After losing husband and both parents within weeks to COVID-19, suburban...
Three members of one Hanover Park family die of virus complications.
View ArticleMore than 20 shot over 12 hours in Chicago as gun violence remains high for...
At least 20 people were shot from Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning, according to police, a number that’s still high after a notably violent weekend.
View ArticleLatino activists speak out about racial tension with black Chicagoans
The organizing efforts of some Latino groups to peacefully protest and help protect their communities from unrest were quickly overshadowed by racial tensions after reports that alleged Latino gang...
View ArticleMuseum layoff wave continues: Lincoln Park Zoo cuts 18 workers amid COVID-19...
Some outdoor institutions are starting to reopen, but more museums and zoos, like Lincoln Park Zoo, are cutting payroll but laying off workers.
View ArticleMan in ‘Joker’ mask charged with torching Chicago cop car faces at least 5...
Timothy O’Donnell, 31, was charged with torching a Chicago police vehicle during the downtown unrest over the weekend, and he faces at least five years in federal prison if convicted, prosecutors said...
View ArticleSpotHero lays off 42 employees, saying COVID-19 hurt the parking industry
SpotHero laid off 42 employees Tuesday, citing a parking industry that has been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleLGBTQ Chicagoans face a Pride Month without street festivals, bar-hopping or...
June Pride celebrations will be very different this year in Chicago due to the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleChicago-based PR firm Edelman to lay off 390 employees due to COVID-19 losses
Edelman, the world's largest public relations firm, which is co-headquartered in Chicago, is laying off 390 people, or 7% of its workforce, due to revenue declines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View ArticleMan arrested after pointing gun at federal agents, then stashing it next to...
A man is facing federal charges after prosecutors say he pointed a gun at a federal agent and instructed him and others to “keep walking” while a small child stood by his side.
View ArticleOfficers arrest man they interrupted breaking 80 windows at Northwest Side...
A Norwood Park-area man faces felony charges after police say he broke dozens of windows in a school around the corner from his home early Wednesday.
View ArticleCharting structural inequities: How lowest-paid, least-secure jobs also tend...
Workers who hold the essential jobs that have kept society running during the pandemic, as well as those with face-to-face jobs that make them most at risk of virus exposure, grapple with greater job...
View ArticleChicago leaders cautiously optimistic as city reopens amid calming protests:...
On Chicago’s first day easing coronavirus restrictions on city businesses, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown expressed hope that the city’s civil unrest was calming.
View ArticleSmall Northwest Side shops’ return following pandemic shutdowns is slowed by...
The lights are slowly blinking on in the small storefronts that stretch down Fullerton Avenue west of Kimball Avenue.
View ArticleThe Spin: Politicians pivot to police reform | For Lightfoot, Preckwinkle and...
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View ArticleFamily alleges brutal police restraint with knee on neck in arrest caught on...
Warning: graphic content/language. Chicago police surrounded a vehicle, broke its windows and arrested a women near Brickyard Mall in Chicago.
View ArticleWith schools shut down, teacher at Chicago’s Lane Tech designs, manufactures...
With coronavirus closures sending Lane Technical High School’s 4,500 students off campus since March, computer science teacher Jeff Solin said he was determined to not let the high school’s Innovation...
View ArticleActivists, alderman urge Mayor Lori Lightfoot to forgo contact tracing...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot should not hire an outside agency to oversee contract tracing for COVID-19 cases and instead use the money earmarked for that effort to beef up a diminished Chicago Department of...
View ArticleStick-on medical device, worn on the neck, streams COVID-19 symptom data to docs
Stick-on medical device tracks COVID-19 symptoms.
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