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Mobile Azalea Trail Maids march down State Street during the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade on Nov. 22, 2018.

Chicagoans brave Thanksgiving Day chill to catch parade in Loop

December 12, 2018 at 6:18 a.m.

Temperatures in Chicago teetered on freezing for the city’s Thanksgiving parade in the Loop, so most onlookers were heavily bundled up, bracing themselves against the morning wind and cold in...

Así se celebró el Desfile de Acción de Gracias en Chicago

December 12, 2018 at 6:16 a.m.

Temperatures in Chicago teetered on freezing for the city’s Thanksgiving parade in the Loop, so most onlookers were heavily bundled up, bracing themselves against the morning wind and cold in...

Rebecca Martin hangs blue ribbons in the Edison Park neighborhood to honor fallen Chicago police Officer Samuel Jimenez on Nov. 20, 2018. Jimenez was shot and killed at Mercy Hospital.

Slain Chicago doctor broke off engagement with her killer weeks before deadly Mercy Hospital shooting

May 23, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

As Tamara O'Neal's family gathered in her parents' living room in rural LaPorte County, Ind., on Tuesday, they traded stories about their love for a woman who had found her...

A police vehicle is parked outside Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago on Nov. 20, 2018, a day after three people were killed by a gunman, who later took his own life.

Mercy Hospital, 100 Club of Chicago taking donations for shooting victims

May 23, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

Less than 24 hours after the “Code Silver” call was issued at the Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, confirming an active shooter situation, the hospital community is rallying around the...

Ann Moroney of the Johnson Research Group gives a presentation during a Chicago Department of Planning and Development public meeting at Park Community Church in Chicago on Nov. 14, 2018.

Dozens of Hideout supporters worried about venue’s future turn out at meeting on Lincoln Yards development

May 23, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.

More than 100 supporters of the Hideout turned out for a public hearing connected to the proposed $5 billion Lincoln Yards real estate development Wednesday night after the Goose Island...

Many homes in the Cano Martin Pena communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico, lacked permanent roofs, as seen on Aug. 24, 2018, a year after Hurricane Maria. The blue roofs are FEMA tarps.

Red Cross updates Chicago-area partners on Puerto Rico recovery efforts: ‘Chicago has come through for Puerto Rico’

May 23, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.

For more than a year, Puerto Rico has worked through the challenging process of recovering and rebuilding after the landfall of Hurricane Maria. Images of the lingering devastation, of crumbling...

Dozens of voters line up to cast their ballots to choose a governor and make choices for other statewide offices at O'Keeffe Elementary School in Chicago on Election Day, Nov. 6, 2018.

Young people drive high turnout as Chicago area sees voting surge

May 12, 2019 at 6:41 p.m.

Voters across Cook County turned out at the polls in near record-high numbers Tuesday, with a surge in young voters in Chicago and suburban Cook County driven by everything from...

Voting and civil rights advocates are reminding the public that even if someone already is registered, it is possible to run into problems at the polls.

Make it to your polling place on Election Day and get told you can’t vote? Here’s what to do

May 12, 2019 at 6:40 p.m.

Election Day is Tuesday, and although many have already taken advantage of early voting opportunities, a lot of voters still are expected to cast their votes in person that day....

Chicago police investigate a multiple shooting scene at Fulton Street just east of Central Avenue on Nov. 3, 2018.

‘We were inside having praise and worship rehearsal when we heard all the shots’: 1 killed, 2 hurt in South Austin neighborhood drive-by

May 23, 2019 at 6:27 a.m.

One man was killed and two others wounded in a shooting on Chicago’s West Side on Saturday afternoon. The victims were standing on a sidewalk in the 300 block of...

Marine One, carrying US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, takes off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on Oct. 30, 2018.

Chicago Jewish community reacts to Saturday’s fatal shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue: ‘It’s a very bad day for America’

May 23, 2019 at 6:25 a.m.

Though they live more than 450 miles away from the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 were fatally shot and six others wounded Saturday, some members of Chicago’s Jewish community, galvanized by...

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