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A day and a half of intensive questioning yielded no new jurors by midday in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan, as the already sluggish pace of jury selection slowed to a crawl.
From Tuesday morning to midday Wednesday, 18 prospective jurors were questioned, some of whom were on the witness stand for 45 minutes or longer. The majority of them were rejected from consideration due to apparent bias or hardship.
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No strings on me: What the Sugar Hole puppets have learned about human nature
The Sugar Hole puppets are an odd bunch. Since May they have appeared every Saturday and Sunday and offered passersby cones of ice cream. When the weather turned, they began serving soup, hand pies, beer and wine. Read more here.
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- School board’s ‘agenda review’ committee meeting postponed with no new date set
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Glenwood Oaks, Tuscan Gardens struggle to repay Glenwood pandemic loans
Two multifunction restaurants and banquet halls in Glenwood that received pandemic loans to build outdoor patios to stay afloat are behind on their payments, prompting village officials to send letters asking them to pay up, said Glenwood fire Chief Kevin Welsh. Read more here.
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- Listeria recall grows to 12 million pounds of meat and poultry, some of it sent to US schools
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Lonzo Ball will play for the Chicago Bulls tonight after missing nearly 3 years: ‘I can still be productive and effective’
For the first time in nearly three years, Lonzo Ball will put on a Bulls jersey and enter an NBA game tonight. Read more here.
More top sports stories:
- 7 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ loss in their road-trip finale: ‘We’re a good team and we have to start believing that’
- Chicago Bears’ Cole Kmet the 1st NFL ‘long snapper’ to be named special teams player of the week
An actor inside Dungeon of Doom haunted house in Zion in 2019.
Top 15 Chicago haunted houses for 2024, including 4 in the city
From a sprawling haunted house in Zion that boasts 45,000 square feet to an underground haunted house in Bridgeport that’s billed as an extreme experience, here are our picks for 15 haunted houses around the Chicago area for 2024. Read more here.
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- ‘Chicago Stories’ season on WTTW ends with episodes about Playboy and Capone
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Trump would be the oldest person to become president; he’s not sharing health details
If he wins next month’s election, Donald Trump would be the oldest person in U.S. history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose new details about his physical or mental well-being, breaking decades of precedent. Read more here.
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