No bail for man charged with murder, attempted murder in connection with Back...
A 29-year-old man was charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with an April Back of the Yards double shooting that led to a 35-year-old man's death, police said.
View ArticleLake Forest man who sexually abused child for 8 years sentenced to decades in...
Authorities said Dzierzanowski physically and sexually abused a child over an eight-year period that ended when the child was 15. The victim disclosed the abuse to a therapist who alerted authorities,...
View ArticleWoman who was high-ranking Sinaloa operative under ‘El Chapo’ is sentenced in...
One of the highest ranking female operatives under infamous Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced in Chicago on Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison
View ArticleCity inspector general raises questions over police use of ShotSpotter
An analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s gunshot-detection system has found that it rarely results in officers documenting gun violence.
View ArticleJerry Harkness, captain of the 1963 Loyola basketball national champions and...
Jerry Harkness, who died Tuesday at age 81, was remembered not only as a star of the Chicago basketball scene in the 1960s and captain of Loyola's 1963 national championship team, but also as a civil...
View ArticleIndicted Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin steps down as committee chair, she says...
Austin was indicted on federal bribery charges this summer.
View ArticleR. Kelly trial: Witness says singer controlled girlfriends during CBS segment
A controlling R. Kelly barred his live-in girlfriends from watching a documentary series that portrayed him as a sexual predator and kept watch over them during an interview with Gayle King, one of the...
View ArticleKanye West listening party at Chicago’s Soldier Field will have no vaccine or...
Lollapalooza, also held on Park District property, required proof of vaccine or negative COVID test.
View ArticleIllinois schools flouting Pritzker school mask mandate banned from fall...
Student athletes at scores of Illinois public and private high schools will be prohibited from participating in playoff games this fall unless their local school boards agree to comply with Gov. J.B....
View ArticleNo injuries reported after multiple sailboats overturn, 2 people pulled from...
Evanston first responders battled high winds and heavy rain early Tuesday evening as they dealt with multiple reports of overturned sailboats on Lake Michigan.
View ArticleMan dies after being shot in exchange of gunfire with Amtrak police officer...
All Amtrak train traffic was stopped in Chicago as of shortly after 5:30 p.m.
View ArticleFormer East Aurora School District teacher found guilty of sexually...
A former East Aurora School District 131 teacher has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a student at an elementary school, officials said.
View ArticleAs the school year starts, more Illinois kids are hospitalized for COVID-19....
As Illinois enters a new school year, more children are being hospitalized for COVID-19 than last time around — though such cases remain rare here.
View ArticleDaywatch: More Illinois kids hospitalized for COVID as school year begins |...
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View ArticleNoel Swerdlow, U. of C professor who won a MacArthur ‘genius grant,’ dies at 79
The professor who wove together the humanities and the sciences was known for his warm and hospitable persona and was a familiar figure on campus.
View ArticleEast Chicago woman indicted for wire fraud in COVID aid scheme, feds say
The two counts against Natasha Weeks, 29, were filed Aug. 18 and unsealed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond, according to filings.
View ArticleMan accused of hitting CTA Red Line passenger on head with hammer, police say
A 30-year-old Chicago man has been charged for allegedly hitting a man on the head with a hammer on an “L” train early Tuesday cq, Chicago police said.
View ArticleChicago workers must get COVID vaccine by Oct. 15, Mayor Lori Lightfoot...
Workers who want medical or religious exemptions must get city approval.
View ArticleOnce a rising star of the ‘ex-gay’ movement, Julie Rodgers speaks out against...
In Netflix's “Pray Away,” the author catalogs the harms of conversion therapy she started experiencing at age 16, and calls for the practice to end.
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