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chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > reset-school-year-underway-in-gary

'It's been an interesting start': A 'reset' school year underway in Gary

1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (555+ words) Monday marked the “second” first day of school for Gary Community School Corp. students whose actual first day was back on Aug. 6. Students got in three days of school and on Aug. 11, power went off across Northwest Indiana after a…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > chicago-public-schools-first-day-2

Chicago Public Schools families head back to class: ‘Finally, today is the first day’

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1101+ words) Across the city Monday morning, yellow school buses zipped through streets. Throngs of children in uniform filed into school buildings. Teachers, crossing guards and school staff greeted familiar faces and new ones as students arrived for the first day of…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > column-rescheduled-fourth-end-stormy-summer

Column: Rescheduled ‘Fourth’ in Park Forest heralds end of stormy summer

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (582+ words) Park Forest will celebrate Labor Day on Sept. 5 with a parade that circles Central Park, followed by a concert on Village Green and ending with a large fireworks display. The flip side of the coin reminds us that all these…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > dupage-record-plat-book-returned

‘Much more than old books on a shelf’: DuPage recorder celebrates return of long-lost land records book

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (592+ words) A piece of DuPage County history is back where it belongs after going missing for several decades. Officials celebrated the discovery and return of Plat Book 2, which contains land records from 1868 to 1873, Friday morning at the DuPage County Recorder of…...

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chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > column-vista-medical-center-east-troubles-go-national

Column: Vista Medical Center East troubles go national

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (743+ words) It’s never a good situation when the ills of a city’s hospital appear in the pages of a national magazine. But that’s what’s happened in the latest issue of Mother Jones. The September/October publication hammers Los Angeles-based American Health…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > opinion-national-service-renew-faith-america-patriotism

Rep. Tom Suozzi and Scott Galloway: Mandatory service can renew young people’s faith in America

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (408+ words) The solution is each other. Just as the World Cup showed millions of visitors how wonderful America can be, a mandatory year of national service would show our own young people the same thing — while equipping them with the civics,…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > edward-gardner-special-education-burnham-elementary

Hello students, meet Edward Gardner, the new special ed teacher at Burnham elementary

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (500+ words) Burnham Mathematics & Science Academy teachers and staff members were in full swing Friday morning, preparing for students’ first day of the school year. After years as a special education classroom assistant, or SECA, Gardner was promoted to a special education…...

Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com > 08/24/2026 > august-24-chicago-history

Today in Chicago History: Retired machinist who lied about his Nazi past charged by Justice Department

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (266+ words) Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 24, according to the Tribune’s archives. Flashback: Aug. 26, 1932 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to pilot a nonstop flight across the United States. She flew about 3,000 miles from…...

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chicagotribune.com > 08/23/2026 > we-want-to-stop-it-jasper-county-residents-raise-money-for-legal-help-against-data-center

‘We want to stop it’: Jasper County residents raise money for legal help against data center

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1217+ words) When Cynthia North walks out in her front yard, and looks to her left across the street, she sees metal fences, trucks coming up and down a dirt road, and dirt mounds. She used to look out and be proud…...

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chicagotribune.com > 08/23/2026 > special-report-data-centers-taxes-how-we-reported-it

Data centers and tax breaks: How we reported the story

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (459+ words) Chicago Tribune The Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune used third-party databases, county records and municipal sources in Elk Grove Village and Northlake to compile a list of data centers in Cook County’s O’Hare subregion. Through records requests to the…...