Drugs, gun seized after search of Round Lake man’s home
The Sheriff’s Special Investigations Group says that following an investigation, police gained a search warrant for the Lopez residence. During the Friday search, police said they found almost 200...
View ArticleCOVID prolonged foster care stays for thousands, Illinois only state of 34...
Thousands of U.S. families have seen reunifications snarled in the foster care system as courts delayed cases, went virtual or temporarily shut down.
View ArticleChicago man, 32, charged with first-degree murder in fatal shooting Friday
A 32-year-old Chicago man faces first-degree murder charges in connection with a fatal shooting in the city on Friday evening.
View ArticleTurning off just half the lights at McCormick Place could reduce the...
Hundreds of millions of birds are estimated to die in collisions annually in the United States alone, and researchers say Chicago’s light pollution potentially makes it the most perilous city in the...
View ArticleHe fought to keep his home on an island that turned into a wildlife...
Fifty years ago, Marty Bluewater fought to keep his home among the nesting birds of Protection Island in Washington state. Now he’s fighting for the birds.
View ArticleColumn: Harlow the dog — Chicago icon, Instagram influencer, good boy — has...
Writer Taylor Wolfe, whose Daily Tay blog has a large following, shared Harlow's life for the past decade, turning him into a Chicago celebrity.
View ArticleChicago drag queens announce a follow-up to their Black Lives Matter march of...
Chicago drag queens will take to the streets for the second annual Drag March for Change on Sunday.
View ArticleTeen girl sexually assaulted along Beach Park bike path
Authorities said a 16-year-old girl was walking along the path when she was approached by a man who came out of the tree line. The man grabbed her, shoved her to the ground and then forcefully removed...
View ArticleCrime scene investigator relates discovery of evidence in garage where Lake...
Initially, Alonzo was sent to the site of the burned out vehicle in which the teens were found before getting redirected to Kerner’s grandparents’ on March 2, 2019, he said.
View ArticleWhat will it take for Chicago parents to be OK with sending their kids back...
Fall will mark a big shift in CPS, since a minority of students returned for in-person classes this year.
View ArticleDriver shot on Bishop Ford in Riverdale area, police say
A man driving south on the Bishop Ford Freeway was shot in the leg Monday night.
View ArticleBarack Obama, on CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360,’ discusses mentoring young men...
Former President Barack Obama and a group of young men he met eight years ago as part of the “Becoming a Man” mentoring and support program reunited on national television Monday night to discuss life...
View ArticleShould people who have already been fully vaccinated with one vaccine get...
If you have already received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, should you add the Johnson & Johnson, and other COVID questions answered.
View ArticleMan, 35, killed in police chase from Dyer to St. John
The driver, Jason Mitchell, 35, of the 3500 block of Greene Street in Steger, Illinois, disregarded officers’ attempt to pull him over and he continued to flee east on U.S. 30, according to the release.
View Article2 area men killed in unrelated car crash, forklift accident identified by...
Two area men killed in unrelated accidents, one involving a car crash and the other a forklift incident, have been identified by the Kane County Coroner’s Office.
View ArticleIllinois Senate headed back to Springfield to vote on energy package that...
Illinois Senate called back to Springfield next week to vote on energy bill negotiated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 44,174 vaccine doses administered, 365 new...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleBody found in Lake Michigan miles off shore of East Side neighborhood, police...
People out fishing early Tuesday found a body Tuesday morning in Lake Michigan east of the East Side neighborhood, officials said.
View ArticleWaukegan council discusses options in wake of fatal weekend shooting of teen;...
An impassioned plea to end the continued violence against young people from a member of the public early in the meeting was answered with a variety of ideas from aldermen, ranging from a locked gate at...
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