A single stolen handgun carves a path through a city besieged by violence
In little over a month after being stolen from a gun shop in Superior, Wisconsin, the Glock 17 9mm was in Chicago and was fired over and over, linked to some 27 shootings before it was taken off the...
View ArticleInside Chicago Police Department’s firearms laboratory
Every day confiscated firearms are dropped off at the Chicago Police Department’s firearms laboratory for processing.
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View ArticleBus driver shortage forces Oswego-based District 308 into remote learning for...
In Oswego-based School District 308, in-person classes were not being held Tuesday for high school and junior high school students due to a “large number of bus driver absences.”
View ArticleFrom booster shots to mixing and matching vaccines, 5 things to know for...
Early data on Johnson & Johnson boosters is promising for those who got the J&J; vaccine. Here’s what people who got this vaccine should know now.
View ArticleA gun was stolen from a small shop in Wisconsin. Officials have linked it to...
One handgun, stolen from a small shop in rural Wisconsin, has been linked to at least 27 Chicago shootings, leaving death and grief in its wake.
View ArticleChicago removes California and Puerto Rico from travel advisory, but...
The total remains at 48 states and three territories under the travel advisory.
View ArticleMan stabbed by stranger at River North restaurant early Tuesday, police say
A 32-year-old was stabbed repeatedly by a stranger who approached him at a restaurant and began yelling, Chicago police said.
View ArticleArmed, masked man robs Fifth-Third Bank in Naperville
A masked man armed with a gun held up the Fifth-Third Bank on Showplace Drive in Naperville shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, the FBI said.
View ArticleDespite reduction of cops in Chicago schools, Board of Ed set to vote on $11...
New CPS CEO Pedro Martinez called police in schools a "tough conversation."
View ArticleRetired Will County sheriff deputy from New Lenox killed in motorcycle crash
Robert “Dutch” Schurman, 67, of New Lenox was driving a 2004 Harley Davidson Electra motorcycle when he lost control and drove off the road, according to the Will County sheriff’s office.
View ArticleA suburban food pantry volunteer was hospitalized for 9 months with COVID-19....
A severe case of COVID-19 kept Kelvin Jordan away from his home for nine months as he tried to recover. He's back in North Chicago now and the town is thankful.
View ArticleChicago man charged in connection with fatal July mass shooting, allegedly...
A Chicago man allegedly admitted to being involved in two homicides — two days apart — and was denied bail in connection with a July 16 slaying.
View ArticleTrial underway for man prosecutors say shot and killed Skokie teen in 2014
Seven years after Niles North High School student Maxwell Gadau was shot and killed in Skokie, the murder trial of the Chicago man charged with pulling the trigger is underway.
View ArticleForecasters warn of 21-foot waves on Lake Michigan, ‘life-threatening’...
A beach hazards statement was made Tuesday morning, warning of the potential for waves between 12 and 16 feet high in portions of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan — with the potential for...
View ArticleOfficials warn that Lake Michigan beaches are closed to swimming, as Chicago...
Officials also warned of high waves and the possibility of lakeshore flooding this week, which will make the lake particularly dangerous.
View Article1 man dead following South Shore home invasion by masked men wearing all...
Three masked men wearing all black broke into a South Shore home early Tuesday and a man inside the residence was fatally shot, Chicago police said.
View Article15-year-old boy killed in South Side shooting near high school, police say
A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side Tuesday afternoon, according to Chicago police.
View ArticlePritzker defends vaccine and testing policy for educators during visit from...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker defended his policy allowing educators to opt for testing rather than vaccination while appearing with U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona during a visit to the Chicago area...
View ArticleBenet Academy reverses course, offers lacrosse coach job to woman in same-sex...
Benet Academy has reversed course and offered the head coaching job of the girls lacrosse team to Amanda Kammes, an alumnae of the Lisle-based Catholic high school who had seen the job offer rescinded...
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