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Defense attorneys in Charlie Kirk’s killing want to have a trial in 2029 chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Defense attorneys in Charlie Kirk’s killing want to have a trial in 2029

Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk are suggesting a 2029 trial date because they say it could take them that long to prepare their case.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson turns in signatures for 2027 mayoral race, skipping lotteries for ballot spots chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Mayor Brandon Johnson turns in signatures for 2027 mayoral race, skipping lotteries for ballot spots

Mayor Brandon Johnson submitted his election nominating petitions Friday, ceding the lottery for the last spot on the 2027 ballot to challengers.

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Will County health officials investigate E. coli cases linked to pumpkin farm chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Will County health officials investigate E. coli cases linked to pumpkin farm

Will County Health Department is investigating five cases E. coli possibly linked to Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen.

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Chicago man acquitted of murder in slaying of trans woman in 2018 chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Chicago man acquitted of murder in slaying of trans woman in 2018

A jury on Friday found a man not guilty at trial after prosecutors accused him of luring a transgender woman into an alley and killing her in order to conceal his involvement with her.

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Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old boy in Mississippi has resigned, Senatobia mayor says chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old boy in Mississippi has resigned, Senatobia mayor says

The police officer who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi when he fired into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call has resigned.

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Wall Street loses ground under pressure from rising oil prices, more swings for Big Tech stocks chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Wall Street loses ground under pressure from rising oil prices, more swings for Big Tech stocks

Stocks slipped on Wall Street Friday under the weight of rising oil prices and weakness from several Big Tech companies.

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DOJ to send election monitors to Lake, Marion counties in Indiana chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

DOJ to send election monitors to Lake, Marion counties in Indiana

Lake County Elections Director Michelle Fajman said the U.S. Department of Justice would send monitors to Election Day but was not told why.

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President Trump at South Florida rally revives the idea of military intervention in Cuba after Iran chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

President Trump at South Florida rally revives the idea of military intervention in Cuba after Iran

President Donald Trump says U.S. warships returning from Iran could stop in Cuba.

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The Kremlin says a first tanker of Russian diesel sets sail for the US despite Ukraine’s protests chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

The Kremlin says a first tanker of Russian diesel sets sail for the US despite Ukraine’s protests

A first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States under a new import agreement has set sail, the Kremlin said Friday.

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Police questioning 1 after woman found strangled in Chatham apartment chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Police questioning 1 after woman found strangled in Chatham apartment

Detectives are questioning someone in connection to the strangulation death and a reported sexual assault at the same location in the Chatham neighborhood, police said.

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Trump urges Illinois Republicans to vote by mail, endorses Darren Bailey but skips Senate nominee Don Tracy chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Trump urges Illinois Republicans to vote by mail, endorses Darren Bailey but skips Senate nominee...

In an Illinois get-out-the-vote post, the president backed Darren Bailey for governor and three downstate House members and urged mail voting — a method he’s falsely called rife with fraud — but...

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More than 350 suburban homes benefit from program targeting lead and other health risks chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

More than 350 suburban homes benefit from program targeting lead and other health risks

Improving energy efficiency is also called an important goal of the program as Chicago faces more severe weather events.

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Judge orders President Donald Trump to sit for deposition in BBC defamation case chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Judge orders President Donald Trump to sit for deposition in BBC defamation case

A federal judge in Florida ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, according to a spokesperson for the president’s...

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2 ex-FBI officials charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

2 ex-FBI officials charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop

Two former FBI intelligence officials who specialized in foreign election interference were charged Friday with making false statements about their roles in investigating the origins of Hunter...

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President Donald Trump says he ordered the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Alaska’s US Senate race chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

President Donald Trump says he ordered the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Alaska’s US Senate race

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the contest while another candidate, a former Chicagoan with the...

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Melania Trump helps forge a ceasefire deal in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city, White House says chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Melania Trump helps forge a ceasefire deal in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city, White House says

First lady Melania Trump has brokered an upcoming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, the...

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Defense attorneys in Charlie Kirk’s killing want to have a trial in 2029 chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Defense attorneys in Charlie Kirk’s killing want to have a trial in 2029

Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk are suggesting a 2029 trial date because they say it could take them that long to prepare their case.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson turns in signatures for 2027 mayoral race, skipping lotteries for ballot spots chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Mayor Brandon Johnson turns in signatures for 2027 mayoral race, skipping lotteries for ballot spots

Mayor Brandon Johnson submitted his election nominating petitions Friday, ceding the lottery for the last spot on the 2027 ballot to challengers.

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Will County health officials investigate E. coli cases linked to pumpkin farm chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Will County health officials investigate E. coli cases linked to pumpkin farm

Will County Health Department is investigating five cases E. coli possibly linked to Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen.

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Chicago man acquitted of murder in slaying of trans woman in 2018 chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Chicago man acquitted of murder in slaying of trans woman in 2018

A jury on Friday found a man not guilty at trial after prosecutors accused him of luring a transgender woman into an alley and killing her in order to conceal his involvement with her.

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