Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Cases continue to trend upward in state. A...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleChicago restaurants sue for coronavirus insurance payouts, struggle to hang...
Rulings have started to come down in lawsuits against insurers that denied businesses coverage for income losses related to the coronavirus. As Chicago businesses await final word in their cases,...
View ArticleSaved by the Max returns to Chicago for a five-day, coronavirus...
Next week, “Saved by the Bell”-themed pop-up Saved by the Max will return for a limited “carryout experience” that will be a safety-guideline-abiding riff on its predecessor.
View ArticleCan little kids social distance? This is how it works in Chicago’s child care...
Employees at Carole Robertson Center for Learning say that that kids going back into child care centers or other places of learning should not be met by fear. Instead, children of all ages will be...
View Article‘I just wish I could have done more.’ Good Samaritan describes trying to save...
Good Samaritan describes trying to save woman killed by SUV driver who circled block and hit her a second time.
View ArticleThree shot at bar in Leyden Township, police say
Three people were shot Thursday night at Junior’s Place, a bar in unincorporated Leyden Township, authorities say.
View ArticleFacing a no-visitor hospital policy, Lakeview woman begs to see her...
Christine Jeras has felt helpless because she isn’t permitted to see her husband, Kevin, who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
View ArticleHave a question about coronavirus testing? Submit it here and local health...
What are some of your lingering questions about COVID-19 testing? What would you like to ask experts?
View ArticleColumn: In Skokie, an architecturally arresting pot shop reveals how...
To say that the soon-to-open Greenhouse cannabis dispensary in north suburban Skokie is startling would be an understatement. Here is a dispensary that fairly trumpets its identity. It’s no...
View ArticleIllinois puts 14 counties on COVID-19 warning list, blames local officials...
Fourteen of Illinois’ 102 counties were deemed at “warning level” for a resurgence of COVID-19 on Friday, with state health officials blaming the virus’s spread in part on poor messaging from officials...
View ArticleChicago Public Library branch on North Side temporarily closed after employee...
A Chicago Public Library branch on the North Side will be closed for at least the next week and a half after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
View Article3 men fatally wounded overnight Thursday on South Side
Three men were fatally wounded overnight Thursday on the South Side, Chicago police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus at Illinois long-term care facilities: 25,869 confirmed cases and...
The Pritzker administration released for the first time details of the number of cases and deaths tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois. The data shows at least 189 long-term care facilities in...
View ArticleThose charged with downtown Chicago looting a mix of college students,...
None of the 43 people who appeared before judges this week charged with felonies, it seems, are from Englewood, even though Chicago police say the widespread looting had its beginnings with a police...
View ArticleCook County Board of Ethics members ousted by Toni Preckwinkle are frustrated...
Cook County Board of Ethics members ousted by Toni Preckwinkle are frustrated with shakeups, pace of proposed reforms
View ArticleFuneral held for Elias Valdez, 15, as investigation into his Glenview...
Pastor Carlos Guadagno of the Corona de Amor church in Palatine said Elias Valdez and his family have been members of the church for the past few years.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot announces beefed-up Chicago police plan to track,...
Chicago police will boost their social media monitoring and create rapid response teams that will respond to looting and more quickly shut down areas such as downtown if needed, Mayor Lori Lightfoot...
View ArticleMedia coverage left some Black South Siders feeling misrepresented — again —...
“How can the media be for us when they take what the police say as fact and not what we say as fact?” asks a Chicago activist.
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