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Hours before a final vote by the Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Public Schools officials have agreed to back off of plans to close four of the 53 elementary schools targeted for closing at the end of the school year, Board Vice President Jesse Ruiz confirmed Wednesday morning.

A teenage boy was fatally shot in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said.

A man jumped to his death early Tuesday from the Gold Coast high-rise building where he lived, authorities said.

Police are looking for man who inappropriately touched a woman at a South Loop CTA station Tuesday morning.

Chicago rapper Chief Keef makes no secret of his fondness for marijuana. The staff at the swanky LeMeridien Atlanta Perimeter hotel doesn’t share that fondness.

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a Bears fan who traveled to Jacksonville to see the Bears take on the Jaguars in October.

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