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Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from a hotel at six hundred sixty N. State street to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Police are investigating a South Side shooting that happened early in the morning on Labor Day. About nine a.m. a man of unknown age was walking in the seven thousand block of South Merrill Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood when a man wearing a crimson hoodie ran up to him and commenced firing at the man. He.

After spending the day celebrating the 84th bday of their grandfather, Dio Bautista thought his cousin desired to meet up with other family members. “Wer u at cuz,” Felipe Bautista wrote in a text just before 9:50 p.m. “Mary's house,” Dio Bautista responded. Felipe Bautista never responded.

West Belden Avenue dual shooting

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Two dudes were fatally shot and at least twelve other people were wounded in separate attacks across Chicago during a 15-hour period from Sunday afternoon to early Monday, according to police. One man was shot dead and another man was wounded about Ten:40 p.m. Sunday in the Belmont Central neighborhood.

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

A 32-year-old woman was rescued from the Chicago Sea near Michigan Avenue early Monday, according to fire officials. About Two:35 a.m., a 32-year-old woman leaped into the sea, according to the Chicago Fire Department. She was by herself when she hopped into the water. Rescuers used a buoy.

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

A motorcyclist died late Sunday in a crash on Interstate 90/94 near Kimball Avenue, according to Chicago Fire Department officials. About 9:35 p.m. Sunday, the department was called for a crash involving a motorcyclist and a car. The man who had been railing a motorcycle was pronounced dead at.

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax violates to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools. The budge is a boon for Catholic education — and showcased Cupich's considerable political savvy. But an amusing, nosey.

Asked about Trump, Cardinal Cupich says 'we get the leaders we deserve'

CPS says high school graduation rate proceeds to climb

The rate of Chicago Public Schools students who graduated within five years of embarking high school climbed past seventy seven percent this year, a four percentage point build up from a year ago that district officials credited in part to marked improvement by African-American boys, according to figures provided.

Two fellows find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Immigration activist Elvira Arellano led a march Sunday from a park in the Pilsen neighborhood toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the South Loop to support the Deferred Act for Childhood Arrivals program now under review by the Trump administration. Holding a white.

Trump surrogates say ending DACA could be good for U.S. workers

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

A Cook County Jail inmate’s decision to bolt out of a West Side courthouse following a hearing on a misdemeanor case added a felony to the charges he’s facing. On Friday, a judge had just concluded a court hearing for Elon Love, 23, who was charged with misdemeanor battery, when he determined to flee.

Hammering over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A 52-year-old man cruelly strike a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday. Reckie Clay, of the eleven thousand block of Homewood Avenue, appeared in Cook County Bond Court on Sunday, charged with attempted.

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

The number of homeowners who have detected a bad smell from their city-installed sound-reducing windows has climbed to 109, with inspectors going out almost daily to sniff window frames and confirm the problem, city officials said. Residents complain that the polyvinyl chloride windows, installed.

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago

The four-vehicle motorcade pulled into a Little Village parking lot Sunday morning with all the hoopla of a royal visit: a crowd cheered, a welcoming banner was unfurled and a dozen TV cameras jostled for the ideal shot. The subjects of this celebrity treatment were forty three dogs and cats brought to.

Hurricane Harvey animals arrive in Chicago

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

It commenced with a trainload of cattle. In the summer of 1877, the United States suffered an outbreak of labor unrest so widespread and violent that some thought a fresh American revolution was in the offing, this time tinged with the communist ideals that had just burned through France. The Fine.

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

A Hobart man killed himself after he shot and killed a Highland man Saturday at a gathering at a home in the seven thousand two hundred block of Osborne Avenue in Hammond, according to police. Lt. Steve Kellogg, public information officer with the Hammond Police Department, said police were en route to a call about.

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Chicago police on Sunday updated information on a 14-year-old woman who disappeared from the West Woodlawn neighborhood in early August. Kiara Jones was last seen Aug. 8. She’s missing from the six thousand six hundred block of South Vernon Avenue, and Chicago police have issued alerts asking for the public's help.

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Chicago police are searching for a man in his 60s who went missing Sunday. Larry Robinson, 61, went missing in the area of eight thousand two hundred South Wentworth Avenue in the West Chatham neighborhood about ten a.m., according to police. Anyone who sees Robinson, who stands about six feet one inch tall and weighs 200.

