Outbound lanes remain shuttered following shooting on I-57
A Friday afternoon shooting on the Far South Side left one person in critical condition, fire officials said.
View ArticleChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveils security plan for election-related civil...
Under pressure to avoid a repeat of this summer’s civil unrest, Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a 10-day preparedness plan aimed at preventing looting and chaos on Chicago’s streets around Halloween and...
View ArticleIllinois shatters single-day COVID-19 record set a day earlier with nearly...
A chunk of east-central Illinois that includes Urbana-Champaign and Decatur will become the 10th of 11 regions in the state to come under tighter restrictions, including a ban on indoor dining and bar...
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot argues again that bars and restaurants aren’t driving...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View ArticleCoronavirus at Illinois long-term care facilities: 34,278 confirmed cases and...
The Pritzker administration released for the first time details of the number of cases and deaths tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois. The data shows at least 189 long-term care facilities in...
View ArticleSome suburban restaurants defy indoor shutdown order, while others watch and...
Despite Gov. J.B. Pritzker shutting down indoor dining across the Chicago area, some suburban restaurants say they can't survive another closure.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 6,943 new known COVID-19 cases — a...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleElection season unlike any other nears finish line
To some degree, every election is a referendum, and perhaps never more so than in a presidential year.
View ArticleColumn: Where were you on election night 2016? We all remember. And it makes...
Election night 2020 is near. We carry the memory of four years ago into the present, a memory that leaves us anxious, cautious, wise enough not to predict or assume.
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about social media as he told...
Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about social media as he told Antioch cops, ‘I shot two white kids’
View Article‘I need my eyes,’ says victim of paintball gun shooting who lost sight in one...
A 44-year-old man lost sight in his left eye after a paintball gun attack, and police announce arrests of six suspects.
View ArticleGraduated-rate tax amendment rally gets sidetracked by Toni Preckwinkle pitch...
An hourlong virtual rally in support of a proposed state constitutional amendment to change Illinois' income tax system to a graduated-rate tax was sidetracked Friday night by Cook County President...
View ArticleIn the fight over reopening schools amid the pandemic, race and class...
One mom said she's "much more worried" about her son's education than about him getting COVID-19.
View ArticleCritics call Gary Franchi’s YouTube channel, the Next News Network, a hive of...
The social media crackdown on misinformation is rattling creators like Gary Franchi, of Chicago’s western suburbs, who has built a channel of 1.8 million subscribers.
View Article1 dead, 15 wounded in overnight shootings on West, South sides
A man is dead, and at least 15 other people were wounded in shootings overnight Friday into Saturday morning, police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: State sets third single-day record in a row...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleFlyers recruiting for far-right group Proud Boys placed on cars in Ravenswood
Flyers attempting to recruit for the far-right group the Proud Boys were placed on cars parked throughout several residential blocks in Ravenswood late Friday.
View ArticleIllinois sets record for coronavirus cases for third day in a row
Illinois sets record for coronavirus cases for third day in a row
View ArticleBiden falls behind Trump in Iowa: Track the race for president in key...
The race for the White House will be determined in 13 key battleground states and a pair of congressional districts.
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