Good afternoon, Chicago.
A congressional committee has launched an investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
The Republican-led House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to the college yesterday for allegedly failing to address antisemitism under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Two other medical schools — the University of California at San Francisco and University of California at Los Angeles Geffen School of Medicine — also received notices from the House body.
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Nevest Coleman, right, sits with his daughter Chanequa while visiting with family on Aug. 24 in Chicago. Coleman spent 23 years behind bars before being exonerated in a 1994 sexual assault and murder. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Despite DNA match, no new charges in 1994 slaying as wrongful conviction suits advance
More than seven years after DNA testing freed two men from prison, clearing them in the 1994 slaying of Antwinica Bridgeman, prosecutors have not filed new charges in the case despite a genetic match between semen found on her underwear and a man who lived nearby. Read more here.
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Feds charge two women with assaulting federal agents during West Side immigration raid
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The Chicago Reader’s chief of staff, Ellen Kaulig, walks through the South Michigan Avenue office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
The Chicago Reader finds new life with new buyer: ‘I’m grateful that it’s going to have a future’
The 54-year-old publication is being acquired by Noisy Creek — the media company that bought alternative weeklies in Seattle and Portland, Oregon — The Stranger and the Portland Mercury. Read more here.
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Former Chicago Sky player and seven-time WNBA All-Star Candace Parker speaks during a jersey retirement ceremony at halftime of the game between the Sky and Las Vegas Aces at Wintrust Arena on Aug. 25, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Sky retire Candace Parker’s hometown jersey: ‘It’s super special’
Last night, the Sky commemorated the significance of Candace Parker’s impact with a jersey retirement ceremony during halftime of a game against the Las Vegas Aces. Read more here.
More top sports stories:
Chicago Bears’ 53-man roster tracker: Zacch Pickens and Tyler Scott — both from ’23 draft class — will be waived
College football’s new era: Big money and same old powerhouses line up as the favorites
A “for sale” sign is posted outside a house at 1401 N. Astor St., Aug. 14, 2025, in Chicago. William Wrigley Jr., his wife Ada, daughter Dorothy and son Phillip moved into the Romanesque Revival home in 1896. They remained until 1910. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Wrigley family’s architectural legacy is as extensive as its business empire
Most Chicagoans may connect the Wrigley family to the famed Wrigley Building on North Michigan Avenue or the ivy-filled ballpark in Lakeview, but the family has a long history of owning impressive architectural real estate, built brick by brick with the profits from its minty empire. Read more here.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi listens as President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 25, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)
What to know about cashless bail after Trump’s executive order
President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday threatening to withhold or revoke federal funding to local and state governments that offer cashless bail, arguing that it is a threat to public safety. Read more here.
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