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40,000 homicides: Retracing 63 years of murder in Chicago
Chicago saw a homicide total lower in 2020 of 770, a tragic jump over the 496 from 2019. The spike in violent crime that has plagued Chicago since 2016 has...
Census maps and charts: How does Illinois compare with other states that lost or gained US House seats
With a decline of more than 18,000 people over the last decade, according to new 2020 U.S. census data, the state will lose one seat in the U.S. House of...
Where CPS students intend to go back to in-person learning: Search for your school
The next step in opening Chicago Public Schools to in-person learning is on track for Monday, with high school students who've opted in eligible to head back to classrooms. As...
Tracking COVID-19 in CPS: Look up your school to see if cases have been reported since buildings reopened or in the past year
Since March 2020, a period when schools were mostly closed to students and operated with smaller-than-normal staffs, officials have tracked a total of more than 1,200 confirmed COVID-19 cases —...
Where might those proposed new Chicago parking meters be located? Search our map to see.
As part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2021 budget plan, the City Council approved installing 96 parking pay boxes covering about 750 spots, mostly on the North Side and near downtown,...
COVID-19 vaccine: How many people are eligible because of preexisting conditions? Search for your county
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday that Chicago will allow people with preexisting conditions to be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine on March 29. The move comes nearly a month after...
Downed trees in Chicago: Search our map to see where they are
High winds of more than 60 mph that knocked out power to about 1,000 Commonwealth Edison customers overnight also wreaked havoc on Chicago trees. The city's Department of Streets and...
Like watching snow melt. 4 cool ways to see it disappear.
Mere days ago, Chicagoland was draped in a snow for the ages. It was all that anyone could talk about. Ah, how the seasons change. Before we move on to...
With 1 million Illinoisans now fully vaccinated for COVID-19, here’s a look at what the data says about who those people are
On Dec. 15 at Loretto Hospital in Chicago and at OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria the first shots of the coronavirus vaccine were administered in Illinois. Now...
Where are you in the vaccine line? We charted out who is eligible and who is not in as much detail as we could find.
With around half of Illinois' population eligible to be vaccinated for COVID-19, the report card for the state's effort is mixed. Now in the second part of phase 1b, those...