With possible teacher strike vote looming, CPS chief says union talks need to...
No one can promise a COVID-free environment but CPS is doing all it can to decrease the risk, the CPS CEO said.
View ArticleChicago police supervisor sues city, alleging special citywide unit...
A Chicago police supervisor filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday alleging he was removed from a citywide police unit because he wouldn’t be pressured to have officers working under him make...
View Article34 Chicago police officers to help keep Washington safe on unprecedented...
Chicago police officers have been traveling to the nation's capital for Inauguration Day for decades, but Wednesday's is bound to be a dramatically different experience.
View ArticleMale with gunshot wound found dead in Skokie hotel room
A man with a gunshot wound was found dead Tuesday evening at a Skokie hotel, according to police.
View Article$11 billion in damage from last summer’s derecho: ‘Historically it produced...
Starting on Aug. 10, a speedy line of storms with remarkable endurance covered 770 miles in 14 hours. Beginning in southern South Dakota and hitting gusts higher than 90 mph, the derecho flattened...
View ArticleColumn: On this Inauguration Day we’re not getting a perfect president. But...
Inauguration Day 2021 won’t be all poetry, smiles and tradition. But the day does mark a significant change.
View ArticleUniversity of Illinois tuition hike, delayed because of COVID-19, will kick...
U. of I. has projected COVID-19-related losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
View ArticleDaywatch: Chicago may reopen indoor dining soon, South Side native commands...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleFamily law attorney under indictment in sex assault cases arrested on new...
Chicago police Wednesday announced new charges against a family law attorney who already faces charges of sexually attacking both fellow attorneys and a client of his law firm, with the most recent...
View ArticleMan faces attempted murder charge after police say he shot at officers in...
A 29-year-old West Side man is facing an attempted murder charge after he fired a gun at officers who were chasing him when he ran from a traffic stop Monday night in the Homan Square neighborhood,...
View ArticleValparaiso High School teacher charged after police raid underage drinking...
Officers with the Valparaiso Police Department were called around 12:20 a.m. Sunday to Bernardi’s home after receiving an anonymous tip about an ongoing drinking party.
View ArticleDuPage man’s life sentence in marijuana case commuted by Trump
A DuPage County man serving a life sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana had his sentence commuted Tuesday by President Donald Trump, according to the White House and websites devoted to the...
View ArticleWhite House visit by Bears Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher preceded Trump pardon...
Amid a slew of pardons in his final hours at the White House, President Donald Trump pardoned Casey Urlacher, a suburban mayor and the brother of Bears Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 4,822 new confirmed and probable COVID-19...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticlePassenger pushed steering wheel as joke in Porter County crash that killed...
The front seat passenger of a car that went off the road and struck a utility pole, killing a DeMotte teen, pushed the steering wheel as a joke, according to a crash report.
View ArticleLimited indoor dining on track to resume Thursday in Will and Kankakee...
Will and Kankakee counties are on track to be the first in the Chicago area to see limited indoor dining resume under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s coronavirus reopening plan, state public health officials said...
View ArticleColumn: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day was the most American yet
The blended families. The racial, ethnic and religious diversity. Pete Buttigieg seated with his husband. And also the masks and security forces.
View ArticlePsychologist testifies that Portage man, 31, charged in 2009 cold case...
A Portage man charged in a 2009 homicide in a case that had gone cold until a tipster came forward to police almost nine years later has the intellectual capability of a third-grader, a clinical...
View ArticleRed Line service resumes in downtown subway after being rerouted for person...
A man standing on the Red Line tracks downtown halted at least one CTA train and caused a service disruption Wednesday afternoon on the North Side.
View ArticleRound Lake man killed in Avon Township crash
Authorities say the man was headed west on Rollins at a high rate of speed in a 2004 Subaru WRX when the vehicle began sliding. The Subaru then hit an eastbound Toyota Tundra being driven by a McHenry...
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