Gov. J.B. Pritzker to direct flags be returned to full staff one year after...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker will direct all U.S. flags on public buildings to be returned to full staff on April 17, one year after he ordered them lowered to half-staff in honor of those who died due to COVID-19.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Ineligible Trump Tower employees received...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleCPS sets April 19 as ‘target date’ for high school reopening but teachers...
Officials called it a "top priority" to reopen but didn't commit to the date absolutely.
View ArticleBerwyn man denied bail in charges of kidnapping, sexually assaulting...
A Cook County judge on Tuesday denied bail for a Berwyn man charged with the March 8 carjacking, sexual assault and armed kidnapping of a female ride-share driver.
View ArticleAfter nearing a deal for probation, ‘serial stowaway’ is arrested again at...
Two weeks after a judge rejected a plea deal that would have given her probation for attempting to sneak onto a flight at O’Hare International Airport, “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman was arrested...
View ArticleColumn: Gospel artist Kirk Franklin and the hard truth about toxic...
“It’s not fair to judge anyone" on such a phone rant, relationship expert Love McPherson told Dahleen Glanton.
View ArticleIllinois legislators begin redistricting process amid census delays that...
Legislators begin Illinois redistricting process amid census delays.
View ArticleColumn: What are you going to do when you’re fully vaccinated?
As more of us get vaccinated, the urge to start doing again grows — but the answers about what is safe still feel murky.
View ArticleIllinois universities aim to reopen completely this fall. Is that a...
Fall 2021 could look more like fall 2019 than fall 2020, one official said.
View ArticleDaywatch: Ineligible Trump Tower employees vaccinated, CPS announces high...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleTwo men hoping to hook up with a woman they met online instead beaten and...
A woman and three men were arrested in a plot to beat, rob and steal the vehicles of two men Tuesday after luring them with the promise of hooking up with a woman they met online, Chicago police said.
View ArticleLaSalle County manhunt spurred by couple’s killing ends with arrest of their...
A man shot out the windows of his ex-wife’s home, then went to her parents’ house in rural Sheridan in LaSalle County and killed them both, spurring an overnight manhunt that ended with the man...
View ArticleIllinois launches plan with some pharmacies to provide COVID vaccinations as...
Nursing home residents may again face a dangerous delay in getting the COVID-19 vaccine, officials fear, due to inadequate plans to provide ongoing vaccinations.
View Article‘Serial stowaway’ charged again after latest arrest near O’Hare
A Chicago-area woman with a long history of trying to sneak onto flights has been charged with escape from electronic monitoring after being arrested again near O’Hare International Airport.
View ArticleCPS employees receive the COVID-19 vaccination
Chicago Public Schools employees receive vaccinations March 17, 2021 as CPS opened a COVID-19 vaccination site for employees at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Albany Park.
View ArticleRoundy’s employee fatally shot 2 co-workers at Wisconsin warehouse, later...
A worker at a supermarket distribution center near Milwaukee shot and killed two co-workers on Wednesday, a union official said.
View ArticleColumn: Atlanta shootings a chance to speak out, say members of Illinois’...
“I hope that people who see this crime understand that it’s not an isolated incident,” said Josita Morita, chair of Illinois' Asian American Caucus.
View ArticlePritzker says health and economy to be considered in incremental reopening...
Gov. Pritzker says his administration continues to work on an incremental reopening plan, consulting both business and health professionals
View ArticleBail denied for two men charged with attempted murder, carjacking in attacks...
Two Chicago men, one of them out on bond on a weapons charge, shot at a 45-year-old man after trying unsuccessfully to carjack him and then stole the vehicle of a woman who had witnessed the first...
View ArticleWoman killed while pushing her husband out of path of oncoming truck in...
An Elburn woman was struck and killed by a truck on Route 20 in Elgin Monday after she and her husband stopped to help a motorist who had gone off the road, Kane County Coroner Rob Russell said.
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