Chicago bar offers $10,000 in gift cards to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations
Chicago bar Village Tap offers gift cards to people who get COVID-19 vaccine: “By getting vaccinated, you are showing you care about us and you are doing your part to help all of us move one step...
View ArticleIllinois COVID-19 vaccine tracker: 972,750 doses delivered, 414,296...
With vaccinations underway across the U.S. and world, Illinois is still in the first phase of its program. Here’s where the state stands.
View ArticleA paralyzed Jacob Blake says he didn’t expect to be shot by Kenosha police,...
"I’m not really worried. I’m walking away from them, so it’s not like they were going to shoot me."
View ArticleFeds allege man in ‘CFD’ hat at Capitol mob attack is retired Pennsylvania...
Federal authorities on Thursday alleged a Pennsylvania man is the person photographed at last week’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol wearing a ‘CFD’ hat.
View Article16-year-old charged in murder, carjacking in Bridgeport killing caught on video
A 16-year-old boy committed a string of carjackings late last year before one of them went fatally wrong, leaving one of his targets shot dead in a Bridgeport alley, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
View ArticleColumn: Impeachment was the only way to prove that an insurrection and civil...
The Washington riot was entirely different than the protests sparked by George Floyd's death, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleBond revoked for Hammond man seen at Capitol riot while awaiting federal...
Federal authorities revoked bond Thursday for a Hammond man after a prosecutor said he has seen evidence that shows Kash Lee Kelly in Washington, D.C., and inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6...
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot pushing for Chicago bars and restaurants to reopen for...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wants the city’s bars and restaurants to reopen for indoor service “as soon as possible” and plans to discuss the issue with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
View ArticleAurora man dies after shooting in Montgomery
Montgomery police have identified the man killed in a shooting late Tuesday morning on the Route 30 bridge over the Fox River in the village.
View Article17-year-old in custody after carjacking of Moody Bible Institute student at...
One person is in custody after someone with a gun told a 20-year-old Moody Bible Institute student to get out of her SUV then took off with it Wednesday night from a parking lot at the college in the...
View ArticleChicago’s $9 million delinquent water bill relief program looks for more takers
A $9 million Chicago program to help homeowners behind on their water and sewer bills has seen less than half of those eligible for the city assistance sign up in the nine months since the initiative...
View ArticleChicago poised to open new COVID-19 vaccination sites, but Mayor Lori...
Chicago will have six mass COVID-19 vaccinations sites up and running by next week, increasing the city’s capacity to give up to 25,000 shots per week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
View ArticleIllinois National Guard heads to DC to help with potential armed riots: ‘It’s...
Illinois National Guard sends security forces to DC to help with potential armed riots at Biden inauguration
View ArticleStudent draws lessons from current events for MLK speech competition: ‘If Dr....
The event provides fourth and fifth grade CPS students an opportunity to remember and pay tribute to the late civil rights leader.
View ArticleVaccine trial participants who received placebo now hop the line for the real...
Many of those who received a placebo are now being offered a vaccine — in some cases, earlier than they would otherwise have been eligible.
View ArticleRapper Vic Mensa says burglars stole $40,000 worth of donated items from his...
Chicago rapper Vic Mensa announced this week on social media that on New Year’s Eve someone stole $40,000 worth of items that had been donated to his charity SaveMoneySaveLife Foundation.
View ArticlePlainfield Township supervisor indicted in $1.4 million embezzlement from...
A suburban township supervisor has been indicted on federal charges alleging he stole almost $1.4 million from a private firm where he served as chief financial officer.
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot vs. Pritzker on bars, restaurants | Biden expected to...
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View ArticleWoman injured, residents displaced after Evanston apartment fire
One woman was injured and a family was displaced after a fire broke out at an Evanston apartment building Thursday afternoon.
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago scholar killed in shooting spree remembered as ‘a kind...
Under a small tent adorned with bouquets of white flowers, a handful of students and university members braced the drizzling rain to remember Fan as a brilliant student and colleague who was dedicated...
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