Tag: Chicago

• Tuesday, October 7th 2025 - 12:30 UTC

  Chicago becomes epicenter of tension amid Trump’s “migration war”

  Chicago is facing a wave of violence and repression following protests against the mass detention of migrants. U.S. President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard troops to the city, as the federal operation Midway Blitz has already led to more than 500 arrests since it began in September.

• Saturday, December 19th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Chicago aquarium celebrates Rockhopper penguin Wellington, 33th birthday

  

  For a penguin to make it to age 33, a lot of things have to break right. Predator avoidance. Good genes. And, sometimes, cataract surgery. And this was part of the longevity recipe for Wellington, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium’s oldest and best-known rockhopper penguin, which marked the milestone birthday on Friday as a guest of honor at an 8:30 a.m. Facebook Live event.

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 06:11 UTC

  Successful double lung transplant on Covid-19 patient in Chicago

  

  Surgeons have performed a double-lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient in Chicago, the hospital that carried out the procedure said on Thursday, in what is thought to be a first in the United States.

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Abbot Laboratories will pay US$ 25 million for bribing doctors to prescribe TriCor

  

  Abbot Laboratiories AbbVie Inc will pay a total of US$25 million to resolve allegations that Abbott paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing the cholesterol drug TriCor and promoted the medication for unapproved purposes.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  The possible economic options behind Bolsonaro and Haddad

  

  Behind Brazil's polarized presidential election, and unpredictable result, the business class in Latin America's largest economy looking for clear signals of what can be expected as of 2019 either from the former army captain Jair Bolsonaro or from economist Fernando Haddad, handpicked by Lula da Silva as his successor. Hopefully not a choice between “awful” and “extremely awful”

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:44 UTC

  ”We are the 99%” protestors in downtown Chicago disrupt bankers’ events

  

  Thousands of protesters, including teachers and religious leaders, converged on downtown Chicago Monday to rally against economic inequality, with two financial industry events in their crosshairs.

• Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:19 UTC

  Former Obama aid elected Chicago mayor; ends 40 years of Daley-family dominance

  

  Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago in the most competitive city hall election in more than two decades. Emanuel, who is also a former congressman, trumped five rivals with 55% of the vote.