Chicago police get first new contract since 2017, with 20% raises including...
FOP represents more than 11,000 active officers in the Chicago Police Department.
View ArticleChicago Ald. Jim Gardiner publicly apologizes for ‘rants,’ one day after...
Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner rose during Tuesday’s City Council meeting and apologized for his “offensive words” but said he “never acted on any of those rants” in which he appeared to call for ward...
View ArticleChicago cop files suit saying he faced retaliation after blowing whistle on...
Marc Vanek, a Chicago Police Department sergeant, has filed a lawsuit alleging retaliation for reporting on then-acting Cmdr. Jason Brown.
View ArticleGov. Pritzker, Illinois legislators call on Congress to protect women’s...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois lawmakers came to Aurora Tuesday to urge Congress to pass new federal legislation to protect women’s access to reproductive health care in the wake of a new Texas law...
View ArticleChicago charter elementary school shifts to remote learning after 3 COVID-19...
Vaccinated students can still attend in person but there are very few old enough to be inoculated at Zizumbo, a Southwest Side charter school.
View ArticleIllinois Board of Ed defends punishment over mask mandate violations, tactics...
The state schools' chief has warned that noncompliance with the mask mandate “is not an option.”
View ArticleSouthern Illinois reports zero available ICU beds this week, amid COVID-19 surge
An advocacy group of medical workers described it as “signaling a public health emergency of epic proportions.”
View ArticleHolocaust survivors penned memoirs of their hometowns so future generations...
Some 200 “Yizkor” books ("remember" in Hebrew) written by Holocaust survivors offer the stories of communities whose inhabitants were killed by Nazis.
View ArticleDaywatch: Southern Illinois reports zero ICU beds | Lightfoot to name new CEO...
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View ArticleMan charged with attempted murder in connection with Labor Day weekend shooting
A Chicago man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a Labor Day weekend shooting, according to police.
View ArticleChicago woman attended her first therapy session the day before allegedly...
Cook County prosecutors have said Fallon Harris shot and killed her 12-year-old son last weekend over a missing digital storage disc. Her mother and her estranged husband point to a single culprit...
View ArticleJames Newberry, who documented life on Maxwell Street and started photography...
James Newberry founded Columbia College Chicago’s department of photography and taught at the college from 1967 until 1975.
View ArticleFBI investigating Red Line assault, ethnic slur against Asian victim as a...
The FBI this week announced it is investigating an August assault at a Red Line station in Uptown as a hate crime.
View ArticleAlderman tries, fails to get City Council to do away with 6-mph-over speed...
The tickets have "nothing to do with safety” and “everything to do with revenue,” Ald. Anthony Beale said.
View ArticleColumn: California recall election was ‘rigged’ until it wasn’t. Trump’s...
Larry Elder was ready to call the California recall election "rigged," but Gov. Gavin Newsom's victory was so large it derailed the con.
View ArticleGov. J.B. Pritzker hails energy plan with ambitious climate goals, nuclear...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a sweeping energy package that includes clean air goals and a nuclear bailout.
View ArticleCOVID-19 testing in schools
Most area schools have not started regular COVID-19 testing even though the school year began weeks ago.
View ArticlePedro Martinez named as next CEO of Chicago Public Schools
San Antonio schools Superintendent Pedro Martinez was named as the next CEO of Chicago Public Schools on Sept. 15, 2021.
View ArticleChicago Sky owner Michael Alter fined by city ethics board for seeking Mayor...
The board voted to impose a $5,000 fee.
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