Will more Illinois residents get vaccinated now that Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine...
FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may inspire some unvaccinated Illinois residents to roll up their sleeves, but the bigger impact will likely be in prompting large organizations to mandate the...
View ArticleNaperville School District 203, teachers union reach tentative contract...
Naperville School District 203 and the union that represents about 1,500 teachers have reached a tentative multiyear contract agreement that will avert a strike.
View ArticleFour taken to hospitals after South Shore fire
Four people, including one firefighter, were taken to hospitals after a fire Monday night in a South Shore apartment building, fire officials said.
View ArticleTeen among four injured in Uptown shooting
A 16-year-old was among four males injured in a shooting in Uptown Monday night, according to police.
View ArticleSome CPS schools could start year with 2 officers despite votes to reduce...
Several schools have done away with resource officers but 23 voted to retain one.
View ArticleDemocrats redrew Illinois’ legislative map over GOP objections. Now they’re...
Democrats vow to "make adjustments as needed" to the map; Republicans have sued.
View ArticleColumn: Keep Amazon lockers out of Chicago parks, Mr. Bezos. Just strap one...
Amazon lockers are popping up in Chicago parks, an unwelcome addition that has upset many residents. Parks should not be used to help Jeff Bezos bolster his wealth.
View ArticleFormer Niles police commander sues village, police, alleging retaliation for...
A former Niles police commander is suing the village and several members of the police department, alleging he was the target for retaliation after reporting what he believed was the improper handling...
View ArticleDaywatch: Will Illinois see an uptick in vaccinations — and mandates? | New...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleJames J. Quinn, composed the music for ‘Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really...
Quinn was a longtime Chicago community college humanities professor best known for composing the music for a long-running coming-of-age musical.
View ArticleIllinois expansion of health coverage for older adults regardless of...
Adult immigrants 55 to 64 living at or below the federal poverty level would also become eligible for the program, which Illinois created last year to provide government-subsidized health benefits to...
View ArticleAmita, Edward-Elmhurst and Silver Cross hospital systems to require vaccines...
Amita Health and Edward-Elmhurst Health will require their workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, they announced Tuesday, following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine.
View Article4 states added to Chicago travel advisory for unvaccinated; guidance now...
Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska and South Dakota are the latest states added.
View ArticleComEd scheme to influence Madigan was not legal lobbying — it was bribery,...
An alleged scheme to lavish benefits on longtime House Speaker Michael Madigan in exchange for his influence on Commonwealth Edison legislation in Springfield clearly meets the criteria of the bribery...
View ArticleHeather Mack, imprisoned in her mother’s grisly Bali murder, expected to be...
Once facing the possibility of death by firing squad, the imprisoned daughter of a slain Chicago woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase during a luxury Bali vacation may soon be free.
View ArticleJudge rejects GOP effort to invalidate Democratic-drawn legislative map, but...
A federal judge has rejected a Republican effort to immediately invalidate a Democratic-drawn map of new Illinois legislative districts, but warned Democrats to address their concerns.
View ArticleCicero woman, charged in fatal Elmhurst DUI accident, ordered held on $500,000
A Cicero woman charged Tuesday in a car crash in which her fiancee was killed August 21 in a residential construction zone in Elmhurst.
View ArticleLocal Army vet trying to get interpreters and families out of Afghanistan
Afghan vet Chris McClanathan is trying to get his interpreter out of Kabul after the city fell into the Taliban's hands.
View ArticleZion man sentenced to 70 years for home-invasion assaults on couple, had...
D’Javon Hudson, 28, had been found guilty last month in a bench trial of attempted murder, criminal sexual assault, home invasion and violating an order of protection for his attack on the couple at...
View Article‘We made a promise’: Local Army veterans beg for help getting interpreters...
Chicago-area Afghanistan War veterans battle to help interpreters escape from the Taliban.
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