Boy, 17, carjacked and shot overnight in South Austin
A 10-year-old boy was among four people who were shot, one fatally, overnight Friday on the West Side, Chicago police said.
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View ArticleFinal winter sunset
The sun sets over West Madison Street on the final day of winter on March 19, 2021, in Chicago.
View ArticleViewing ‘Chicagohenge’: Here’s how it works
During equinoxes, the rising and setting sun lines up with Chicago's east-west street grid, creating spectacular views as the sun is framed in Chicago's skyline
View ArticleHundreds gather for ‘Stop Asian Hate’ march at Logan Square monument
The protest comes the weekend after the mass shooting across three spas in Georgia that plunged the Asian American community in mourning amid an already trying time of escalating violence reported...
View ArticleSuspect in custody after Chicago police officer shot on West Side, marking...
Police have taken a gunman into custody after he allegedly shot a Chicago police officer in the hand Saturday morning while opening fire on officers on the West Side, authorities said.
View ArticleIllinois Lottery opens new Chicago office for winners to claim their prizes
Lottery officials said appointments are required to visit the new claim center in the George Dunne Cook County Office Building.
View ArticleTexas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor dies amid COVID-19 struggle
Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has died. He was 65.
View ArticleWest Side man charged with attempted murder in shooting that wounded officer,...
A South Austin man accused of shooting and wounding a Chicago police officer before barricading himself inside an apartment for several hours was charged with multiple counts of attempted first-degree...
View Article1 person killed, 3 others wounded including man attacked in home invasion...
Chicago police responded to one homicide and three other shootings overnight into Sunday morning.
View ArticleColumn: Biden’s Border Crisis is predictable right-wing babble, a curtain...
Biden’s Border Crisis is predictable right-wing babble, a curtain that covers human suffering.
View ArticleIllinois is ‘kind of the place to be with periodical cicadas,’ researchers...
Illinois houses several broods, both life cycles and all 7 periodical species, so mapping the bugs can help answer questions about how they might be responding to climate change.
View ArticleDaywatch: Evanston approves landmark reparations program, no vaccine doses to...
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View ArticleTracking Chicago homicide victims
Chicago homicides victims: Charts, maps tracking shooting victims
View ArticleState Rep. La Shawn Ford resigns from Loretto Hospital board amid COVID-19...
State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford has resigned from the Loretto Hospital board because of revelations that the hospital improperly distributed coronavirus vaccines.
View Article3 people killed, 11 wounded in Chicago shootings in 9 hours Monday
Three people were killed and 11 others were wounded in multiple shootings in about nine hours Monday afternoon and evening, Chicago police said.
View ArticleChicago alderman withdraws residential museum rules plan for projects such as...
A South Side alderman is withdrawing her proposal to set tougher zoning guidelines for museums like those planned for civil rights icon Emmett Till and blues legend Muddy Waters in residential Chicago...
View ArticleAbout 1,000 Illinois prisoners to be released under COVID-19 lawsuit settlement
About 1,000 Illinois prison inmates nearing the end of their sentences could soon be released under a settlement announced Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed as the COVID-19 pandemic was creating a...
View Article16-year-old girl faces carjacking charge after car taken on Near West Side,...
A 16-year-old girl was arrested Monday evening after Chicago police say she was seen in a vehicle that had been taken by force hours earlier.
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Chicago health officials provide a vaccination update. Watch live here.
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