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Run by a private firm hired by the city, migrants stay in a makeshift shelter Sept. 20 at Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on Thursday met with White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and Homeland Security Department officials before heading to Capitol Hill for meetings with lawmakers. The mayors of Chicago, Denver, Houston, New York and Los Angeles say in a letter to Biden that there has been little to no coordination, support or resources and that is leading to a crisis. – AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File Photo

Big city mayors meet with Biden administration to ask for help with migrants

Biden administration officials hosted big city mayors at the White House on Thursday to discuss how to manage a growing number of migrants, one day after those leaders sent a letter asking for more federal help.
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Chicago school board, other measures advance in Springfield

By 2026, Chicago will have a fully elected school board for the first time in its history if Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs a measure that cleared both chambers of the General Assembly this week.
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Egg producers conspired to fix prices, federal jury rules

A federal jury in Illinois ruled this week that several major egg producers conspired to limit the U.S.’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case stemming from a federal lawsuit originally filed 12 years ago.

Trial Notebook

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Judge seeks help on interference by subsidiary in diversity case

In a diversity case governed by Indiana law, a federal judge in Fort Wayne had to figure out whether a corporate subsidiary can be held liable for tortiously interfering “with the contracts and business relationships of another corporate subsidiary when both subsidiaries are owned by the same corporate parent.”

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