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

A missing Hammond boy was found safe hiding behind a pubic hair in an area near his home more than eight hours after he disappeared, police said. Lt. Steven Kellogg, public information officer with the Hammond Police Department, said 9-year-old Anthony Mitchell was found safe by Police Officer David.

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

A man driving a cargo van was gravely injured when he swerved to avoid another vehicle on the West Side, causing the van to roll over and hit trees and a CTA bus shelter early Sunday, authorities said. The man, 23, was driving the van east in the two thousand three hundred block of West Madison Street just before 1:45.

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Tunnel Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Chicago went about eleven hours without a shooting on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend before at least five people were shot in a four-hour period early Sunday, according to Chicago police. Most recently, a man, 23, and a woman, 34, were shot numerous times just after Four:30 a.m. Sunday in the 900.

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media thrust to counter stereotypes

It's only a 58-second movie, but for Jahmal Cole, it was a chance to switch some minds. So in the brief clip now circulating on social media, Cole boasts about the long legacy of African-American homeownership, block clubs and neighborhood activism in Chatham — the South Side community he calls.

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

A man walking in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side was stabbed by a woman who attacked him Saturday night, authorities said. The man, 20, was walking in the two thousand five hundred block of West Division Street with his sister just before eight p.m. Saturday when a woman, inbetween the ages of twenty and 30.

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

A 9-year-old boy with a developmental disability was found eight hours after he went missing from his home in Hammond, Indiana Saturday. Anthony Mitchell, 9, of the one hundred block of Ruth Street in Hammond, left his home around three p.m. and had not returned, Hammond police originally said Saturday. It wasn't.

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Northbrook police said a Glenbrook North High School employee has been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and impersonating a police officer in connection with a late-night incident on school property. Police said Steven Schulhof, 60, of the two thousand six hundred block of Golden Rod Lane, Glenview.

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

A 20-year-old Oak Park man and his 15-year-old alleged accomplice are accused of two armed robberies that happened within twenty minutes of each other on the West Side early Friday, officials said. Damandre Henley, 20, and a 15-year-old boy were charged with two counts of armed robbery, police and.

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

The FBI said Saturday that a Richton Park man was in custody after he allegedly robbed the Matteson branch of Very first Midwest Bank on Friday. Cordell Daniels, 23, charged with bank robbery, had a court appearance Saturday and was ordered held pending a detention hearing, according to the bureau. .

Top cop 'making fine progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was discharged from the hospital Saturday afternoon after a successful kidney transplant. His son Daniel Johnson, 25, donated an organ to the police official, who was diagnosed with glomerulonephritis, an acute inflammation of the kidney. At the time.

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

A collision involving a motorcycle and a car in St. Charles sent two people to the hospital Saturday afternoon, officials said. The motorcyclist was driving east in the one thousand nine hundred block of West Main Street when the driver of a one thousand nine hundred ninety nine Dodge Avenger, turning left onto South 19th Street from westbound Main.

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Authorities are looking for a man who attacked a woman in the Lawndale neighborhood Saturday morning. She was walking in the one thousand five hundred block of South Drake Avenue about six a.m. when a man she did not know approached and then “grabbed her,’’ according to a community alert issued by Chicago police. He.

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

A 58-year-old Hammond man was killed Friday night after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Calumet Avenue at Gostlin Street, officials said. James Gavina, 58, of the four thousand five hundred block of Oak Avenue, was walking east across Calumet Avenue about 8:30 p.m. when he was hit by a northbound two thousand two silver.

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

The woman bleeding from a gunshot wound to her hip was holding her 3-year-old son on a porch in Gresham when Chicago police officers arrived. A youthfull police officer scooped up the boy and put him in a squad car so paramedics could tend to the injured mother, 23. The boy was not hurt. Officers.

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Private schools across the Chicago region and Illinois have collective a common problem for years: How to help fighting families afford tuition. A ground-breaking state education funding law signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner last week may give those families and schools a lifeline in the form of a private.

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

In the opening hours of a historically violent Labor Day weekend, thirteen people were shot, two fatally, in attacks from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning, according to Chicago police. Most of the shootings — including the very first homicide — happened over about three hours from about 11:20 p.m. Friday.

