Today’s Headlines for Thursday, December 24

• Stay home for Christmas, New Year’s to reduce COVID spread, state’s leaders plead (Block Club)
• Child "gravely" injured, woman in critical condition after Gage Park crash (CBS)
• Police share video of driver fleeing Lisle traffic stop, fatally crashing on I-88 ramp (Sun-Times)
• Chicagoans are accepting $10K checks to move to Michigan and work remotely there (Crain's)
• Sun-Times op-ed: "Biking was a great escape during a ridiculously stressful year"
• After 2 years of work, Englewood leaders unveiling 1st "Buy The Block" renovated home (Block Club)
• Retired fashion designer created a mannequin Nativity scene on his lawn (Block Club)

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