Long Grove’s historic covered bridge crashed into again; 14 times and...
Long Grove’s historic covered bridge was struck again, marking the 14th time the bridge was hit since it reopened in August 2020. The bridge had been closed since June 27, 2018 when a box truck plowed...
View ArticleWoman killed after wrong-way pickup crashes into her vehicle near Chicago’s...
Woman killed early Sunday when the driver of a pickup - going the wrong way on an Eisenhower Expressway ramp - drove into her vehicle, officials said.
View ArticleEarly morning crash on the Dan Ryan leaves 1 dead
One person was killed in a multivehicle accident on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Sunday.
View ArticlePolice pursuit ends with collision, 7 people injured — some of them...
Police pursuit ends with seven people injured, some of them critically, authorities said.
View ArticleUnited Center will offer Johnson & Johnson vaccine starting next week
For those who received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the United Center, the site’s drive-thru will administer the second dose.
View ArticleAfter traveling hundreds of miles for the first COVID-19 shot, can you get...
Providers of the COVID-19 vaccine locally and across the country have different policies and philosophies about changing locations for the second dose
View Article‘I hope they understand what they’re doing is important.’ The Humboldt Park...
The Humboldt Park Gators are a baseball team composed entirely of girls. That’s still a rarity in Chicago, not to mention the rest of the country. The Gators are about to start their first full season...
View ArticleColumn: In the traffic stop of a Black Army officer in Virginia, echoes of...
A brave, patriotic Black man was reduced to crying before two officers, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleDaywatch: COVID-19 cases up in Chicago’s more vaccinated areas, city lags far...
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View Article‘Sopranos’ star Joseph Siravo dies at 64 after battle with cancer
“Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s father, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 64.
View ArticleMan dead, two injured in shooting on Eisenhower Expressway on Near West Side
A shooting early Monday on the Eisenhower Expressway left a man dead and two passengers injured, police said.
View ArticleCPS high school staff will refuse in-person work starting Wednesday without...
“Critical sticking points" include accommodations, class schedules and and vaccines for students and families, the union said.
View ArticleAll-girls youth baseball team: the Humboldt Park Gators
The Humboldt Park Gators, a girls baseball team, are about to start their first full season and most of their competition will be boys.
View ArticleMan struck after walking in front of CTA Brown Line train at Armitage Avenue...
A person was hit by a Brown Line train at the Armitage Avenue “L” station Monday morning, according to a CTA spokeswoman.
View ArticleRockford police shootings over weekend leave 1 dead, 1 injured
Two separate police shootings in the northern Illinois community of Rockford over the weekend left one man dead and another injured, authorities said.
View ArticleMotorcyclist, 32, killed in Chesterton head-on crash
The driver in a 2006 Toyota Highlander, stated that the first motorcycle passed him going south but the first one, “for an unknown reason, crossed the center line and struck his vehicle directly in the...
View ArticleMore COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t slow surge in hard-hit Michigan, says CDC...
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters Monday that the answer in a crisis situation such as Michigan is facing is to go back to virus control basics.
View ArticleSevere weather ‘off to an unusually slow start’ in the Chicago area, but this...
The Chicago area’s severe weather usually peaks in May, June and July, and can include tornadoes, hail at least an inch in diameter, wind gusts 60 mph or greater and flash flooding.
View ArticleChicago aldermen move to condemn Downstate Republican congresswoman for Adolf...
Chicago aldermen on Monday moved to officially condemn a newly elected Downstate congresswoman who told an audience at a Washington, D.C., rally, “Hitler was right on one thing.” The nonbinding...
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