Daywatch: Health official says it’s too soon to tell if omicron surge has...
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View ArticleMan, 27, charged in connection with shooting death of 16-year-old boy last...
Joliet resident Santos Chavez was charged with first-degree murder related to the Feb. 21 shooting of teenager Alberto Flores, police said.
View ArticleAurora police officer dies from complications after contracting COVID-19,...
Aurora Police Officer Brian Shields, 51, died Tuesday morning from complications as a result of contracting COVID-19, police officials said Wednesday evening.
View ArticleHot mic on internet livestream catches Cook County judge ridiculing attorney...
A Cook County judge this week was caught on a YouTube livestream mocking an attorney who had appeared before him for arguments earlier in the day.
View ArticleOak Lawn High School Board member Robert Cruz removed from office, vows lawsuit
Oak Lawn High School District 229 Board member Robert Cruz argued the only legitimate reason to remove a school board member is if they’re guilty of a felony.
View ArticlePregnant hairstylist, 29, who was ‘always smiling’ fatally shot in Park...
Derricka Patrick was shot multiple times by two males Wednesday evening as she sat in a parked car in the 7400 block of South Vincennes in Park Manor, Chicago police said.
View ArticleThe story of how the Doomsday Clock began ticking 75 years ago, the...
The Doomsday Clock began ticking 75 years ago and was the brainchild of a Chicago artist.
View ArticleRobert Gray, amateur astronomer who spent years try to decipher the ‘Wow!...
Robert H. Gray was an amateur astronomer who spent decades studying an unexplained pulse of radiation emitted from the Sagittarius constellation.
View ArticleSteve Kim tries again as GOP attorney general candidate; US Rep. Bobby Rush...
Steve Kim announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Illinois attorney general, and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush endorses Karin Norington-Reaves to succeed him in Congress.
View ArticleAntenna installed in Big Marsh Park will allow scientists to track the life...
Chicago is now home to a receiver on the Motus wildlife tracking system, a global network that helps scientists make sense of migration. The technology is capable of picking up the movement of...
View ArticleMetra trains hit person in Loop, car in Morgan Park
Two people were taken to hospitals after two different Metra train collisions within about half an hour of each other, authorities said.
View ArticleGirl, 3, among 2 injured in Chatham shooting, crash
A 3-year-old girl was grazed by gunfire and a man was in critically wounded in a shooting.
View ArticleUniversity Village man facing murder charges for double homicide in May,...
An 18-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting a man and woman in the East Garfield Park neighborhood in May, Chicago police said.
View ArticleIllinois in line for $1.4 billion to fix bridges under Biden infrastructure plan
Illinois is in line to receive nearly $1.4 billion in federal funding over five years to help upgrade the state’s deteriorating bridges,
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot and police leaders lean on flawed information to argue...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote to the Cook County chief judge, requesting that judges should stop ordering certain defendants to await trial at home with an electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet. Many of...
View ArticleFrustrated by Chicago Public Schools’ union battles, a growing number of...
Phone lines at many of the city’s Catholic schools were jammed with calls this week from weary parents inquiring how to enroll their children.
View Article‘It’s almost like a love letter’ ICU doctor paints for his colleagues...
Chicago ICU doctor paints for his colleagues treating COVID patients. "It’s almost like a love letter."
View ArticleDaywatch: Lightfoot, police leaders lean on flawed electronic monitoring data...
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View ArticleColumn: Joe Biden’s quest for voting rights, MLK Day and the GOP’s fear of...
As Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress push to protect voting rights on MLK Day, Republicans should answer why they're afraid of voters.
View ArticleJudge in western Illinois reassigned after tossing out sexual assault...
Judge Robert Adrian has been assigned to small claims, legal matters and probate dockets, and other civil cases, effective immediately.
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