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Paul O’Grady, the Orland Township supervisor, shakes the hands of employers at the 2026 Southwest Job Fair in Tinley Park Jan. 15, 2025. (Addison Wright/Daily Southtown)

Orland Township referendum aims to gauge demand for direct participation in local government

By Olivia Stevens

October 28, 2026 at 3:50 p.m.

Orland Township voters are asked whether residents should be able to propose laws by citizen...

Man convicted in 117-mph crash that ripped apart vehicle with mom, baby inside

By Meredith Colias-Pete

October 28, 2026 at 5:48 p.m.

Jurors convicted Stuart Roane, 60, of Marion, Ind. late Tuesday of Level 6 felony criminal...

Comptroller and mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza speaks at City Club of Chicago on Oct. 28, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Susana Mendoza says Chicago businesses would ‘stop feeling like piggy banks’ if she’s mayor

By Alice Yin

October 28, 2026 at 5:53 p.m.

Susana Mendoza vowed in a City Club of Chicago speech Wednesday to make fixing the...

Family members hold signs commemorating 33-year-old Niko Fuentes, who was shot and killed in September on the 7800 block of South Oketo Avenue in Bridgeview. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)

‘A phenomenal person’: Family of autistic Bridgeview man seeks justice in September fatal shooting

By Evy Lewis

October 28, 2026 at 12:44 p.m.

Family and friends gathered in Bridgeview to plead for answers in the September shooting death...

Munster High School resource officer injured

By Post-Tribune

October 28, 2026 at 12:26 p.m.

Munster High School's School Resource Officer was injured Monday during an incident with a student,...

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a roundtable event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Iran war’s cost to American taxpayers grows to an estimated $47.1 billion

By Ben Finley

October 28, 2026 at 12:35 p.m.

The cost of the Iran war to American taxpayers has grown to $47.1 billion, according...

FILE – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website, used to locate someone in immigration detention, is displayed on Sept. 21, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Rachel Leathe, File)

Lawsuit seeks to block ICE from hiding locations of detainees with final removal orders

By Ryan J. Foley

October 28, 2026 at 12:07 p.m.

Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the...

Oswego East High School, seen here in 2023, is among the schools that would receive facilities work should voters approve a $317 million bond referendum question for Oswego-based District 308 on Nov. 3. Voters will also weigh in on bond measures for St. Charles School District 303 and Yorkville School District 115. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Voters to weigh in on bond referendum questions in Yorkville, Oswego, St. Charles school districts on Nov. 3

By Molly Morrow

October 28, 2026 at 11:34 a.m.

In recent months, St. Charles School District 303, Yorkville School District 115 and Oswego School...

A man, right, is comforted after yelling "why did you kill my brother" at law enforcement, hours after Chadwick Clark was killed during a federal investigation in Dixmoor on Oct. 28, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Man shot and killed in FBI-involved shooting in Dixmoor

By Sam Charles

October 28, 2026 at 4:03 p.m.

The FBI is investigating a second fatal shooting in the Chicago area this week involving...

Activist Dolores Huerta attends a labor breakfast as part of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund's 38th Annual Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago on June 30, 2009. (José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)

Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96

By Susan Montoya Bryan

October 28, 2026 at 11:59 a.m.

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the...

18-year-old fatally shot in neck in Chicago Ridge

By Evy Lewis

October 28, 2026 at 3:31 p.m.

Omari N. Gates, 18, was fatally shot in Chicago Ridge Tuesday, according to police and...

Southland crime: Video gaming thefts in Oak Lawn, New Lenox and Steger, and more

By Dennis Sullivan

October 28, 2026 at 11:01 a.m.

South suburban crime reports taken from police and court reports and news releases.

The scene of a collision between two trains in Urda, Spain on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. (Juanma Jimenez/Europa Press via AP)

High-speed train collision kills at least 68 in Spain’s 2nd deadly rail crash this year

By Iain Sullivan

October 28, 2026 at 12:32 p.m.

A high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks in Spain Wednesday,...