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The scandal over Kate, Princess of Wales’ family snapshot is a new chapter in the thorny relationship between the media and Britain’s royal family. It’s also a sign of how hard it is for the monarchy to control its own narrative in the social-media era. U.K. newspapers were dominated Tuesday by what the Daily Mirror called the “Picture of Chaos” and the Daily Mail labeled a “PR disaster” for the royals. It follows the retraction by the AP and other news agencies of a photo of Kate and her children over concerns it had been manipulated. Читать дальше...

With one week to go until the March 19 primary, incumbent Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez unveiled a new push to redact and seal court records that mention a woman’s reproductive health, an event Martinez’s Democratic challenger dismissed as “window dressing.” The initiative is in its early stages – it must still be approved by legislators in Springfield and the office has yet to secure contracts to scrape millions of court files for the data. Even so, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined Martinez... Читать дальше...

Fired Flossmoor police Chief Jerel Jones alleges in a federal lawsuit his recent dismissal was caused by “race-based discriminatory conduct” against him, the “first Black police chief” in village history.

Mary Kate Barron, of Beverly, the queen for the South Side Irish Parade, is a tax accountant who attended St. Ignatius High School and John Caroll University in Ohio.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed CTU organizer Graciela Guzman for Illinois Senate in a district that covers the North and Northwest sides of Chicago.

An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail for Gaza on Tuesday in a pilot program for the opening of a sea corridor to the territory, where the five-month-old Israel-Hamas war has driven hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.

A new report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas found that in 75 binding property-tax related referendums put on ballots between 2020 and 2023, the average turnout was 32%.

Illinois Supreme Court, Justice Joy Cunningham has party backing in a Democratic primary, while Judge Jesse Reyes promotes a rare chance to put a Latino on the high court.

Here is everything you need to know about the nova: what it is, when it will appear and where to glimpse it.

The risk to the public overall is very low because most people in Chicago and across the United States are vaccinated.

Lawmakers have turned a hearing on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump. The hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday played out as a newly-released transcript of Biden’s testimony last fall shows that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency. In his testimony before the committee, special counsel Robert Hur stood... Читать дальше...

Neither Biden, a Democrat, nor Trump, a Republican, faces significant opposition in primary contests across Georgia, Washington state, Mississippi and Hawaii. The only question is whether they will earn the necessary delegates in each state to hit the 50% national threshold to become their parties’ presumptive nominees.

An employee of the business where the shooting occurred was arrested, according to authorities.

Civil rights lawsuit accuses former Cook County state’s attorneys of railroading Wilson in the 1982 murders of two Chicago police officers.

Landmarks Illinois and Friends of the Parks both say plan the domed stadium plan on the lakefront raises major questions and likely opposition.

The funds — $25 million more than cities have gotten in the past — can be used for everything from bomb-detecting technology to police overtime.

In the final days of her campaign, retired appellate Justice Eileen O’Neill Burke made her closing case for her candidacy for Cook County State’s Attorney, telling a City Club audience she could fix a “woefully understaffed and mismanaged” office and help rescue the city from going bust. Without naming her, O’Neill Burke had some of the harshest assessments yet for the current top prosecutor, Kim Foxx, who O’Neill Burke said “doesn’t believe in accountability.” She repeated criticism that Foxx is... Читать дальше...

Former Ald. Ed Burke, recently convicted of racketeering, bribery and attempted extortion, has been allowed to keep his law license after the Illinois Supreme Court failed to act.

The filing marks another installment in the legal feud over the referendum that would hike transfer taxes on real estate valued over $1 million to raise revenue earmarked for fighting homelessness.

RUSHVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Five people, including three children, were killed Monday after a school bus and semitruck collided on a highway in western Illinois, authorities said. The bus was traveling eastbound on Illinois Route 24 when it crossed the center line into the westbound lanes “for an unknown reason” and into the path of […]

As federal health officials respond to a second child in Chicago’s largest migrant shelter developing measles, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday ascribed the recent cases to vaccine hesitancy and ramped up messaging on getting inoculated against the disease. The mayor responded to questions about the quarantined facility on Cermak Road and Halsted Street by noting that “most Chicagoans are vaccinated (against measles), particularly those of course who use the public space, public schools in particular.”... Читать дальше...