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Donald Trump scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses last night with his rivals languishing far behind, a victory that sent a resounding message that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose.
The Associated Press called the race for Trump 31 minutes after caucusing began. Here’s how the AP declared a winner so early in the evening.
As clear-cut as his win was, though, Iowa has not played the role of kingmaker in the Republican nominating process. New Hampshire’s voters don’t get their cues from Iowa. George W. Bush’s 2000 victory was the last time a Republican candidate won in Iowa and went on to become the party’s standard-bearer.
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A little more than 50 years after Illinois first recognized Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday, nearly 1,000 people braved Chicago’s bitter cold Monday to remember the fallen civil rights leader and insist that change is still needed across the nation.
When former Chicago firefighter Michael Taqee retired from his public service role, he wanted to be able to tell his grandchildren he worked his way up the leadership ranks of the Fire Department.
But an admission practice that discriminated against Black firefighter applicants in the 1990s hurt Taqee in the promotion tests he took two decades later. The exam had a seniority component that accounted for 30% of the score.
Funding for the ongoing migrant crisis and crafting voting logistics for Chicago’s first elected school board are among the pressing issues facing Illinois lawmakers as they return to Springfield on Tuesday for a four-month legislative session.
A plane taxiing for departure clipped another aircraft at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Sunday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.
The dawn of 2024 is already being billed as the “Year of AI,” when a transformative technology may begin to turn computers into co-workers, tackling everything from legal contracts to ad campaigns.
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It’s official. USC quarterback Caleb Williams on Monday declared himself eligible for the NFL draft, opening the door for the Chicago Bears to solve one of this offseason’s high-stakes riddles.
Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles spent much of his end-of-season news conference discussing how he will make his upcoming decision about the quarterback position.
But Poles has plenty of other roster decisions to make aside from if he will stick with Justin Fields or draft a quarterback.
Here’s a look at five players and positions Poles addressed…
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