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Good afternoon, Chicago.

In Brooklyn, Illinois, the brick building at Madison and South Fifth streets is still vacant, still boarded up, still tagged with faded gang graffiti.

For the second time in as many years, it’s been slated for a $2.5 million makeover, courtesy of the federal government , that would transform the building — once a grocery store and, later, a skating rink — into a community center for this historic town of 650 people across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

And once again, the project has stalled, its future uncertain, amid partisan spending battles in Washington, D.C., and the looming threat of a government shutdown.

Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines a