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Need some escapism? Bored with a few hours to kill? Like Gene Wilders voice?

Then you might find this documentary about the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair mildly interesting.

EXPO: Magic of the White City

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JOLIET, Ill. (WGN) – Two members of the Joliet Police Department have been placed on paid administrative leave for alleged misuse of Flock Safety Technology.

The police department said the two members involved are a sworn officer and a dispatcher.

Police officials said once the discovery was made, the police department took administrative action and referred the incident to the Joliet Inspector General for investigation, as well as the Illinois State Police for an independent review.

“The Joliet Police Department recognizes the seriousness of these allegations, and we continue to review and strengthen policies governing the use of this technology and will enact department-wide audits to reinforce appropriate use and accountability. These efforts reflect our continued commitment to responsible policing, transparency, and maintaining the trust of the community we serve,” the police department said.

No other information on the alleged misuse was made available and the police department said the investigation remains ongoing.

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CHICAGO (WGN) – Anglers and the businesses that serve them are noticing a quiet change in state policy that determines who can cast a line in Illinois lakes and rivers.

Over the last few days, Montrose Harbor was filled with boats and hopeful anglers looking to reel in a big one, but what you won’t find is anyone fishing who isn’t a U.S. citizen.

Stacey Greene’s family has owned Park Bait Shop since 1958 and the shop serves all your fishing needs.

You can even get a fishing license at the shop, but only if you’re a U.S. citizen.

In the end, Greene said none if it makes sense because the money made in the sale of fishing licenses goes back to restock fish in Lake Michigan and throughout the lakes of Illinois.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works/p/929547/chicago-world-s-fair-1934

This world's fair was in the windy city, 1933 & 34. The theme was "A Century of Progress", celebrating the importance of science and technology. This was still in the Great Depression era, and everyone was desperate to find hope for a better future. > > > > The Zephyr streamliner made a (then) record breaking "dawn to dusk" run from Denver to Chicago in 13 hours, rolling into the 1934 fair on opening day. Considerable logistics went into it, such as diverting all other rail traffic to sidings, careful pre-inspection of every spike and grade crossing, and enlisting the Boy Scouts for traffic safety at crossings. The train reached speeds of 112 mph and averaged 77 mph over the entire run. > > > > The Homes of Tomorrow exhibit was not for flights of fancy, but instead showed homes designed to be mass produced from affordable materials. Several still exist today, although they have been moved out of the Chicago area. Here is one. > > > >

U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, who grilled Supt. Macquline King at a hearing in June, is asking the school district to provide reams of documents, including any complaints about gender support plans and evidence of how the district is complying with recent Supreme Court rulings.

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TDF and Collabora have been at odds since April, when TDF's Membership Committee kicked out every Collabora staffer and partner in one move, with more than 30 people dropped.

That didn't stop Collabora from shipping a range of new releases, with Collabora Office 26.04 being the most recent one, where AI was introduced as an opt-in feature, letting users pick a model and bring their own credentials.

Now, LibreOffice, and by extension, The Document Foundation, has put its rejection of AI at the very forefront with the LibreOffice 26.8 release, going as far as calling it out in the release announcement title itself.

LibreOffice 26.8: What's New?

There's no AI in LibreOffice 26.8. Nothing about the suite talks to a remote server, and none of it needs an internet connection to work.

This isn't an oversight; it's a promise. TDF says that if your work can't leave the building for legal or privacy reasons, the only way to prove that later (during an audit, for example) is if the software never gave it anywhere to go.

Anyhow, coming back to the editors. 👇

Writer now detects paragraph direction automatically when you open or paste a document, end-of-line spacing follows the paragraph's direction instead of the reading direction, and object resize controls play well with RTL and vertical CJK documents.

It also gets a way to see the baseline grid during editing, and the grid itself now aligns correctly inside text frames. A new Draft View for stripping out the headers, footers, and page margins for distraction-free writing is available too.

Calc picks up the same RTL detection we saw earlier. Typing right-to-left text into an empty cell sets its direction automatically instead of requiring a manual toggle.

With additional improvements like Calculated Fields for pivot tables and a "Shuffle" command for scrambling cell order within a selected range.

Similarly, Math gets new named functions and operators built for two west African writing systems, N'Ko and Adlam, which cover the Manding languages and Fulani, plus left-pointing vector arrows for formulas written right to left.

Chart has basic support for reading and writing back the newer chart formats (chartex) that show up in Microsoft's OOXML files, covering the box-and-whisker, funnel, Pareto, sunburst, treemap, and waterfall types.

Impress and Draw can mix page sizes within one file instead of forcing every slide or page to match, and Impress also picks up presentation sections, letting you group slides under a name instead of scrolling through one long list.

And generally speaking, Calc, Writer, Impress, and Draw now each carry their own background tint in the Notebookbar (the ribbon-style interface on top), so you can tell which app you're in without reading the title bar.

There's also a new Paragraph Composer that balances word spacing across a whole paragraph instead of judging each line by itself, fixing the uneven look that comes from justifying one line at a time.

How to Install/Upgrade?

You will usually find LibreOffice already installed on popular Linux distributions, and it is only a matter of time before this release shows up as part of a routine system upgrade.

If you can't wait, then downloading the DEB or RPM package is the quickest way to get this release installed. Alternatively, you could also opt for the Flatpak, but know that it receives updates a bit late.

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Pay What You Can, or Paga Lo Que Puedas, originated at Michelin-starred restaurant Masala y Maíz in Mexico City. Now, it’s a global initiative.

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CHICAGO (WGN) — Whether it’s Chicago State University’s head football coach or one of the team’s top wide receivers who comes equipped with his own underdog story, their mission is the same: “Shock the world.”

The city’s lousy meter deal seems inescapable, no matter who holds the lease. One Chicagoan found a way to beat it. Could the whole city do the same?

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Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

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Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world

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Four more belugas have arrived at a Chicago aquarium as part of a plan to move Canada's last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park to aquariums in the United States and Spain.

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As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

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