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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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A variety of tools and hardware available to members of the library at the Chicago Tool Library at 1048 W. 37th St in Bridgeport.
Bridgeport
Chicago Tool Library: Building community one project at a time
It will absorb Chicago Community Tools in the fall and expand by around 5,000 tools.
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A Chicago postal worker loads a delivery truck.
News
Chicago ranked 8th among major U.S. cities last year in mail carriers attacked by dogs
The city had 35 such attacks in 2021. And with 226 attacks statewide, Illinois landed at seventh in the state rankings.
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Students from John Hancock College Preparatory High School, all first time voters, arrive at the Loop Supersite at 191 N. Clark St. on Thursday to cast their ballots in the Illinois primary election.
La Voz Chicago
Los estudiantes de la Escuela Secundaria Hancock votan por primera vez
“Es un gran honor poder venir aquí ahora que tengo 18 años y que se escuche mi voz”, dijo un estudiante, Connor Wallace. “Siento que ha sido un largo tiempo de espera”.
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Mariana Pina, 18, a senior at John Hancock College Preparatory High School and first time voter, casts her ballot in the Illinois primary election Thursday at the Loop Supersite at 191 N. Clark St.
Chicago
Hancock High School students make their voices heard as first-time voters
“I feel like it’s been a long time coming,” senior Connor Wallace said.
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Piping plover Monty walks near the area sectioned off for the endangered species on Montrose Beach on April 28, 2021.
Chicago
Cause of death released for beloved piping plover Monty
A necropsy revealed that Monty died from “a severe fungal respiratory infection, including laryngitis which restricted his airway,” according to a Tuesday statement from the Lincoln Park Zoo.
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Movies and TV
Chicago’s Charles Parnell rises through the acting ranks to a big-time role alongside Tom Cruise
Chicago friends have been rooting on the Hyde Park native (and Harold’s Chicken fan) on his way to the high-flying blockbuster.
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin speaks about gun violence during a news conference Friday afternoon at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Sen. Durbin on gun violence legislation: ‘I sense a change in the conversation’
Texas Sen. John Cornyn was authorized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to open talks with Democrats to “negotiate the possibility of gun legislation that will spare us the tragedies we’ve seen,” Sen. Dick Durbin said.
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Peoples Gas, which has had record profits but seen customers struggle to pay their bills, is wiping out overdue bill balances for thousands of customers in the Chicago area.
La Voz Chicago
Peoples Gas ofrece ayuda a clientes de bajos recursos con deudas atrasadas
Los clientes tienen hasta el martes para solicitar asistencia para pagar su balance en su totalidad.
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Chicago’s Yin He Dance company performs “My Home is the Northeast” earlier this month at the Free Family Fun Days at Navy Pier.
Dance
Chicago’s Yin He Dance Company celebrates Chinese art, culture through classical, modern movement
At the core of the dance company is the belief that “dance is for everyone.”
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