Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened March 23 with COVID-19...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleWisconsin Republicans vote to take control of COVID-19 relief money from...
Republicans vote yes on a bill to take away Democratic Gov. Tony Evers ability to decide how to spend the estimated $5.7 billion coming for state and local governments.
View ArticleMan, 20, faces murder charge in 2019 Fourth of July Humboldt Park shooting...
A 20-year-old man was arrested Monday after Chicago police say he was identified as someone who participated in a shooting that left one dead and three others injured in Humboldt Park in 2019.
View ArticleColumn: She worked for months to bring a community fridge to Evanston and it...
A truck plowed through a fence and destroyed a community fridge a day before it was to be plugged in. Then Maytag jumped in and donated a new one.
View ArticleWoman found dead after Princeton Park standoff, officials say
A woman was found dead after police responded to a report of a man inside a home with a weapon in the Princeton Park neighborhood, authorities said.
View ArticleChicago man charged in December carjacking, police say
A 24-year-old Chicago man was arrested Monday and charged with taking a vehicle by force more than three months earlier, Chicago police said.
View ArticleColumn: To celebrate being fully vaccinated I took a trip. On the ‘L.’
I’d been waiting for the day the way a kid waits for Santa Claus.
View ArticleBlack, Latina women work to become electricians as part of first all-female...
Black and Latina women from Chicago’s South Side hope to start a new career in a skilled trade thanks to the first all-female construction trade class sponsored by the Community Builders Program and...
View ArticleBronzeville, a hub of Black culture in Chicago, would become one of three...
A proposal in Congress would designate the Bronzeville neighborhood as a National Heritage Area. Such areas are maintained by community organizations with assistance from the National Park Service,...
View ArticleChicago-area woman, 92, survived the Holocaust, life behind the Iron Curtain...
Daughter desperate to visit her mother, 92, who survived the Holocaust, in a nursing home.
View ArticleColumn: There’s plenty of blame to go around in the alleged sexual assaults...
Little progress has been made in protecting Black girls from sexual predators, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleDaywatch: Vaccines meant for CPS misallocated, Chicago ‘headed in the wrong...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleProsecutors and judge agree that after 20 years in prison, mother deserves...
A rare extension of mercy for a troubled mother convicted of killing a child more than two decades ago, after a judge and prosecutors agree with the woman's lawyer that she deserves another chance.
View ArticleCompany in charge of vaccinating CPS employees misallocated 6,000 vaccines,...
The company in charge of vaccinating Chicago Public Schools employees “knowingly” misallocated 6,000 vaccines, leading the city’s public health department to stop providing it with shots, officials...
View ArticlePeoria schools named after Thomas Jefferson, Calvin Coolidge and Charles...
The Board of Education in Peoria has voted to remove the name of the third U.S. president from a city primary school because of his legacy on human rights and slavery.
View ArticleRed Line trains suspended on South Side for half hour because of person on...
Red Line train service between the Roosevelt and 63rd stops on the South Side was suspended for about half an hour Wednesday morning because of an unauthorized person on the tracks, the Chicago Transit...
View ArticleSocial Graces: Here’s what to do when vaccinated friends annoy you about when...
You haven't received the coronavirus vaccine yet. What should you do when vaccinated friends bug you about it?
View ArticleManny’s Deli didn’t last 2 hours without a maskless customer in its 30-day...
Though customers failed spectacularly, a mysterious benefactor has stepped up to reward people who do wear masks on a date yet to be announced.
View ArticleMotorist says ‘brakes went off,’ blows red light, T-boning Chicago police SUV...
A woman and an officer were injured in an early morning crash in the Bronzeville neighborhood, Chicago police said.
View ArticleBody found in Valparaiso ruled homicide; man arrested at scene on unrelated...
Officers with the Valparaiso Police Department were called around 8:16 p.m. March 21 to the 250 block of Michigan Avenue for a death investigation, and the coroner’s office was called to the scene just...
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