Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Chicago to move up full reopening to June 11...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleAttempted murder charges filed against man who allegedly shot his...
A man who was arrested this week less than two hours after allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend and their 1-year-old son was charged early Thursday in connection with the shooting, according to Chicago...
View ArticleNew Frida Kahlo exhibit in DuPage is Chicago area’s most comprehensive in...
Beginning Saturday, there will be 26 Kahlo works plus much related material on view at the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art, the largest collection of her work to be shown in the Chicago...
View ArticleColumn: Longtime Chicago bookseller Christopher Rohe has died of lung cancer....
He quietly shaped Chicago's literary scene for decades, first as one of the sons in Lakeview's Paul Rohe & Sons, Booksellers, and later as an online bookseller and manager of the annual Chicago...
View ArticleLawsuit alleges LGBTQ discrimination at Christian colleges, including...
Megan Steffen, a 2020 graduate of Moody Bible Institute, is part of a lawsuit that alleges religious colleges discriminate against LGBTQ students.
View ArticleMore than $10,000 in handbags, scarves and socks stolen from Nordstrom store...
Skokie police continue to investigate a retail theft and assault during which more than $10,000 in high-end handbags and other merchandise were stolen from the Nordstrom store at Old Orchard Shopping...
View ArticleTo e-scoot or not to e-scoot? Chicago aldermen consider electric scooters in...
Considering the future of electronic scooters in Chicago, aldermen on Thursday sought assurances the contraptions are safe enough to be permanently added to the city. After two pilot programs to assess...
View ArticleLatin School of Chicago teachers vote to unionize ‘despite intense anti-union...
"We had to take action to raise our voices as educators," a teacher at the prestigious private school said.
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot says Chicago’s COVID-19 restrictions will lift June 11...
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View ArticleChicago police officer who shot Anthony Alvarez claimed to be victim in...
The Chicago police officer who fatally shot Anthony Alvarez in late March alleged that he was the victim in a road-rage incident last month where he unholstered his gun, police reports show.
View ArticleWoman killed, 2 children among the injured in East Garfield Park crash,...
A woman was killed and five others injured in an East Garfield Park crash Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
View ArticlePolice chief and state’s attorney to announce break in unsolved 1972 murder...
Details of a “breakthrough” in the 1972 murder of Naperville teen Julie Ann Hanson are to be announced Friday morning by Naperville Police Chief Robert Marshall and Will County State’s Attorney James...
View ArticleWhile stationed in the Pacific during WWII, Len Happ traded for a rare bow...
The son of a veteran who hailed from the northwest suburbs worked with federal officials and a museum in Papua New Guinea to send the artifacts his dad acquired in WWII back to the Pacific island nation.
View ArticleBlack teen whose death sparked 1919 race riots set to receive grave marker...
A group of concerned citizens, who helped raise nearly $5,000 for a stone half ledger to be placed atop the grave of Eugene Williams in Lincoln Cemetery, is also setting up a special memorial service.
View ArticleA maze, not a path: For CPS grads, there’s no standard route from high school...
CPS grads were more likely to transfer from a four-year to two-year school than the reverse.
View ArticleColumn: Six post-pandemic steps for reentering society while weed-whacking...
Sensible tips for reentering society as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in Chicago and Illinois and post-pandemic life opens up.
View ArticleDaywatch: Chicago set to be largest US city to fully reopen, Illinois GOP...
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View Article15-year-old girl critically wounded in shooting on Lake Shore Drive near...
A 15-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park late Thursday night, according to Chicago police.
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