Afternoon Briefing: Brighton Park residents say city still has no clear plan to protect them
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The Illinois Commerce Commission is expected to rule by May on whether Peoples can finish the work that was already underway — and pass the additional costs along to customers.
Dozens of suburban district leaders said the requirements are confusing and burdensome, and would lead to cutbacks, reduced services or increased fees for residents.
City officials say there is no current risk to residents from the contaminated lot.
Bettiann Gardner, who co-founded Soft Sheen Products and helped build it into the country’s largest Black-owned hair care company, has died at 93.
None of the 20 contributors from Chicago had previously given money to a Jackson Lee campaign during her nearly three decades in the U.S. House.
Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died.
A Joliet teenager was charged with first-degree murder in an August 19 shooting of a 17-year-old girl in the North Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.
At least five businesses were burglarized overnight on the North Side with the robbers smashing the glass doors or windows to make off with merchandise, Chicago police said.
Rolando Morales was arrested Monday, shortly before 10:45 p.m., less than 10 minutes after stabbing a victim in the 1700 block of West 45th Street, police said.
National Weather Service officials issued a dense fog advisory for the second day warning of visibility of one quarter of a mile in portions of Illinois.
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The family was coming home from an appointment with their lawyer around 3 p.m. Friday when a car heading in the same direction struck them on southbound I-290.
The new emphasis on neighborhood schools is making charter and selective enrollment parents nervous.
Police say Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, shared a 3-year-old son with alleged shooter Romeo Nance, 23, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Texas.
A complaint was filed by a Virginia-based organization that describes itself as a “conservative watchdog” that “exposes liberal bias and abuse on the nation’s college campuses.”
Johnson did not directly answer questions about the fate of the next round of migrants whose 60-day deadline to vacate city-run shelters arrives Feb. 1.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson backed calls for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza ahead of a hotly contested vote on a City Council cease-fire resolution set for next week.
Officials have offered no motive for the massacre described as a “reign of terror” at a news conference Tuesday.
A Chicago police officer was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation, with the first three months on home detention, for breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot three years ago
Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday dropped charges against two Chicago police officers who were accused of beating a teenager after a car chase
The owner of a Chicago-area construction company with ties to the investigation of former Ald. Carrie Austin pleaded guilty Wednesday to bribing an employee of the Cook County Assessor’s office to reduce taxes on his properties
Nicor says natural gas odor reported in some Southland communities, including Oak Forest and Tinley Park, not a gas leak but coming from Indiana, as a BP refinery is cleaning up a leak at its Whiting refinery.