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15+ min ago (761+ words) ORLANDO " The Chicago Bulls are nearing a fork in the road. The first week of December is not a particularly meaningful stretch of the NBA season. Teams have played enough games to make sweeping statements about their success and playoff expectations. End-of-season award banter has begun in earnest. But the trade deadline is still more than two months away " and all of the drama that comes along with it. But not in Chicago. The Bulls are in freefall at 9-10, standing empty-handed after burning up all the goodwill created by their 5-0 start. And according to a report by ESPN, that desperation has pushed the Bulls to internally discuss options to trade for Dallas Mavericks big man Anthony Davis. Davis is a proven defensive superstar. He's a Chicago native. And his addition would immediately redefine the Bulls in their weakest area on…...

16+ min ago (158+ words) Police investigate the scene where two women were fatally shot and another critically wounded in an alley near the 7700 block of South Oglesby Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 28, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city's expressways, also is not included here. After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago began to see a decline in homicides in 2022. Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence. Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago. Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Nov. 28, 2025. Sources:…...

22+ min ago (130+ words) CTA Red Line trains are standing at Thorndale on Monday afternoon, and service on the Purple Line has been suspended due to a medical emergency at the Thorndale station. December 1, 2025 / 2:25 PM CST / CBS Chicago CTA Red Line trains are standing at Thorndale on Monday afternoon, and service on the Purple Line has been suspended due to a medical emergency at the Thorndale station. Chicago Transit Authority officials did not provide further details on the nature of the medical emergency, but said shuttle buses are providing service between Howard and Belmont as of 2:15 p.m. while crews work to restore service. Red Line and Purple Line riders also should consider alternate routes, such as the #36 Broadway, #151 Sheridan, #84 Peterson, or #92 Foster buses....

29+ min ago (643+ words) Waukegan officials awoke Saturday to falling snow and a forecast of eight to 12 inches, according to the National Weather Service, forcing them to decide how to conduct the city's annual Christmas tree lighting in the midst of snow forecast to fall at a rate of an inch per hour. Jingle on Genesee, as the city named this year's celebration, was a combination of lighting the tree, the annual Kris Kringle Market at the Waukegan Public Library, a Hot Chocolate Walk run by the Waukegan Park District and Small Business Saturday for downtown merchants. Mayor Sam Cunningham said the question of postponement was a nonstarter. The problem-solving centered around continuing a longstanding tradition while managing a weather emergency. Before the snow stopped on Sunday morning, 10 inches fell on the city, according to Waukegan Snow Fighter Command, as the Public Works Department…...

50+ min ago (223+ words) December 1, 2025 / 1:56 PM CST / CBS Chicago City officials on Monday agreed to slightly ease new capacity restrictions at Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza, amid complaints from vendors that the new rules were threatening their ability to make a profit. Christkindlmarket organizers have said, at the last minute, the city imposed a 1,553-person capacity for the popular German-themed holiday market this year. Vendors have said that led to a 40% drop in business so far this year. On Monday, the city agreed to increase capacity at Christkindlmarket by 1,000 people, according to Mark Tomkins, president and CEO of The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, which runs Christkindlmarket. " While an improvement, the new capacity limit would still be lower than in 2021, when the city set a limit of 3,494 visitors at a time due to social distancing measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tomkins said,…...

53+ min ago (503+ words) El ministro de Exteriores chileno Alberto van Klaveren sostuvo una reuni'n telem'tica con su hom'logo peruano Hugo de Zela despu's de la creaci'n de un comit' binacional de cooperaci'n migratoria. "Se trat' de una reuni'n muy constructiva en la que reafirmamos el compromiso para seguir trabajando en conjunto con pa'ses amigos y vecinos sobre los desaf'os asociados a la migraci'n, especialmente la migraci'n irregular, dijo Van Klaveren en un v'deo enviado a la prensa. El reci'n creado comit' busca remediar la escalada de tensi'n en la frontera norte de Chile, que alcanz' su 'pice el viernes cuando decenas de migrantes, en su mayor'a venezolanos, fueron impedidos de ingresar a Per" por no contar con los papeles necesarios. Varios de ellos llegaron a bloquear las carreteras en protesta por las largas colas y negativas de ingreso, que se producen en medio…...

58+ min ago (733+ words) About 45 minutes west of downtown Chicago lies a rather unassuming, glass-encased data center that some of the world's largest markets depend on. By one 2018 estimate, at least $25 quadrillion of notional trade volume passes through the facility every day. Traders want to be close to the data center to reduce latency, minimizing the distance data must travel in order to shave microseconds off their trades. As a former executive of the data center's operator once put it: "If you read the book "Flash Boys," you can get a real quick lesson on what's going on." This critical piece of infrastructure to global markets dates back to 2009, when CME started building the facility to host its electronic trading infrastructure, essentially serving as the backbone for CME's futures and options trading platform Globex. In 2016, CME decided it wanted to shift away from owning…...

58+ min ago (260+ words) Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, de 19 a'os, fue detenida en el Aeropuerto Internacional Logan de Boston el 20 de noviembre cuando intentaba abordar un vuelo para sorprender a su familia en Texas. Fue enviada a Honduras dos d'as despu's a pesar de una orden judicial que prohib'a al gobierno trasladarla fuera de Massachusetts o de Estados Unidos, seg'n su abogado. Lopez Belloza, cuya familia emigr" de Honduras cuando ella ten'a 7 a'os, ahora se encuentra con sus abuelos. La decana de vida estudiantil de Babson College Caitlin Capozzi inform" a los profesores y al personal sobre la detenci"n de Lopez Belloza el martes. Lopez Belloza, una estudiante de primer a'o, est" estudiando negocios en Babson, que tiene 2.800 estudiantes de pregrado en su campus en Wellesley, justo al oeste de Boston. Capozzi declar" que la instituci"n acad'mica est" siguiendo los protocolos y…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (1142+ words) BEIRUT " Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of Christians have left parts of the Middle East for good, driven by wars and the rise of Muslim extremists. In Lebanon, it has been different. Despite the many crises that have battered the small nation, Christians continue to enjoy religious freedom and significant political influence. Pope Leo XIV's visit to Lebanon over the weekend is a recognition of the importance of Lebanon's religious pluralism and a message to Christians not to abandon the region. In Iraq, large numbers of Christians fled after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and the rise of the Islamic State group that followed. A decade later, in 2014, IS declared a caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria leading to an exodus by Christians as well as followers of other religions. IS blew up churches in areas…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (355+ words) Paz dijo que "por un tema ideol'gico vinculado a visas, Bolivia perdi' 900 millones de d'lares" desde 2007 y que la "eliminaci'n" del visado adoptada en lunes en el gabinete ministerial permitir" reactivar el turismo y "traer d'lares". El mandatario, que asumi' el poder el 8 de noviembre, derog' impuestos la semana pasada para atraer inversiones como parte de sus primeras medidas para afrontar la peor crisis econ'mica en 40 a'os del pa's sudamericano y la falta de d'lares. Morales impuso la visa de ingreso a estadounidenses en 2007 alegando razones de seguridad y reciprocidad debido a que ese pa's exige lo mismo a los bolivianos. En 2014 rompi' relaciones con Israel e impuso la obligaci'n del visado en rechazo a un ataque de ese pa's a los palestinos de Gaza. La presidenta interina Jeanine "ez (2019-2020) elimino la exigencia a los dos pa'ses tras la dimisi'n…...