Chance the Rapper mitts out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Four days before Chicago Public Schools opens classroom doors, Chance the Rapper made a theatrical appearance to announce that the $Two.Two million raised by his nonprofit organization will be doled out to twenty schools for arts education programs. “Quality education for public schools is the most significant.

Richard Posner announces unexpected retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

Judge Richard A. Posner, one of the nation's leading appellate judges, whose acerbic wit attracted an almost cultlike following within legal circles, is retiring after more than three decades with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Posner, 78, is stepping down effective Saturday.

Emanuel calls on Trump to stop attacking Obama legacy and not dismantle DACA

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some unsolicited advice for President Donald Trump on Friday as the president considers removing some protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children: Stop “tearing down President Obama's agenda and commence figuring out how to build your own.” “(Trump) is.

Rauner grants seven clemency petitions, denies eighty seven

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted seven petitions for clemency and denied eighty seven others. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board says the petitioners granted on Friday include people convicted on charges for drugs, burglary, forgery, domestic battery and retail theft. The cases occurred from one thousand nine hundred eighty five to.

Two boys find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

A petite crowd trickled into the rehabilitation center conference room and took their seats as a choir sang softly, their voices echoing in the 10th floor room. Dressed in black gowns and caps with orange tassels, two fellows wheeled themselves to the front row, turned to each other and shook palms.

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

Melissa Macedo went to the McHenry County jail Friday to bail out her father with $500 in her mitt and, she thought, the law on her side. On Monday, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the Trust Act into law, which says that police can't detain someone solely because of their immigration status. So even however.

No bail in fatal shooting on basketball court at Bradley Park

A man dressed in a black hoodie emerged from behind the Bradley Park field house, walked onto the basketball court, looked at two boys playing ball and shot one of them at close range in the head, prosecutors said at a hearing Friday. Tororicius Berry, 25, was charged with first-degree murder in.

Rauner asks for federal flood help, but Hurricane Harvey could mean delays

More than a month after flooding in Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner asked for federal assistance Friday. But state officials acknowledged that, with Hurricane Harvey wreaking havoc along the Gulf of Mexico, the timing of help for local flood victims could be affected.

Damsel, 12, sexually assaulted in the Back of the Yards neighborhood

Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding a man who hit a 12-year-old damsel and coerced her into a van where he sexually assaulted her, Chicago police said. The woman was walking in the five thousand block of South May Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about Ten:30 p.m. Thursday when a.

Two killed, fourteen wounded, including 14-year-old woman, in city shootings

Two guys were killed and a 14-year-old lady was among fourteen other people wounded in shootings from late Friday morning to Saturday morning, Chicago police said. A 26-year-old man was killed in a quadruple shooting about 1:20 a.m. Saturday in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. .

West Side violence: Triple shootings, dual homicide and police firing at man with two guns

Even for the West Side, the last twenty four hours had been furiously violent: Three triple shootings and a dual homicide within four miles of each other.Thursday evening, two officers were on patrol in the area when they spotted a man firing a gun outside a liquor store at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue.

Exhumation confirms gravesite of famous Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes

Tests display that the remains in a suburban Philadelphia grave are indeed those of a 19th century serial killer, quelling rumors that he'd conned his way out of execution and escaped from prison. A judge approved the exhumation of Dr. H.H. Holmes' grave earlier this year. Descendants requested it.

Shelley Berman, Chicago comedian of everyday life, dead at ninety two

Comedian Shelley Berman, who won gold records and appeared on top television shows in the 1950s and 1960s delivering wry monologues about the annoyances of everyday life, has died. He was 92. Berman died Friday at his home in Bell Canyon, California, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Naperville consultant gets fifteen months for financial scheme in San Diego mayor's race

A political consultant from Naperville has been sentenced to prison for his role in funneling illegal campaign contributions to candidates in the two thousand twelve race for mayor of San Diego. Ravneet Singh, 45, was sentenced Thursday in California to fifteen months in prison and ordered to pay a $Ten,000 fine on.

