Column: Lightfoot’s pandemic parking ticket relief waffle means anyone can be...
Back in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, recognizing the impending chaos and economic hardship, said the city would stop ticketing cars at expired meters. On...
View ArticleDaywatch: Chicago’s winter dining guidelines, Old Post Office opens nation’s...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. Pritzker to discuss conditional cannabis dispensary licenses
The father of 5-year-old AJ Freund appears at a court hearing in connection with his son’s death. Watch live here.
View Article‘Dreadhead Cowboy’ arrested after galloping down Dan Ryan
Adam Hollingsworth rides his horse on the Dan Ryan Expressway with motorcycles and motorists to support Kids Lives Matter. (Vashon Jordan Jr./@vashon_photo)
View ArticleFall long-term forecast for Chicago area calls for warmer-than-usual temps
On the first day of fall, long-range forecasters suggest, the season won’t be quite as cold as usual in the Chicago area.
View ArticleFrom tabletop air purifiers to ultraviolet wands for sterilizing glassware,...
Restaurants hoping to see the other side of the pandemic are pouring money into air quality upgrades and other safety features even as business remains devastated by COVID-19. As they burn through...
View ArticleColumn: 200,000 US coronavirus deaths will be Trump’s legacy, and his cynical...
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus reached 200,000 Tuesday. That staggeringly grim count came less than a day after President Donald Trump said the coronavirus “affects virtually nobody” under...
View ArticleFrankfort junior high teacher charged with indecent solicitation of a child
Jack L. Mecher, 51, of Frankfort, a teacher at Summit Hill Junior High, was charged with two counts of indecent solicitation of a child and one count of grooming.
View ArticleMarijuana dispensary applicants drop lawsuit in the wake of 2nd chance for...
Marijuana dispensary applicants dropped a lawsuit against the state after getting a second chance to qualify for a license lottery
View ArticleAvoid ‘traditional trick-or-treating,’ CDC says in guidelines for Halloween 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance for Halloween 2020 that ranks activities from low risk to high risk.
View Article64-year-old gas station employee shot dead when gunmen jump out of black...
Gas station employee shot dead on Near West Side.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot’s top lawyer says city may not defend Chicago aldermen...
Chicago’s top lawyer under Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned aldermen on Tuesday that city’s law department may not represent them if a vendor sues over demands made by City Council members during committee...
View ArticlePolice: Occupant of Waukegan home fatally shoots two men in burglary attempt
When police arrived, they found the bodies of the two men in the front yard of the house. They also recovered a handgun by the bodies, Waukegan Police Commander Joe Florip said.
View ArticleWisconsin ‘in very poor control when it comes to COVID,’ again added to...
Chicago is expected on Tuesday, for the second time, to add Wisconsin to the city’s list of states from which travelers into Chicago should stay inside their homes for two weeks after traveling there...
View ArticleWisconsin, 3 other states & Puerto Rico go on Chicago’s travel quarantine...
Chicago health officials Tuesday put Wisconsin back on the city's travel quarantine list, while also adding back Idaho and Puerto Rico. Montana and Minnesota were added for the first time. Here’s what...
View ArticlePritzker says new retail marijuana licenses should be awarded in the fall,...
Recreational marijuana retail licenses should be awarded in Illinois this fall, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday, despite delays to give applicants a second chance at qualifying.
View ArticleSheriff’s police rescue 20 malnourished dogs from home near Dolton
Cook County Sheriff's Police said that 20 dogs, nearly all of them neglected and malnourished, were rescued Monday from a home in unincorporated Thornton Township near Dolton
View ArticleAdvocacy groups craft long to-do list for next Cook County Circuit Court...
A trio of government advocacy and research groups dropped a wide-ranging bundle of recommendations on Tuesday for the next Cook County Circuit Court clerk to implement as part of an overhaul to a court...
View ArticleAppellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s record in Chicago could be focus if Trump...
When Amy Coney Barrett last appeared on President Donald Trump’s short list of Supreme Court nominees, she was a new judge on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with few writings to examine....
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