Stephanie Casanova

Gina Ramirez, who fought against allowing a metal recycling yard on Chicago's Southeast Side, speaks to reporters outside the County Building on Clark Streeton Feb. 18, 2022, after it was announced that the Chicago Department of Public Health denied the recycler's permit application to operate.

Community organizers call on Lightfoot administration to address environmental justice complaint

October 5, 2022 at 10:39 p.m.

Community organizers and local leaders are urging Mayor Lori Lightfoot to negotiate a resolution to an environmental justice complaint after the federal government threatened to block millions of dollars in...

Volunteer Georgia Libbares waits with a dog at Anti-Cruelty Society as adoptable dogs and cats are unloaded from a bus traveling in from Furry Friends shelter in Jupiter, Florida.

Fit for a ‘Princess:’ 35 pets arrive safely in downtown Chicago from hurricane-ravaged Florida

October 2, 2022 at 3:27 p.m.

Volunteers cheered as Princess made her way off the bus wagging her tail. She smiled as two of the volunteers stroked her head and an employee with the Anti-Cruelty Society...

Road rage possible cause of fatal shooting of boy, 3, in SUV full of kids in West Lawn: police

October 1, 2022 at 11:16 p.m.

A three-year-old boy who was shot in the head while traveling in a sport utility vehicle driven by his mom in the West Lawn neighborhood has died early Saturday The...

Santiago Bueno, left, remembers his brother Kenneth Paterimos during a rally outside Richard's Bar Tuesday night.

Man acquitted of murder in 2020 fatal stabbing outside Richard’s Bar in West Town

October 3, 2022 at 3:44 p.m.

A man was acquitted of first-degree murder Wednesday in a 2020 case where he'd been accused of fatally stabbing a man outside Richard's Bar in West Town. Thomas Tansey, 32,...

Católicos devotos se reúnen bajo la lluvia afuera de la iglesia católica San Adalberto en Chicago para orar el 20 de septiembre de 2022, en el 108 aniversario de la dedicación de la iglesia. La iglesia fue cerrada en 2019.

En su 108 aniversario, los feligreses de San Adalberto cuestionan la eliminación de la escultura de La Piedad de la iglesia cerrada de Pilsen: ‘Realmente creo que Dios está aquí’

September 28, 2022 at 8:07 p.m.

La lluvia comenzó a caer a cántaros y los manteles de plástico ondearon con el viento mientras las mujeres rezaban sus oraciones, rosario en mano. Primero en polaco, luego en...

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, left, and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, center right, help unveil an Illinois State Historical Society marker at the site of the former Ton Farm, now known as Chicago's Finest Marina, 557 E. 134th Place, Sept. 24, 2022, in Chicago. Enslaved people who escaped the South between the 1830s and the Civil War and traveled north to Chicago, Detroit, and Canada, sought and received refuge at the site from Dutch immigrant farmers Jan and Aagje Ton, which became recognized as part of the Underground Railroad network. In 2019 the Ton Farm was accepted into the National Park Service Network to Freedom program.

Historical marker unveiled during ceremony marking Underground Railroad site on Chicago’s Far South Side

September 25, 2022 at 6:50 p.m.

When Illinois state Sen. Napoleon Harris (15th District) was a boy, he would play near the Little Calumet River, a few blocks from his house on 133rd Street, throwing rocks...

Devout Catholics gather in the rain outside the shuttered St. Adalbert Catholic Church in Chicago to pray on Sept. 20, 2022, the 108th anniversary of the church's dedication. The church was closed in 2019.

On 108th anniversary, St. Adalbert’s parishioners challenge removal of La Pieta sculpture from shuttered Pilsen church: ‘I really think that God is here’

September 26, 2022 at 7:59 p.m.

Rain started pouring and plastic tablecloths flapped in the wind as the women said their prayers, rosary in hand. First in Polish, then Spanish, then English. "Holy Mary, Mother of...

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