Judge denies bail for man accused of being getaway driver in fatal shooting...
Bail was denied Tuesday for the accused getaway driver who allegedly shuttled gunmen from a West Side block after a 7-year-old girl was fatally shot during a violent July 4 holiday.
View ArticleWaukegan protesters call on Congress to protect women in the military...
Dozens of people marched in Waukegan to call for Congress to act in the wake of the death of Vanessa Guillén, who was killed and dismembered by Army Spc. Aaron David Robinson, 20, of Calumet City,...
View ArticleAs violence rages, Chicago police superintendent decides to create new...
Following an especially bloody holiday weekend in Chicago, police Superintendent David Brown has announced plans to create a specialized citywide unit to stop sudden flare-ups in violence.
View ArticleIngredients dropped off, sewing patterns delivered: Chicago students earning...
More than 10,000 Chicago teens could earn stipends this summer for participating in After School Matters programs, now in their 30th year.
View ArticleDemand escalates for pet food pantries during COVID-19 crisis: ’We didn’t...
Chicago animal shelters and pet food pantries have scrambled to provide resources for pet owners as demand escalated during COVID-19.
View ArticleColumn: Let’s make slain 7-year-old Natalia Wallace the newest face of the...
It is easy to feel helpless about the killing of 7-year-old Natalia Wallace.
View ArticleIllinois US Sen. Tammy Duckworth fires back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson...
Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in a combat helicopter crash in Iraq, fired back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Twitter after he challenged her and...
View ArticleDaywatch: Inside Illinois’ graduated-rate income tax fight, Sen. Tammy...
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View ArticleVideo shows 7 staffers restraining, sitting on teen before his death at...
Surveillance video from the Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo shows Cornelius Fredericks being pushed to the floor and held down because he threw a sandwich in the cafeteria.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening Wednesday with...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleCrews to search Monroe Harbor after 1 fell from boat that hit breakwater...
The Chicago police Marine Unit and others were expected to resume a search Wednesday morning for a person who fell from a boat that hit a Monroe Harbor breakwater during a sudden storm the night...
View ArticleColumn: There’s a place for Trump’s proposed ‘National Garden of American...
President Donald Trump's heroes garden plan is an errant shot in his never-ending culture wars, backward-looking in form as well as substance.
View ArticleMan visiting Portage apartment shot; police suspect domestic issue
Around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, Porter County Central Communications received multiple calls about a disturbance, followed by multiple shots fired, outside an apartment complex near the 6000 block of Canden,...
View ArticleRock Island service stopped near Mokena after train hits pedestrian
Service on Metra's Rock Island Line has been halted near Mokena for an investigation of a train striking a pedestrian, according to a Metra spokeswoman
View ArticleColumn: Trump demands schools reopen or funds might be cut — our (expendable)...
Donald Trumps says schools must reopen or he might cut funding to states. So listen up, you little whippersnappers. I’ve had it with all the whining and griping about the “coronavirus pandemic.” You...
View ArticleA man is shot 19 times. And his young assailant laughs, prosecutors say.
After the victim fell to the ground with 19 gunshot wounds, a 15-year-old approached the victim’s bullet-riddled body and struck him with his gun before running off in laughter to the getaway car,...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter mural in Oak Park vandalized overnight; talks planned to...
Oak Park’s Black Lives Matter mural vandalized overnight, police hoping to identify vandals
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