Advocacy groups craft long to-do list for next Cook County Circuit Court...
A trio of government advocacy and research groups dropped a wide-ranging bundle of recommendations on Tuesday for the next Cook County Circuit Court clerk to implement as part of an overhaul to a court...
View ArticleAppellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s record in Chicago could be focus if Trump...
When Amy Coney Barrett last appeared on President Donald Trump’s short list of Supreme Court nominees, she was a new judge on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with few writings to examine....
View ArticleThe Spin: Trump’s front-runner to replace Ginsburg could see Chicago record...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View ArticleChicago-area Catholic schools enrollment drops, with worst decline among...
Archdiocese cites stay-at-home parents as a factor as the number of students enrolled at Catholic schools in Chicago dropped this fall.
View ArticleEven after a successful claim he was tortured into confessing by Jon Burge,...
A living relic of sorts from a notorious era in Chicago history took his seat in court Tuesday, wearing a three-piece suit and a surgical mask, bracing for his third trial in four decades for the same...
View ArticleCook County Health officials send Board of Commissioners $3.4B budget plan as...
Cook County Health’s board of directors sent the county’s Board of Commissioners its preliminary $3.4 billion 2021 budget plan this week that would enact cuts across departments aimed at closing a...
View ArticleGov. Pritzker puts Illinois National Guard ‘in a state of readiness’ ahead of...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker puts Illinois National Guard ‘in a state of readiness’ ahead of Kentucky announcement in Breonna Taylor case
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,531 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 30...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticlePolice investigate burned body found in Fernwood home
Detectives are investigating the death of a man found badly burned in a Fernwood home Tuesday night, according to Chicago police.
View ArticleColumn: In the battle of the Supreme Court, Democrats need to get down in the...
The GOP has challenged Democrats to a street fight. They can’t act like it's a tea party, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleColumn: Take a deep breath and repeat, ‘Despair is not an option.’ An...
It’s not just the season of autumn, it’s election season, six weeks that stretch before us like an eternity and a nanosecond, weeks that risk being a nonstop brawl. So today, we turn to a time-honored...
View ArticleDaywatch: Pritzker readies Illinois National Guard, state residents could get...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleComEd, other state utilities extend moratorium on residential disconnections...
Ameren, Commonwealth Edison and other state utilities have agreed to extend a moratorium on residential disconnections until March 31 for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleChicago fall bridge lifts start Wednesday; Lake Shore Drive lifts could take...
Fall bridge lifts were scheduled to start Wednesday on the Chicago River’s main and south branches, starting with the Lake Shore Drive Bridge, which officials warn may take much longer than usual to...
View ArticleGale Sayers, the Chicago Bears’ Hall of Fame running back, dies at 77: ‘He...
Gale Sayers, the dazzling Chicago Bears running back and kick returner whose injury-shortened career made him the youngest player ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died after a...
View ArticleChicago jazz great Ira Sullivan dies at 89
Multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan dies at age 89.
View ArticleRed Cross: COVID-19 antibody testing now done through standard blood...
Those who have recovered from coronavirus can now give blood or platelets at any American Red Cross donation site to help save the lives of struggling COVID-19 patients, the Red Cross announced Wednesday.
View ArticleHigh schools reopen for the SAT exam
State graduation requirement prompts re-opening of shuttered high schools to thousands of students taking state-required SAT exam.
View ArticleMap: Chicago’s ghost bikes
Ghost bikes, memorials for cyclists killed in crashes, dot Chicago. Here are the locations and stories behind these streetside monuments.
View ArticleGary man faces mail fraud, attempted bank fraud charges: indictment alleges...
The indictment alleges that on two occasions Fields completed a USPS Change of Address form to redirect the facility’s mail to Fields' address in Gary, a release said.
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