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View ArticleAssailant asks for the time, stabs stranger with a box cutter and steals...
A man was stabbed multiple times by a stranger on a CTA Red Line train Tuesday night on the North Side.
View ArticleCook County could get another 3 inches of lake effect snow, forecasters issue...
Parts of Cook County could get another 1 to 3 inches of snow Wednesday just a day after the area was walloped by a system that dropped 6 inches of snow at O’Hare International Airport, the city’s...
View ArticleHistoric gift of $75 million will go to University of Chicago social work...
The school will be renamed the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in honor of the benefactors.
View ArticleSecond man faces murder charge after fatal Little Village shooting, police say
A 28-year-old man faces a murder charge after Chicago police say he was involved in a fatal shooting Sunday in Little Village. He is the second person to be arrested in connection with the shooting,...
View ArticleColumn: Why parents shouldn’t tune out the Claudia and Kellyanne Conway...
I asked some psychologists if the Conway family drama was coming up in therapy sessions. "Every kid was strictly talking about this,” one told me.
View ArticleControversial president of Chicago police union, already under threat of...
The embattled leader of the city’s largest police union now faces firing from his job as a Chicago police officer in at least two disciplinary investigations.
View ArticleGangster Disciples boss Larry Hoover directed gang appointments from supermax...
Gangster Disciples chairman Larry Hoover was convicted in federal court in Chicago two decades ago of continuing to run his criminal empire even as he was serving a 200-year sentence.
View ArticleSecond man charged in fatal Hammond drug robbery
Charges were unsealed for a second man accused in a deadly Hammond drug robbery.
View Article4 children, 1 adult dead in Des Plaines house fire
Four children under the age of six and one adult have died in a Des Plaines residential fire on Wednesday morning, according to Des Plaines Fire Chief Daniel Anderson.
View ArticleChicago City Council closes loopholes in Welcoming City ordinance, ending...
Aldermen closed loopholes in Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance on Wednesday, prohibiting police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities when immigrants living in the country without...
View ArticleWhere the coronavirus data stands in the U.S. and world: Vaccinations, cases...
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe countries — and states in the U.S. — are dealing with wave and wave of illness. As hot spots shift, these charts will be updated daily with new totals.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 3,751 new confirmed and probable COVID-19...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleTwo shot in apparent road rage incident in Orland Park
Two people were shot in an apparent road rage incident early Wednesday afternoon in Orland Park, police Chief Joe Mitchell said.
View ArticleBank robber nabbed after allegedly filling out withdrawal slip for $10,000,...
Alleged bank robber arrested after feds say he paused to give teller a withdrawal slip and his identification.
View ArticleIn CDC’s backyard, school reopening debate divides medical experts
Just down the road from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a community flush with resident health professionals, the Decatur, Georgia, school system had no shortage of expert input...
View Article5 killed in Des Plaines house fire
Four young children and their mother were killed in a house fire Jan. 27, 2021, in the 700 block of West Oakton Street in Des Plaines.
View Article‘People were afraid to talk to me’: Chicago woman wants to promote...
After losing her brother to suicide, Amy Kartheiser started the charity Under The Same Sky to finance a program that connects survivors of such a loss.
View ArticlePritzker says earlier federal notice on COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should...
President Joe Biden pledged a 16% boost in dose deliveries to states starting next week.
View ArticleOff-duty cop carjacked in North Kenwood neighborhood
An off-duty Chicago police officer was a victim of a carjacking Tuesday night on the South Side in the North Kenwood/Oakland neighborhood, police said.
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