COVID-19 remote learning quashes traditional snow day: ‘The luster has worn...
As the many suburban Chicago school districts that have reopened for in-person instruction deftly pivoted to remote learning Tuesday, it raised the question: Could this mean the death of the...
View ArticleFoxx stunned as some public defenders arranged for coronavirus vaccine at...
Some Cook County public defenders received a COVID-19 vaccine at the Cook County Jail this week, unbeknownst to leaders of the Cook County state’s attorney’s office who told the Tribune they had no...
View ArticleEvery Illinois police officer would be required to wear a body camera by 2025...
Every Illinois police officer would have to wear a body camera by 2025 under bill awaiting Pritzker’s signature. But without penalties, will departments comply?
View ArticleState of Illinois to purchase Near West Side office building as part of...
The state of Illinois will pay nearly $73.3 million to buy a Near West Side office building as part of its long-term plan to consolidate Chicago offices and eventually leave the controversial James R....
View ArticleColumn: Charging teens as adults won’t stop carjackings. It will create...
Tough-on-crime messages to would-be scofflaws are rarely heard, Dahleen Glanton writes.
View ArticleDaywatch: CPS halts in-person learning, Illinois told to expect boost in...
Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.
View ArticleAssailant asks for the time, stabs stranger with a box cutter and steals...
A man was stabbed multiple times by a stranger on a CTA Red Line train Tuesday night on the North Side.
View ArticleCook County could get another 3 inches of lake effect snow, forecasters issue...
Parts of Cook County could get another 1 to 3 inches of snow Wednesday just a day after the area was walloped by a system that dropped 6 inches of snow at O’Hare International Airport, the city’s...
View ArticleHistoric gift of $75 million will go to University of Chicago social work...
The school will be renamed the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in honor of the benefactors.
View ArticleSecond man faces murder charge after fatal Little Village shooting, police say
A 28-year-old man faces a murder charge after Chicago police say he was involved in a fatal shooting Sunday in Little Village. He is the second person to be arrested in connection with the shooting,...
View ArticleColumn: Why parents shouldn’t tune out the Claudia and Kellyanne Conway...
I asked some psychologists if the Conway family drama was coming up in therapy sessions. "Every kid was strictly talking about this,” one told me.
View ArticleControversial president of Chicago police union, already under threat of...
The embattled leader of the city’s largest police union now faces firing from his job as a Chicago police officer in at least two disciplinary investigations.
View ArticleGangster Disciples boss Larry Hoover directed gang appointments from supermax...
Gangster Disciples chairman Larry Hoover was convicted in federal court in Chicago two decades ago of continuing to run his criminal empire even as he was serving a 200-year sentence.
View ArticleSecond man charged in fatal Hammond drug robbery
Charges were unsealed for a second man accused in a deadly Hammond drug robbery.
View ArticleChicago City Council closes loopholes in Welcoming City ordinance, ending...
Aldermen closed loopholes in Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance on Wednesday, prohibiting police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities when immigrants living in the country without...
View ArticleWhere the coronavirus data stands in the U.S. and world: Vaccinations, cases...
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe countries — and states in the U.S. — are dealing with wave and wave of illness. As hot spots shift, these charts will be updated daily with new totals.
View ArticleBank robber nabbed after allegedly filling out withdrawal slip for $10,000,...
Alleged bank robber arrested after feds say he paused to give teller a withdrawal slip and his identification.
View ArticleEmmett Till’s Chicago home granted city landmark status
The South Side home of Emmett Till and his mother — where the boy was living when he was tortured and murdered during a 1955 trip to Mississippi — was granted city landmark status by the City Council...
View Article‘A terrible day...tragic day,’ 4 little girls, woman dead in Des Plaines fire
Four children under the age of six and one adult have died in a Des Plaines residential fire on Wednesday morning, according to Des Plaines Fire Chief Daniel Anderson.
View Article