Hal Dardick

Poll worker Aana Vigen places a flag outside the Ward 49 voting site at the Rogers Park Library in the 6900 block of North Clark Street in Chicago, as Election Day voting begins early in the morning of Nov. 3, 2020.

Chicago-area voters shatter records as they cast ballots with ‘a sense of hope and purpose’

November 4, 2020 at 4:54 a.m.

Long before sunrise Tuesday morning, Nakiea Love headed to the United Center after a sleepless night in her South Side home. Armed with a Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee and a...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Illinois is nearing its contact tracing hiring goal. Is it too late?

November 2, 2020 at 10:06 p.m.

As Illinois finally nears its goal of employing 3,800 people to track down and warn the contacts of people infected with COVID-19, experts say that number may no longer be...

Dr. Gregory Huhn, an infectious disease physician at Stroger Hospital, poses for a portrait on May 4, 2020, outside of Cook County Health in Chicago.

Antibody drug tested in Cook County may be helpful to some COVID-19 patients, results show

October 28, 2020 at 9:06 p.m.

A new antibody-based drug shows promise in treating outpatients who have mild to severe COVID-19, according to initial results of research conducted in part at Cook County Health and Northwestern...

A man walks past a house in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 22, 2020. The house is highlighted in Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas' report on Cook County property tax increases over the past 20 years. The tax on the house was $3,352 in 2000. Today, it is $15,245.

Feel like your property taxes are climbing higher than your other bills? New 20-year study shows you’re right.

October 26, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

If it seems like your property tax tab is climbing far faster than your other bills, that's because it is. In the past 20 years, the total annual amount of...

Thomas McDade, a biological anthropology professor at Northwestern University, shows blood samples in June from research participants in a study for coronavirus antibodies.

Researchers surprised: 20% of Chicagoans in blood-test study came up positive for coronavirus antibodies

October 9, 2020 at 6:51 p.m.

Nearly 1 in 5 Chicago residents who sent blood-spot samples to Northwestern University researchers tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to preliminary results of an...

Then-Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios appears before the Cook County Board on July 18, 2017, to answer questions raised by a Chicago Tribune investigation, which documented how assessments shifted more of the tax burden onto less affluent homeowners.

A national group studied commercial property tax assessments in Cook County under the last assessor, Joe Berrios. The results were not pretty.

September 21, 2020 at 7:24 p.m.

Under Fritz Kaegi's predecessor as Cook County assessor, commercial properties as a group were valued far too low, valuations varied widely among similar properties, and the property tax burden was...

Cook County health department announces plans to spend up to $5.4M fighting COVID-19 in most-affected areas

September 12, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

The Cook County Department of Public Health announced Friday it is planning to spend up to $5.4 million to educate people about contact tracing, provide services to quarantined and isolated...

Silent spreaders and long haulers. Aerosols and protocols. 10 things science has learned about COVID-19 in less than a year.

September 10, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

It's been only nine months since the world learned of a new coronavirus that would trigger a pandemic declaration in March and ultimately disrupt billions of lives. That's little more...

Senate President Don Harmon appears during a session at the Illinois State Capitol on May 20, 2020.

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon’s office subpoenaed by feds who wanted information on land parcel in Chinatown

September 5, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

Add Illinois Senate President Don Harmon's office to the long list of organizations, politicians, lobbyists and others subpoenaed in a wide-ranging federal probe that has already led to a series...

Volunteers start getting COVID-19 vaccine at UIC as part of large clinical trial

August 24, 2020 at 10:44 p.m.

Doctors at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Monday began giving vaccination shots to volunteers as part of a clinical trial of one of the new COVID-19 vaccine candidates....

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