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Near West Side shooting victim was standout football player: ‘He had no enemies’

May 23, 2019 at 1:38 a.m.

The 23-year-old man who was shot and killed early Sunday morning on Chicago's Near West Side played college football and was involved in his local church, family said. LaVell Caron...

Cows caught wandering around Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood

August 19, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

Bill Hook can now add cow wrangler to his list of accomplishments as principal at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in the city's Far South Side. Hook was preparing...

How Chicago girl got to sing for Pope Francis

May 23, 2019 at 1:36 a.m.

As soon as Valerie Herrera found out Monday morning that she would be speaking with Pope Francis, she started trembling. To calm her nerves, administrators and teachers assured the young...

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich visits with nuns after he was invested with a pallium, a woolen, scarf-like vestment recently blessed by Pope Francis at the Vatican, during Mass at Holy Name Cathedral Aug. 23, 2015, in Chicago.

In home church, Archbishop Cupich dons his symbol of office from Rome

August 19, 2019 at 1:20 a.m.

After a circle of white wool was placed around his shoulders to symbolize his role as shepherd of the local church, Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich called the garment a constant...

Team FastTrax and a solo member of the Army Golden Knights perform a tribute jump during the funeral service for Master Sgt. Corey Hood, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 in West Chester, Ohio. Hood died Sunday, Aug. 16 in a Chicago hospital of injuries suffered in an accident during a parachute stunt Saturday at the Chicago Air & Water Show. The 32-year-old Army veteran served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and earned numerous awards, including two Bronze Stars.

Army parachutist ‘was living his dream,’ say friends, family at funeral

August 19, 2019 at 1:20 a.m.

A week after Corey Hood fell out of the sky over the Lake Michigan shoreline while performing at the Chicago Air & Water Show, friends, family and fellow service members...

Illinois State Police Maj. Luis Gutierrez speaks about the increase in expressway shootings at a news conference near the Kennedy Expressway on Aug. 19, 2015. There have been 26 shootings this year, with injuries resulting from nearly half of the incidents.

State police announce rise in shootings, increased vigilance

May 23, 2019 at 1:33 a.m.

Illinois State Police officials said they will increase enforcement on the Dan Ryan and Eisenhower expressways in response to a rise in freeway shootings this year. Since January, there have...

The estate of Dawn Clark Netsch, shown in April 2012 in Chicago, has bequeathed $5 million to Northwestern University's Law School.

NU gets $5 million bequest from Dawn Clark Netsch estate

May 23, 2019 at 1:31 a.m.

Northwestern University has been given a $5 million bequest from the estate trust of Dawn Clark Netsch, its law school's first female faculty member and the first woman to hold...

Crates containing 43 rescued dogs from Midwestern puppy mills are unloaded June 12, 2011, at the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago. A judge on Aug. 7, 2015, dismissed a suit challenging Cook County's puppy mill ban.

Judge dismisses suit challenging Cook County ‘puppy mill’ ban

May 23, 2019 at 1:31 a.m.

A federal judge last week dismissed an amended lawsuit filed by area pet stores against a Cook County ordinance that limits the sale of animals from large-scale breeders. Critics say...

The Rev. Pervis Thomas, of New Canaan Land Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, gives his tie to Demond Echols, who said he liked it, on Aug. 9, 2015. The pastor was organizing his basketball tournament.

Chicago basketball tournament seeks peace, offers bragging rights

May 23, 2019 at 1:31 a.m.

The Rev. Pervis Thomas sat at the front of New Canaan Land Missionary Baptist Church in Englewood on Sunday morning earnestly scratching notes on a piece of computer paper. He...

Yuki Miyamoto, who is from Hiroshima, Japan, and is a professor at DePaul University in Chicago, speaks at the Global Zero bike rally in Oz Park on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, for a 7-mile ride called "Bike Around the Bomb." That's the perimeter distance of damage from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki 70 years ago.

Cyclists note Nagasaki 70th anniversary in 7-mile ride around ‘blast site’

May 23, 2019 at 1:31 a.m.

As part remembrance and part demonstration, a small group of people rode a 7-mile circle in Chicago on Sunday morning, symbolically tracing the perimeter of a thermal blast of a...

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