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Let us know your vision for Chicago’s future in a short writing sample – and you could be featured as a guest columnist in the paper and online! Entries are open now through Dec. 31.
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Parents and educators: We want to hear your high school student’s vision for the future in a short writing sample! Winners will be featured as guest columnists in the paper and online. Entries are open now through Dec. 31.
Learn more and see full contest rules at suntimes.com/chicagovoices.
Let us know your vision for Chicago’s future in a short writing sample – and you could be featured as a guest columnist in the paper and online! Entries are open now through Dec. 31.
Learn more and see full contest rules at suntimes.com/chicagovoices.
Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before the Republican National Convention opens Monday when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his neck. There appeared to be blood on his face.
He quickly ducked behind the riser as agents from his protective detail rushed the stage and screams were heard in the crowd of several thousand people. The bangs continued as agents tended to him on stage.
The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.
His motorcade has since left the venue. His condition was not immediately known.
Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left the stage in what local officers described as a crime scene.
The U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies did not immediately respond to messages.
Story: Jill Coven | AP and Julie Carr Smyth | AP
Video: AP
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Meet Maham, one of our guest columnists from the Chicago's Next Voices contest last year! As an educator, Maham wrote about college students’ anxiety and preparedness for the future. You too can tell Chicago your story by submitting an original piece at suntimes.com/chicagovoices
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The moon reached peak coverage of the sun above Chicago at 2:07 p.m., with about 94% of the sun covered.
It’s a rare event — the next solar eclipse that will be visible from the United States won’t be until August 23, 2044.
Did you catch the peak in Illinois today?
A bizarre rescue on "Chicago Fire" hasn’t yet aired, but it’s already catching the attention of Chicagoans.
Videos shot in Chicago’s West Loop Monday caught fire on social media, showing a car crash that left a blue sedan wedged into the second story of an industrial building in the bustling area.
Madison Ranta, 24, works at the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in the neighborhood.
“We were standing there for hours just watching them filming,” Ranta said.
A video Ranta took shows a person clad in a Chicago Fire Department uniform balancing on the car, jumping out of the way just before it fell out of the building.
Fittingly set to Djo's "End of Beginning," which feature the lyrics, “and when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it,” Ranta’s video garnered 9.3 million views and over 740,000 likes. Another TikTok from a different angle has nearly 26 million views.
Read more about the stunt at the link in our bio.
Video: Provided by Madison Ranta
Story: Katie Anthony/Sun-Times
On Wednesday, 31 students at Southland College Prep participated in "Step N' Herstory," a step performance representing four historically Black sororities during Women's History Month.
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The 2024 Oscars are just days away.
Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper shares his predictions of who will walk away with awards on Sunday.
"Oppenheimer" is counting down to a night of multiple victories, Roeper predicts. He also is looking for Lily Gladstone — for “Killers of the Flower Moon” — as well as “The Holdovers” actors Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph to pick up Academy Award statuettes, too.
For more on Roeper's picks, click the link in our bio.
Video: Richard Roeper and Brian Ernst/Sun-Times
