United Center to serve as polling place on Election Day
The Chicago Board of Elections plans to utilize the United Center on the Near West Side as a voting super site on Tuesday, giving all city voters another polling site option where they can cast their...
View ArticleFormer suburban school CEO pleads guilty to stealing from nutrition program...
A former south suburban private school operator pleaded guilty Thursday to looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a federal nutrition program intended for needy children and failing to pay taxes...
View ArticlePark Ridge restaurants file suit against governor’s indoor dining ban; some...
Five Park Ridge restaurant owners filed a lawsuit this week against Gov. J.B. Pritzker, objecting to the governor’s latest order shuttering indoor dining at bars and restaurants.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot to extend hours for liquor sales at Chicago bars and...
Under pressure from bars and restaurants hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will reverse a curfew she imposed on liquor sales and allow those businesses to sell alcohol until 11...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 6,363 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 — a...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleIllinois sees another record daily high with 6,363 newly confirmed COVID-19...
Illinois set another daily record high Thursday for newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, and another region was set to be put under tougher rules for restaurants, bars and gatherings under Gov. J.B....
View ArticleGaming board pushes back new casino license approvals six months due to COVID-19
The Illinois Gaming Board pushed back approval for the state's new casino licenses for at least six months due primarily to COVID delays
View ArticleColumn: ‘Rolling Thunder:’ The Loop ‘L’ tracks shaped downtown Chicago and...
'Rolling thunder': A new book by former Tribune urban affairs writer Patrick T. Reardon charts how the Loop elevated tracks gave shape to Chicago.
View ArticleMcHenry County restaurants, bars file lawsuit challenging COVID-19 closure of...
Thirty-seven restaurants and bars in McHenry County filed suit Thursday against Gov. J.B. Pritzker and health officials, trying to prevent enforcement of an order to shutdown indoor service, which is...
View ArticleHospitalized in Illinois? You can request a ballot to your bedside.
Hospitalized, or in a nursing home? You can still request a vote-by-mail ballot in Illinois.
View Article‘Standing together, they can’t stop us.’ Families of George Floyd, Breonna...
Greeted by a standing ovation and chants of “say her name,” Breonna Taylor’s mother and the families of other people of color shot or killed by police gathered for a rally in Grant Park Thursday to...
View ArticleThe Spin: Illinois sees record day in COVID-19 cases | Ricketts sibs, John...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View ArticleIHSA says ‘we plan on going forward’ with basketball hours after Pritzker...
The Illnois High School Association responded Thursday to Gov. J.B. Pritzker saying the basketball seasons will be "moved to the spring."
View ArticleCPS: High school basketball, wrestling postponed indefinitely in Chicago...
"We know that this is not the outcome so many ... wanted to see," CPS said in making the announcement.
View ArticleSexual misconduct cases in CPS are down since remote learning began, but more...
The types of complaints "have certainly changed" since the start of remote learning, a CPS investigator said.
View ArticleChicago Police Department clearing murders at lower rate this year, officials...
Chicago police are solving murders at a worse rate this year than they did last year, officials said Thursday. Police officials revealed the 41% clearance rate, which was around 50% at the end of last...
View ArticleColumn: White House of Horrors: A Halloween-themed poem about Donald Trump
The latest TrumPoem, a rhyming account of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, loosely based on his words and acts.
View ArticleColumn: Trump may well beat Biden. Why? Trumpism is a cult, and cult members...
Rex Huppke: It won’t surprise me if Donald Trump gets reelected.
View ArticleVote-dry referendum could spell the end for late-night Lakeview bar
The fate of Tai’s Til 4, a decades-old Lakeview bar renowned for its late-night party scene, is in the balance on Tuesday as people who live nearby consider whether to vote the area dry.
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