August 2025 - Chicago News Weekly

Sunday, August 31, 2025

The Northern Lights could be visible in the Chicago area this week

Rudy Giuliani  is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the for...
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Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess

Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” of tax and sp...
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Cubs roster moves: Aaron Civale claimed on waivers from White Sox

A U.S. judge at least temporarily blocked the government Sunday from deporting a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border wi...
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

South suburban shooting leaves 1 dead, 4 injured

Chicago Fire Department crews battled a fire at a building that houses a barbecue restaurant in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood on Saturda...
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Big names in music descend on Soldier Field for packed concert weekend

A silent heart disease risk factor may explain why some women end up having heart attacks and strokes despite seeming like they are healthy...
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order challenging immigration crackdown

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday, unleashing a plan to counter a looming federal immigration crackdown a...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

Taco Bell's Decades menu brings back 5 fan favorites, including the Caramel Apple Empanada

What better way to revive your nostalgia for the early 2000s than with food from that era? Beginning Oct. 31, Taco Bell will roll out its ...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Free Chicago museum days on Labor Day and through the fall: Full list

Former Major League Baseball All-Star Mark Teixeira, who played for the New York Yankees the last time they won the World Series in 2009, a...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Hostess recalls popular snacks sold at Walmart, Target, Jewel-Osco over mold concerns

Popular Hostess snack Ding Dongs sold in retailers across the U.S. are being recalled due to the “potential presence of mold,” according to ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

White Sox unveil ‘Conclave'-themed 2026 schedule release

Alix Lapri, the actor best known for her role in Starz’s “Power,” is facing a child cruelty charge and spent a short stint in jail last week...
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Monday, August 25, 2025

Freight train strikes vehicle in Wheaton, blocking nearly all crossings

Wheaton residents will have to find alternate routes after a freight train struck a vehicle Monday, blocking nearly every rail crossing in t...
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Illinois city ranked among nation's ‘most livable small cities'

What to Know National Guard troops deployed to Washington this month to support Trump’s effort to mitigate crime began carrying firearms...
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The ‘best pizza' in Illinois may be sold out before you can even try it

What to Know National Guard troops deployed to Washington this month to support Trump’s effort to mitigate crime began carrying firearms...
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For perfect corn, weather has to cooperate. Climate change is making it dicier

What to Know National Guard troops deployed to Washington this month to support Trump’s effort to mitigate crime began carrying firearms...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

‘Sopranos' star Jerry Adler, Broadway backstage vet turned late-in-life actor, dies at 96

A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of  Jeffrey Epstein’s  most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre,  will be published this...
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Driver dies, another hurt in Interstate 355 wrong-way crash

A person has died and another suffered serious injuries after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 355 near suburban Lemont Sunday morning. Acco...
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