Dwayne White's family at home
Members of Dwayne White's family spend time at the house of White's mother, Wanda White. Dwayne White has spent the past 10 years of a 25-year sentence in federal prison, charged in a discredited...
View ArticleWith judges critical of ‘stash house’ tactic in federal cases, the convicted...
Known as "stash house" schemes and used by federal agents, the tool to lure people into crimes has been widely discredited for disproportionately targeting Black men for severe mandatory sentences.
View ArticleFormer state Rep. Eddie Acevedo pleads not guilty to tax charges stemming...
Former Democratic state Rep. Eddie Acevedo pleaded not guilty Friday to tax-related counts stemming from the ongoing federal probe into Commonwealth Edison’s lobbying practices.
View ArticleIllinois launches $10 million campaign aimed at countering COVID-19 vaccine...
In an effort to reach Black and Latino communities that have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic but which have lagged behind the rest of the state on vaccinations, Illinois on Friday launched a...
View ArticleCharges upgraded to murder in death of Valparaiso assistant golf coach in...
The Lake County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday charged Raquel Mendoza McCormick with murder in the September death of Valparaiso University assistant golf coach Tom Brankin.
View ArticlePolice ask for help finding shooter targeting Gold Coast high-rises
Several Gold Coast high-rises in the same block along Lake Shore Drive have been damaged by gunfire in shooting incidents in mid-February and early Thursday, according to authorities.
View ArticleTwo teenagers among three shot in South Chicago
Two teenage boys among three shot Friday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood, fire department officials said.
View ArticleSchools can’t skip standardized tests this spring, Biden administration says....
Student assessments “have never been valid" and are "especially unreliable now,” a union official contends.
View ArticleMan, 32, charged in shooting death of Valparaiso teen over paternity test:...
A fight over paternity test results and the money paid for them led to the fatal shooting of a 2020 Valparaiso High School graduate who played on the school’s varsity football team, according to...
View ArticleIllinois’ first case of Brazilian COVID-19 variant identified in Chicago
The state’s first case of the coronavirus variant from Brazil has been identified in Chicago, city and state public health officials confirmed Friday.
View ArticleMedical examiner report shows Frankfort native, Lipinski aide was legally...
The Miami-Dade County medical examiner report said Zachary Plantz had a blood-alcohol count of 0.247% at the time of his death.
View ArticleCPS high schoolers get first chance to opt for in-person classes, while...
High school students don't have a return date but CPS hopes to bring them back next month.
View ArticleWith 1 million Illinoisans now fully vaccinated for COVID-19, here’s a look...
Illinois set a new record for daily shots administered while also passing two COVID-19 vaccination benchmarks: More than 3 million doses administered and 1 million people fully vaccinated.
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View ArticleColumn: How has a year in the pandemic changed you? The Year of COVID...
The questionnaire is a chance to take inventory of how the past year changed you, or didn’t, and to think ahead to the coming year.
View ArticleHow does a mass vaccination site work? Here’s a look inside one at a former...
Illinois has 18 mass vaccination sites running across the state. To see how they work, the Tribune visited a new site set up inside a vacant K-Mart in Des Plaines . The vaccination site, on Oakton...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of University of Illinois employees who...
Officials blamed the snafu on miscommunication.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: New daily record set with 131,882 vaccines...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleTop cop: ‘Dedicated and decorated’ Chicago police officer dies of apparent...
A Chicago police officer was found dead of an apparent suicide at his home in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side Friday night, sources said.
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