Loyola Medicine to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for employees, becoming one of...
Loyola Medicine will require all of its employees and doctors to get COVID-19 vaccinations, the system announced Thursday, making it one of the first hospital systems in the Chicago area to make the...
View ArticleMan gets 25-year prison term in Carpentersville armed robbery in which his...
A Chicago man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to a 2016 armed robbery in Carpentersville in which his accomplice was killed, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.
View ArticleAnthony Porter, ex-death row inmate whose case was ‘Exhibit A’ in prompting...
The former death row inmate whose case spurred an overhaul of the death penalty has died at 66.
View ArticleMan charged federally in connection with shooting of 2 ATF agents, 1 Chicago cop
Federal prosecutors filed charges Thursday against a Chicago man in connection with the shooting of three law enforcement officers who were injured while conducting an undercover investigation early...
View ArticleChicago man, 29, charged in 2020 fatal stabbing of another man in East Chatham
A Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing a man with whom he had a romantic relationship in November in the East Chatham neighborhood, according to authorities.
View ArticleCity’s inspector general finds Chicago Police Department struggles to keep...
The Chicago Police Department has struggled to hire an adequate number of Black applicants to reflect the racial makeup of the city, Chicago’s government watchdog said in a report on Thursday.
View ArticleAmputee beaten to death by drug dealer in home invasion, prosecutors say
A Chicago man looking to collect a drug debt broke into an Edgewater Beach neighborhood apartment and beat to death a man who had only one leg as he lay in his bed, unable to escape the attack,...
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot in California to woo Big Tech, meet with San Francisco...
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View ArticleBoathouse Cafe remains closed
Humboldt Park’s Boathouse Cafe is to remain closed as the Chicago Park District seeks a new concessionaire.
View ArticleIn Lake Michigan’s first national sanctuary, nearly 100 possible shipwrecks...
962 square miles of Lake Michigan will soon be designated as the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary — containing the remains of 36 known shipwrecks and as many as 59 more that have yet...
View Article518 Illinois residents have been hospitalized with COVID-19 despite being...
More than 500 Illinois residents, most of whom are older and have underlying health conditions, have been hospitalized because of COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, according to new data from the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 infections are rising again in parts of Illinois like Blessing...
After a steady decline in cases statewide, some regions in Illinois are seeing an increase in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, which experts tie to nastier variants, fewer restrictions and...
View ArticleFirst-generation Latina college student meets President Biden in Crystal...
Edith Sanchez, a 19-year-old Latina sophomore, introduced President Joe Biden during a speech about the value of education at McHenry County College, as protesters were outside.
View ArticleIllinois announces winners of first COVID-19 vaccine lottery drawing, with $1...
Illinois coronavirus vaccine lottery produces first four winners
View ArticleCOVID-19 infections are rising again in parts of Illinois. Here’s where and why.
Illinoisans may have hoped for a soft summer landing from the pandemic, but federal and state data show that COVID-19 infections are again climbing in the west-central and southern regions of the...
View ArticleMonty and Rose did it again: Chicks hatch after skunk incursion
Nish, one of Monty and Rose's three chicks last season who survived migration, welcomed chicks of his own near a bustling Lake Erie beach recently.
View ArticleCTA ridership has nearly doubled since May and continues to grow, officials say
Since January, overall ridership has gone up 56% to 4 million rides a week, according to the CTA, rising as the city and state reduced restrictions related to COVID-19.
View ArticleHundreds rally in Chicago for an end to detentions and a pathway to...
People cheered as Gov. J.B. Pritzker told them Illinois is on the cusp of becoming the third state to end immigration detention.
View ArticleLightfoot touts Chicago as tech destination on San Francisco trip. Will local...
The Chicago mayor also did some political fundraising while in the Bay Area.
View ArticleColumn: A note of thanks to the unvaccinated, from a very happy coronavirus
As pockets of unvaccinated people threaten America with the possibility of new coronavirus variants, a very happy coronavirus pens a letter of thanks to all who refuse the vaccine.
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