Basic income plan to pay 5,000 Chicagoans $500 per month will head to City...
A Chicago alderman is pressing ahead this week with his plan for a guaranteed basic income program in the city. Northwest Side Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, wants to use $30 million in federal pandemic...
View ArticleCicero woman sentenced to 6 1/2 years in forced labor case targeting...
A federal judge sentenced a Cicero woman to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for bringing Guatemalan immigrants to the U.S. and keeping them in her home as they worked to repay her, saying human...
View ArticleA century ago, a New Deal program left a lasting mark on Illinois and the...
For the Great Lakes region, a new corps could mean checking off a long list of items on advocates’ lists: more green space and infrastructure in cities, much needed assistance to eroding shorelines,...
View Article‘The first day of school, in April’: CPS high schools reopen 13 months after...
With people getting vaccines and protocols in place, the benefits of returning outweighed the risks, one parent said.
View Article150+ students and staff at Hinsdale High School District 86 in quarantine due...
On Friday April 16, Hinsdale High School District 86 announced that 155 students and staff members across the district are in quarantine due to close contact rules and quarantine guidelines established...
View ArticleIllinois close to having 50% of residents 16 and older vaccinated, but...
Nearly 50% of Illinois residents 16 and older have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. That was one metric that could have triggered a full reopening under Gov. J.B. Pritzker's...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago links COVID-19 outbreak to spring break travel and...
The university has recorded 209 new coronavirus cases since March 26.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Chicago expands vaccine eligibility to...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleColumn: A 7-year-old shot 6 times in Chicago and mass shootings nationally....
Jaslyn Admas, a 7 year old, was shot six times in Chicago as a string of mass shootings has unfolded nationally. Welcome to America.
View ArticleGov. J.B. Pritzker deploys National Guard to Chicago ahead of verdict in...
At Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s request, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is deploying 125 Illinois National Guard troops to Chicago on Tuesday in anticipation of a verdict in the trial of the former Minneapolis police...
View ArticleMurder case against former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in the killing...
The murder case against former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has gone to the jury.
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot dismisses unsubstantiated Twitter chatter | Pritzker puts...
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View ArticleAt vigil for Jaslyn Adams, 7, neighborhood leaders and family call for...
The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru was a first grade student who attended a Chicago public school in Humboldt Park, and Chicago detectives are...
View ArticleSkokie teen dies from complications 16 months after accidental Mundelein...
The office identified the youth as Carys Castillo, 16, of the 8000 block of Keating Avenue. The death has been ruled a homicide, while the shooting was labeled an accident, authorities said.
View ArticleBehind the scenes with the Shedd Aquarium otters
Christy Sterling, who oversees the penguin and otter areas at the Shedd Aquarium, talks about the otters.
View ArticleOfficer in fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo speaks with Cook County...
The Chicago police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo has given a statement to Cook County prosecutors as part of their review of the night the teen was killed, sources told the Tribune.
View ArticleYaku, the Shedd Aquarium’s oldest sea otter, turns 21
The Shedd Aquarium celebrated the birthday of its oldest otter, 21-year-old Yaku, a northern sea otter who was born at the Seattle Aquarium in 2000 and became a Chicago resident in 2001.
View ArticleNursing home advocates seek law requiring facilities to offer virtual visits
Nursing home residents isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic would be able to visit loved ones virtually under a proposal being considered by Illinois lawmakers.
View ArticleSome people are reporting abnormal periods after a COVID-19 vaccine. U. of I....
Two researchers are trying to catalog people’s menstrual experiences after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
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