Not-so-remote learning: College students return to campus even as classes...
As universities across the country invite students back for fall, students are torn between difficult and often conflicting interests -- including whether to join remote classes from their childhood...
View Article‘Fort Lori’: Chicago police ban protests on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s block,...
The Chicago Police Department has effectively banned protesters from demonstrating on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s block in the Logan Square neighborhood, ordering officers to arrest anyone who refuses to...
View ArticleCPS schools that voted to oust officers tend to be whiter. One critic said...
“The students that need it most did not get the vote that they needed,” one student said of where the school policing votes landed.
View ArticleAn effective COVID-19 vaccine is the great hope. How do we get there?
Effective COVID-19 vaccine is the great hope. How do we get there?
View ArticleDaywatch: Barack Obama says Trump uses presidency like ‘reality show,’ the...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View Article6 people, including 17-year-old, shot while at a ‘large gathering’ in Gresham
Six people, including a 17-year-old boy, were shot late Wednesday while at a “large gathering” in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police.
View ArticlePritzker-backed group promoting graduated-rate tax goes up with first ad of...
A group funded by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to promote his signature agenda item — a state constitutional amendment to replace Illinois’ flat-rate income tax with a graduated-rate tax — launches...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Governor warns of more restrictions as the...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleFormer suburban school chief charged with looting lunch program for needy kids
A former south suburban private school operator has been charged in federal court in Chicago with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars over a seven-year period from a school nutrition program...
View ArticleThe Hideout launches monthly subscription program, streaming concerts, happy...
The Hideout announced this week that it’s making a full-time move online.
View Article‘Undeniable’ body cam and security video shows Alameda County cop shoved...
A new video released by the attorneys of Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri shows an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy initially shoved Ujiri twice.
View ArticleTCF Bank inside Glenview Jewel Osco store robbed by 2 men Thursday afternoon,...
Officials said the robbery took place at TCF Bank in Glenview.
View ArticleState announces SAT makeup dates for high school students who missed spring...
Students who missed out on the SAT as juniors will get another chance this fall -- if their schools are open.
View ArticleLawyers for indicted Ald. Edward Burke say feds bungled wiretaps, call post...
Lawyers for indicted Chicago Ald. Edward Burke alleged in a court filing Thursday that federal investigators bungled the wiretap of Burke’s phones and improperly tried to set him up in a scheme...
View ArticleGerardo Victoria had big plans for the fall: culinary school. But he fell ill...
About a month ago, Gerardo “Jerry” Victoria became ill as COVID-19 spread through his family. He died on Tuesday at the age of 23, one of the youngest victims of the coronavirus in Cook County.
View ArticleA suburban Catholic school teacher was fired after refusing to return to...
Church officials said they understand Sage’s concerns and her disagreement with school reopening plans.
View ArticlePresident Trump invokes ‘blood-stained sidewalks of Chicago’ in attack on Joe...
In what has become a near-daily occurrence recently, President Donald Trump invoked Chicago’s inability to tamp down violent crime in a pre-emptive attack against Joe Biden just hours before the former...
View ArticleIn bid to flex more political power, Chicago police union donates nearly $60K...
Chicago police’s largest union donated $57,800 on Wednesday to Kim Foxx’s challenger in the Cook County state’s attorney’s race, records show.
View Article