At some CPS schools, fewer than half the students logged in the first day of...
Citywide, 84.2% of students attended a remote learning class Tuesday, increasing to 90.2% Thursday.
View ArticleTwo ex-DCFS workers charged with endangering life of AJ Freund months prior...
Two former state child welfare officials who were involved in an abuse investigation four months before 5-year-old AJ Freund’s tragic death were arrested Thursday, both facing felony charges.
View ArticleIn text messages, Eric Trump expressed gratitude for Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s...
As civil unrest surged across the country and Chicago at the end of May, Mayor Lori Lightfoot called President Donald Trump’s son, Eric, to express her support, according to text messages he sent her.
View ArticleSupervised remote learning program
Students from Arlington Heights School District 25 do remote learning in the multipurpose room in South Middle School. The students are enrolled in a fee-based park district program called Children at...
View Article4 dead, 13 wounded in overnight shootings, including an attack that wounded 6...
Four people are dead, and at least 13 others were wounded overnight Friday and early Saturday morning, Chicago police said.
View ArticleSix months into the pandemic, downtown Chicago is a humbled giant. Can it get...
Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic first shook Chicago, the city’s once-mighty downtown is taking only tentative steps toward recovery. But Chicago has dealt with setbacks before.
View Article2 wounded Saturday morning in shooting on West Side
Two men were wounded in a shooting Saturday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
View ArticleArrest made, no one hit after Chicago police officers exchange gunfire with...
Chicago police officers fired shots at someone after police said the person shot at officers Saturday morning on the Far South Side, according to the Chicago Police Department.
View ArticleMarch death of West Side infant declared homicide, officials say
Six months after a man walked into a West Side police station and declared that he had "killed his baby," a Cook County medical examiner’s office officially ruled the infant’s death a homicide.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 2,121 new known COVID-19 cases and 22...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleClosed doors, virtual services and lawsuits: Here’s how the pandemic has...
It has been a frenetic six months for houses of worship, which have had to adapt to an evolving reality since the coronavirus forced most in-person services to come to a screeching halt.
View ArticleColumn: ‘It’s like we’ve been living in a pandemic all along.’ COVID-19 and...
North Lawndale has been at the bottom of nearly every economic indicator. So when COVID-19 came knocking, the doors of the West Side neighborhood flung open.
View ArticleMore than 800 nurses at University of Illinois Hospital go on strike;...
More than 800 nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital and its clinics went on strike today, after months of failing to reach a contract agreement with the hospital.
View ArticleNew details emerge in killings of prominent Oak Park attorney couple found...
Details emerge in murders of prominent Oak Park attorney couple
View ArticleLockport police ask residents to look for hidden weapons following Friday’s...
An AK-47 style pistol loaded with 7.62 rounds was recovered Friday and two more weapons were recovered Saturday after a resident in the subdivision discovered one of the weapons in their garbage can.
View ArticleChicago’s Mexican Independence Day Parade was canceled by the pandemic, so...
The pandemic may have canceled the annual Mexican Independence Day Parade in Little Village Saturday, but thousands of people still celebrated the day with caravans of cars through neighborhood streets...
View Article3 killed, 4 injured in two South Austin shootings half a mile apart
Three people were killed and four others were injured in two shootings in the South Austin neighborhood that occurred a half-mile apart on Saturday.
View Article1 killed, 4 injured when speeding car goes airborne on Interstate 294 in...
A person was killed and four others were injured when a speeding car crashed into another car, went airborne and hit two others on Interstate 294 in Willow Springs Saturday afternoon, according to the...
View ArticleMan killed, another critically wounded in East Side shooting. ‘I knew it was...
Shooting on quiet East Side block kills one man, seriously wounds another
View ArticleShots hit West Rogers Park firehouse where person had sought refuge
Shots struck a Northwest Side firehouse where a person who may have been fleeing a gunman sought refuge Sunday morning, authorities said.
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