Learning to read
A 57-year-old Black man, laid off during pandemic, determined that the one thing he wanted to do before he died was to learn to read .
View ArticleColumn: Odds are you don’t know it, but Dr. Arwady is a poet
A poem, says Chicago's public health commissioner, “is a way to get people to listen differently.” The result for one recent rhyme is a short video recorded last week in City Hall and released on...
View ArticleFifth Park Ridge teen arrested in alleged beating, bullying attack on...
A fifth teenager has been arrested in connection with an attack on a 14-year-old boy in Niles that was recorded and shared on social media in early November, police said.
View ArticleChicago’s winter overnight parking ban begins December 1. Here’s a map and...
Overnight parking is prohibited on 107 miles of main city streets from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. — regardless of snow — from Dec. 1, 2019 until April 1, 2020.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot’s ‘pandemic budget’ for 2021 cleared the Chicago City...
Chicago aldermen on Tuesday narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $12.8 billion “pandemic budget” for 2021, a package that will fund city government through the next fiscal year while closing a...
View ArticleChicago, Hammond to offer competing pitches to sell Joliet Lake Michigan water
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday laid out her plan to try to convince Joliet officials to let Chicago provide the city’s water. As Joliet looks to sign a contract to start getting its water from Lake...
View ArticleReports detail domestic incident allegedly involving former Chicago police...
On the night Chicago police responded to a domestic incident at the home of former Superintendent Eddie Johnson last month, his wife told officers Johnson had set some of her clothing on fire and had...
View ArticleChicago City Council approves Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 budget, $94 million...
Chicago’s City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $12.8 billion budget for next year.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Chicago City Council approves ‘pandemic...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleNaperville man charged in scheme to illegally obtain coronavirus relief aid...
Federal agents seized items, including a Porsche and a Lamborghini, allegedly purchased with illegally obtained COVID-19 small business relief funds by a Naperville man and six people in Texas who were...
View ArticleMan killed in Austin alley after shooter mistook him for someone else,...
A man arrested in DeKalb this week was ordered held without bail Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of fatally shooting a man in the back in an Austin neighborhood alley in August after mistaking...
View ArticleThe Spin: Lightfoot to mark passage of pandemic budget with steak, scotch,...
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View ArticleBest friend doctors fight COVID-19
Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Michelle Prickett are both doctors who work in the COVID ICU. They are also best friends. Their friendship has sustained them during this time, when they are both facing the...
View ArticleContact tracing in Illinois may not slow the coronavirus much. But the data...
The information gleaned by contact tracers is feeding a growing database that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has cited as a guide in making decisions about pandemic restrictions.
View ArticleHave a question about COVID-19? University of Chicago’s Dr. Emily Landon will...
The Chicago Tribune is partnering with the University of Chicago to answer your questions about COVID-19 in our first Facebook Live event Dec. 2.
View ArticleDaywatch: How contact tracing is helping Pritzker, Lightfoot’s ‘pandemic...
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View ArticleBoy, 15, charged in Wisconsin mall shooting that injured 8 people denied GPS...
Court Commissioner J.C. Moore on Tuesday denied a defense request to allow the teen to be released to house arrest with GPS monitoring
View ArticleMan suffers ‘life-threatening’ injuries when hit by car in Lincolnwood
A 46-year-old man was critically injured Wednesday morning after being hit by a car in Lincolnwood, according to village officials.
View ArticlePresident McKinley statue vandalized as someone tries to topple it
Chicago police are investigating after a statue of William McKinley — the nation's 25th president, for whom a city neighborhood also is named — was defaced.
View Article3 charged with murder in killing involving caregiver neglect in Englewood
Three people have been charged with murder in the June killing of a 44-year-old man who one of the three was a caregiver for, according to Chicago police.
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