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Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) chats with reporters at the Chicago Board of Elections Super Site at 191 N. Clark St. in November 2022.

Politics

Ald. Ray Lopez running for Congress against Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia

Ray Lopez, representing the 15th Ward on the Chicago City Council, plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in the 4th Congressional District’s Democratic primary election in March.

By Fran Spielman and Lynn Sweet

Picketers rally outside the Ford assembly plant in the South Deering neighborhood, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Ford assembly plant workers walked out Friday to join striking UAW workers across the country.

Business

Ford lays off hundreds at Chicago Heights plant amid ongoing UAW strike

About 330 employees were laid off between a plant in Chicago and one in Lima, Ohio. The company blamed the strike for disrupting operations and causing the layoffs.

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Emergency responders set up a staging area near Teutopolis High School on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Teutopolis, Ill.

Metro/State

Chemical exposure killed 5 in central Illinois crash, preliminary autopsies find

Preliminary autopsies show that five people who were killed in a central Illinois crash involving a semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia died from exposure to the caustic chemical.

By John O’Connor | AP

Nick Epley shows some of the mushrooms, largely hen of the woods that he and Austan Goolsbee found Sunday. Provided photo

Outdoors

Mother of all hen-of-the-woods finds

Nick Epley and Austan Goolsbee found the mother of all spreads of hen of the woods on Sunday.

By Dale Bowman

Chevy Johnson, a resident of Broward County, Fla., holds the three Powerball tickets she purchased in the hope of winning the jackpot of over $1 billion, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

Metro/State

Powerball jackpot rises to $1.2 billion after another drawing without a big winner

The prize on the line for the next drawing Wednesday night has grown so massive because there have been 33 consecutive drawings since someone won the jackpot.

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