Safe Humane Chicago group saves 'Court Case Dogs' from euthanasia

Their owners are the ones facing criminal charges — neglect, cruelty to animals, dogfighting. But in tall, cinder-block, barred cages a few blocks away from Cook County Jail, the four-legged victims are locked up. This week, there were sixteen dogs including Zeke, Astro and Betty White. Zeke was confiscated.

Teenage female went missing three days ago on South Side

A 15-year-old damsel went missing three days ago in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said. Aaliyah Walker was last seen Aug. Thirty in the area of the seven thousand seven hundred block of South Calumet Avenue. She was wearing a dark-blue polo T-shirt, beige pants and black footwear, police said. She is.

Chicago police to deploy extra 1,300 cops for Labor Day weekend

Chicago police will deploy an extra 1,300 officers to patrol the city during the long Labor Day holiday weekend, officials said Friday. The extra officers, in addition to normal staffing, will be working each day beginning Friday and for the rest of the three-day holiday weekend. Much of the added.

FBI confirms closing probe into shooting by Chicago cop without bringing charges

The FBI said Friday it has closed its investigation of the fatal shooting of Flint Farmer by a Chicago police officer, indicating that no federal criminal charges will be brought. The confirmation from the FBI's Chicago office came a day after lawyers on behalf of Farmer's father, Emmett, petitioned.

Jane Addams: Champ of the poor. Affordable housing advocate. Glitzy hotel brand?

Fans of community activist and Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams admire her legacy of advocating for the underprivileged people in Chicago and beyond. But what they've never done is associate Addams with endorsing or fronting a commercial enterprise. That's about to switch because St. Jane Chicago.

Highland Park Jewish deli faces backlash over Facebook post featuring Nazi imagery

A Highland Park deli is facing backlash over a Facebook post that includes a cartoon drawing of a man wearing a Nazi armband, providing a stiff-armed salute and donning a T-shirt reading, “I’m with Alt-Right.” Greg Morelli, who wields Max’s Deli with his brother, posted the picture last week. Morelli.

Figure recovered from lake south of 31st Street Beach

Emergency crews recovered a assets from Lake Michigan south of the 31st Street Beach, according to fire officials.The bod was spotted around nine a.m. Friday, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. The bod appeared to have been in the water for some time, he said.Langford.

With top cop on mend, CPD's No. Two is in charge for historically violent Labor Day weekend

Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was sitting up in his hospital bed, cracking jokes and checking his email a day after his kidney transplant Wednesday. But Johnson's recovery won't come soon enough to save his second-in-command, Very first Deputy Superintendent Kevin Navarro, from arguably.

14 hours in Chicago: Damsel, 13, wounded; five shot in Lawndale; police fire at gunman

Two guys were killed and at least ten other people were wounded, including a 13-year-old lady a block from her home, during a 14-hour period from late Thursday morning to early Friday in Chicago that also included a police-involved shooting, according to police.The female was railing in a car in the.

Man attempted to lure youthfull dame on Far Northwest Side, police said

A man railing a bicycle in the O'Hare neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side attempted to lure a 12-year-old chick into his house last week, authorities said. The man was railing a light blue bike and approached the 12-year-old chick, who was walking in the eight thousand six hundred block of West Summerdale Avenue about 6:15.

Man, 42, found dead on Far South Side is identified

Authorities have identified a Chicago man who was found dead Thursday morning with numerous gunshot wounds in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side. Jermaine Jones, 42, was found fatally shot in the same block where he lived, the one thousand one hundred block of South Ashland Avenue, according to the.

Wisconsin's suggest to Foxconn enlargened substantially, handwritten deal shows

Wisconsin's suggest to Foxconn Technology Group to extend $Trio billion in tax cracks was made in a handwritten deal that enhanced substantially before being signed by Gov. Scott Walker, documents released Thursday under the state's open records law demonstrated.Walker's office released the documents to.

Family seeks special prosecutor in two thousand eleven fatal shooting by Chicago cop

The father of a man who was fatally shot more than six years ago by a Chicago police officer petitioned Thursday for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate whether criminal charges should be filed. Flint Farmer was unarmed when he was shot and killed by then-Officer Gildardo Sierra.

Man arrested in Villa Park, charged with fundraising for ISIS fighters

A 31-year-old truck driver living in west suburban Villa Park was arrested by the FBI on Thursday on charges out of Fresh York that alleged he raised money in two thousand fifteen to help send fighters from the U.S. to ISIS fronts in Syria. At a hearing in federal court in Chicago, prosecutors asked that Dilshod.

