Column: ‘From 11 to 2 on Sundays I was straight’: After Harvard, young...
Don Abram plans to collect 66 stories of Black queer Christians — 66, he notes, is the number of books in the Bible — in the hopes that the stories will open closed minds.
View ArticleMan arrested in Mississippi on murder warrant in January killing in Calumet...
A man was extradited from Mississippi this week after being arrested in the Calumet Heights killing of a 32-year-old man that also left another man wounded in January, authorities said.
View ArticleA year of COVID-19 deaths: 10 stories of how Illinois families are facing...
More than 20,000 have died in Illinois, but that number, horrifying as it is, doesn’t begin to capture the loss felt by those left behind.
View ArticleColumn: Inspired by a man outside Starbucks who needed money, Chicago artist...
Musicians with Chicago ties donate T-shirt designs and Scott Marvel screen prints them in his Norwood Park basement to raise money for the homeless.
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to possessing two dozen illegal guns sold out of his...
Man pleads guilty to narcotics and gun-trafficking charges that included the sale of multiple guns from the back of a food truck, a transaction captured on video by the ATF.
View ArticleBourbonnais teachers strike ends, students return to school
One sticking point was a proposal to hike insurance costs of new teachers.
View ArticleDry, sunny start to Chicago weekend to give way to sloppy start to workweek
A dry start to Chicago’s weekend with just a little above-normal warmth should give way to snowy, then sloppy weather early next week.
View ArticleMan killed woman he had ‘disdain’ for after blaming her for relative’s death,...
A West Englewood man faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a woman in an Englewood apartment in September, police said Friday.
View ArticleOne year of COVID-19: How Chicago responded to the unfolding crisis, from...
A look back at the pandemic's earliest days, what we’ve learned since, and what lies ahead on the road to recovery.
View ArticleArchdiocese of Chicago to consolidate two Little Village parishes, but both...
The latest round of consolidations at the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Thursday will unite two West side parishes this summer, bringing a new name, but still offering Masses at both church...
View ArticlePritzker says he’s confident Illinois can meet Biden’s May 1 deadline for...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday Illinois shouldn’t have a problem meeting President Joe Biden’s May 1 deadline for opening up vaccine eligibility to all adults.
View Article2 men dead, 1 wounded in Evanston shooting
Two men are dead after a late Friday morning shooting in Evanston.
View ArticleLike the myth Mrs. O’Leary’s cow started the Great Chicago Fire, historians...
Experts say that, much like the myth of her cow’s fateful lantern kick, Catherine O’Leary's connection to the home is also dubious.
View ArticleThe Spin: Pritzker, Lightfoot confident about meeting Biden’s May 1...
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View Article11 Illinois Democratic US House members sign letter ripping FEMA’s decision...
A group of Illinois’ Democratic U.S. House members sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday condemning this week’s rollout of the highly trumpeted United Center mass...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Pritzker confident state can meet Biden’s...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleJack Sandner, longtime Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman, dies at 79 after...
Jack Sandner, 79, the longtime Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman who spanned the future exchange's evolution from open outcry to electronic trading, died Thursday after suffering a stroke.
View ArticleMark Giangreco is out after a 26-year run as ABC-7′s lead sportscaster
Mark Giangreco’s 26-year-plus run as ABC-7′s lead sportscaster — and perhaps his 39-year Chicago TV career — has come to an abrupt, uneasy end. Giangreco and the station reached a separation agreement.
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