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Afternoon Briefing

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Good afternoon, Chicago.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.

The information will give ICE officials the ability to find “the location of aliens” across the country, says the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement has not been announced publicly.

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Danielle Malaty, left, a former Goldberg Segalla lawyer who was terminated following her use of ChatGPT to cite a fictitious court case, exits the courtroom with her attorney at the Daley Center, July 17, 2025, after a hearing to discuss the use of AI for a motion in the lead paint case involving the CHA. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case

In the latest headache for CHA, law firm Goldberg Segalla used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, in a post-trial motion and neglected to check its work, court records show.

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The Naperville City Council is considering replacing the state grocery tax with an increase to the city’s home rules sales tax. (Chicago Tribune)

Proposal to hike Naperville’s sales tax to replace lost grocery tax moves forward

The Naperville City Council will vote next month on increasing the city’s sales tax to compensate for the loss of about $6.5 million in state grocery tax revenue.

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Athletes Unlimited Softball League Commissioner Kim Ng sits behind home plate before a doubleheader in Rosemont on July 8, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

AUSL is the newest swing at professional softball — and it continues to grow after 3 sellouts in Rosemont

As the Athletes Unlimited Softball League made its second of three stops in Rosemont, Commissioner Kim Ng spoke about how her Chicago experiences help her run the league.

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Audience members Lily Gaddis, left, and Molly Olson have a laugh while taking in a performance by The One Offs at The Revival improv theater in Chicago’s South Loop on July 12, 2025. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

5 new comedy clubs to know in the Chicago area

Get your maps out, order your two-drink minimum and chart a course with us across some of the area’s newest comedy venues.

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Havalah Hopkins, a single mother who lives in government-subsidized housing with her teenage son, poses for a portrait outside her apartment, July 10, 2025, in Woodinville, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with President Donald Trump’s proposed HUD time limit

Amid a worsening national affordable housing and homelessness crisis, President Donald Trump’s administration is determined to reshape HUD’s expansive role providing stable housing for low-income people.

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