City relaxes Friday night prohibition at Wrigley for Cubs' Sept. Eight game vs. Brewers

The Cubs will play a 7:05 p.m. night game on Sept. Eight against the Brewers after an agreement inbetween Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Ald. Tom Tunney. The game with postseason ramifications originally was scheduled for 1:20 p.m., but the city is permitting a one-time exemption of the prohibition against Friday.

Bloomberg spends $Three million more on campaign to back soda pop tax as repeal showdown looms

Former Fresh York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $Three million more to air a fresh TV ad backing the controversial penny-an-ounce Cook County tax on sweetened beverages. The $Three million is on top of $Two million Bloomberg already plowed into a different ad supporting the tax, which went into effect.

Rauner win on schools bill comes at a price

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday signed into law a fresh state school funding formula, putting in place the final and perhaps most politically crucial component of a fresh budget that ensures classroom doors across Illinois remain open. Affixing his name to the bill marked the most significant win of the.

Police: Man posing as ride-share driver stole financial information

A man who dangled out in bars posing as a ride-share driver is accused of stealing cash from his customers after taking their debit cards at least a dozen times, Chicago police said. Gabriel Jackson, 49, of the four hundred block of West Barry Avenue, has been charged with twelve counts of continuing a financial.

Head-on crash in Oakbrook Terrace leads to DUI charges – for both drivers

Both drivers were under the influence of alcohol when their cars collided in Oakbrook Terrace on Sunday, according to DuPage County prosecutors. Authorities said Sean Maroney, a 20-year-old Ohio resident, was driving into oncoming traffic on the wrong side of Roosevelt Road when he crashed head-on.

Biss selects freshman Chicago alderman as running mate

State Sen. Daniel Biss doubled down on attempting to position himself as the progressive choice for the Democratic nomination for governor Thursday by naming freshman Chicago Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa as his running mate. In Ramirez-Rosa, who represents the 35th Ward that includes parts of the hip Logan.

A man accused of running a puppy mill dreamed his trial moved. A Lake County judge said no.

A Lake County Superior Court judge on Thursday denied a request for a switch of venue for a man charged with allegedly running an illegal puppy mill operation and conducting veterinary services without a license. However, Judge Diane Ross Boswell said she would be willing to impose confinements.

Zion man identified in drowning at Illinois Beach State Park

An 18-year-old man who drowned at Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park's North Unit on Wednesday has been identified as a Zion resident who was scheduled to go into the Air Force and recently became a father, according to relatives. Lake County Coroner Howard Cooper identified the victim.

Lake Co. releases 1st immigrant from jail under Trust Act provisions: 'I could breathe again'

A few hours after Guillermina Vazquez and others pleaded outside Lake County Jail for the release of her son, the anguished 57-year-old mother was able to bail him out and take him home. Vazquez's son was being held at the jail after his arrest earlier this month on felony drug charges, officials.

Former Bulls player among arrivals at O'Hare from Texas flood zone

Days after Hurricane Harvey began devastating southeastern Texas, flights from Houston have begun trickling into O'Hare International Airport. Former Chicago Bulls player Isaiah Canaan, who was among those arriving Thursday morning, said he was trapped for days inwards his suburban Houston home.

Canadian wildfires responsible for hazy Elgin sky

The hazy sky and the acrid outdoor air in the area Thursday was due to conditions a excellent distance northwest. “It's wildfires in Canada,” Elgin Fire Chief Dave Schmidt said. “Because the temperature cooled off, the smoke is pulling down down in the environment. This smoke smells bad.” Smoke from wildfires.

30 days in jail for ex-school bus monitor who repeatedly spanked autistic boy from Naperville

A former school bus monitor who repeatedly smacked an autistic boy she was watching was sentenced Thursday to thirty days in jail by a DuPage County judge who called her deeds “despicable.” Joyce F. Jones, Sixty-nine, of Bolingbrook, had been found guilty of six counts of misdemeanor battery in July. Authorities.

