Iowa, the 4th-highest state for rate of COVID-19 infections, surpasses...
As Iowa surpassed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, the mayor of Des Moines expressed concern that President Trump’s rally this week could become a super-spreader event.
View ArticleBaby survives after mother shot to death on Far South Side, police say
A 35-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant was fatally shot in the back early Tuesday on the Far South Side, but doctors were able to deliver her baby at the hospital, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleMan fatally shot moments after entering ride-share vehicle on West Side, cops...
A 19-year-old was fatally shot moments after entering a rideshare vehicle late Monday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said.
View ArticleChicago police squad car responding to call for officer assistance falls off...
A marked Chicago police squad car with a female officer inside went over a Kennedy Expressway overpass Tuesday morning, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleYoung people are calling out racism at elite Chicago high schools, seeking...
The Instagram stories help show "these weren’t isolated incidents" but "part of a bigger problem," one student said.
View ArticleNorth Side man and woman, both age 69, dead in homicide-suicide, Chicago...
A woman killed by a man who later killed himself were found in their North Side apartment Monday night.
View ArticleNotre Dame president ends quarantine after COVID diagnosis
Jenkins began his self-isolation period Sept. 28, two days after he attended the Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, a judge and Notre Dame law professor who is President Donald Trump’s nominee...
View ArticleWisconsin absentee ballot case may be headed to US Supreme Court
Democrats said they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin that are received up to six days after the election can be counted.
View ArticleTwo charged with robbery of Lincolnwood gas station after police chase down...
Two men who allegedly robbed a Lincolnwood gas station last week were apprehended following a 6-mile police pursuit and crash in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood.
View Article3 men shot while working at CHA building on Near West Side
Someone shot three men behind a Chicago Housing Authority building Tuesday morning on the Near West Side.
View ArticleIllinois’ COVID-19 death toll pushes past 9,000
The number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus in Illinois surpassed 9,000 on Tuesday.
View ArticleAbbott gets emergency FDA approval for antibody test that detects recent...
Abbott’s latest antibody test — meant to show whether a person has recently had COVID-19 — has gained emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: State tops 9,000 fatalities as 2,851 newly...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleDolton man faces weapons, drugs and speeding charges after being clocked at...
Wiggins has been preliminarily charged with Possession of a Handgun No Permit, a Class A misdemeanor; reckless driving, a Class C misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class C...
View ArticleSuspect wanted to strand Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Lake Michigan,...
Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing in Michigan.
View ArticleEx-state rep, Berrios' son-in-law plead not guilty to federal bribery charges
The son-in-law of onetime Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges alleging he bribed a state representative and state senator for help on legislation...
View ArticleWatch live: Chicago health officials deliver a COVID-19 update
Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady is expected to deliver a COVID-19 update at 2 p.m. Watch live here.
View ArticleGov. J.B. Pritzker’s cousin gives $500,000 to group opposed to governor’s...
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s cousin Jennifer Pritzker donated $500,000 on Tuesday to a group pushing for the defeat of the governor’s signature agenda item on the Nov. 3 ballot — a proposed state...
View ArticleEx-Merrillville priest accused of abuse, faking assault is defrocked, church...
A former Merrillville priest accused of sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s and faking a 2018 beating at St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church has been officially banned from the priesthood, according...
View ArticleChicago aldermen reject Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposed ordinance that would...
Chicago adermen on Tuesday rejected a Mayor Lori Lightfoot-introduced ordinance that would have rolled back part of tougher City Hall lobbying rules for elected officials that the City Council passed...
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