Mitch Smith

Family and friends console each other at a vigil, or a "shutdown of the street" by anti-violence supporters following the Friday night death of Shamiya Adams, 11.

Chicago vigil for girl, 11, draws others who’ve lost kin to gun violence

May 21, 2019 at 5:32 p.m.

Just outside the West Side home where an 11-year-old was fatally shot, hundreds gathered Sunday to pray, cry, hug and say it can't happen again. As the group grieved Shamiya...

Girl slain at sleepover among 22 shooting victims

June 18, 2018 at 1:57 p.m.

She was making s'mores when the bullet tore through a wall Friday night on the West Side, fatally wounding the 11-year-old who'd been enjoying a sleepover with friends. Thirteen hours...

Chicago police officers fill the front porch of a house on the 3900 block of West Gladys Avenue.

22 shot in Chicago over 12 hours, including girl, 11, killed at sleepover

May 21, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Shamiya Adams was sitting on a bedroom floor in her best friend's home, making s'mores after an evening of practicing a dance routine, when the shot ripped through the house...

Archdiocese offers to shelter immigrant children

June 17, 2018 at 5:14 p.m.

The Archdiocese of Chicago wants federal approval to shelter a yet-to-be-determined share of thousands of unaccompanied children who've recently breached the country's southern border, a request welcomed by federal officials...

Chicago archdiocese seeking to house child refugees

May 21, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.

The Archdiocese of Chicago will seek federal permission to temporarily house some of the children who have breached the country's southern border in recent weeks, Roman Catholic officials said Wednesday."The...

Bull run gets fans on, and off, their feet at Hawthorne

May 21, 2019 at 5:21 p.m.

David Sturms walked onto the soggy horse track wearing white pants, a white shirt and a red belt fashioned from scraps of his daughter's prom dress. Sturms, one of three...

Bull run gets fans on, and off, their feet at Hawthorne

December 24, 2018 at 12:35 a.m.

David Sturms walked onto the soggy horse track wearing white pants, a white shirt and a red belt fashioned from scraps of his daughter's prom dress. Sturms, one of three...

Chicago author of ‘How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona’ gored — but will run again

December 24, 2018 at 12:31 a.m.

A Chicago author who wrote a chapter of the book "How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona" was gored Wednesday during the Spanish bull running festival. "When I fell, the...

What’s in your luggage? Martial arts daggers, pepper spray gun. . .

May 21, 2019 at 5:10 p.m.

Chicago travelers are bringing more than neck pillows and tiny shampoo bottles to airports this summer. A series of recent Instagram photos show a dagger, pepper spray gun and martial...

Lawsuit: Mentoring volunteer sexually abused 3 brothers

May 21, 2019 at 5:09 p.m.

Three siblings said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that they were sexually abused by a Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer as boys in the 1990s. The suit alleges that supervisors...

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