Illinois House backs bill that would make Juneteenth an official state...
A bill that would make Juneteenth National Freedom Day the 13th official state holiday was approved by the Illinois Senate Thursday and is headed to the House floor.
View ArticleIllinois awaits final words from feds on restarting use of Johnson & Johnson...
Illinois public health officials await final OK from feds to restart use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.
View ArticleChicago doctors group says physicians should become a key provider of Johnson...
A doctors group in Chicago says physicians should become key providers of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because patients may want to discuss its safety first.
View ArticleIllinois gives providers go-ahead to resume use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19...
Vaccine providers in Illinois can immediately resume giving Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose immunization after federal officials determined the shot’s benefits outweigh the risks of rare but severe...
View ArticleMorgan Park neighbors fear homeowner placing hot dogs laced with poison on...
About two weeks ago, Ald. Matt O’Shea, 19th, began receiving complaints that a homeowner was putting out hot dogs laced with poison because she was tired of dogs using her front lawn as a bathroom.
View Article2 men fatally wounded in South Side shootings since Friday afternoon, police say
Two men in their 20s were fatally wounded Friday in separate shootings, police said.
View Article62-year-old man shot Saturday morning on West Side, police say
A 62-year-old man was shot in the right leg Saturday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening this weekend with...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleCook County doctors say vaccine pause should create confidence; walk-in...
City and county health officials announce they again administering the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
View Article‘Minute by minute, you’re either firing at a car or taking a car at...
A man on probation for one case and out on bond on another allegedly shot at and carjacked several people including two nurses before his alleged ‘one man crime spree’ ended in less than an hour when...
View ArticleCards with messages against police brutality dangle from Grant Park trees...
About a hundred protesters in Grant Park held a vigil for victims of police brutality by penning messages onto cards and hanging them from the canopy of tree branches with white flowers.
View Article‘I was scared for me and my wife and my kids,’ says Las Vegas man who was...
An 18-year-old man who was shot by Chicago police after he fled from police and then tried to carjack a family on the Eisenhower Expressway on Thursday afternoon near west suburban Hillside has been...
View ArticleFight at Elmhurst tavern spilled into parking lot where suspect, a Chicago...
A Chicago woman was charged with first-degree murder in the March fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man in the parking lot of an Elmhurst bar, officials said.
View ArticleDaywatch special edition: The Failures Before the Fires
Good morning, Chicago. Here is a special newsletter edition on The Failures Before the Fires, a Chicago Tribune and Better Government Association investigation.
View ArticleTwo Southland school districts that increased in-person teaching see rise in...
Two Southland school districts that have increased in school teaching say higher numbers of students, staff isolating due to COVID-19 largely attributed to prep sports
View ArticleMan arrested in Jefferson Park after wielding ax on CTA Blue Line
A man was arrested in Jefferson Park on Saturday after police learned he had been wielding an ax in a Blue Line train car, police said.
View ArticleMan held without bail on first-degree murder charge in Berwyn good Samaritan...
A judge ordered a man held without bail in connection with the fatal stabbing of a good Samaritan who tried to protect a teen girl who was being physically assaulted in Berwyn on Friday.
View ArticleNo bail for alleged getaway driver in Jaslyn Adams slaying, high-speed chase...
Both gunmen remained at large, while East Garfield Park man faces a first-degree murder charge in Jaslyn’s death April 18.
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