.
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- Chicago Plan Commission green lights more than 1,000 apartments for Clybourn Corridor and Fulton Market
- Lincolnwood bans ‘garish’ lights, called ‘attention-getting devices’
Chicago baseball report: Highlights of the 2025 schedules — including the Cubs opening in Japan
As the Cubs come out of the All-Star break, all that matters now is wins. Read more here.
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- All-Star Angel Reese embraces hefty expectations as a rookie for the Chicago Sky: ‘I just let my game speak for itself’
- Naperville native Casey Krueger is heading back to the Olympics with the US women’s soccer team
Encore for two friends sharing the stage locally for a second time
Now here’s an encore. Two young friends from Northbrook and Glenview are starring together for a second time in a local theater production. Read more here.
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A massive tech outage is causing worldwide disruptions. Here’s what we know
At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to scores of companies worldwide. Read more here.
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