Column: This is the best holiday song of 2020 — the year of muddling through...
If you guessed that “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” would win this award, it’s a reasonable guess given how many of us will be stuck at home for the holidays thanks to the pandemic. But wrong.
View ArticleFormer US Attorney Jim Burns dies at 75 following career that took him from...
Jim Burns, former U.S. attorney for Chicago, dies at 75.
View ArticleWhat’s it like to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial? Three local...
Three Chicago-area residents are among the roughly half-million Americans who have signed up to participate in various vaccine trials as scientists race to produce safe and effective immunizations to...
View ArticleIllinois surpasses 14,000 COVID-19 deaths less than a week after hitting...
Illinois surpassed 14,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began on Friday, less than a week after the statewide death toll reached 13,000.
View Article‘We just pray that we get the strength to keep going day by day.’ Family...
Family cancels pilgrimage after third brother dies of coronavirus
View ArticleLocal hospitals ready to give first COVID-19 vaccines to employees as soon as...
Chicago-area hospitals marking plans to give the first COVID-19 vaccine to their employees within a few days.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 9,420 new COVID-19 cases and 190 additional...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleDoctors to answer reader questions about COVID-19 vaccinations Dec. 14 and 16...
The Chicago Tribune is partnering with doctors Emily Landon, Brandi Jackson and Brittani James to answer readers' questions about the COVID-19 vaccine during Facebook Live events.
View ArticleGov. Pritzker put on defensive by COVID-19 outbreak that tore through LaSalle...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker was a vocal critic of his predecessor's handling of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a state veterans home in Quincy. Now Pritzker is on the defensive after 33 veterans have died...
View ArticleAs Washington Park showcases official Christmas tree, community leaders...
Last Sunday evening, at least a hundred people flocked to a road median on West Garfield Boulevard and South King Drive to celebrate the Washington Park neighborhood’s first tree-lighting ceremony in...
View ArticlePolice say shots were fired at them during chase; driver in custody after SUV...
A man was arrested Friday after fleeing from officers, Chicago police said.
View ArticleThree men wounded in overnight shootings on South and West sides
Three people were wounded in separate overnight shootings on the West and South sides, Chicago police said.
View ArticleOff-duty cop stripped of police powers after shooting man during...
A man was wounded after a confrontation with an off-duty officer in the Albany Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
View ArticleMan fought back during attempted carjacking in Loop after 19-year-old told...
A 19-year-old man faces two felony charges after he was accused of trying to carjack a 60-year-old man's vehicle, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleMan, 24, shot on Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois State Police say
A man was shot Saturday afternoon while driving on the Eisenhower Expressway on the West Side, according to the Illinois State Police.
View Article4 killed when car crashes into Cicero building; authorities identify 3...
Four people were killed in a one-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Cicero, a town spokesman said.
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccine will start arriving in states Monday, officials say, as US...
The US government gave the final go-ahead Friday to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 8,737 new COVID-19 cases and 127 additional...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticlePolice investigate three shooting deaths in East Chicago, Gary
A wave of violence in Gary and East Chicago on Tuesday left two men and a 17-year-old dead.
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