Barack Obama Foundation chairman Martin Nesbitt speaks during a news conference announcing the future of the Barack Obama Presidential Center Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) ORG XMIT: ILPB105

Obama Foundation under pressure from lawsuit, releases secret U. of C. bid

The bids were released in the wake of the Obama Foundation and the U. of Chicago being subpoenaed for the documents as part of a pending lawsuit.

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Sessions ruffles Rahm’s, Lisa’s feathers with ‘lame duck’ consent decree crack

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to the Chicago Crime Commission at Union League Club of Chicago, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) ORG XMIT: ILNH105

Jeff Sessions did not call out by name the two major officeholders negotiating the consent decree, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, but the shot across the bow of the two retiring Democrats was unmistakable.

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Take a visit to Little Italy's "restaurant row" with Ji Suk Yi where the stories behind the old-school restaurants are as good as the food!

The Grid: Exploring the Little Italy neighborhood

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Take a visit to Little Italy's "restaurant row" with Ji Suk Yi where the stories behind the old-school restaurants are as good as the food!
FILE - In this Monday, May 14, 2012, file photo, shoppers walk into Sears in Peabody, Mass. Sears reports quarterly earnings on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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“I think they have a shot” at surviving, one analyst said, but a lot depends on whether the company brings in new management with flexibility.

“I think they have a shot” at surviving, one analyst said, but a lot depends on whether the company brings in new management with flexibility.

What's next for Sears?

By Stephanie Zimmermann

“I think they have a shot” at surviving, one analyst said, but a lot depends on whether the company brings in new management with flexibility.

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The College Board, the nonprofit that administers the SAT and Advanced Placement tests, is launching a $25 million scholarship program intended to help students at the bottom of the class as much it does the valedictorians.

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Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, stands in front of the former hospital that will house the museum which is under creation and scheduled to open in 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Oct. 19, 2018. The project, first announced earlier this year, took a key step forward on Friday when Stankowski and a government official signed an agreement on a 30-year lease for the buildings that will house the museum. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)