‘I see them coming around’: After 7-year-old Natalia Wallace’s fatal shooting...
In the year since, Natalie’s surviving siblings — Denise, Nate and Ashanti — have grappled with the daily terror of going on without her.
View ArticleIllinois ends participation in Midwest Student Exchange Program, which saved...
Illinois students who attend out-of-state institutions will no longer be eligible for the MSEP tuition reciprocity program, which saved Illinois students $44 million in 2019-2020.
View ArticleDaywatch: Violence at forefront of Biden’s Chicago-area visit, Southport...
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View ArticleOne year after her death, Natalia Wallace's family still navigates grief
In the year since her death, Natalia “Natalie” Wallace’s surviving siblings — Denise and Nate, and 11-year-old Ashanti — have grappled with the daily terror of going on without her.
View Article2 dead, 3 seriously injured in Wednesday night shootings in Chicago
Chicago police responded to at least eight shootings Wednesday night.
View ArticleDistinctly Chicago: 16-inch softball
Chicago is the place to find 16-inch softball. It's also known as mushball or cabbageball.
View ArticleIllinois is about to get its first marijuana lounge. But it’s not in Chicago...
Cannabis smokers will soon be able to light up legally in public for the first time in Sesser, Ill.
View ArticleAld. Carrie Austin, chief of staff plead not guilty to bribery charges a week...
Ald. Carrie Austin pleaded not guilty to bribery charges a week after she and her chief of staff were accused of shepherding a development through City Hall while they were given home-improvement perks.
View ArticleLoyola Medicine to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for employees, becoming one of...
Loyola Medicine will require all of its employees and doctors to get COVID-19 vaccinations, the system announced Thursday, making it one of the first hospital systems in the Chicago area to make the...
View ArticleMan gets 25-year prison term in Carpentersville armed robbery in which his...
A Chicago man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to a 2016 armed robbery in Carpentersville in which his accomplice was killed, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.
View ArticleAnthony Porter, ex-death row inmate whose case was ‘Exhibit A’ in prompting...
The former death row inmate whose case spurred an overhaul of the death penalty has died at 66.
View ArticleMan charged federally in connection with shooting of 2 ATF agents, 1 Chicago cop
Federal prosecutors filed charges Thursday against a Chicago man in connection with the shooting of three law enforcement officers who were injured while conducting an undercover investigation early...
View ArticleChicago man, 29, charged in 2020 fatal stabbing of another man in East Chatham
A Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing a man with whom he had a romantic relationship in November in the East Chatham neighborhood, according to authorities.
View ArticleCity’s inspector general finds Chicago Police Department struggles to keep...
The Chicago Police Department has struggled to hire an adequate number of Black applicants to reflect the racial makeup of the city, Chicago’s government watchdog said in a report on Thursday.
View ArticleAmputee beaten to death by drug dealer in home invasion, prosecutors say
A Chicago man looking to collect a drug debt broke into an Edgewater Beach neighborhood apartment and beat to death a man who had only one leg as he lay in his bed, unable to escape the attack,...
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View ArticleBoathouse Cafe remains closed
Humboldt Park’s Boathouse Cafe is to remain closed as the Chicago Park District seeks a new concessionaire.
View ArticleIn Lake Michigan’s first national sanctuary, nearly 100 possible shipwrecks...
962 square miles of Lake Michigan will soon be designated as the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary — containing the remains of 36 known shipwrecks and as many as 59 more that have yet...
View Article518 Illinois residents have been hospitalized with COVID-19 despite being...
More than 500 Illinois residents, most of whom are older and have underlying health conditions, have been hospitalized because of COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, according to new data from the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 infections are rising again in parts of Illinois like Blessing...
After a steady decline in cases statewide, some regions in Illinois are seeing an increase in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, which experts tie to nastier variants, fewer restrictions and...
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