More people staying home for the holidays, but air travel still the highest...
With health officials repeatedly warning against family gatherings during the end-of-year holidays, experts say the number of Americans traveling will be the smallest since 2002 and will end an 11-year...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: More than 100,000 in Illinois vaccinated as...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleThe Great Lakes
The five Great Lakes of North America: Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie.
View ArticlePritzker says more than 100,000 people have received COVID-19 vaccination in...
More than 100,000 people in Illinois had been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Tuesday night, and hundreds of thousands more doses are being shipped to the state during its second week of a mass...
View ArticleJoliet police shoot and kill Naperville man, 19, after he pointed BB gun that...
Joliet police officers on Tuesday shot and killed a male who was in the street “brandishing what appeared to be a black semi-automatic handgun,” according to a press release from the Will-Grundy Major...
View ArticleThe Spin: Duckworth pushes back on Trump’s threat to hold up COVID-19 relief...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View Article‘Whirlwind of emotions’: Donors give more than $10,000 to pay off student’s...
Donors gave more than $10,000 to support low-income students at Dominican University after a Tribune story highlighted the challenges of a current junior struggling to pay tuition as her job dried up...
View Article‘That’s it?’ Moderna vaccine debuts at Lovell Health Care Center in North...
The Captain James A. Lovell FHCC in North Chicago is one of 133 VA centers across the United States that are receiving limited amounts of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
View ArticleColumn: Santa Claus is real: A columnist’s case for St. Nick
Yes, Santa Claus is real. This columnist explains that Christmas without Santa Claus would be ahistorical, a ship of dreams with no wind in its sails.
View ArticleChicago mariachis sing farewell to fellow players at their wakes and...
The ritual of having the mariachi community come together to play at the funeral or wake of a musician who has died has become a common practice and it is a sign of respect and camaraderie, said Leon,...
View ArticleDaywatch: Reopening uncertainty for CPS parents, ‘king’ of Medicaid fraud...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleNational Guardsman who works as Chicago police officer thankful to be headed...
After a deployment in Afghanistan that included a bout with COVID-19, returning Illinois National Guard Maj. Scott Liebhaber doesn’t mind if Christmas back home comes with pandemic-related strings...
View Article8 great Chinese restaurants open on Christmas Day — with holiday specials —...
Traditionally most restaurants in the historic Chinese neighborhood on the South Side of the city remain open on Christmas Day
View ArticleWoman, 12-year-old boy killed in hit-and-run in Gage Park neighborhood,...
A 48-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy were killed after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a street in the Gage Park neighborhood Wednesday night, police said.
View ArticleRep. Adam Kinzinger through the years
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, 42, who represents a sprawling exurban and rural district that stretches from Rockford down to the Indiana border, has been virtually alone among members of his party in readily...
View Article‘Free Kyle’ Rittenhouse merchandise supporting teen charged in Kenosha...
An online sales company has stopped selling merchandise supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, the Antioch teen who killed two people and wounded a third during a protest in Wisconsin.
View ArticleChicago Christmas forecast — slight chance of flurries overnight: Here is the...
A chronological look back at how the Chicago Tribune covered the Top 10 Christmas temperature highs and lows.
View ArticleIllinois’ seven-day average for COVID-19 deaths is lowest in weeks as state...
Illinois’ seven-day average for coronavirus deaths fell to 116 on Thursday, its lowest point since Dec. 2.
View ArticleNew year, new reopening plan — and continued uncertainty for CPS parents
A growing number of Local School Councils, from West Ridge to Logan Square to West Englewood, oppose the plan to start bringing young learners and children in special education “cluster” programs back...
View ArticlePace bus security guard charged in Harvey with punching handcuffed man in...
A PACE bus security guard was arrested on Saturday after a Harvey police officer witnessed him punch a handcuffed man, officials said.
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