Police Superintendent David Brown on the state of CPD: ‘If we’re going to...
In marking his one-year anniversary as Chicago’s top cop on Thursday, police Superintendent David Brown was in rare form, holding a nearly hourlong news conference to talk to reporters about myriad...
View ArticleFailures before the fires
A Tribune/BGA investigation found at least 61 people have died since 2014 in buildings where city officials knew ahead of time about fire safety problems.
View ArticleAttempted extortion of Illinois elections board exec involved ‘flirtatious’...
Illinois’ top elections official told board members he became the victim of an internet extortion scheme after he exchanged “flirtatious” messages and sent a picture to a person he met online.
View ArticleDaywatch: Foxx says she didn’t see Toledo video before court, CDC report...
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View ArticleNiles teen killed, another teen injured in crash near Morton Grove
A Niles teenager died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash near Morton Grove, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
View ArticleThe Failures Before the Fires: In six years, 61 people died in Chicago...
A Tribune/BGA investigation found at least 61 people have died since 2014 in buildings where city officials knew ahead of time about fire safety problems.
View ArticleLawyer, ‘great citizen’ Jetta Jones was Art Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo trustee
The first Black woman trustee at the Art Institute, Jones liked to 'lift others up,' a friend recalled.
View ArticleMan found dead in Little Village fire that displaced 4 others
A 53-year-old man died after emergency crews found in him in a burning Little Village apartment early Friday, according to officials.
View ArticleStray bullets from gunfight hit unmarked Chicago police squad car, CTA bus...
One person was in custody and at least one other was being sought after stray bullets from a gunfight between people in two cars hit an unmarked Chicago police squad car and a CTA bus shelter Thursday...
View ArticleCourt proceedings in asphyxiation death of Indiana girl, 6, remain open
Court proceedings involving a 14-year-old boy charged in the asphyxiation death of a 6-year-old northern Indiana girl will remain open to the public, a magistrate has ruled.
View Article‘We were blown away to see the success’: Kane County Jail drug treatment...
Sheriff Ron Hain said that since he began the program in 2019, post-incarceration overdose deaths have plunged from 15 in 2018 to just one last year, even as opioid-related deaths overall have...
View ArticleThe soaring number of students in quarantine is the latest obstacle for...
“There are a lot of difficult phone calls" to families, one administrator said of having to pull students from classes and activities.
View Article1 dead, 1 injured in shooting outside apartment building near Niles,...
An 18-year-old father of a 4-month-old baby was killed and the child’s 18-year-old mother was seriously injured in a shooting outside an apartment building near Niles, police said.
View ArticleMan told shooter there was a child in his car before 22-month-old Kayden...
The man driving the car that 22-month-old Kayden Swann was riding in on Lake Shore Drive told another driver who was becoming aggressive to back off and that he had a child in the car before the other...
View ArticleSun shining, even a shirt off at United Center vaccination site on first day...
Despite the potential for a crush of shot seekers, the sun was shining and lines were short at the United Center Friday.
View ArticleCommunity activist Wardell Lavender, known to many as the ‘Mayor of...
Wardell Lavender, 80, died on April 7 after a late-in-life career in political activism that spanned co-founding the organization Southside Together Organizing for Power, door-knocking for Ald....
View ArticlePalos Heights man charged in September fatal six-vehicle crash on Tri-State
A Palos Heights man faces reckless homicide charges stemming from a September crash on the Tri-State Tollway that resulted in the death of a 64-year-old woman, according to police
View ArticleColumn: Ready to go back to the gym? Eat inside a restaurant? Fly? Take our...
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View ArticleFormer state rep, Worth Township supervisor charged with bribery in red-light...
A former Illinois state representative and longtime supervisor of Worth Township was charged Friday in a plot to pay bribes to a relative of an Oak Lawn trustee in 2017 to get lucrative red-light...
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