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View Article‘This deal stinks’: Homewood planners vote unanimously against warehouse...
Homewood’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted Thursday to recommend against rezoning the former Calumet Country Club to allow development of warehouses.
View ArticleMan slips on Red Line platform in Rogers Park, dies after being hit by ‘L’ train
A man died after he fell so part of his body was off the platform at the Loyola Avenue “L” station in Rogers Park and he was hit by a train Thursday night, officials said.
View Article1 dead, 2 wounded in shooting of people in 2 cars on I-57
Three male victims were shot, one fatally, in an attack on at least two vehicles early Friday on Interstate 57 near the border between Calumet Park and Chicago’s Far South Side, State Police said.
View ArticleHow Michael Madigan’s departure accelerates a shift in Chicago politics from...
The change is being driven by generational, ideological and demographic shifts.
View ArticleCity shuts down makeshift club in a home in Old Town, cites 6 businesses for...
Chicago investigators cited a private club in someone's Old Town home for COVID-19 violations, along with six other restaurants and businesses.
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. Pritzker to announce new vaccine awareness campaign
Gov. Pritzker is set to announce a new vaccine awareness campaign. Watch live here.
View ArticleColumn: A hothead male coach sent to coach girls basketball as punishment?...
Haven’t we seen enough of girls and women being reduced to a leading man’s opportunity for personal growth? We'll take a pass on "Big Shot."
View ArticlePolitical operative with ties to former Ald. Daniel Solis probe pleads not...
A longtime political operative at the center of the investigation into former Ald. Daniel Solis pleaded not guilty Friday in alleged schemes to influence a massive Chicago Public Schools janitorial...
View ArticleIn Land of Lincoln, what’s wrong with statues of Honest Abe? And should...
Controversy over monuments of historical figures in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, includes five statues of Honest Abe in Chicago
View ArticleBoxes with more than 65,000 counterfeit N95 masks worth over $400,000...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Sunday seized 136 boxes of counterfeit medical masks at O’Hare International Airport after they noticed the masks were giving off a “chemical smell” and...
View ArticleDwayne White's family at home
Members of Dwayne White's family spend time at the house of White's mother, Wanda White. Dwayne White has spent the past 10 years of a 25-year sentence in federal prison, charged in a discredited...
View ArticleWith judges critical of ‘stash house’ tactic in federal cases, the convicted...
Known as "stash house" schemes and used by federal agents, the tool to lure people into crimes has been widely discredited for disproportionately targeting Black men for severe mandatory sentences.
View ArticleFormer state Rep. Eddie Acevedo pleads not guilty to tax charges stemming...
Former Democratic state Rep. Eddie Acevedo pleaded not guilty Friday to tax-related counts stemming from the ongoing federal probe into Commonwealth Edison’s lobbying practices.
View ArticleIllinois launches $10 million campaign aimed at countering COVID-19 vaccine...
In an effort to reach Black and Latino communities that have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic but which have lagged behind the rest of the state on vaccinations, Illinois on Friday launched a...
View ArticleCharges upgraded to murder in death of Valparaiso assistant golf coach in...
The Lake County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday charged Raquel Mendoza McCormick with murder in the September death of Valparaiso University assistant golf coach Tom Brankin.
View ArticlePolice ask for help finding shooter targeting Gold Coast high-rises
Several Gold Coast high-rises in the same block along Lake Shore Drive have been damaged by gunfire in shooting incidents in mid-February and early Thursday, according to authorities.
View ArticleTwo teenagers among three shot in South Chicago
Two teenage boys among three shot Friday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood, fire department officials said.
View ArticleSchools can’t skip standardized tests this spring, Biden administration says....
Student assessments “have never been valid" and are "especially unreliable now,” a union official contends.
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