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More than 150 summer festivals: guide to the music, beer, food and more
Summer in Chicago means one thing: festival season. RedEye has your ultimate guide for celebrations throughout the warm months, from May to October. So many fests, so little time. Almost...
More than 34,000 Illinoisans have lost their right to own a gun. Nearly 80% may still be armed.
As many as 30,000 guns may still be in the possession of Illinois residents deemed too dangerous to have them, according to a Tribune investigation. In an analysis of data...
Look up how many people in your town had their FOID cards revoked – and how many haven’t accounted for their guns
A Tribune analysis of previously unreleased Illinois State Police data shows that as many as 27,000 Illinoisans over the past four years have failed to surrender or otherwise account for...
Chicago slips in population but is still third-largest city in U.S. — for now
The majority of municipalities in the Chicago region, including the city itself, lost population last year, according to newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, part of a familiar...
Chicago vuelve a perder población
Los nuevos datos del censo muestran que Chicago perdió población por cuarto año consecutivo, continuando con una tendencia de declive en todo el estado que podría amenazar la financiación federal...
Charts of metro areas that gained and lost the most people and how the Chicago area compares
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin MSA WIS. Chicago ILL. IND. The Chicago metropolitan area lost more people, 22,068, than any of the other metro areas in the United States from 2017 to 2018, according...
Chicago area drops population for fourth straight year, census data show; Cook, DuPage and Lake counties also decline
New census data show the Chicago area lost population for the fourth consecutive year, continuing a statewide trend of decline that could threaten future federal funding, economic prosperity and political...
The Aurora victims’ stories: Intern’s 1st day on the job, a family patriarch, an ‘incredible’ dad, a Mississippi State fan, a union leader
A student at Northern Illinois University was on his first day as a human resources intern at the Henry Pratt Co. plant in Aurora on Friday when he was killed,...
Vicente Juárez, sostén de familia, buen vecino, es una de las víctimas del tiroteo en Aurora
Estas son algunas de las historias de las víctimas del tiroteo en Aurora, del viernes por la tarde. Una es la de un estudiante a punto de graduarse y que...
City turns up the heat, takes landlords to court in wake of polar vortex cold snap
As the coldest weather in decades gripped Chicago this week, a family with five children in Englewood went without heat in their apartment. In the South Shore neighborhood, a five-year-old...