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Chicago police release videos in recent string of carjackings, drive-thru robberies and shootings

January 22, 2021 at 5:56 p.m.

Chicago police have released two surveillance videos related to shootings, carjackings and the robbery of fast-food restaurants in the city and suburbs in the last week. Meanwhile, Chicago police Superintendent...

Craig Cesal poses for a photograph on Jan. 20, 2021, in Lombard. Cesal, 61, received a phone call from former presidential adviser Ivanka Trump on Tuesday night, informing him that his life sentence for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute marijuana was commuted by former President Donald Trump.

DuPage County man’s life sentence in marijuana case commuted by Trump

January 21, 2021 at 12:36 a.m.

Craig Cesal suspected a couple of days ago that good news might be coming when he heard the White House wanted his phone number. When he finally got the call...

Chicago police investigate a two-car crash just south of the intersection of 76th and Ashland Ave. on Jan. 5, 2021.

High-speed crash in Gresham neighborhood sends 3 to hospitals with serious injuries

January 5, 2021 at 10:06 p.m.

Three people were taken to area hospitals initially with serious injuries after a car and an SUV collided in a high-speed crash Tuesday afternoon on the South Side, authorities said....

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle takes questions from reporters Dec. 14, 2020.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle ‘deeply disappointed’ as SEIU Local 73 holds one-day strike over pay, other demands

December 22, 2020 at 11:57 p.m.

About 1,600 Cook County employees staged a one-day strike on Tuesday morning calling for additional pay and work accommodations amid a contract negotiation that has grown increasingly bitter over the...

Man stabbed longtime friend to death in his Chatham apartment, took friend’s car and went to police station to turn himself in, prosecutors say

December 11, 2020 at 11:49 p.m.

A Chatham man's longtime friend stabbed him to death, then stole his car and eventually went to a police station where he walked in, covered in blood, and told police...

Chicago area’s weekend weather expected to be sloppy, but with little snowfall

December 11, 2020 at 8:06 p.m.

A seasonally cool to cold and wet weekend was expected in much of the Chicago area, with some precipitation changing to snow in some far north and northwest suburbs, according...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Running list of Chicago-area closings and cancellations because of coronavirus

November 24, 2020 at 8:19 p.m.

In the months since Gov. J.B. Pritzker lifted the state's coronavirus stay-at-home order, Chicagoans and other residents of Illinois have seen a gradual tightening of restrictions as COVID-19 cases spiked...

Ruth Ford, 11, tries her Halloween candy chute.

Trick-or-treating candy chutes could help save Halloween from our freak show of a year. Here’s how we made ours.

October 13, 2020 at 2:14 p.m.

If one thing deserves to go on during this freak show of a year, it's Halloween. America's civic, cultural and political life live in the spirit of the holiday. Halloween...

An Illinois state trooper talks to a driver near the scene of a motorcyle crash on the Kennedy Expressway that left a man with serious injuries on Sept. 17, 2020.

‘Serious injury’ crash involving motorcycle shuts outbound Kennedy Expressway at Addison

September 17, 2020 at 6:31 p.m.

A crash involving a motorcycle left the motorcyclist with life-threatening injuries Thursday morning and shut down the outbound Kennedy Expressway south of the Irving Park neighborhood, according to state police....

Laura Nieto, of Oak Park, and her boyfriend, Matthew Williams, of Long Island, New York, keep cool by standing along the lakefront near Monroe Harbor in Chicago on a hot and humid Aug. 25, 2020.

2020 becomes Chicago’s hottest summer on record, despite few record-setting days

September 1, 2020 at 11:11 p.m.

Chicago's meteorological summer didn't set too many records as it happened, but higher-than-normal temperatures each month stacked up to make for the hottest summer on record, according to the National...

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