Car found flipped over near Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview; 2 women seriously hurt
A car was found flipped over Friday morning near Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview, according to police.
View ArticleHigh Lake Ontario water and its coastal wetlands
Studying Lake Ontario’s coastal wetlands affected by the water level fluctuations.
View ArticleSouthbound Dan Ryan lanes closed after shooting at 63rd Street, fatal...
Southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway were closed Friday morning after a shooting near 63rd Street around the same time as a fatal motorcycle crash near 47th Street, according to the Illinois...
View ArticleIllinois election officials respond to President Trump’s suggestion to vote...
Illinois election officials have one response to those mulling President Donald Trump’s recommendation to vote twice in the November election: Don’t bother. Voting twice is illegal under federal and...
View ArticleColumn: Show some love. Be good to each other. A Park Ridge cafe owner...
Mary Schmich: Show some love. Be good to each other. A Park Ridge cafe owner inspires us on Labor Day.
View ArticleNative American activists call on City Council to replace Columbus Day with...
Young Native activists pressed Chicago aldermen to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day during a City Council committee meeting on Friday.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 5,368 new known COVID-19 cases reported as...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleBoka Restaurant Group, owner of Girl & the Goat, GT Prime and more, explains...
The restaurant group laid off “about 275 people” in August, of 516 employees who received notice, due to "a hole that was $4 million deep.”
View ArticleBillionaire Ken Griffin gives $20 million to stop graduated-rate tax...
Ken Griffin, Illinois’ richest person and the founder and CEO of the Citadel investment firm, has donated $20 million to a business group fighting Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s push for voters to...
View ArticleJacob Blake’s father says his son is optimistic for his future, remains...
Jacob Blake's father said Friday that his “happy-go-lucky” son is optimistic for his future, although he remains paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha,...
View ArticleIllinois Senate President Don Harmon’s office subpoenaed by feds who wanted...
Add Illinois Senate President Don Harmon’s office to the long list of organizations, politicians, lobbyists and others subpoenaed in a wide-ranging federal probe that has already led to a series of...
View ArticleDogs fight at Bloomingdale PetSmart
Security video from Bloomingdale PetSmart shows Jordan, a dog owned by the nonprofit group Pets and Vets USA, getting into a fight with another dog in 2018.
View ArticleThe Rev. Leon Finney Jr., longtime South Side activist and developer, dies
The pastor and founder of the Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church in Bronzeville came to prominence in in the 1960s as he fought against the university and slumlords in his community.
View ArticleDeath Row inmate set free after 37 years
Renaldo Hudson, 56, was released from Danville Correctional Center on Sept. 2, 2020 after Gov. J.B. Pritzker granted his clemency petition. Pritzker has granted clemency to about 50 inmates since the...
View ArticleFormer ComEd VP charged with bribery conspiracy in scheme to sway House...
Fidel Marquez, a former vice president for ComEd, was charged Friday with bribery conspiracy alleging he helped orchestrate a scheme to pay political allies of powerful Democratic House Speaker Michael...
View Article4-year-old boy and woman injured in Gresham shooting, police say
A 4-year-old boy and an 18-year-old were injured in a shooting Friday night on the Far South Side, according to Chicago police.
View ArticlePolice: Officers killed man who stabbed cop’s vest, lunged with knife on...
Chicago police say officers responded to a stabbing scene on the Southwest Side and found a man who matched the suspect description. Two officers fired shots at the man after police say the man lunged...
View ArticleEx-South Bend cop, whose fatal shooting case roiled Buttigieg campaign,...
A former South Bend cop whose fatal shooting of a man last year roiled Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge
View ArticleWest Side man charged with looting, accused of attacking 64-year-old
A West Side man was charged with burglary and looting a business in August, and battery for throwing objects at another man in the Loop neighborhood, police said.
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