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A day and a half of intensive questioning yielded no new jurors by midday in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan, as the already sluggish pace of jury selection slowed to a crawl.
From Tuesday morning to midday Wednesday, 18 prospective jurors were questioned, some of whom were on the witness stand for 45 minutes or longer. The majority of them were rejected from consideration due to apparent bias or hardship.
The Sugar Hole puppets are an odd bunch. Since May they have appeared every Saturday and Sunday and offered passersby cones of ice cream. When the weather turned, they began serving soup, hand pies, beer and wine. Read more here.
Two multifunction restaurants and banquet halls in Glenwood that received pandemic loans to build outdoor patios to stay afloat are behind on their payments, prompting village officials to send letters asking them to pay up, said Glenwood fire Chief Kevin Welsh. Read more here.
For the first time in nearly three years, Lonzo Ball will put on a Bulls jersey and enter an NBA game tonight. Read more here.
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An actor inside Dungeon of Doom haunted house in Zion in 2019.
From a sprawling haunted house in Zion that boasts 45,000 square feet to an underground haunted house in Bridgeport that’s billed as an extreme experience, here are our picks for 15 haunted houses around the Chicago area for 2024. Read more here.
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If he wins next month’s election, Donald Trump would be the oldest person in U.S. history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose new details about his physical or mental well-being, breaking decades of precedent. Read more here.
