Column: Inside the GOP response to the Jan. 6 hearings: If all else fails,...
Inside the GOP response to the House select committee hearings on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol: Denigrate police officers, and if all else fails, start chanting "LOCK HER UP!"
View ArticleDuPage and McHenry counties now under indoor-masking-for-all guidance as...
The case positivity rate has skyrocketed this month, from 0.9% to 4%.
View ArticleViolence spike of 2020 widened familiar safety gap between city...
Data being compiled by the University of Chicago Crime Lab and shared with the Tribune suggests that the perception that violence in Chicago is as bad now as it has been in years is fair. The lab’s...
View Article‘This is not a bluff’: Exelon moves to shut down 2 nuclear power plants in...
As clean energy bill talks stall, both Exelon and some lawmakers claim they're trying to protect jobs at the plants.
View ArticleHistorians urge state lawmakers who are weighing the fate of controversial...
Two historians on Wednesday provided their perspectives to an Illinois legislative committee tasked with making a recommendation on the fate of monuments located on state property.
View ArticleCPS will get more than $2 billion in COVID-19 relief. But a financial ‘cliff’...
If COVID-19 relief is used to create CPS jobs, what happens when the aid dries up?
View ArticleCTA worker sprayed woman with water accidentally, woman stabbed him in neck,...
A woman was arrested after stabbing a CTA worker in the neck with a knife, police said.
View ArticleDaywatch: 3 Chicago-area counties under indoor mask guidance, Lollapalooza...
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View Article‘It almost sounded like a hurricane’: Derecho weather events in the Chicago...
A derecho, a widespread summer storm, can travel thousands of miles with hurricane-force winds of up to 100 mph.
View ArticleCombating food insecurity in Englewood
Dion Dawson’s charity, Dion's Chicago Dream, works to combat food insecurity in his Englewood neighborhood.
View ArticleCourt appearance delayed for man charged in shooting death of young father at...
Anthony Lorenzi, 34, is expected to appear in court Thursday after he was extradited from California on a warrant and arrested Tuesday on suspicion of the murder of Gyovanny Arzuaga, 24.
View ArticleChicago clinics serving low-income patients mandate COVID-19 vaccines for...
At least four chains of Chicago community health centers, which collectively serve about 80,000 low-income patients, will require their workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, they announced Thursday.
View ArticleMasks up for debate again at suburban districts after CDC calls for universal...
With Illinois adopting the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention masking recommendations — including universal indoor masking at schools — suburban districts that recently approved less...
View ArticleFrom 40,000 customers without power at peak to 4,000 Thursday after severe...
Severe thunderstorms overnight left 40,000 people without power as winds as strong as 75 mph downed tree limbs and powerlines.
View ArticleNo ransom paid, but hacker attack costs Illinois AG office more than $2.5...
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has spent more than $2.5 million in crisis management following a massive ransomware hack that crippled the agency in April and exposed gigabytes of personal and...
View ArticleCampton Hills man who says he mistook mom for intruder and beat her to death...
The college student told police he awoke to find a person he thought was an intruder standing near his bed, so he grabbed a signed sports memorabilia baseball bat off the wall and hit her.
View Article‘This is the definition of violence right here,’ judge tells teen held on...
A 16-year-old boy who was shot in the shoulder and originally believed to be a victim was later arrested on suspicion of shooting a 42-year-old man, police said.
View ArticleAs Lollapalooza begins, Cook County added to indoor masking advisory for...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she's more optimistic that other measures, like hospitalizations, are not surging.
View ArticleDuPage’s ‘substantial’ increase in COVID-19 case puts it on CDC’s...
The case positivity rate has skyrocketed this month, from 0.9% to 4%.
View ArticleChicago will get elected school board after Illinois governor signs...
Voters will select a full Board of Education for the first time in 2026.
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