Watch live: Gov. Pritzker discusses healthcare equity across Illinois
Gov. Pritzker and members of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus are expected to discuss legislation that improves healthcare equity. Watch live here.
View ArticleCoach houses, basement and attic apartments make a return to Chicago
Coach houses, basement and attic apartments back in Chicago.
View ArticleCPS CEO Janice Jackson is leaving her post as head of Chicago’s public schools
Jackson led CPS through a teachers strike and then the COVID-19 pandemic.
View ArticleMan who allegedly drove pickup into group in Logan Square because he was...
Attempted murder charges have been filed against a man who allegedly drove his car into a group of picnicgoers Saturday, Chicago police said.
View ArticleRead CPS CEO Janice Jackson’s announcement she’s leaving Chicago’s public...
Jackson recalled being in a CPS Head Start classroom as a child.
View ArticleGreen Bay casino gunman had been fired and banned from property, police say
The 62-year-old attacker walked into the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar and shot two people at a waiter station at close range, then shot a man outside the restaurant, police said.
View ArticleExpectant mother Jayme Campbell
Jayme Campbell, 27, is an expectant mother with three sons, ages eight, four and two. "People should know what we go through, all while worrying if our children will be safe and live good lives," she...
View ArticleColumn: College decision day means Facebook feeds filled with proud parent...
Parents want to share the happy news about where their kids are headed in the fall, particularly after a year filled with bad news. But it's important to follow your kid's lead on this one, experts...
View ArticleRacism’s toll on Black women includes staggering maternal death rates
A Chicago mother puts a sharp focus on Black maternal health
View ArticleWoman known as ‘serial stowaway’ to stay jailed after latest O’Hare arrest
The woman known as the “serial stowaway,” accused of sneaking through airport security and onto flights, will remain in custody as her latest cases are pending, a Cook County judge ruled Monday.
View ArticleDancer Jacques d’Amboise dead at 86
Jacques d’Amboise, who grew up on the streets of upper Manhattan to become one of the world’s premier classical dancers at New York City Ballet and spent the last four and a half decades providing free...
View ArticleGary man charged with attempted murder after attacking wife, court records say
The woman told police Okafor got angry on April 27 after she left the apartment to go to the beach in the city’s Miller section with her sister, charges state.
View ArticleValparaiso man killed in South Haven standoff with police
Tuzinski died at 11:50 p.m. Saturday at Northwest Health-Porter, according to a release from the coroner’s office. An autopsy was conducted Monday morning and those results, as well as toxicology...
View ArticleWalgreens offering walk-up COVID-19 vaccinations at mobile clinic in Chicago
Walgreens is now offering walk-up COVID-19 vaccinations through a mobile clinic in Chicago, in an effort to reach people in underserved communities.
View ArticleGary officials looking for causes of weekend fires; city firefighters, other...
Between 15 and 18 fires were called in from all over Gary starting around 10:50 p.m. Saturday, Gary Fire Deputy Chief Mark Jones said. No injuries were reported in any of the fires, which were mostly...
View ArticleIt’s official: The Thompson Center is up for sale
After years of talk, the James R. Thompson Center is officially up for sale. The state began soliciting bids for the 17-story, state-owned Loop building Monday.
View ArticleDuPage County judge orders Elmhurst Hospital to allow COVID-19 patient to...
A DuPage County judge on Monday ordered Elmhurst Hospital to allow a comatose woman suffering from COVID-19 to receive a medication the Food and Drug Administration says could be unsafe.
View ArticleLaundromat vaccines? Chicago officials trying to figure out how to find...
City health teams might come looking for unvaccinated Chicagoans at the laundromat, the grocery store or driver’s license offices as officials try to increase the rates of people getting the shots.
View ArticleDurbin, Duckworth ask federal VA to ensure Illinois veterans homes have...
The letter comes just days after a report detailed systemic mismanagement from the top of the state’s veterans agency down to the LaSalle home.
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