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Troy Closson

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Troy Closson is a former Chicago Sun-Times intern.

But moderator Mike Flannery other candidates pushed back on those long-term solutions for their lack of urgency.
The fourth annual Chicago Black Restaurant Week starts Monday and will feature 37 black-owned restaurants from throughout the city and suburbs.
Fourth-grader Jomaury Champ was allegedly beaten 20 to 30 times with leather belts in a school bathroom by a friend of a CPS teacher.
Cook County residents and homeowners made $109 million as Airbnb hosts in 2018, the hospitality service announced Monday.
Since the New Year’s Day release of the Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” thrift stores have been swamped with donations from viewers.
The Chicago Polar Bear Club expects make a splash in Lake Michigan at noon Saturday.
The board also voted unanimously Thursday to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
Palos Health and Loyola Medicine have taken steps toward merging the two hospital systems.
Jackson and other community leaders addressed steps forward after Friday’s sentencing of Van Dyke for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.