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President-elect Donald Trump and Todd Ricketts shake hands

Trump taps Cubs' Todd Ricketts for deputy Commerce post

Trump also announced he intends to nominate Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary and business executive Wilbur Ross to be the Commerce Secretary.

A CTA train near the Belmont stop on the Brown, Purple and Red lines. The area is part of a proposed mass transit tax-increment financing district. | Sun-Times file photo

City Council unanimously approves transit TIF

The move comes in hopes of nailing down nail $1.1 billion in federal grants to modernize the CTA’s Red Line before President Obama leaves office.

By Fran Spielman

Kajuan Raye, 19, was shot to death by Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos on Nov. 23, 2016. | Provided photo

Mayor responds on cop sued in 2nd killing in which gun not found

Chicago Police Sgt. John Poulos has been stripped of his powers while investigators examine the death on Wednesday of Kajuan Raye in West Englewood.

By Frank Main and Andy Grimm

Cook County Jail. | Sun-Times File Photo

Cook County plans to knock down 3 jail buildings to save millions

County officials expect to save $188 million over the next decade at the sprawling jail complex near 26th and California.

Jessie Grady filmed a woman who was yelling at employees at a Michaels store in Lake View. | Screenshot from YouTube

Video of customer rant prompts $22K in donations to store worker

The shouting customer at a Michaels craft store apparently was outraged after a cashier suggested she buy an extra bag to hold her purchases.

This image made from video provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Sept. 24, 2016, shows Keith Scott on the ground as police approach him in Charlotte, N.C. | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department via AP

Prosecutor: Charlotte cop acted lawfully in black man's killing

Charlotte-Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray said Officer Brentley Vinson’s actions in killing Keith Lamont Scott were justified.

By JEFFREY COLLINS and TOM FOREMAN Jr. | AP

Voters cast their ballots for the 2016 General Election at Pottawattomie Park, 7340 N. Rogers Ave., Tuesday morning, Nov. 8, 2016. File Photo.| Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

House falls short trying to override Rauner voter reg bill veto

The Illinois House failed to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a bill aimed at making voter registration automatic in Illinois.

By Tina Sfondeles

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Protesters gather at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, as part of a nationwide protest for a $15 per hour minimum wage. Fast-food restaurant and airport workers, as well as home and child-care workers rallied in cities including Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Brown: One thing missing from union’s ‘Day of Disruption’

If you’re going to bill something as a Day of Disruption to show your strength, then you probably ought to disrupt something other than traffic.

By Mark Brown

Donald Trump | Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump to be ‘completely out’ of his ‘business operations’

The president-elect tweeted “the presidency is a far more important task!”

By Associated Press

Chicago's doesn't have enough food inspectors to keep up with its required schedule of restaurant inspections, the city's inspector general has concluded in a new report. | Sun-Times

Chicago restaurants not getting inspected enough, new report says

High-risk food establishments should be inspected twice a year. But Chicago’s inspector general says the city Health Department is falling short.

By Fran Spielman

A group of birding enthusiasts use spotting scopes to view a peregrine falcon on a distant church steeple after visiting the Baxter Beer brewery in an old mill complex in Lewiston, Maine. The Maine Brew Bus tour group combines bird watching and with visits to microbreweries in southern Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Loons and lager, ducks on draft: Birders, brewers form flock

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