Reopening day: At the brewery, the ballpark and elsewhere, it’s a mostly...
Across Chicagoland, business owners and patrons tried to wrap their heads around what it means to have the COVID-19 reins taken off.
View ArticleSources: Top CPD official honored for heroism in 2018 hospital shooting gets...
A top Chicago police official was demoted this week, according to department sources, the latest high-ranking cop to lose his command spot under police Superintendent David Brown.
View ArticleLexus runs into CPD sergeant, flees scene on South Side
CPD sergeant struck in hit and run on South Side, police said.
View ArticleChicago weekend violence: 22 shot, 3 fatally, including 10 people in single...
At least 10 people were wounded in a shooting in the Chatham neighborhood early Saturday morning, are among two dead and 18 injured in shootings since Friday afternoon, Chicago police said.
View ArticleMan sought after Hobart bank robbery Saturday; police said suspect had weapon
The FBI is heading the investigation along with Hobart and Lake County police.
View ArticleBoy, 14, grazed in South Side shooting, police say
A 14-year-old boy’s neck was grazed by a bullet as he was standing on a sidewalk on the South Side Saturday evening, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleNo one injured during St. Charles house fire
No one was injured during a house fire Wednesday in St. Charles.
View Article9 people, 1 dog shot overnight in Chicago
Nine people were shot overnight in Chicago and a dog also was struck by gunfire, according to Chicago police.
View ArticlePeople participate in the second annual Drag March for change
People joined the second annual Drag March for change on June 13, 2021. The event was led by drag performers of color and built on last year’s demands for more gigs, inclusion and respect in the...
View ArticleDrag queens lead hundreds through North Side streets in a Black Lives Matter...
The second annual Drag March for Change, led by drag performers of color, built on last year’s demands for more gigs, inclusion and respect in the primarily white, male, cisgender Northalsted...
View ArticleNed Beatty, actor known for ‘Deliverance’ and ‘Network,’ dies at 83
Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” was a booming, indelible presence in even the smallest...
View ArticleColumn: What we’re getting wrong about Juneteenth
Juneteenth does not represent the end of slavery in America, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleChild care access was a crisis before COVID. Can the supply meet the new...
If parents can't find suitable child care and then can't work, "the impact on the economy is writ large.”
View ArticleDaywatch: Heightened risks for the unvaccinated, the child care and worker...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleSecurity guard shoots, critically injures man in the Loop, charges pending,...
Security guard, 23, arrested after allegedly shooting a man in the Gold Coast late Sunday, Chicago police said.
View Article‘Dreyana Grooms’ aims to shoot in Chicago this summer. Dreyana Grooms is...
How a North Side filmmaker and South Side girl acquitted of murder met and collaborated on a film about her life.
View Article2 men charged in connection with teen girl’s fatal shooting in Terre Haute,...
State police said over the weekend that two men have been arrested in a recent shooting that killed a 15-year-old high school girl in a small town in western Indiana.
View Article16-year-old girl among 2 shot Sunday night in Lawndale, police say
A 16-year-old girl and a 46-year-old man were shot and wounded Sunday night in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said.
View ArticleNorth Chicago man found shot to death in car after crash into building
A North Chicago man was found shot to death behind the steering wheel of a car that had crashed into a building, Waukegan police said Monday.
View ArticleFounder of new West Side center for transgender people: ‘I took that bullet...
Zahara Bassett, a Black transgender woman, is opening Life is Work Center to help other transgender people of color avoid the dangers she faced.
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