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.] Now Jesse Jackson's candidate Larry Suffredin is under renewed scrutiny for his work as a corporate lobbyist.

When Chicagoist was a young'un our family took sort of a "free love" approach to religion. The closest we came to Catholicism was the Missouri Synod version of the Lutheran Church. As an adult we find ourselves living in a neighborhood - if not a city itself - that's heavily informed by Catholicism. While for some the sight of scores of ashy foreheads hark the start of the lenten season, we look for the arrival...

As debate raged on late last week about whether a 14-year-old Ecuadorian girl was rightfully denied admission to Elmwood Park High School, the girl in question was busy not giving a shit. The Tribune caught up with the girl’s family in South Florida, where she has been living since the ordeal began last fall. After a relative told her the school had finally given in and she could now be an Elmwood Park Tiger, she said, “Like I would want to go back there.”

Suburban Elmwood Park bills itself as a “great place to live, shop, work and play.” They might want to change that to a great place to live, shop, work and play, unless you’re a teenage immigrant. Specifically, a 14-year-old Ecuadorian girl here on a temporary B-2 visa. Then, not so much. Elmwood Park School District 401 refused to allow the girl to enroll in classes citing federal immigration law. They say the feds have been...

The FBI has been searching for the reputed mob boss Joey "The Clown" Lombardo for 9 months, ever since he and 13 others were charged with plotting at least 18 Chicago murders dating back to the early 1970s. Last night Lombardo was captured in Elmwood Park and taken into custody without incident. The FBI doesn't know where Lombardo has been for the last 9 months, but they've been looking all over the world for him....