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View ArticleLightfoot’s plan for a partially elected school board introduced in state...
The Illinois House on Thursday approved a bill that would create a 21-member elected board to lead Chicago Public Schools, a change backed by community groups and the Chicago Teachers Union but...
View ArticleLockport man charged with possessing child pornography, police say
A 49-year-old Lockport man was ordered held on $150,000 bail Thursday, facing charges of possession of child pornography, police said Thursday.
View ArticleSeveral Chicago police officers ‘overcome’ by smoke while rescuing retired...
Several Chicago police officers ‘overcome’ by smoke while rescuing retired cop from Beverly neighborhood blaze: fire officials
View ArticleCo-worker charged with murder of Portage Park man found in trunk of Cadillac...
A 21-year-old West Side man is facing murder charges after allegedly stabbing a 42-year-old man whose body was found in the trunk of a car on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, police said.
View ArticleFirst lady Jill Biden, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to visit...
First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are slated to tour a community college during a planned visit to Illinois on Monday.
View ArticleColumn: As pandemic pace slows, hospital chaplain sees COVID-19 workers begin...
Mark "Chaps" Schimmelpfennig, a combat veteran, uses his PTSD experience and expertise to help health care workers at Rush recover from the pandemic.
View ArticleDaywatch: Little Village mourns as Adam Toledo video emerges, CPS-CTU reach...
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View ArticleColumn: When police kill a child like Adam Toledo, all of us bear the shame...
Adam Toledo did everything the officer told him to do, but it couldn’t save him, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleLittle Village quietly mourns as video of Adam Toledo’s fatal shooting by a...
The scene of 13-year-old Adam Toledo’s death was marked by quiet displays of sorrow Thursday after the release of body camera video of a Chicago police officer shooting him.
View ArticleBasement fire in Back of the Yards kills two people
Two people are dead after an early morning fire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, according to police and fire authorities.
View ArticleTrump appointees blocked EPA from investigating ethylene oxide polluters and...
A handful of career staffers at the Chicago office helped bring local impacts to light by deploying air monitoring equipment outside an agency warehouse that happened to be next door to Sterigenics,...
View Article3 Chicagoans arrested in Georgia police pursuit caught on video
Three Chicago men were arrested in a small city in Georgia northeast of Atlanta this week following a police pursuit caught on video that showed deputies ramming the car the men and another passenger...
View ArticleOne will get a COVID-19 vaccine. The other will not. How do couples navigate...
For couples where one person might be hesitant or resistant to vaccines, it can create a difficult space to navigate.
View ArticleColumn: A cop killed Adam Toledo. There aren’t two sides to this story. It’s...
Adam Toledo was a kid and a Chicago cop shot him to death while his hands were up. There aren’t two sides to this story. It’s simply unacceptable.
View ArticleChicago public health department announces changes amid ongoing Johnson &...
Chicago public health officials announced changes to the city’s inoculation deployment strategy on Friday, as they deal with the ongoing pause in administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
View ArticleChicago aldermen consider adding gender identity protection to city’s...
The city of Chicago would add protections for gender identity under its anti-hate crime ordinance, alongside race, sexual orientation, religion and military status as part of a plan aldermen advanced...
View ArticleTeenage girl killed in Little Village shooting
A 17-year-old girl is dead after being shot in the head Thursday evening while riding in a vehicle in Little Village, authorities said.
View ArticleWinfield man pleads guilty in 4-year-old boy’s fatal shooting
A Winfield man has pleaded guilty in a case where a 4-year-old boy fatally shot himself with an unsecured gun inside his house where he and a girlfriend were babysitting the child, records show.
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