Rising popularity of trap shooting heralds the return of high school firearm...
Trap shooting, a sport in which participants blast flying clay targets out of the sky, has over the last decade grown from a handful of schools in Minnesota to more than 1,000 across the country,...
View ArticleComputer hackers stole thousands of Lightfoot administration emails. Here’s a...
Hackers recently stole a cache of thousands of city of Chicago emails that were electronically transferred from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration to the Jones Day law firm.City officials have...
View ArticleChicago reopening latest: Spring Awakening Music Festival to return to...
Below is an updating list of all of the museums, theaters and more that have reopened as well as concerts, festivals and other events that have been rescheduled or confirmed for 2021.
View ArticleVideo captures cat named Hennessy jumping from fifth floor to escape...
A black cat found some luck Thursday afternoon when it used one of its nine lives to take a chance leaping from a fifth floor unit that was on fire in Englewood.
View ArticleIllinois COVID-19 questions answered: Now that younger teens can get the...
You shouldn't get other vaccines within two weeks of a COVID-19 shot. But get teens and tweens up to date on other vaccines, experts say.
View ArticleThrilled! It’s about time. Too soon. Relieved but nervous. How the CDC’s new...
When the CDC changed its recommendations Thursday on where fully vaccinated people need to wear masks it unleashed a range of reactions from Tribune readers.
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View ArticleDouble lung transplant recipient beats COVID-19
A niece made funeral arrangements for her uncle dying of COVID-19. Then she learned about a life-saving surgery. Now he’s ready to karaoke again.
View ArticleA niece made funeral arrangements for her uncle dying of COVID-19. Then she...
A Glendale Heights man who was near death after being stricken with COVID-19 is ready to karaoke again after a double lung transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
View ArticleIt took 16 years for the CPD to seek an officer’s firing for alleged...
Lawyers want alleged misconduct case against cop dropped because it took 16 years for CPD to seek an officer’s firing.
View ArticleChrist the King pastor reinstated after claim of sex assault could not be...
The Rev. Larry Sullivan, pastor of Christ the King on Chicago's Southwest Side, has been reinstated after an allegation of a sexual assault from 1984 was could not be substantiated.
View ArticlePools face lifeguard shortage
Numerous park districts say they’re behind their lifeguard hiring goals. The three-pool Dundee Township Park District still needs to hire about 40 lifeguards in three weeks.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: State’s COVID-19 test positivity rate inches...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleDespite a brightened financial picture, battle looms over Pritzker’s tax...
Despite federal aid and higher than expected revenues, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker faces several obstacles in getting his budget proposal passed before the state legislature adjourns on May 31.
View ArticleCPD announces new policy on search warrants after uproar over Anjanette Young...
After drawing stinging criticism for an improper raid in 2019 in which Chicago police officers executed a search warrant at the wrong address and forced a woman to stand handcuffed and unclothed in her...
View ArticleState removes youths from Aurora residential facility after ‘troubling’...
Northern Illinois Academy operators "are not willing to invest sufficient resources into this facility to ... resolve the existing treatment and safety issues," the report states.
View ArticleCook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin announces he’ll retire in 2022
Commissioner Larry Suffredin will not run for reelection, the Evanston Democrat who for two decades has been a mainstay on the Cook County Board announced Friday.
View ArticleGirl, 2, shot in leg near Leighton Criminal Court Building on Southwest Side
A girl about two has been shot in the leg Friday night in the Little Village neighborhood.
View ArticleCOVID-19 turns prom into a promenade — at Soldier Field
Very little about the this year’s prom for seniors from the Chicago Noble schools could be considered typical. But it will certainly be memorable. Prom for about 3,000 seniors at the network of 17...
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