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Mondelez wants to boost African coffee output

By Sun-Times staff

Mondelez International Inc., the Deerfield-based maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, wants to increase African coffee production 50 percent as part of a $200 million global program to help farmers.

The Coffee Made Happy project began this month 24,000 Ethiopian farms, Bloomberg reports.

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Slain Officer Luis Huesca is laid to rest, construction begins on the now Google-owned Thompson Center, and pro-Palestinian encampments appear on college campuses.

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Pro-Palestine protesters clash with counter-protesters at the encampment in the quad at the University of Chicago on the South Side, Friday, May 3, 2024. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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University of Chicago officials, protesters hit 'impasse' over pro-Palestinian encampment

On a mostly peaceful day, tensions briefly bubbled over when counter-protesters confronted the demonstrators at the university’s Edward Levi Hall. An altercation prompted campus police to respond.

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Cubs

Cubs starter Justin Steele to throw bullpen session Saturday, on track to return Monday

Getting Steele back will be a boost to the Cubs’ rotation and bullpen alike.

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Slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca's brother Emiliano and mother Ethel at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse Friday with Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara.

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Days of surveillance video used to build case against man charged with killing Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca

Xavier Tate, 22, was seen wandering the Gage Park neighborhood for hours before confronting Huesca at his car in a driveway, officials disclosed Friday.

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