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1 child, 4 adults hospitalized after I-290 rollover crash

July 17, 2022 at 5:16 p.m.

An early Sunday rollover crash on the Eisenhower Expressway left five people hospitalized, including one child, according to the Chicago Fire Department and Illinois State Police. The crash, involving two...

Rising sophomore Zoe Lewis sits at her desk in The Garage shared workspace at Northwestern University in Evanston on July 14, 2022.

Colleges, students respond to end of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID vaccine mandate

July 15, 2022 at 11:12 a.m.

When the new school year starts this fall, whether Illinois college students and faculty will be surrounded by vaccinated classmates and colleagues will largely depend on where they are enrolled....

La gente visita uno de los monumentos a las siete víctimas a lo largo de Central Avenue el 10 de julio de 2022.

Una semana después, los residentes de Highland Park reflexionan sobre el tiroteo

July 11, 2022 at 3:10 p.m.

En la entrada de la Iglesia Católica de la Inmaculada Concepción, un letrero dice "Damos la bienvenida a nuestro nuevo párroco, el padre Hernán Cuevas, el fin de semana del...

Members of the community attend an interfaith service on July 10, 2022, at Glencoe Union Church after seven people were killed on July Fourth during a mass shooting in Highland Park.

‘I don’t want one individual to destroy my feelings.’ A week later, Highland Park residents reflect on shooting at services and memorials.

July 11, 2022 at 4:52 p.m.

At the entrance to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, a sign reads "We welcome our new Pastor, Father Hernan Cuevas on the weekend of July 2 & 3rd, 2022." One day...

Urban Rivers volunteer Tammie Johansen gives high-fives to Joy Schuller, 10, and Joy's brother Kai, 7, as Johansen prepares to retrieve trash from the North Branch Canal along the Wild Mile project.

Wild Mile’s learning platform brings students from different backgrounds together to learn about the Chicago River

July 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

Behind a row of industrial buildings and down a small path of stairs, a wooden platform skirts the rusting river wall, surrounded by floating gardens, sunken logs and quietly emerging...

Stacey Portugal walks through the memorial for victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting with her son, Jacob Portugal, who lives in California, on Aug. 15, 2022.

Wake and funeral held for Highland Park parade victim Eduardo Uvaldo, who was remembered as a ‘very happy’ family man

July 10, 2022 at 8:23 p.m.

Mourning for the seven victims of Monday's Highland Park mass shooting continued Saturday morning with the wake and funeral of 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo. Uvaldo was one of seven people killed...

Judge Lisa Holder White sworn in to Illinois Supreme Court, becomes first Black female justice

July 7, 2022 at 8:16 p.m.

Judge Lisa Holder White has officially joined the Illinois Supreme Court as its first Black female justice. Holder White was sworn in Thursday morning at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library...

Dead mosquitoes and other insects were collected from a trap in a heavily wooded area and taken to the Northwest Mosquito Abatement lab on July 14, 2021, in Wheeling, Illinois.

First mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus reported in Cook County

July 3, 2022 at 8:23 p.m.

The first mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus recently were found in Cook County, officials said. Representatives of the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District said mosquitoes collected last Wednesday from one...

A woman from Honduras waits in a shelter for migrants on May 23, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. The woman is waiting in Mexico while her case for asylum in the United States goes through the process.

The end of ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy uplifts hope for immigration advocates but changes little for asylum seekers at the border, say Chicago-area advocates

March 11, 2024 at 1:21 p.m.

Over the past three years, Julie Contreras, an immigration and humanitarian activist from the Waukegan area, has visited the makeshift tent encampments filled with asylum-seekers on the southwestern border that...

Chicago police officers at the scene where Joseph Kromelis was left in critical condition after being doused with flammable liquid and set on fire, in the 400 block of North Lower Wabash Avenue on May 25, 2022.

Chicago’s ‘Walking Man’ on road to recovery after being set on fire

June 30, 2022 at 10:37 p.m.

A 75-year-old homeless man known affectionately to Chicagoans as the "Walking Man" has started to rebound from injuries suffered when he was set on fire in May while sleeping on...

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