Red Cross, fellow residents step up to help 56 displaced by Christmas Day...
The Christmas day fire was reported at 2:50 a.m. at 9954 S. 84th Terrace, Palos Hills, in a 40-unit building. There were no injuries, but 56 residents were displaced.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Dec. 25-27 with...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleChicago police investigating triple shooting and unrelated fatal shooting...
Chicago police were investigating two unrelated homicides Sunday and no arrests had been made in either case.
View ArticleRockford shooting: Military member from Florida charged in bowling alley...
A U.S. service member from Florida has been charged in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three wounded, authorities said Sunday.
View ArticlePolice raid protest at Chicago police headquarters
More than 200 people, many of them politicians, clergy members, activists and union members, gathered outside Chicago Public Safety headquarters in Bronzeville on Dec. 27, 2020, to protest Chicago...
View ArticleAnjanette Young agrees to meeting with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, also...
Social worker Anjanette Young has agreed to meet privately with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot following public uproar over a mistaken police raid on her home but has requested that they also have a...
View ArticleBlack politicians, activists protest Anjanette Young raid, demand policy to...
Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton: 'We cannot move forward as a society if we do not firmly commit to protecting Black women and girls.'
View ArticlePot legalization was to bring expungements to many with records in Illinois....
Almost one year after recreational marijuana legalization took effect, few past criminal cases that qualify for expungement have been cleared. But officials say more expungements are on the way.
View ArticleColumn: The year of the virus, the year of the mask. Be gone, 2020, that’s...
Reflections on the year that has passed.
View ArticleDaywatch: Pandemic’s lasting changes for food industry, pot expungements...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleChicago area will see an end to its mostly snowless winter this week. Snow...
Winter weather may finally end Chicago's historic lack of snow this year and throw a wrench in any New Year's Eve plans, forecasters said Monday.
View ArticleTwo men sought after exchange of gunfire with Chicago police on South Side....
Chicago police were searching for two men after gunfire was exchanged with officers in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side late Sunday, authorities said.
View ArticleFlash floods, the warmest summer on record and 15 tornadoes spawned in one...
What an intense year it was — in weather. “What sticks out to us was that we experienced many extremes,” Brett Borchardt, meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Chicago office, said after...
View ArticleChicago police: Former North Side alderman behind wheel of Audi that struck...
Chicago police say a former alderman was driving an Audi that rammed and sideswiped at least eight cars along four blocks of a street in the Gold Coast before smashing into a tree Sunday night.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 4,453 new confirmed and probable COVID-19...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleGary man, 58, killed after being hit by car: police
A 58-year-old man died after being hit by a car in Gary over the weekend, authorities said.
View ArticleLawsuit filed in case of off-duty cop firing a shot at a couple
Body camera footage shows Chicago police detain Esael Morales, who has filed a federal lawsuit against off-duty Officer Joseph Cabrera and other officers.
View ArticleOfficials: More contagious variant of the coronavirus found in Indiana
A more contagious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in the United Kingdom late last year has been found in Indiana, state health officials announced Monday.
View ArticleChicago Tribune to exit Prudential Plaza, move newsroom to printing facility
The Chicago Tribune and its parent company will leave Prudential Plaza at the end of this month, leaving the city’s largest newspaper without a downtown office less than three years after its exit from...
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