Toxic lakefront sludge dump holds up redevelopment as a park
A long-awaited plan to convert a toxic lakefront sludge dump into community parkland would give residents lakefront access. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is trying to scuttle that plan and now...
View ArticleSoutheast Side residents rise up against pollution
The Chicago's Southeast Side was once the gateway to Big Steel. Industrial work near the convergence of Lake Michigan and the Calumet River produced jobs and prosperity from the South Side to Gary...
View Article‘Moderate to heavy rain,’ high waves, 60 mph wind gusts in Chicago area...
Moderate early spring temperatures should continue in the Chicago area through the weekend, but most of northern Illinois and northwest Indiana will first face a trifecta of treacherous weather...
View ArticleColumn: ‘I lost 65 pounds. ... I had to learn how to get the muscles working...
Glen Ellyn's Chris Ward was hospitalized for nearly four months. His story is a reminder of our responsibility to protect one another's fate.
View ArticleMan found dead in Chicago River downtown
A man was found dead in the Main Branch of the Chicago River downtown Thursday morning, according to police.
View ArticleIllinois COVID-19 questions answered: How do vaccination providers ensure a...
How do vaccination providers ensure a second dose? Who is eligible right now for the vaccine and where? Here are some coronavirus questions we put to health and science experts.
View ArticleAcclaimed French director of ‘Around Midnight’ Bertrand Tavernier is dead...
Bertrand Tavernier, the prolific French filmmaker noted for films such as “Coup de Torchon,” “A Sunday in the Country” and “Round Midnight,” has died. He was 79.
View ArticleR. Kelly waits in federal lockup as path to trials in two states remains muddy
After more than a year and a half in custody, embattled R&B; singer R. Kelly’s prospects for trial in two separate federal cases are not quite clear, a judge in Chicago said in court Thursday.
View ArticleGurnee man dies after Waukegan shooting
A Gurnee man was shot and killed Wednesday in Waukegan, according to police.
View ArticleMonarch butterflies in Chicagoland
Monarch butterfly population down, so plant milkweed
View ArticleMan who waved gun in sandwich shop is shot dead by police in Forest Park,...
An armed man was fatally wounded by police Wednesday night after officers were called to a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop in Forest Park because of a person who entered the restaurant with a gun, officials...
View ArticleIllinois reports another 118,544 vaccine doses administered and 27 cases of...
Illinois reports another 118,544 vaccine doses administered and 27 cases of COVID-19 variant first seen in California
View ArticleMichigan sees alarming spike in COVID-19 infections, but tighter restrictions...
In what authorities have been warning for months might happen in the U.S., the resurgence is being fueled by loosened restrictions, a more infectious variant and pandemic fatigue.
View ArticleMaywood man charged in 2020 fatal shooting on the West Side
Maywood man charged in 2020 homicide that happened in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
View ArticleChicago police officer facing dismissal for allegedly lying about fatal...
A Chicago police officer facing firing over accusations he lied about a fatal shooting of a man by another cop on the West Side intends to resign from the Police Department at the end of next month.
View ArticleAttorneys seeking ‘non-trial resolution’ in case against Hammond man for his...
Prosecutors and Kelly’s attorney filed a joint status report Thursday stating that discussions “to attempt a non-trial resolution of the case are ongoing.”
View Article‘He’s not the guy’: Chicago man sues city claiming he has been detained...
A Chicago man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Chicago police have detained him more than 60 times in the past 15 years because he has the same name and birth date as someone with a downstate...
View ArticleRound Lake Park man traded vaping materials with teens for sex acts, illicit...
Gurnee police say that have arrested a Lake County man who gave minors vaping materials in exchange for illicit images or sexual acts.
View ArticleBail denied for man who prosecutors say fatally shot girlfriend as she sat in...
A man fired 10 shots at his girlfriend, killing her as she sat in bed enjoying McDonald’s before he caused a standoff with Chicago police SWAT officers earlier this week, prosecutors said.
View ArticleChicago man sentenced to 10 years in prison for Batavia man’s overdose death
A Chicago man was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison in connection to a Batavia man’s overdose death in 2018, Kane County prosecutors said.
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