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The CTA will pay $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit after a city bus struck a woman last year.
Chicago resident Sherry Fisher, was struck by a CTA bus and pinned underneath it while she walked in a North Lawndale crosswalk last March, the lawsuit alleged. The crash caused her 'severe injuries,' which she died from nearly three months later, according to the lawsuit.
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Chicago Public Schools interim chief Macquline King is resisting pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to make a controversial pension payment and borrow millions of dollars to settle the district's budget, a notable twist in what has become a deeply uncertain budget cycle for the fourth-largest school district in the nation. Read more here.
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A longtime business partner is suing Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You and its co-founder Rich Melman for allegedly squeezing him out of his ownership interest in the chain's popular Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab restaurants. Read more here.
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Coach David Braun was pleased with how quickly Preston Stone built relationships with his new teammates when he arrived on campus in January. Within three weeks, the Wildcats voted Stone onto their leadership council, well before it was publicly official that he would be Northwestern's starter this season. Read more here.
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In 2022, the Floating Museum collaborated with Indian artist Kushala Vora to produce a second inflatable, entitled 'The Garden.' Vora looked at colonial plant histories between India and the United States and the impact the plants have in their respective landscapes. Read more here.
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The president's rhetoric echoed that used by conservative politicians going back decades who have denounced American cities, especially those with majority non-white populations or led by progressive politicians, as lawless or crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. Read more here.
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