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25 … In 1570, Queen Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V. In 1793 federal department heads met with President George Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record. In 1913 Congress was given the authority to levy income taxes when the 16th Amendment went into effect.

In 1964 Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston. In 1986 President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency. In 1988 the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance permitting limited night baseball at Wrigley Field.

In 2000 a jury in Albany, N.Y., acquitted four white New York City police officers of all charges in the shooting death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo. In 2001 the commander of the U.S. submarine that struck and sunk a Japanese trawler off Hawaii expressed his “most sincere regret” — but Cmdr.

Scott Waddle stopped short of an apology. In 2004 the Supreme Court ruled states do not have to underwrite the religious training of students planning careers in the ministry. In 2005 municipal employee and church leader Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan.

(He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.) Also in 2005 The Walt Disney Co. agreed to sell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife, Susan, for $75 million. Also in 2005 Amnesty International founder Peter Benenson died in Oxford, England; he was 83. In 2013 Dr. C.

Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general in the 1980s who led campaigns against smoking and AIDS, died in New Hampshire; he was 96. In 2016 upstart Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to several thousand people at Chicago State University after a televised appearance at his alma mater, the University of Chicago, seeking to leverage his popularity among younger voters to defeat primary rival Hillary Clinton in her home state of Illinois. Back to News Massive downsizing at WGN- The television station laid off 8 veteran on-air reporters and anchors Monday Former WGN reporter Sean Lewis sits in his Chicago home on Tuesday.

Lewis, a nearly two-decade veteran at WGN-TV who has anchored the weekend morning broadcast since 2010, was among several reporters laid off Monday.

The city of Chicago could be on the hook to pay drivers back millions of dollars following a class-action lawsuit that alleged it violatedstatelawbytackingexpen- sivelatefeesontoticketsforinfrac- tions like parking without a city sticker. After years of litigation, Circuit Judge William B. Sullivan ordered the city to pay drivers back for the overchargesinanorderFeb.19. The city said it’s considering an appeal. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2018,allegedChicagohadviolated Illinois law by charging drivers more than $250 for certain viola- tions, typically by adding on late penalties that sometimes doubled thepriceoftheoriginalticket.

Examples of the types of infrac- tions in question include park- ing without a city sticker, parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant and parkinginafirelane. “TheCity’sexcessiveandoppres- sive municipal fine structure has had disastrous consequences on Chicagoans,” the 2018 complaint argued.“Whatstartsoutasasimple fine quickly doubles, followed by Judge:Citymustpaybacklatefees Chicago may have to return millions in penalties collected for parking and city sticker violations By Illia Novikov ASSOCIATED PRESS KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Tuesday that Russia has not “broken Ukrainians” nor triumphed in its war, four years to the day after an invasion that has severely tested the resolve of Kyiv and its allies and fueled European fears about the scale of Moscow’s ambitions.

Inashowofsupport,morethan a dozen senior European officials headed to the Ukrainian capital to mark the grim anniversary of the conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people, upended life for millions of Ukrainians and created instability far beyond its borders. Zelenskyy said his country has withstoodtheonslaughtbyRussia’s bigger and better equipped army, which over the past year of fight- ingcapturedjust0.79%ofUkraine’s territory,accordingtotheInstitute for the Study of War, a Washing- ton-based think tank.

Russia now holdsnearly20%ofUkraine. “Lookingbackatthebeginningof theinvasionandreflectingontoday, wehaveeveryrighttosay:Wehave defended our independence, we havenotlostourstatehood,”Zelen- skyy said on social media, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putinhas“notachievedhisgoals.” “He has not broken Ukrainians; hehasnotwonthiswar,”Zelenskyy said. Despite the show of defiance, Ukraine has struggled to hold off Russia’sonslaught,andthewarhas brought widespread hardship for Ukrainian civilians. Russia’s aerial attackshavedevastatedfamiliesand deniedcivilianspowerandrunning water. Putin made no mention of the anniversary nor did he say how Zelenskyy praises Ukraine’s resolve Country tested, but Putin denied goals across war’s 4 years By Robert Channick CHICAGO TRIBUNE As the Bears waffle between destinationsfortheirnewplanned stadium, including potentially moving across state lines to Indi- ana, another Chicago team is ready to break ground next week insidethecityitrepresents.

The Chicago Fire, who are building a privately funded $750 million soccer stadium in the South Loop, have opened an experiential marketing center in the Wrigley Building featur- ing everything from a simulated suite and a video room to a large- scale detailed model of the facil- ity, offering fans an immersive previewofwhat’stocome. “We thought it was really importantwithuscomingdown- town and creating our own new stadium for the first time, for peopletobeabletosee,touch,feel whatthenewstadiumwillbelike,” Dave Baldwin, the Fire’s presi- dent of business operations, said followingamediaunveilingofthe newmarketingcenterThursday.

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