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Gun violence awareness: Hadiya Pendleton ‘would’ve been 18,’ her mom notes

May 23, 2019 at 1:05 a.m.

Cleo Pendleton stood before dozens of people at Harold Washington Park, expressing gratitude for the groundswell in Chicago that made Tuesday a day of nationwide gun violence awareness. She also...

Former "Speaker of the House" Denny Hastert at the "Luxembourg USA: A Migration Story" exhibit on Friday in Downtown Aurora.

Hastert case shows need for Illinois sex-abuse hotline, survivors group says

August 19, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims presented a letter to Lisa Madigan's office Monday asking the attorney general to set up a hotline for adults who have suffered...

Edgar Campos and Jackie Pantoja, both 18, try to stay warm at 31st Street Beach on the first day of meteorological summer June 1, 2015, in Chicago.

Despite chilly end, May was not unusually cold

August 19, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

Despite a miserable end to the month of May, weather experts say that spring in Chicago was not unusually cold or wet. Sunday's high temperature of 55 fell way below...

Residents at ‘beach blanket sit-in’ demand Humboldt Park Beach reopen

August 19, 2019 at 12:41 a.m.

A week after Chicago's beaches opened, children dug in the sand Sunday at Humboldt Park Beach, where puddles of water were all that remained of a once-popular neighborhood swimming hole....

Obu, son of Ono, one of the Japanese macaque monkeys at the Lincoln Park Zoo, explores his surroundings near his mother on May 31, 2015.

Lincoln Park Zoo snow monkey named Obu

August 19, 2019 at 12:41 a.m.

By popular vote, the Lincoln Park Zoo decided on Obu as the name for its baby snow monkey. After a week and 2,197 votes, Obu took 37 percent of the...

Smiles, a 7-week-old Brittany spaniel mix, plays at Wright-Way Rescue in Morton Grove on May 28, 2015. A website allows users to interact with the animals, including by directing a long rope hanging in the middle of the room to spin.

Program will let kids hospitalized at Lurie ‘play’ with shelter pets

August 19, 2019 at 12:40 a.m.

Children at a Chicago hospital soon will be able to play with puppies and kittens at an animal shelter without leaving their rooms. Wright-Way Rescue set up a camera system...

Weekend fest hopes to hook adults on science

May 23, 2019 at 1:03 a.m.

A nonprofit that in the past has provided workshops on the chemistry of chocolate and beer is putting on its first science festival this weekend. The event, from Thursday to...

Google pays tribute to Sally Ride

May 23, 2019 at 1:03 a.m.

Google is commemorating what would have been the 64th birthday of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, with five "doodles" on its search page Tuesday. In two of...

Delia Ramirez is looking forward to the opening of The 606, but she worries about housing costs and taxes going up.

606 trail inspires excitement, fear from neighbors

August 19, 2019 at 12:37 a.m.

When John Paige moved into Wicker Park more than 35 years ago, it was a "rough-and-tumble" neighborhood filled with "bars, brothels and bums." Train tracks that were built in the...

Aerial view of washout that shut down CTA Yellow Line on Monday, May 18, 2015. Still image from video. (WGN-TV)

Yellow Line to remain closed all week

August 19, 2019 at 12:34 a.m.

The CTA says the Yellow Line that serves commuters between Skokie and Chicago will remain closed for the rest of the week. In the meantime the CTA, the village of...

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