Foxconn, Wisconsin reach new tax break deal for scaled-back project
Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has reached a new deal with reduced tax breaks for its scaled back project in southeast Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers and the the...
View ArticleChicago sports teams and the COVID-19 vaccine: Who is getting the shots and...
What are Chicago’s pro teams saying about the COVID-19 vaccine? How many players have received it? And what does it all mean for potentially increasing fan attendance at games?
View ArticleShedd Aquarium penguins begin annual nesting season
Penguins at the Chicago's Shedd Aquariuim enter their nesting and mating season.
View ArticleLake County Sheriff’s Office police dog Dax credited with locating,...
Responding officers found a pool of blood inside the home. Dax located the man’s scent and tracked him directly to a shed on the property, where the man was found inside. He was not breathing, and...
View ArticleColumn: The Black String Triage Ensemble plays concerts at scenes of...
Dayvin Hallmon, who founded the Milwaukee-based ensemble of Black and Latinx string players, wants to launch ensembles to play at scenes of tragedies on Chicago's North, West and South sides. “I know...
View ArticleWatch live: Mayor Lightfoot, CPS officials discuss return to in-person learning
Mayor Lightfoot will join CPS CEO Dr. Jackson to visit Walter Payton College Preparatory High School for CPS’s return to in-person learning. Watch live here.
View ArticleAlexi Giannoulias launches first ad in 2022 secretary of state’s race
Former State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias has released the first ad for next year’s race for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state, citing his past efforts to intervene with banks to preserve...
View ArticleChicago police investigating shots fired at Rogers Park police station
Chicago police are looking for a person who shot at the Rogers Park Police District station in what a local alderman Monday called an “unfortunate attack.”
View ArticleElmwood Park crash kills man, leaves 2 others in critical condition
Investigators are determining the cause of a single-car crash early Sunday morning in Elmwood Park that claimed the life of a Chicago man and sent two others to the hospital, police said.
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. Pritzker and First Lady Jill Biden in Dixon, Illinois
Gov. Pritzker to join First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to tour Sauk Valley Community College. Watch live here.
View ArticleUS appellate court denies full hearing in record $45 million CPD shooting case
U.S. appeals court says no full hearing in Michael LaPorta case.
View ArticleMan charged with murder in woman’s fatal Bronzeville stabbing
A man charged with murder in the stabbing death early Saturday of a woman at an apartment in the Bronzeville neighborhood argued with her about his talking to other women before he fatally stabbed her,...
View ArticleKayden Swann, shot on Lake Shore Drive, is transferred out of intensive care...
The 22-month-old boy who was shot on Lake Shore Drive earlier this month has been transferred out of the intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital and “is breathing on his own with support,”...
View ArticleShedd Aquarium penguins begin annual nesting season
New chicks could be on the horizon as the Shedd Aquarium penguins enter their nesting and mating season.
View ArticleMan reported missing in Merrillville found dead in pond
Kowalewski was staying at the hotel because he was getting ready to move into a place of his own family members said at the time.
View ArticleTribune Publishing ends discussions with Maryland hotel executive, moving...
Tribune Publishing is moving ahead with plans to be acquired by Alden Global Capital and has ended discussions with a Maryland hotel executive interested in purchasing the Chicago-based newspaper chain.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot dismisses unsubstantiated weekend Twitter chatter:...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday dismissed unsubstantiated social media chatter from over the weekend that included claims she was about to resign, saying she at one point told her daughter,...
View ArticleFedEx mass shooting: Gunman never appeared before judge under Indiana’s ‘red...
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said authorities believed they had done what they needed to by seizing the pump-action shotgun from Brandon Scott Hole in March 2020.
View ArticleSuspect in Kenosha bar shooting that killed 3 identified: ‘The evidence at...
Rakayo Alandis Vinson, 24, appeared in court on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide for the early Sunday shooting at the Somers House Tavern in the village of Somers.
View ArticleFirst lady Jill Biden promotes affordable community college in visit to Dixon
First lady Jill Biden used a visit to a community college in Dixon on Monday to promote efforts to make higher education more affordable, a precursor to programs expected to be included in President...
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