Police ask for help finding shooter targeting Gold Coast high-rises
Several Gold Coast high-rises in the same block along Lake Shore Drive have been damaged by gunfire in shooting incidents in mid-February and early Thursday, according to authorities.
View ArticleTwo teenagers among three shot in South Chicago
Two teenage boys among three shot Friday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood, fire department officials said.
View ArticleSchools can’t skip standardized tests this spring, Biden administration says....
Student assessments “have never been valid" and are "especially unreliable now,” a union official contends.
View ArticleMan, 32, charged in shooting death of Valparaiso teen over paternity test:...
A fight over paternity test results and the money paid for them led to the fatal shooting of a 2020 Valparaiso High School graduate who played on the school’s varsity football team, according to...
View ArticleIllinois’ first case of Brazilian COVID-19 variant identified in Chicago
The state’s first case of the coronavirus variant from Brazil has been identified in Chicago, city and state public health officials confirmed Friday.
View ArticleMedical examiner report shows Frankfort native, Lipinski aide was legally...
The Miami-Dade County medical examiner report said Zachary Plantz had a blood-alcohol count of 0.247% at the time of his death.
View ArticleCPS high schoolers get first chance to opt for in-person classes, while...
High school students don't have a return date but CPS hopes to bring them back next month.
View ArticleWith 1 million Illinoisans now fully vaccinated for COVID-19, here’s a look...
Illinois set a new record for daily shots administered while also passing two COVID-19 vaccination benchmarks: More than 3 million doses administered and 1 million people fully vaccinated.
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View ArticleColumn: How has a year in the pandemic changed you? The Year of COVID...
The questionnaire is a chance to take inventory of how the past year changed you, or didn’t, and to think ahead to the coming year.
View ArticleHow does a mass vaccination site work? Here’s a look inside one at a former...
Illinois has 18 mass vaccination sites running across the state. To see how they work, the Tribune visited a new site set up inside a vacant K-Mart in Des Plaines . The vaccination site, on Oakton...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of University of Illinois employees who...
Officials blamed the snafu on miscommunication.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: New daily record set with 131,882 vaccines...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleProcession for Chicago police officer
A Chicago police officer was found dead of an apparent suicide at his home in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the city’s Far Southwest Side, sources said.
View ArticleRide-share driver victim of carjacking in Lawndale neighborhood
A ride-share driver was a victim of a carjacking Saturday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said.
View ArticleWoman shot after refusing to let an ex-boyfriend inside her East Chatham...
A 26-year-old woman was shot through her front door after she refused to let an ex-boyfriend inside of her residence Friday night in the East Chatham neighborhood, police said.
View ArticleBond set at $50,000 for man shot by rail police officer during struggle that...
A train passenger on the South Shore Line, irate over being asked to pay for a ticket, allegedly clawed at a transit police officer’s eyes before the cop shot him in the stomach Thursday morning,...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 134,239 COVID-19 vaccines administered — a...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
Corrections and clarifications for Saturday, March 6, 2021.
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