Aurora man dies after shooting in Montgomery
Montgomery police have identified the man killed in a shooting late Tuesday morning on the Route 30 bridge over the Fox River in the village.
View ArticleChicago’s $9 million delinquent water bill relief program looks for more takers
A $9 million Chicago program to help homeowners behind on their water and sewer bills has seen less than half of those eligible for the city assistance sign up in the nine months since the initiative...
View ArticleIllinois National Guard heads to DC to help with potential armed riots: ‘It’s...
Illinois National Guard sends security forces to DC to help with potential armed riots at Biden inauguration
View ArticleStudent draws lessons from current events for MLK speech competition: ‘If Dr....
The event provides fourth and fifth grade CPS students an opportunity to remember and pay tribute to the late civil rights leader.
View ArticleVaccine trial participants who received placebo now hop the line for the real...
Many of those who received a placebo are now being offered a vaccine — in some cases, earlier than they would otherwise have been eligible.
View ArticleRapper Vic Mensa says burglars stole $40,000 worth of donated items from his...
Chicago rapper Vic Mensa announced this week on social media that on New Year’s Eve someone stole $40,000 worth of items that had been donated to his charity SaveMoneySaveLife Foundation.
View ArticlePlainfield Township supervisor indicted in $1.4 million embezzlement from...
A suburban township supervisor has been indicted on federal charges alleging he stole almost $1.4 million from a private firm where he served as chief financial officer.
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot vs. Pritzker on bars, restaurants | Biden expected to...
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View ArticleWoman injured, residents displaced after Evanston apartment fire
One woman was injured and a family was displaced after a fire broke out at an Evanston apartment building Thursday afternoon.
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago scholar killed in shooting spree remembered as ‘a kind...
Under a small tent adorned with bouquets of white flowers, a handful of students and university members braced the drizzling rain to remember Fan as a brilliant student and colleague who was dedicated...
View ArticleAs new COVID-19 cases emerge in Chicago Public Schools, families plead for...
CPS says teachers who've been locked out defied the terms of their contract.
View ArticleCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle appoints new director of human...
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has appointed a former top lawyer from the clerk’s office to serve as the next director of the county’s Department of Human Rights and Ethics.
View ArticleEmanuel ‘Chris’ Welch says he’s Illinois House speaker because ‘my colleagues...
Emanuel "Chris" Welch found himself still several votes short of being elected speaker of the Illinois House hours before a new legislature was seated. He started making his case to individual lawmakers.
View Article18 Chicago police officers disciplined after video shows cops lounging around...
Eighteen Chicago police officers have been disciplined for their roles in last year’s incident at U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush’s South Side campaign office
View ArticleRahm Emanuel donates $100,000 to a City Colleges of Chicago scholarship he...
The money will assist students advancing to four-year schools from the community colleges.
View ArticleColumn: Trump must admit he was lying about a ‘stolen election’ before more...
Donald Trump's "stolen election" lie is why we have thousands of National Guard droops in Washington, D.C., for Joe Biden's inauguration. That lie will inspire domestic terrorists. Trump must admit...
View ArticleColumn: Staring through the window at the gym, thinking: One day, but not yet
Before the pandemic made “alone together” a slogan for our times, the gym offered precisely that appeal, of being with other people while doing your own private thing, columnist Mary Schmich writes.
View ArticleDaywatch: Lightfoot pushing for restaurants to reopen, Biden unveils COVID...
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View ArticleCassoulet inspires $5,000 Kickstarter zine campaign by Honey Butter Fried...
Sunday Dinner Club, the formerly secret dining society, has made their coveted cassoulet an event every winter for 16 years
View ArticleIllinois House speaker’s chief of staff tests positive for COVID-19 after...
Members of both the Illinois House and Senate and their staff were asked to self quarantine after people who were at the lame duck session in Springfield this week tested positive for covid-19.
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