Memorial ceremonies at the sites of the 9/11 terror attacks
Memorial services take place at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Twenty years after...
View ArticleMan who admits to being the driver in a fatal shooting ordered held on $1...
A West Side man admitted to being the driver of a fatal shooting of a man who was sitting with a group listening to music in the Austin neighborhood, prosecutors said during a bail hearing Saturday.
View ArticleRoof of South Loop building catches fire, no injuries reported
The roof of a South Loop building caught on fire, extending to its upper floor Saturday afternoon, according to the Chicago fire department.
View Article4 shot, 1 fatally on South Side, police say
Four people were shot, one fatally, in a drive-by shooting on the South Side, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleTwo men killed in North Chicago shooting
Two men were killed early Saturday in a North Chicago shooting, Lake County officials said.
View ArticleProsecutors: Woman fatally shot son, 12, in South Side home over a missing...
Cook County prosecutors said a city laborer who had been exhibiting paranoid behavior admitted to fatally shooting her 12-year-old son Saturday. She was ordered held without bail.
View Article6 shot in West Pullman, 1 fatally; 15-year-old girl among those wounded
Six people were shot, one of them fatally, in at least the second mass shooting in Chicago Saturday night, authorities said.
View ArticleWith school year underway, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rising for...
Newly released federal and state data shows COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations climbing among Illinois children, along with outbreaks tied to schools, as the state tries to balance limiting the...
View ArticleIn prison, the gym was his safe haven. Now he’s helping others reach their...
Luis Centeno spent 10 years in federal prison. It was there he discovered a new passion that would eventually turn his life around.
View ArticleImmigrants fight detention at McHenry and Kankakee jails, while prosecutors...
The practice of holding immigration detainees in county jails in Illinois will end next year under a new law, but McHenry County's prosecutor is opposed to the change.
View ArticleDaywatch: COVID cases, hospitalizations rising for Illinois kids |...
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View ArticleDNA ties West Side felon to 2006 fatal stabbing in North Lawndale
The case was delayed 14 years because the DNA profile wasn’t suitable for testing, but investigators were told the evidence could be tested last year.
View ArticleBoil water order issued, 16 schools revert to remote learning amid E. coli...
E. coli bacteria found in Plainfield's water resulted in a boil water order and the temporary closure of 16 schools that are supplied by the contaminated drinking source.
View ArticleShooting on Aberdeen
At least 64 people were shot, six of them fatally, in attacks across Chicago between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, authorities said.
View ArticleDancer testifies she walked in on R. Kelly and an underage Aaliyah in midst...
The woman, who was herself underage at the time, said she was looking to pull a prank on Kelly on his tour bus outside Washington D.C. with another girl, but when she opened the door to a backroom of...
View ArticleVeronica Wolski, woman at the center of ivermectin firestorm, dies of...
The QAnon adherent who was a cause célèbre for ivermectin died in the intensive care unit of AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center early Monday.
View ArticleIllinois anti-government militia leader to be sentenced in Minnesota mosque...
The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is to be sentenced Monday for several civil rights and hate crimes.
View ArticleMan charged with 1st-degree murder, 3 counts of attempted murder in...
Antwan Carter, 33, faces one count of murder and and three counts of attempted murder in a fatal shooting on April 12.
View ArticleColumn: Amid ivermectin hysteria, QAnon supporter Veronica Wolski died of...
You can barely get on social media lately without reading about someone like Wolski. The headline “Outspoken opponent of vaccine and mask mandates dies of COVID-19” is becoming ubiquitous, columnist...
View ArticleGroup seeking to buy Arlington International and keep horse racing there says...
A finalist trying to buy Arlington Park says Churchill Downs' acting to prevent horse racing and gambling at the site may kill such developments and favor the Chicago Bears' bid.
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