Longtime St. Sabina pastor Pfleger receives support, releases statement after...
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of Chicago’s largest Black Catholic parish who stepped away from ministry because of an allegation of child sex abuse from more than 40 years ago, released a...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers challenge electoral votes before Congress
The Senate debated a challenge by a handful of GOP lawmakers to the 11 electoral votes that Arizona cast for Biden Wednesday during a procedural reading of the electoral votes in Congress. Congress...
View ArticlePolice: Motorist was drunk during deadly Logan Square collision
A 41-year-old woman is accused of driving while intoxicated when she fatally hit a woman in the Logan Square neighborhood Tuesday.
View ArticleColumn: Chaos in Washington begs question: What if crowd who swarmed the US...
We watched Confederate statues receive better protection than the U.S. Capitol building and peaceful protesters tear-gassed during this summer's civil unrest.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 7,569 new COVID-19 cases and 139 additional...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleChicago aldermen plan hearing on CPS reopening plan
Aldermen will meet Monday, as some students return to Chicago public schools, to debate the specifics of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to start getting kids back into classrooms. The City...
View ArticleOak Forest police investigate homicide after responding to domestic call
Oak Forest police said they are continuing to investigate the homicide of a 37-year-old resident of that city following a report of a domestic disturbance early Tuesday
View ArticleChicago Teachers Union proposes extended school year and optional reopening...
"This new offer is a signal that ... we are seeking to negotiate a settlement here," the union president said.
View Article‘This is a coup attempt.’ Illinois members of Congress react with disgust as...
Members of Illinois congressional delegation expressed disgust Wednesday after a horde of protesters breached the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon after President Donald Trump urged his supporters to...
View ArticlePolice investigating after brick, racist note found outside Black-owned Oak...
Police investigating after brick, racist note found outside Oak Park café
View ArticleMen wanted for Wilmette bank robbery linked to two other heists on same day...
Two men suspected of robbing a Wilmette bank on Monday before fleeing in a lime green car are also wanted in two similar suburban Chicago bank heists the same afternoon, authorities said.
View ArticleGov. J.B. Pritzker asks Congress to immediately impeach, remove Trump
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, long at odds with Republican President Donald Trump, on Wednesday asked Congress to impeach and immediately remove the president from office for encouraging a...
View ArticleIllinois will make coronavirus vaccine available to residents 65 and older in...
Illinois will make coronavirus vaccines available to all residents 65 and older when it enters the next phase of its immunization plan, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday.
View ArticleThe Spin: Pritzker says Trump should be impeached, removed from office |...
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View ArticleDuring Electoral College debate, U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Richard...
U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Richard Durbin condemn Trump and violent mob that stormed U.S. Capitol in floor speeches on Electoral College debate.
View ArticleDaywatch: A day of chaos after violent pro-Trump mob storms the US Capitol
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View ArticleChicago police: 1 killed in traffic crash in Gresham
A 26-year-old died from injuries suffered in a traffic crash in Gresham, Chicago police said.
View ArticleMan facing hate crime charges in fatal Wisconsin crash committed to...
A Mexican American man from Wisconsin charged with homicide as a hate crime has been committed to a psychiatric facility.
View Article6-year-old boy dies in Far South Side fire, 4 other children uninjured,...
A 6-year-old boy died after a residential fire in the 13000 block of South Evans Avenue in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
View ArticleThree Kings Day
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center distributed over 1,000 gifts and 60 bikes with the three kings to celebrate the Epiphany which marks the arrival of the kings after the birth of Jesus.
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