Morgan Greene

A vehicle sits under a Metra train June 27, 2021, after it was struck near the 1300 block of West 103rd Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood.

3 killed in Metra crash on Far South Side, second fatal train-vehicle crash in Chicago area in 2 days

June 29, 2021 at 12:36 a.m.

Two adults and a child were killed when their vehicle was hit by a Metra train Sunday evening on the Far South Side, officials said. It was the second vehicle...

Joseph Coles and Karen Phillips attend a news conference June 27, 2021, to talk about their missing daughter Kierra Coles outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Coles was three months pregnant with her first child when she went missing on Oct. 2, 2018, near her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood.

Family of mail carrier who was pregnant when she disappeared renews call for help from police and potential witnesses

June 28, 2021 at 12:08 a.m.

Kierra Coles disappeared more than two years ago, but her family is still searching for information about their daughter, then a mail carrier who was pregnant with her first child....

Girl dies after being pulled into deeper water at Lake Michigan beach in Indiana; 1 day later, a teen is in critical condition after rescue at same site

June 21, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

A girl died after she and her family were swept deeper into Lake Michigan waters on an Indiana beach visit, becoming the latest victim of the deadliest of the Great...

A Brood X cicada on a tree June 10, 2021, at the Kickapoo State Recreation Area near Danville.

It’s cicada season: Ready for bulging red eyes, lots of screeching and a light dousing of sticky bug juice?

June 20, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.

On a steamy weekday morning, along the eastern edge of Illinois, beams of light pierced through the leafy cover above Kickapoo State Park. A pulsating chorus swelled and steadied: cicada...

Tyrue "Slang" Jones takes his tools out of a car before painting a mural of Brandon McGhee.

Victim of gun violence to be remembered with Logan Square street

June 17, 2021 at 6:40 p.m.

One year after a fatal shooting in Logan Square, Brandon McGhee's name will be remembered on a neighborhood street. Friends and family of McGhee will gather Sunday to unveil an...

The Chicago skyline is lit up May 3, 2021.

Turning off just half the lights at McCormick Place could reduce the mortality rate of migratory birds by 60%, study shows

June 8, 2021 at 11:08 p.m.

When it comes to saving one of the millions of birds that fly by night through Chicago every spring and fall, going dark is still one of the best ways...

Doug Blodgett, the Nature Conservancy's director of river conservation, looks toward the Illinois River while standing atop a structure being tested to sort Asian carp.

The company behind the viral fish tube — or salmon cannon — has a new project: Keeping Asian carp out of Lake Michigan using facial recognition technology

June 4, 2021 at 8:29 p.m.

There may come a day on the Illinois River when a fish swims up a chute, slides through a scanner, and, after being recognized as a feared silver carp, is...

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