Gun charge for Chicago man is first federal case from downtown looting this...
Gun charge for Chicago man is first federal case from downtown looting this month
View ArticleRound Lake Beach police hire firm to investigate officer who allegedly...
Round Lake Beach police said Friday they have placed a police officer on leave and hired an outside investigations firm to review an Aug. 22 incident during which the officer allegedly punched a woman.
View ArticleJacob Blake’s grandmother talks about the family’s history with civil rights,...
Jacob Blake's grandmother hopes his shooting, as tragic as it is, will somehow continue her family’s strong legacy in the fight for racial equality.
View ArticleJudge denies request to revoke bond for retired Cook County sheriff’s...
A Cook County judge on Friday denied a request to revoke bail and bring a retired sergeant in the Cook County sheriff’s office into custody, but warned the Wilmette man he must stop his teenage...
View ArticleNorthwestern University announces it won’t have freshmen and sophomores on...
The news is a sharp departure from plans reiterated just earlier this week.
View ArticleLayoffs, South Side clinic consolidations planned as Cook County Health...
Cook County Health plans to lay off more employees and close two South Side outpatient clinics before the end of the year in an attempt to cut spending during a pandemic that could inflict a projected...
View ArticleChatham crash involving squad car leaves 4 hurt, including 2 cops
Four people were hurt when a police car crashed into a vehicle turning left in the 8300 block of South Rhodes Avenue about 4:30 p.m. Friday.
View ArticleColumn: The Chicago Botanic Garden, a good chair and a poem called ‘Hope’: 9...
Here is a list of things I like for the waning summer of 2020.
View ArticlePolice in Kenosha bash out van window, arrest members of group that serves...
The nine taken into custody in the SWAT-style operation Wednesday were among dozens of people arrested this week in southern Wisconsin.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,880 new known COVID-19 cases and 11...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View Article4 killed, 13 wounded during shootings as weekend gets underway
Four killed, 13 wounded during weekend violence far so.
View ArticleChicago’s Tamale Guy, Claudio Velez, hospitalized with COVID-19 and placed on...
Claudio Velez's newly opened tamale restaurant, with opening lines 10 blocks long, is currently closed.
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg says Facebook made error in not removing Kenosha militia’s...
Zuckerberg: Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group’s page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests.
View ArticleSmoke ‘poured’ from Wicker Park building during blaze
No injuries have been reported during a fire in the 1400 block of North Wood Street on Saturday afternoon.
View ArticleWoman, 85, rendered unconscious from head injury during Near North Side...
A 45-year-old South Side man is accused of shoving an 85-year-old woman to the ground and stealing her purse on Chicago's Near North Side, police said.
View ArticleState Sen. Terry Link leaves Lake County Democratic chairmanship more than...
Longtime state Sen. Terry Link, the Vernon Hills Democrat who was charged earlier this month with federal income tax evasion, resigned as chairman of the Lake County Democratic Party on Saturday, amid...
View Article‘Daddy, why’d they shoot me so many times,’ Jacob Blake’s father recalls in...
Nearly one week after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake Jr. seven times in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, thousands of people joined Blake’s family to march through the...
View ArticlePolice shoot at SUV theft suspect who rammed cop’s leg in East Hyde Park
A fleeing car theft suspect crashed into a Chicago police officer trying to pull him over, prompting the officer to open fire, not hitting anyone Saturday afternoon in the East Hyde Park neighborhood.
View ArticleTrump to visit Kenosha on Tuesday to meet with police amid protests over...
President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back, which left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed.
View ArticleDespite earlier tiff with CPD, rabbi leads protesters to briefly close Mag...
Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef stood in front of the Wrigley Building and announced his plan to “shut down” the Magnificent Mile in support of Black lives and defunding the police Saturday afternoon in Chicago.
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