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A month after two women were hit by gunfire while sitting in the bleachers during a White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field, the shooting that stunned the city and made news around the country appears no closer to being solved than it was in the hours after the incident, sources said.

Rumors and hearsay, peddled largely by content aggregators on social media, have done little to quell speculation about the shooting — which, in the nearly 150-year history of Major League Baseball, is believed to be perhaps just the fourth instance of a fan being shot while inside a big league ballpark.

Investigators have been weighing whether the woman who sustained the more severe injuries was somehow able to bring a gun into the stadium that later discharged while she was in the left field bleachers, according to police sources not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. That woman has not been cooperative with Chicago Police Department investigators in the weeks since she was shot, sources said.

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Lawsuits have been filed in several states seeking to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on next year’s election ballots, contending his actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol constitutionally disqualify him from holding the presidency again.

In deep blue Illinois, however, Trump’s opponents and state officials are taking a more cautious approach.

Just over half of all firefighters in the United States are estimated to be volunteers: men and women who leave their homes and jobs at any moment to respond to house fires and car crashes, medical emergencies and natural disasters.

In Illinois, about two-thirds of the state’s roughly 1,100 fire departments rely almost entirely on volunteers.

And, with few exceptions, those departments are running out of volunteers.

Ardent abolitionists founded Wheaton College in DuPage County just before the start of the Civil War, an era when calls for the immediate end of slavery and promotion of racial justice were often considered radical concepts.

Yet over the course of the next century and a half, the private evangelical Christian liberal arts college at times held an “underlying mindset of white superiority” as well as “attitudes, beliefs and actions that created an inhospitable and sometimes hostile campus environment” for people of color, according to a 122-page report on Wheaton College’s history of racism and discrimination, which was recently released by a college task force.

Stepping to the microphone in an Elk Grove Village conference hall recently, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi — a burgeoning voice in Illinois’ congressional delegation — made an impassioned argument for fighting back against the extremism he sees in the Republicans running Congress.

His appearance was just one of many he’s made at events across his district since being reelected in November. But it comes at a unique time in the state’s political evolution and, in particular, Krishnamoorthi’s career.

A deficit of talent. A lack of confidence. A rash of injuries. And some distracting drama. The winless Chicago Bears have found the grand slam of ineptitude right now and there’s not much more to say, writes Dan Wiederer.

Get out of your own way and start posting your work online. Instagram, mostly. Trade the thirst traps for jokes about thirst traps, hookups and why all Disney princes are gay.

That’s what singer-turned-illustrator-turned-comedian Matteo Lane did coming out of the haze of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. Now he’s one of the country’s rising comedic voices, in part for his ability to hilariously observe universalities from the seemingly mundane to the quintessentially gay.

Tribune critic Louisa Chu asks, why did the sudden closing of Chinatown’s Seven Treasures, home of the cult favorite 554, leave long lines and such grief? After all, the iconic dishes live on at Wonton Gourmet in Des Plaines.

Their story was our story. And it’s an untold story of love, loss and noodles.