'My baby's shot; I shot her': Man charged with Gary woman's murder

A 45-year-old man was charged Thursday in connection with the shooting of a woman in Gary earlier this week, court records showcase. Melvin Ryan Bruce, of Gary, was charged with murder in the death of Temica Spencer, 31. Spencer died at Methodist Hospitals Northlake on Tuesday, according to the Lake.

No bail for man in July four fatal shooting outside his grandmother's house

Several people gathered the afternoon of July four in front of the Riverside Village apartment elaborate on the Far South Side. The group consisted of friends, family and children. But when a fight erupted nearby, fireworks were substituted with gunfire, killing a man who was shielding his gf.

Judge denies motility to dismiss perjury charges against former coroner Rudd; trial set Oct. Twenty three

For the 2nd time this year, a Lake County judge struck down a movement to dismiss election-related perjury charges against former Lake County Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd. Circuit Judge Victoria Rossetti denied a movability Thursday to reconsider her previous refusal to dismiss five counts of perjury against.

Chicago aldermen want fresh rules to stop shops from selling stolen cellphones

Aldermen took aim at the lucrative stolen cellphone market Thursday, advancing a measure designed to make Chicago pawn shops and other retailers ensure they only sell secondhand phones they get legitimately. At a news conference prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue, Anthony Riccio.

Extradition of Ukrainian oligarch with links to Trump campaign inches closer

The likelihood that Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Firtash will be coerced to reaction racketeering charges in a Chicago courtroom enhanced this week when the Austrian courts rejected an alternate bid to extradite him to Spain. But Firtash — who has ties to President Donald Trump's former campaign.

ComEd customers to get $14 refund on October bills

The average ComEd residential customer can expect to see a credit of about $14 on October's bill. The refunds, which amount to about $80 million overall, were approved Wednesday by the Illinois Commerce Commission as part of ComEd's energy efficiency program. ComEd, an Exelon subsidiary, said it.

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Violating News

Three people, including a 15-year-old boy, were fatally shot within five hours on Labor Day, according to police. In total, twelve people were shot in separate attacks from Monday morning to early Tuesday in Chicago. On the city's Southwest Side, a 38-year-old man was shot numerous times while he.

Man shoots woman, then himself

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Four people were wounded late Monday in a shooting in the one thousand block of Bellwood Avenue in suburban Bellwood, according to police officials. About eleven p.m., the group was standing outside of a home when someone opened fire, striking four people, said Jiminez Allen, the chief of the Bellwood Police.

Man dies while detained by police

Chicago police are investigating the death of a man who became unresponsive while in police custody late Monday. Just after 8:Ten p.m. Monday, officers investigating a robbery detained a man in the one thousand six hundred block of South Pulaski Road in the Lawndale neighborhood. At some point, the man became unresponsive.

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

In a stunning and bold bet on the future of newspapers, Tronc, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, has acquired the venerable Fresh York Daily News. This deal for the tabloid, which includes the Daily News' website and other assets, has been in the works for some months and was finalized Sunday.

Jim Kirk, Sun-Times editor/publisher, joins Tribune parent Tronc

Homeless dogs, cats arrive in Waukegan from Texas

Noisy barks and meows could be heard Monday from a cargo airplane at Waukegan National Airport. Before the plane's doors opened at about Two:30 p.m. to let out the one hundred eighteen cats and dogs transported from Texas to Lake County, teams of volunteers from animal organizations in Chicago and Indiana were ready.

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

A fire in an apartment at a Chicago Housing Authority senior high-rise in the East Garfield Park neighborhood was quickly extinguished with no injuries reported, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The fire in an eighth-floor apartment in the building at four hundred forty N. Drake Ave. was called in just.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till who was in bed with the boy on the night he was kidnapped and later murdered, died Monday morning at his home in Countryside, his wifey said. Wright died after suffering complications from a form of bone cancer, his wifey, Annie Wright, said. He was 74. Simeon.

Simeon Wright, cousin of Emmett Till, dies

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Police are warning that burglars have violated into concession stands in Grant Park at least three times over the past week. All three of the break-ins at seasonal food concession stands in Grant Park took place late at night or early in the morning Tuesday or Wednesday of last week, according to.

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

A $Two million bond was set Monday for a 36-year old Chicago man charged with scalding a 2-year-old boy so severely that the child could have to learn to walk again. Jarvon Crossley, an overnight supermarket stock clerk, was home alone Aug. Seventeen caring for the 2-year-old boy in the South Chicago neighborhood.

