Remote learning to continue until end of school year for Joliet School...
Parents in Joliet Public School District 86 this week were notified that the district’s board of inspectors voted to remain remote through the end of the school year.
View Article2 victims fatally wounded in separate shootings Friday afternoon while...
Man fatally wounded in a vehicle in a parking lot on the West Side, Chicago police said.
View ArticleOne in 5 eligible CPS students attended in-person classes the first week...
A CPS official called the numbers "encouraging."
View ArticleThe Illinois National Guard’s latest mission: Help vaccinate Cook County from...
No one questions the troops’ ability to bolster the massive operation’s efficiency or pace, but there have been debates nationwide concerning whether uniformed soldiers would fuel baseless conspiracy...
View ArticleIndoor dining officially allowed back in Chicago, Cook County under COVID-19...
Chicago and suburban Cook County are officially open for indoor dining for the first time since late October under coronavirus pandemic restrictions, state officials said Saturday morning.
View Article2 dead, at least 8 wounded in city shootings since Friday evening
Two victims are dead, and at least 6 others were wounded since Friday evening in city shootings, police said.
View ArticleWhat is allowed and not allowed in Illinois’ COVID tiers plan? And where does...
With indoor dining returning throughout parts of the Chicago area there is new attention on the state’s system for managing COVID mitigations. Here is where the regions stand and what is allowed under...
View ArticleMinor injuries reported in CTA ‘L’ train derailment early Saturday, slowing...
Four passengers suffered minor injuries Saturday morning after the first car of a southbound Blue Line train derailed on the Kennedy Expressway, police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Indoor dining officially allowed back in...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleMan carjacked in Uptown after letting someone ‘test drive’ his Lexus SUV;...
A 35-year-old man was a victim of a carjacking after arranging a test drive of his vehicle online, police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus at Illinois long-term care facilities: 71,103 confirmed cases and...
The Illinois Department of Public Health releases information on COVID-19 tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois weekly. Check here for the most updated numbers.
View ArticleEast Chicago man facing murder charges enters plea in Hammond robbery that...
Robinson is charged with murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, Lake Superior Court records show. Robinson is being held without bond.
View ArticleDrunken driver was nearly 6 times over legal limit in Vittum Park car crash...
A 27-year-old man was nearly six times the legal limit when he plowed head-on into another car, fatally wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four other people Wednesday night in the Vittum Park...
View ArticleVeteran Chicago cop charged after allegedly choking handcuffed arrestee in...
A Chicago police officer was arrested on an allegation that he choked someone who was handcuffed in the backseat of a police vehicle nearly two years ago on the South Side, authorities said.
View ArticleArmed robber shoots clerk inside North Center corner store
A clerk working at a North Center neighborhood corner store was shot during a robbery Saturday evening.
View ArticleWoman who lived at Chicago church for over 3 years goes home after Biden...
A woman who has lived in a Humboldt Park church for three and a half years to avoid deportation returned home Saturday night to live with her family after President Joe Biden’s 100-day moratorium on...
View ArticleMan found dead with a gunshot wound to head inside burning car on Far South...
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday night on the Far South Side inside a burning car, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleSeniors, shelters eager to get the COVID-19 vaccine as Illinois enters the...
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Chicago area will be added to the roster of those allowed vaccines starting on Monday, but many will be waiting longer to receive their first shot, officials have...
View ArticleIllinois woman who tricked nonprofits into donations by pretending to have...
Sarah Delashmit of Highland pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges after authorities claimed she defrauded nonprofits by pretending to have muscular dystrophy and breast cancer.
View ArticleAs much as 9 inches of heavy, wet snow expected Monday
Drizzling rain and some patchy snow Sunday should give way to a serious snowstorm Monday night into Tuesday morning, forecasters said.
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