Coronavirus at Illinois long-term care facilities: 71,103 confirmed cases and...
The Illinois Department of Public Health releases information on COVID-19 tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois weekly. Check here for the most updated numbers.
View ArticleDrunken driver was nearly 6 times over legal limit in Vittum Park car crash...
A 27-year-old man was nearly six times the legal limit when he plowed head-on into another car, fatally wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four other people Wednesday night in the Vittum Park...
View ArticleIndoor dining officially allowed back in Chicago, Cook County under COVID-19...
Chicago and suburban Cook County are officially open for indoor dining for the first time since late October under coronavirus pandemic restrictions, state officials said Saturday morning.
View ArticleEast Chicago man facing murder charges enters plea in Hammond robbery that...
Robinson is charged with murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, Lake Superior Court records show. Robinson is being held without bond.
View ArticleVeteran Chicago cop charged after allegedly choking handcuffed arrestee in...
A Chicago police officer was arrested on an allegation that he choked someone who was handcuffed in the backseat of a police vehicle nearly two years ago on the South Side, authorities said.
View ArticleArmed robber shoots clerk inside North Center corner store
A clerk working at a North Center neighborhood corner store was shot during a robbery Saturday evening.
View ArticleWoman who lived at Chicago church for over 3 years goes home after Biden...
A woman who has lived in a Humboldt Park church for three and a half years to avoid deportation returned home Saturday night to live with her family after President Joe Biden’s 100-day moratorium on...
View ArticleMan found dead with a gunshot wound to head inside burning car on Far South...
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday night on the Far South Side inside a burning car, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleSeniors, shelters eager to get the COVID-19 vaccine as Illinois enters the...
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Chicago area will be added to the roster of those allowed vaccines starting on Monday, but many will be waiting longer to receive their first shot, officials have...
View ArticleIllinois woman who tricked nonprofits into donations by pretending to have...
Sarah Delashmit of Highland pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges after authorities claimed she defrauded nonprofits by pretending to have muscular dystrophy and breast cancer.
View ArticleChicago Teachers Union authorizes collective action to remain remote, but...
More than 70% of rank-and-file teachers who voted chose to remain remote, but that doesn't mean in-person classes won't be held Feb. 1 as union and district continue to negotiate.
View ArticleAs much as 9 inches of heavy, wet snow expected Monday
Drizzling rain and some patchy snow Sunday should give way to a serious snowstorm Monday night into Tuesday morning, forecasters said.
View Article5, including pregnant woman, fatally shot in Indianapolis
Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot to death early Sunday inside an Indianapolis home in an apparent targeted attack, the city’s police chief said, decrying the “mass murder” killings as...
View Article5-year-old girl, 26-year-old man shot in Gresham
No one was in custody and detectives were investigating, police said.
View ArticleDaywatch: Chicago teachers vote to remain remote, indoor dining reopened in...
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View ArticleR. Kelly lawyers say ‘gamesmanship’ behind prosecutors’ failure to turn over...
Less than three months before indicted singer R. Kelly is set to go on trial on federal racketeering charges in New York, his lawyers are accusing prosecutors of “gamesmanship” for improperly...
View Article5-year-old girl, 26-year-old man shot in Gresham
A 5-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man who was with her were shot Sunday night in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Toni Preckwinkle visit vaccination site in...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will visit the Tinley Park Convention Center vaccination site at 10:30 a.m. Watch live here.
View ArticleWatch live: Lightfoot, Arwady give a COVID-19 vaccination update
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Dr. Allison Arwady will give an update on the city’s vaccination effort. Watch live here.
View ArticleMan barricaded himself after Little Village homicide, arrest made in...
A man was in police custody Monday after a fatal shooting Sunday morning in Little Village and a standoff with a man suspected in the killing, according to police.
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