Some early doses of COVID-19 vaccine meant for health care workers go to...
University of Chicago Medicine opened up vaccination to all its employees, even those who work from home. Other local health systems have made different choices. Loyola Medicine said it has vaccinated...
View Article‘We’re getting attacked.’ Even before COVID-19, doctors faced online...
Doctors use their free time to share vaccine information and encouragement. In return, they are subject to sexual harassment and personal attacks.
View ArticleColumn: Time to pick a guiding word for 2021. Mine is ‘endurance.’
A guiding word isn’t a resolution. It’s gentler. It’s more like a friend standing by the side of the road with a map, saying: When you get lost, think of me and I’ll help you get back on track.
View ArticleDaywatch: Questions raised over COVID-19 vaccine recipients, Archdiocese...
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View ArticleFormer CPS head who went to prison for kickback scheme also steered a $6...
Barbara Byrd-Bennett was involved in "one of the most exceptional cases of ... abuse of public trust in CPS’s history,” the report states.
View ArticleChicago man dead after train strikes car in Gary, pushes it into Portage
A Chicago man died Tuesday night after his car was struck by an eastbound train and pushed from Gary over the county line into Portage, officials said.
View ArticleGresham fatal shooting
Chicago police officers were called to the 800 block of West 75th Street just before 5 a.m., where two people were found shot.
View ArticleGlenview-based Family Video outlasted Blockbuster. But the DVD rental chain...
Family Video, the suburban Chicago-based video rental chain that outlasted Blockbuster, VHS tapes and the “be kind, rewind” mantra, is closing its stores and calling it quits after 42 years.
View ArticleChicago cites three restaurants and bars for violating coronavirus...
City cites three restaurants and bars for violating coronavirus restrictions over New Year's
View Article2 more state House Democrats — 1 a member of Michael Madigan’s leadership...
Two more Democrats have gone public with their interest in replacing Michael Madigan as the next speaker of the Illinois House, one of them a member of Madigan’s leadership team.
View ArticleBookie with history of alleged mob links pleads guilty to new federal...
A convicted bookmaker with a history of alleged connections to organized crime figures faces up to nearly three years in federal prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to new charges of running an...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Q&A: When might teachers get vaccines? Does Chicago have enough...
City experts offer guidance on when we might move to the next stage of vaccinating, and where we are on vaccine supplies.
View ArticleMan fled to Missouri, had car repainted after shooting a man to death on West...
A Chicago man fled to Missouri and had his car repainted to try to cover his tracks after fatally shooting someone on the West Side last month, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
View ArticleChicago police: Second victim dies from injuries in Gresham neighborhood...
One person was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, according to police.
View ArticleState watchdog sues ComEd in federal court over alleged scheme to bribe...
The Citizens Utility Board watchdog group has filed suit in federal court accusing Commonwealth Edison of betraying its customers by orchestrating a bribery scheme to influence Michael Madigan
View ArticleChicago police officer arrested in alleged off-duty shooting
A Chicago police officer has been arrested in connection with an alleged off-duty shooting this fall on the Southwest Side
View ArticleMan arrested with gun day after September killing charged with murder after...
A man accused of opening fire at a party in September, leaving one person dead, was arrested with the weapon the next day—then charged with murder just this week, after authorities matched the gun to...
View ArticleU.S. Reps. Foster, Casten, Underwood, DuPage GOP chairman Jim Zay condemn...
Roundup of statements issued by federal, state and local elected officials in response to the large mob that pushed its way into the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as Congress was in the process of confirming...
View ArticleLongtime St. Sabina pastor Pfleger receives support, releases statement after...
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of Chicago’s largest Black Catholic parish who stepped away from ministry because of an allegation of child sex abuse from more than 40 years ago, released a...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers challenge electoral votes before Congress
The Senate debated a challenge by a handful of GOP lawmakers to the 11 electoral votes that Arizona cast for President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday during a procedural reading of the electoral votes in...
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