United Center to serve as polling place on Election Day
The Chicago Board of Elections plans to utilize the United Center on the Near West Side as a voting super site on Tuesday, giving all city voters another polling site option where they can cast their...
View ArticleMother of Black man killed by Waukegan police alleges in lawsuit that medical...
Mother of Marcellis Stinnette, Black teen killed by Waukegan police, files lawsuit.
View ArticleIllinois sees another record daily high with 6,363 newly confirmed COVID-19...
Illinois set another daily record high Thursday for newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, and another region was set to be put under tougher rules for restaurants, bars and gatherings.
View ArticleCPS: High school basketball, wrestling postponed indefinitely in Chicago...
"We know that this is not the outcome so many ... wanted to see," CPS said in making the announcement.
View ArticleChicago Police Department clearing fewer murders this year, officials say
Chicago police are solving murders at a worse rate this year than they did last year, officials said Thursday. Police officials revealed the 41% clearance rate, which was around 50% at the end of last...
View ArticleIHSA leader says ‘we plan on going forward’ with basketball despite Gov....
The Illnois High School Association responded Thursday to Gov. J.B. Pritzker saying the basketball seasons will be "moved to the spring."
View ArticleSexual misconduct cases in CPS are down since remote learning began, but more...
The types of complaints "have certainly changed" since the start of remote learning, a CPS investigator said.
View ArticleColumn: White House of Horrors: A Halloween-themed poem about Donald Trump
The latest TrumPoem, a rhyming account of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, loosely based on his words and acts.
View ArticleColumn: Trump may well beat Biden. Why? Trumpism is a cult, and cult members...
Rex Huppke: It won’t surprise me if Donald Trump gets reelected.
View ArticleVote-dry referendum could spell the end for late-night Lakeview bar
The fate of Tai’s Til 4, a decades-old Lakeview bar renowned for its late-night party scene, is in the balance on Tuesday as people who live nearby consider whether to vote the area dry.
View ArticleDaywatch: Restaurants dealt another blow with indoor dining ban, Chicago’s...
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View ArticleMan pelted by paintballs in Streeterville, latest in burst of such attacks...
A man walking on a sidewalk in Streeterville was repeatedly hit by paintballs Thursday night, the latest in a burst of such attacks across the city this fall.
View Article‘We’re not going to control the pandemic’: Divide between government’s health...
A coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between Trump and his government’s top health officials.
View ArticleColumn: In a shift, city will take first steps to grant landmark status to...
“We have heard you,” said Maurice Cox, Chicago’s planning commissioner, concerning St. Adalbert Catholic Church. “This is an iconic landmark in Pilsen. That is without dispute.”
View ArticleIs a 96% attendance rate a bright spot in a pandemic stricken school year?...
Illinois schools shifted to remote learning in the spring without standardized methods of recording remote attendance, making it difficult to compare data from previous years.
View ArticleA crime revisited: Ex-prosecutor’s role in decades-old wrongful conviction of...
The exonerated men known as the Roscetti 4 appeared in one of Kim Foxx’s videos blaming opponent Pat O’Brien for the injustice that befell them, while he has sought to blunt those accusations. Despite...
View ArticleReputed gang leader shot to death in Humboldt Park neighborhood
A reputed high-ranking gang member was shot to death Thursday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
View ArticleLightfoot administration official defends plan to ticket speeders driving 6...
Chicago’s transportation commissioner on Friday defended Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to have automated speed cameras across the city issue speeding tickets to cars driving as little as 6 miles per hour...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse sent to Wisconsin to face charges in Kenosha protest shootings
Lake County authorities on Friday afternoon handed off Rittenhouse to police in Wisconsin, where he faces charges stemming from the fatal shooting of two men and the wounding of a third during August...
View ArticleJudges deny requests in McHenry, DuPage, Cook for restaurants to keep indoor...
Judges in McHenry, Cook and DuPage counties on Friday upheld Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s authority to stop indoor service at restaurants and bars amid spikes during the COVID-19 pandemic
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