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✍🏼 In a letter to the State Department, Gov. JB Pritzker urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to commit to a plan to help Americans stranded in the Middle East. (Sun-Times)
Legendary Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz died yesterday at the age of 89. Holtz led the Fighting Irish to a national championship in 1988, its last title. (USA Today)
⛪️ Pope Leo XIV's childhood church and the Chicago Loop Synagogue made Preservation Chicago's annual list of most endangered buildings. (Block Club)