$55.6 million O’Hare cargo project bond package advances with bolstered...
Aldermen Monday gave the go-ahead to a $55.6 million O’Hare International Airport cargo expansion project bond package they had previously stalled due to concerns over low minority participation.
View ArticleAurora woman dies in house fire
An Aurora woman died early Monday morning in a house fire in the city’s near West Side.
View ArticleOn MLK Day, Chicagoans of all ages reflect on how to apply civil rights...
At Martin Luther King Day events in the Chicago area, participants looked to the future while acknowledging the sorrow over a year marked by a deadly worldwide pandemic, unrest sparked by police...
View ArticleWhiting blaze damages six-unit apartment building, barbershop
Neither residents nor any Whiting firefighters were injured during the blaze, which started around 9:11 p.m. Sunday and was extinguished around 1 a.m. Monday, Cunningham said, but the building suffered...
View ArticleWalgreens, Jewel-Osco, Walmart and Cook County now scheduling COVID-19...
Walgreens, Jewel-Osco, Walmart and suburban Cook County are now scheduling COVID-19 vaccine appointments for eligible Chicago area residents.
View ArticleHighland jogger robbed; stolen car later found in Hammond after another...
Two of the men got out of the vehicle and, while pointing guns at the jogger, demanded him to give them whatever he had on him, Banasiak said.
View ArticleChicago man charged with reckless homicide after two die in Aurora crash
A Chicago man has been charged with reckless homicide in connection to a crash in Aurora Saturday that left two people dead.
View ArticleCharged in 2009 murder, Portage man offers to plead guilty to felony robbery;...
A Portage man charged in a 2009 murder case that had gone cold until a tipster came forward to police almost nine years later offered to plead guilty to a felony robbery charge Monday.
View ArticleLake Forest woman killed by train in Highwood
The 53-year-old woman was struck by the commuter train about 10:34 p.m. near the intersection of Green Bay Road and Highwood Avenue, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.
View ArticleSchererville lawyer sentenced to 2 years in prison for unpaid taxes, failing...
A Schererville lawyer was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for owing $2 million in unpaid taxes for more than 10 years and for not filing federal tax returns.
View ArticleTeen charged in Addison carjacking is ordered to remain in custody after he...
A 17-year-old charged with carjacking a woman in a fast-food restaurant parking lot in Addison was ordered to remain in custody Monday, and DuPage County prosecutors said they will seek to charge him...
View ArticleMother of Janari Ricks sues security company over the child’s death at...
The mother of a 9-year-old boy killed in Cabrini-Green last summer has sued the company contracted to provide security for the public housing complex.
View ArticleDozens rally at St. Sabina in support of Pfleger, as accusers remain...
The Rev. Michael Pfleger's supporters rally as accuser says, "I’m not here because I want to be. I’m here because it’s the right thing to do.”
View ArticleAurora police investigating fatal shooting
Aurora police are investigating a fatal shooting Monday afternoon on the city’s southeast side.
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View Article8 more cases of highly contagious coronavirus variant identified in Illinois
Eight more cases of a highly contagious coronavirus variant have been identified in Illinois, state public health officials said Monday.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot unveils plan to send more COVID-19 vaccines to Black and...
In an effort to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in hard-hit Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she plans to increase the number of doses for mostly South and West Side...
View ArticleChicago aldermen advance settlement in 2015 police traffic stop shooting
Aldermen on Monday advanced a proposal to pay $525,000 to a man who was wrongly shot by Chicago police and forgive almost $45,000 in debts he owes the city. Antwon Golatte was shot in the abdomen...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse police interview video
Kyle Rittenhouse and his mother, Wendy, speak with Kenosha police at the Antioch Police Department in the hours after he shot three people, two of them fatally.
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