Snowstorm approaches Chicagoland
A winter storm warning is in effect for 4 p.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Tuesday for Cook, DuPage and Will counties, with other parts of the Chicago area under warnings until midday Tuesday.
View ArticleCTU continues push for remote teaching a day after announcing collective...
Reopening safely means reopening later, Chicago Teachers Union leaders and members said Monday.
View ArticleColumn: CPS should be making remote learning decisions based on safety, not...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is worried school instability will send families packing. But the only concern right now should be staying safe in a pandemic.
View Article2 brothers describe allegations of abuse by the Rev. Michael Pfleger: ‘I’m...
Brothers say that their former choir director, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, molested them dozens of times over several years beginning in the early 1970s.
View ArticleLatest COVID-19 relief money covers just a quarter of pandemic costs at...
Schools can use the funds for emergency grants for students, remote learning technology, PPE and other costs.
View ArticleStorm warning from Monday afternoon into Tuesday as biggest snowstorm in 2...
What’s expected to be the biggest snowstorm to hit the Chicago area in about two years should start hitting the far south suburbs before rush hour Monday, with snow spreading north as the afternoon...
View ArticleTwo teens seriously injured in Lake Villa ATV accident
Police said the teens were being pulled on an inner tube by a four-wheel ATV when the tube slid into a tree line and ejected both the youths into the trees.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Expanded indoor dining, larger groups now...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot unveils plan to send more COVID-19 vaccines to Black and...
In an effort to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in hard-hit Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she plans to increase the number of doses for mostly South and West Side...
View ArticleColumn: A major Chicago snowstorm? That’s what the media want you to believe!
Chicago's first major winter storm is expected to dump as much as 9 inches of snow. And once again, those of us who don't believe snow is real are being silenced by the media.
View Article$55.6 million O’Hare cargo project bond package advances with bolstered...
Aldermen Monday gave the go-ahead to a $55.6 million O’Hare International Airport cargo expansion project bond package they had previously stalled due to concerns over low minority participation.
View ArticleTinley Park’s convention center to open Tuesday as COVID-19 vaccination site
Tinley Park’s convention center will open Tuesday as suburban Cook County’s first mass COVID-19 vaccination site, officials said Monday.
View ArticleIllinois reports 2,944 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, lowest...
Illinois public health officials on Monday reported the fewest number of new coronavirus infections since mid-October, when the massive fall surge was just getting underway.
View ArticleAurora woman dies in house fire
An Aurora woman died early Monday morning in a house fire in the city’s near West Side.
View ArticleOn MLK Day, Chicagoans of all ages reflect on how to apply civil rights...
At Martin Luther King Day events in the Chicago area, participants looked to the future while acknowledging the sorrow over a year marked by a deadly worldwide pandemic, unrest sparked by police...
View ArticleWhiting blaze damages six-unit apartment building, barbershop
Neither residents nor any Whiting firefighters were injured during the blaze, which started around 9:11 p.m. Sunday and was extinguished around 1 a.m. Monday, Cunningham said, but the building suffered...
View ArticleHighland jogger robbed; stolen car later found in Hammond after another...
Two of the men got out of the vehicle and, while pointing guns at the jogger, demanded him to give them whatever he had on him, Banasiak said.
View ArticleChicago man charged with reckless homicide after two die in Aurora crash
A Chicago man has been charged with reckless homicide in connection to a crash in Aurora Saturday that left two people dead.
View ArticleCharged in 2009 murder, Portage man offers to plead guilty to felony robbery;...
A Portage man charged in a 2009 murder case that had gone cold until a tipster came forward to police almost nine years later offered to plead guilty to a felony robbery charge Monday.
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