An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case.
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The Bears’ history started in Decatur in 1920 when the Staley Starch Company decided to sponsor a football team.
In 1921, the company gave George Halas the team and permission to move the team to Chicago if he kept the Staleys name for a year.
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The Chicago Bears laid out elaborate plans Wednesday for a new publicly owned domed stadium on the lakefront but left unanswered how the city would pay for expensive infrastructure improvements.
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DuPage County clerk says county board has no right to question her no-bid contracts
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Reggie Bush is finally getting his Heisman Trophy back.
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From the Editorial Board:

Mr. Mayor, you’re supposed to be taxpayers’ first line of protection not to mention the principal guardian of Chicago's most precious physical resource — its lakefront. That’s not what you looked like up on that stage.

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The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish on the city’s Lower West Side.
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Brian Boomsma, owner of Chicago-based Dutch Farms, told the Tribune his bid for Oberweis is “north of $20 million” for everything from the dairy plant to the brand. At least one other potential bidder has announced they intend to make a competing offer.
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Angel Reese doesn’t want to take any part of her rookie season with the Chicago Sky for granted.
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Dolton, Mayor Tiffany Henyard, hit with another lawsuit from business owner
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The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University’s hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, one claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled.
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What would constitute a big NFL draft surprise Thursday? At least one really interesting one is floating around. Brad Biggs answers your Chicago Bears questions. trib.al/BY9Hm7J

A day before becoming the Bears next potential savior at QB, Caleb Williams took a lot of questions and had a lot to say. About his future team. About his pre-draft visit. About checking this big box on his goal checklist.

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Column: When Chicago’s sports executives speak, people listen — then decipher the real meaning
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A two-step technique for grating potatoes yields latkes that are crispy around the edges but still creamy in the center, with serious potato flavor.
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When James Tynion IV appears this week at McCormick Place for the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, or C2E2, he comes as arguably the best writer in the medium right now. trib.al/xPS5unp

Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
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From the Editorial Board:

If revenue or all-important prestige takes a hit, Ivy League presidents and boards of trustees may soon find that Congress is not their only antagonist.
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President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hotspots. trib.al/DMUG9w2

A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that has bedeviled former President Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House. trib.al/5AWq80h