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Chicago restaurants scrap New Year’s Eve plans as city pledges to keep watch:...

Chicago restaurants and bars scrambled to cancel or change New Year's Eve plans this week, as COVID-19 restrictions meant they had to close by 11 p.m.

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Police and state child welfare officials investigating after 4-month-old boy...

A 4-month-old boy died on Chicago’s West Side early Wednesday, prompting investigations by police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which said it has had prior contact with...

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Lightfoot meets with Anjanette Young as city inspector general opens...

Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson has opened an investigation into the Anjanette Young case in which police wrongly raided the social worker’s home and handcuffed her naked, he said in an email...

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Washington Park celebrated its first tree-lighting ceremony this year. Then...

The phone call from the gas station came about 12:30 a.m. Monday, rousing Donna Hampton-Smith from a deep sleep. She saw the caller ID and felt a sinking feeling in her chest. She knew it had to be...

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4 Chicago restaurants, 2 businesses cited for violating coronavirus...

Over Christmas weekend, several Chicago restaurants were cited for allowing indoor dining, while officials also flagged a 153-person party.

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Man found shot dead in McKinley Park neighborhood

The death of a 21-year-old man whose body was found on a Southwest Side street after a traffic crash was ruled a homicide, officials said.

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Another storm sets its sights on Chicago, bringing a glaze of snow and ice on...

Whether tired from staying up late, hungover from socially-distanced partying, or just using the extra day off work to binge-watch your favorite shows, the weather this New Year's Day will be best...

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A wintry mix of rain and snow is forecast for New Year’s Day: Here are the...

Here’s a look back at the warmest, coldest, wettest and snowiest New Year’s Day holidays in Chicago, going back to 1872.

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The Lipinski era

For the last 45 years William Lipinski and later his son Dan Lipinski held office representing part of the middle-class bungalow belt around Midway on the Southwest Side.

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After giving up GOP leadership post, three-time candidate for governor Bill...

Outgoing Illinois Senate Republican leader Bill Brady, one of downstate Illinois’ most high-profile politicians, announced he would retire from the General Assembly on Thursday.

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Employees at suburban Milwaukee clinic unknowingly gave out 57 shots with...

Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of vaccine.

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Illinois expunges nearly half a million cannabis cases as part of legalization

The governor announced he issued pardons for 9,210 low-level cannabis convictions, while Illinois State Police have wiped clean more than 492,000 non-felony cannabis-related arrest records.

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A pandemic’s cruel toll: More than 16,000 Illinoisans died from COVID-19 in...

The state has the somber distinction of having the sixth most COVID-19-related deaths in the country in 2020, behind Texas, New York, California, Florida and New Jersey, federal data shows.

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When will you get the COVID-19 vaccine? Illinois health systems may use...

Electronic medical records likely to play a key role as health systems prepare for broader vaccine push.

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Maverick and Madelyn: Newborn babies greet the new year at Chicago-area...

Jocelyn Nuñez tested positive for COVID-19 Monday. She gave birth to a baby boy Friday at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield — one of the Chicago area's first births of the new...

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Freezing rain, ice, possible snow in store for New Year’s Day weather:...

A wintry mix of freezing rain causing ice accumulations and possible snow could be in store for parts of Chicago and the surrounding area making for hazardous travel conditions on New Year’s Day,...

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Latino Muslim group works to bridge communities in Chicago. ‘We need as a...

A foundation that describes itself as a bridge between the Latino and Muslim communities helps the needy while spreading the faith of Islam.

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Off-duty Chicago cop involved in shooting on the city’s West Side

An off-duty Chicago police officer was involved in a shooting Friday afternoon in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said.The shooting, which happened around 12:05 p.m. in the 1200...

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Column: 2021 New Year Predictions: Trump forms his own country (Scamsylvania)...

Greetings, fellow Americans, and welcome to the sixth-annual edition of Rex Huppke’s 100%-Solid-As-A-Rock-No-Doubt-Guaranteed New Year’s Predictions, a tradition beloved by all.

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Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening this weekend with...

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

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