Lake County among Indiana police departments to begin using new roadside drug...
The device called the SoToxa Mobile Test System is a handheld analyzer that uses an oral fluid swab to detect the presence of drugs. Results are available roadside within five minutes.
View ArticleBursts of snow predicted in Chicago area Monday morning
Classic Chicago winter weather is on the horizon this week with bursts of snow predicted for late Sunday into Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
View ArticleDriver dies after being shot on West Side by gunman who Chicago cop fired at,...
A man shot in the head by a gunman who Chicago police open fired on has died after the West Side attack on Friday.
View ArticleChicago’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, resigns amid uproar over Anjanette Young...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, has resigned over the Anjanette Young raid, annoucing his resignation in an email to employees on Sunday afternoon.
View ArticleShirley Abrahamson, first woman and longest-serving justice on Wisconsin...
Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. She was 87.
View ArticleProsecutors said medical driver ID’d former boyfriend as person who ran her...
Bail was denied Sunday to a former postal carrier and elder care van driver accused of driving down his former girlfriend as she left her job.
View ArticleColumn: Anjanette Young reminds Black women of their ancestors who stood...
Most African American women know we could have been Anjanette Young, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleTired, numb and burned out: With hospitals short on workers, those remaining...
Even as the first vaccine shots begin to roll out to health care workers, doctors and nurses say they are struggling to make it through the pandemic’s darkest surge yet, in an atmosphere some describe...
View ArticleA child’s killing at Cabrini-Green sparks memories of a neighborhood’s...
When 9-year-old Janari Ricks was shot and killed at Cabrini-Green's rowhouses during a violent Chicago summer, the killing evoked the tragic parts of the housing complex's history
View Article‘The longest-serving athlete’: Pioneering Special Olympian dies
Michael “Moose” Cusack, pioneering athlete in Special Olympics, dies.
View ArticleDaywatch: A changing Cabrini-Green, hospital workers burned out and the Bears...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleAs schools break for the holidays, there’s little break from anxiety over...
For many families, winter break is fraught with anxiety about what school will look like in January.
View ArticleJupiter and Saturn to create ‘Christmas star’ last widely visible 800 years...
On Dec. 21, the winter solstice, two planets will appear nearly aligned, resulting in an uncommon event. At one time, astronomers may have felt it so closely resembled a Christmas miracle — or,...
View ArticleWatch live: Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds news conference
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is scheduled to hold a news conference. Watch live here.
View ArticleHome for the holidays
The Chicago Housing Authority has given 54 families in public housing their own home this year through their Choose To Own homeownership program. The program allows public housing residents to use...
View ArticleCity distributing grab-and-go activity kits for kids, teens as winter break...
Chicago on Monday started handing out grab-and-go activity kits for children and teens for use during the winter break as other activities usually held in libraries and park field houses moved online.
View ArticleCops involved in Anjanette Young raid placed on desk duty; Lightfoot says...
All of the Chicago Police officers who were involved in the raid of Anjanette Young’s home have been placed on desk duty, the latest measure taken by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration in response...
View ArticleGunmen firing from a backyard kill 71-year-old woman in the home where she...
Emma Wright was known as “Nana” to most of the people who knew her in the Morgan Park neighborhood where she had lived for more than 50 years.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 4,699 new cases of COVID-19 — the lowest...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleWoman dies in fire at Zion senior apartment complex
A woman died in a fire early Monday morning a Zion senior apartment center, according to Lake County authorities.
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