Month: May 2022

CHICAGO — In the multiracial Nussbaum household on Chicago’s North Side, parents Eli, 45, and Amy, 41, are teaching their four children – two biological sons and two adopted daughters – that siblings don’t have to look alike to be family, and that their similarities outweigh their differences.    “We wanted to have a multiracial
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Data integration service provider Authenticom’s antitrust lawsuit against dealership management system company Reynolds and Reynolds Co. was dismissed Friday after the parties settled their differences. The dismissal came five years after Authenticom accused Reynolds and CDK Global, another DMS giant, of creating a duopoly in the dealership data integration market. A countersuit filed in 2018
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The City of Austin is already putting plans in place in case the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade. The Texas trigger law would take effect 30 days after a Supreme Court ruling. It would make it a second-degree felony for a person who knowingly performs, induces, or attempts an abortion. That
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Two Chicago restaurants and several Midwest eateries have been named to Yelp’s Top Restaurants of 2022 list released Tuesday. Oriole, located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, ranked No. 4 among 100 restaurants in the latest list – making it the top spot from the Midwest. The Michelin-starred restaurant features signature dishes like the capellini with
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The city’s teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers, cheered the bill in a written statement: “The passage and enactment of this legislation — which prioritizes the city’s poorest schools, phases in over five years, and provides exemptions when necessary for overcrowded buildings — would be a landmark achievement for this city’s children by the
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Hollywood has been popping champagne corks over the success of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun” sequel, which raked in the most Memorial Day weekend box-office bucks ever. But there’s a new problem looming. A shortage of movie popcorn and other overpriced snacks. The Wall Street Journal reports that operators of movie theaters were nervous at the
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SAN FRANCISCO — California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations will release a report Wednesday documenting in detail the harms perpetuated by the state against Black people and recommending steps to address those wrongs, including expanded voter registration, making it easier to hold violent police accountable and improving Black neighborhoods. It also recommends the creation of
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Local Children in the car warned Ryan O’Farrell that he was driving erratically before the crash, according to officials. The driver who allegedly injured nine people after plowing into their motorcycles Sunday in Northfield will be held in jail without bail, officials said Tuesday. O’Farrell appeared in Greenfield District Court Tuesday, where he pleaded not
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A necropsy on a beloved, endangered piping plover named Monty shows he died of a respiratory infection, experts said Tuesday. The Lincoln Park Zoo said it partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Illinois Zoological Pathology Program to determine the bird’s cause of death. The severe fungal respiratory infection included
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