Illinois expands options for dentists to administer COVID-19 shots as...
As Illinois continues to lag behind many other states in the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, state officials announced Wednesday that dentists will now be able to volunteer to administer shots at...
View ArticleHealth advocates urge Illinois to involve more pharmacies to help give...
Advocates are urging Illinois to use local pharmacies to help vaccination efforts at assisted living facilities, as other states have done.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: State administers record number of vaccines...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleNo deal on CPS schools reopening, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot insists in-person...
With the looming threat of a teachers strike, Lightfoot said late Friday she had no school reopening agreement to announce.
View ArticleMeet Keith Gill, the man who drove the GameStop Reddit mania and made millions
Meet Keith Gill – the newly minted millionaire and financial folk hero who sparked the GameStop trading frenzy that caused big losses for established hedge funds this week.
View ArticleAs the pandemic changes the way people shop, food co-ops offer some the...
While customers say the Dill Pickle is a fixture in the Logan Square food economy, residents around the region — from Rogers Park to Lombard to Woodstock — are in different stages of trying to launch...
View ArticleCatholic schools on South and West sides hit hard by pandemic get $1.8...
An emergency donation of $1.8 million to the Archdiocese of Chicago from the nonprofit Big Shoulders Fund will keep the doors open at several West and South side Catholic schools with budgets hard-hit...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines show what’s possible. Now, former Obama staffer says it’s...
Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS at 37. Three years later, he says COVID-19 vaccines show an ALS cure can be achieved.
View Article‘If not now, when?’ CPS leader says data show Chicago schools can reopen...
CPS hasn't seen "superspreader events" in schools, CEO Janice Jackson says.
View Article1 dead, at least 8 others wounded in city shootings since Friday afternoon,...
A male victim was fatally wounded while he was seated in a parked vehicle in the South Austin neighborhood, and at least eight others were injured in shootings on the West and South sides since late...
View Article3 juveniles in custody after carjacking ride-share driver on South Side: cops
Three juveniles are in custody after carjacking a ride-share driver on the South Side, police say.
View ArticleSophie, Grammy-nominated Scottish musician, dies at 34 after accident
Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens....
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 57,292 vaccine doses administered, 3,345 new...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View Article3 shot in Gresham, Fire Department says
About 3 p.m. Saturday, three males of unknown age were found shot in the 8100 block of South May Street, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt said.
View ArticleModest progress in bargaining as national teachers union leader calls on...
National teachers union leader Randi Weingarten calls on Lightfoot to work with CTU: ‘Why is the mayor not listening?’
View ArticleNew round of snow falls on Chicagoland
The National Weather Service predicts 5 to 9 inches of snow to fall Saturday evening into Sunday. Some areas could expect to get up to an inch or an inch and a half of snow per hour from about 6 p.m....
View ArticleWinter storm bearing down on Chicago area; 5 to 9 inches of wet, heavy snow...
A strong winter storm is hitting Chicago area Saturday, expecting to bring 5-9 inches of “very wet, heavy” snow, according to the National Weather Service.
View ArticleRailroad cop ‘shook up’ after being shot at in Back of the Yards gun battle
An on-duty Norfolk Southern Railroad police officer was shot at during a gun battle in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Saturday evening.
View ArticleAs COVID rages, Loretto Hospital employee scraps his own dreams to help the...
Loretto hospital employee scraps his dreams to help West Side neighborhood.
View ArticleHilton Valentine, founding Animals guitarist behind ‘House of the Rising Sun’...
Hilton Valentine, the founding guitarist of the English rock and roll band The Animals who is credited with coming up with one of the most famous opening riffs of the 1960s, has died. He was 77.
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