One man was killed and another was injured after a shooting in South Chicago early Saturday morning, police said. Shortly before 2 a.m., the men, both 42, where standing outside in the 2500 block of East 83rd Street when shots were fired striking both victims, police said. One of the victims was struck to the […]
A center in a south suburban school district meant to give disenfranchised students opportunities to explore dance, theater and poetry is underway in Country Club Hills.
Evergreen Park Community High School students "crushed it" at a recent Moraine Valley Community College welding competition, part of a program aimed at training people to work in the trades.
Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. Читать дальше...
Two families were displaced Friday after an extra-alarm fire caused extensive damage to three neighboring homes in the Avondale neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side. No injuries were reported after the Chicago Fire crews were called to the 2800 block of North Christiana Avenue just before 6:45 p.m., according to authorities. Arriving fire crews found […]
A young woman was killed and a man was critically injured Friday afternoon when gunmen in two separate vehicles opened fire on the vehicle they were riding in on the city’s West Side, according to Chicago police. The victims, a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were inside a vehicle headed west through an alley […]
For the first time polluters could be forced to clean up sites contaminated with a pair of forever chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. The new policy from President Joe Biden’s administration is the latest attempt to prevent the further spread of […]
The subpoenas, which two sources said do not name Henyard, come just days after Dolton chief administrator Keith Freeman, a close ally of Henyard, was charged with bankruptcy fraud in U.S. District Court as part of a related investigation.
Military scientists say they've identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines.
Young activists held a rally Friday afternoon demanding urgent action from government officials to slow climate change, calling it a “public health emergency that affects every breath we take and every sip we drink.”
Their passage gives Johnson much-needed money to continue the daily churn of migrant caretaking while adding a sprawling pool of cash to spend on housing, job growth and cultural projects.
Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The federal government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of the Prairie Band’s reservation land 175 years ago. At the time, Chief Shab-eh-nay had been traveling from his home reservation in DeKalb County to visit his family in Kansas, the Nation said. “We have been... Читать дальше...
A University of Chicago charter school will pay $125,000 to a special education student who was mocked by his teachers and called “dumb” during a disturbing incident captured on video, according to court records.
County health officials are warning unvaccinated residents after a possible measles exposure at a Sam's Club in Evergreen Park on April 9.
