Downtown Chicago emerges from pandemic — hobbled by crime wave
Businesses in downtown Chicago that survived the pandemic-related economic slump and two spasms of looting last summer should be ecstatic ...
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Chicago releases video of police shooting 13-year-old dead
Authorities in Chicago released police body camera footage Thursday showing an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old Latino boy as the ...
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NBA non-restart teams to resume training
The eight teams that were not part of the NBA's restart at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida will ...
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Riots hit downtown Chicago, stores looted
Large crowds clashed with police as rioters vandalized stores in downtown Chicago overnight Sunday, with officers returning fire after being ...
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Snapchat grudges, COVID pressures drive shooting epidemic in US
Washington—A five-month old baby boy struck in the head by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Chicago Thursday became ...
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Presidential libraries
"Future generation of Filipinos have the right to know how their past presidents governed." The establishment of presidential libraries is ...
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Black, gay woman elected Chicago mayor
Chicago"•In a historic first, a gay African American woman was elected mayor of America’s third largest city Tuesday, as Chicago ...
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Police claim actor staged racist attack to lift career
Chicago"•An American TV actor was criminally charged Thursday for allegedly masterminding an elaborate “publicity stunt” that sought to exploit the ...
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DFA condoles with family of Pinoy shot dead in Chicago
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday expressed sympathies to the family of a Filipino-American who was killed in a ...
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Rapid thaw for US Arctic deep freeze
Chicago—A brutal cold spell that paralyzed the US Midwest, freezing water mains, causing power outages and canceling flights, eased on ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.