Coronavirus in Illinois updates: State passes 10 million vaccine doses...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleSWAT team responds to report of men with guns at South Loop commercial...
A SWAT team was sent early Tuesday to a South Loop building after a call about men with guns and released five suspects after partygoers police believe the group attacked declined to press charges,...
View ArticleIllinois surpasses 10 million COVID-19 vaccinations as daily average of new...
More than 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have now been administered in Illinois, while the daily average of new coronavirus cases over the past week dipped below 2,000 for the first time in over a...
View ArticleColumn: ‘It’s a beautiful struggle.’ Evanston principal and his brother share...
Oakton Elementary principal Michael Allen and his brother Gilbert want their book to help middle school kids feel believed in and supported.
View ArticleOnetime law student sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for terrorizing...
Niles native and former law school student sentenced to 27 years in prison for “sextorting” a girl and at least four other teens over a four-year period.
View ArticleStudy links short stays at Cook County Jail early in the pandemic to the...
Study finds that brief stays in Chicago's Cook County Jail fueled racial disparities in the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic.
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court weighs harshness of 19-year-old’s life sentence
Fifteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that minors' lack of maturity warrants different treatment in criminal courts from adults, the state's high court hears oral arguments about applying...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines did not impact placentas during pregnancy, according to...
Researchers who studied the placentas of vaccinated pregnant women saw no evidence of injury from vaccines.
View ArticleNo charges filed in shooting death of 12-year-old girl in Hazel Crest; ‘a...
Hazel Crest police said Tuesday that no charges will be filed in connection with Saturday's shooting death of a 12-year-old Chicago girl in what the chief said was "a tragic accident."
View ArticleThe Spin: Rahm Emanuel to soon get President Biden’s nod as Japan ambassador:...
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View ArticleWith younger teens now vaccine eligible, schools aim to be their source for...
If students get shots now, it will help schools reopen next the fall, one official said.
View Article3 US Army soldiers accused of illegally selling weapons used in Chicago...
Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of conspiring to buy firearms in Tennessee and illegally sell them in Chicago, where the weapons were traced to at least one mass shooting and other gun attacks,...
View ArticleWoman seriously injured in hit-and-run in Lakeview
A 21-year-old woman was seriously injured Tuesday evening in a hit-and-run in Lakeview, Chicago police said.
View ArticleSoldier Field security firm worker shoots longtime acquaintance to death over...
A probationary security firm employee who worked at Soldier Field ended his shift and went to the home of a longtime acquaintance, then shot the man to death because the worker was angry his wife had...
View ArticleColumn: ‘A one-of-a-kind person and mentor’: Jim Mabie’s legacy includes...
How Jim Mabie helped 3 young men dream big.
View ArticleColumn: Bo Obama and the void that dogs leave behind
Dogs don’t care if they live in the White House or in a tent below Michigan Avenue, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleBody of missing Chicago man found in Kentucky, where he had been visiting a...
Quincy Ukaigwe was reported missing to Chicago authorities on April 18 after traveling to Kentucky to visit a childhood friend, police said in a statement.
View ArticleDaywatch: Schools aim to be source for teens’ COVID vaccines, Cook County...
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View Article‘St. Elsewhere,’ ‘Saboteur’ star Norman Lloyd dies at 106
Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. Elsewhere” was a single chapter in a distinguished stage and screen career that put him in the company of Orson Welles, Alfred...
View ArticleJudge’s ruling paves way for longer sentence for Derek Chauvin in George...
In his ruling, Judge Peter Cahill found that Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he restrained Floyd last year, and that he treated Floyd with particular cruelty.
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