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obituaries
  • by david hall
Ann Lurie, who came to Chicago a nurse and became one of city’s best-known philanthropists, dies at 79

A self-described hippie, Ms. Lurie moved to Chicago in 1973 to work as an intensive care nurse. She wound up giving tens of millions of dollars to Northwestern University, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Greater Chicago Food Depository, PAWS Chicago and several other…

politics
  • by david hall
Illinois GOP chief Tracy’s exit with RNC looming delights Democrats — and far-right Republicans

During a three-and-a-half–year tenure, state GOP Chairman Don Tracy proved unable to stanch a hemorrhage of Republican support in Chicago’s suburbs, a once-reliable well of fiscally conservative, socially moderate GOP votes that's dried up with the rise of Donald Trump.

chicago
  • by david hall
Cook County is expecting a $218 million budget gap, but won’t plug it with layoffs or tax hikes

County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is also trying to figure out which pandemic-funded programs to keep as the county spends down federal dollars.

Finance and economics
  • by david hall
How bad could things get in France?

The country’s next prime minister faces a brutal fiscal crunch