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comebacks home

A 15-year-old doll who went missing from the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side has returned home on her own, Chicago police said. Aaliyah Walker had been last seen Aug. Thirty in the area of the seven thousand seven hundred block of South Calumet Avenue, according to a missing person alert issued Friday. She “returned.

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

A man switching a tire was shot while a woman and a 2-year-old child were in the car late Sunday on the shoulder of Interstate 290, Illinois State Police said. About 11:Ten p.m. near the stopped vehicle off the west lanes of I-290 at Mannheim Road, the man, 23, was shot in the ass-cheeks, according.

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Milwaukee police say two officers responding to a street fight fatally shot a 37-year-old man after he fired a gun. Police say the shooting happened at about ten p.m. Sunday in a neighborhood about seven miles north of downtown. Police say in a statement the officers were responding to “a large.

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Owners of a one-time silica mine in southern Illinois are donating the property to a Michigan-based group that works to help the endangered Indiana bat. A deal that was decades in the making came to a close last week as Unimin President and CEO Campbell Jones gave ownership of Magazine Mine to.

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

A 57-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday night in Antioch, according to authorities. The Antioch-area man, who has not yet been identified, was traveling south on Nelson Road when he evidently had problems turning onto North Avenue and struck trees near the roadside, according.

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Emergency responders descended on the 31st Street Beach on Monday morning for a water rescue, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was swimming with friends about 9:40 a.m., police said. But then he all of a sudden went underwater, police reported. Extra informaiton about what led the.

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

After spending the day celebrating the 84th bday of their grandfather, Dio Bautista thought his cousin dreamed to meet up with other family members. “Wer u at cuz,” Felipe Bautista wrote in a text just before 9:50 p.m. “Mary's house,” Dio Bautista responded. Felipe Bautista never responded.

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Two fellows were fatally shot and at least twelve other people were wounded in separate attacks across Chicago during a 15-hour period from Sunday afternoon to early Monday, according to police. One man was shot dead and another man was wounded about Ten:40 p.m. Sunday in the Belmont Central neighborhood.

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

A 32-year-old woman was rescued from the Chicago Sea near Michigan Avenue early Monday, according to fire officials. About Two:35 a.m., a 32-year-old woman hopped into the sea, according to the Chicago Fire Department. She was by herself when she hopped into the water. Rescuers used a buoy.

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax violates to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools. The stir is a boon for Catholic education — and showcased Cupich's considerable political savvy. But an amusing, nosey.

CPS says high school graduation rate proceeds to climb

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Immigration activist Elvira Arellano led a march Sunday from a park in the Pilsen neighborhood toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the South Loop to support the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program now under review by the Trump administration. Holding a white.

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Striking over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A 52-year-old man fiercely hammer a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday. Reckie Clay, of the eleven thousand block of Homewood Avenue, appeared in Cook County Bond Court on Sunday, charged with attempted.

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

The four-vehicle motorcade pulled into a Little Village parking lot with all the hoopla of a royal visit: a crowd cheered, a welcoming banner was unfurled and a dozen TV cameras jostled for the ideal shot. The subjects of this celebrity treatment were forty three dogs and cats brought to Chicago on Sunday.

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Chicago police on Sunday updated information on a 14-year-old dame who disappeared from the West Woodlawn neighborhood in early August. Kiara Jones was last seen Aug. 8. She’s missing from the six thousand six hundred block of South Vernon Avenue, and Chicago police have issued alerts asking for the public's help.

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

A missing Hammond boy was found safe hiding behind a thicket in an area near his home more than eight hours after he disappeared, police said. Lt. Steven Kellogg, public information officer with the Hammond Police Department, said 9-year-old Anthony Mitchell was found safe by Police Officer David.

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Ass-pipe Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media shove to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making excellent progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper forearms out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Richard Posner announces unexpected retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

Emanuel calls on Trump to stop attacking Obama legacy and not dismantle DACA

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some unsolicited advice for President Donald Trump on Friday as the president considers removing some protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children: Stop “tearing down President Obama's agenda and begin figuring out how to build your own.” “(Trump) is.

Rauner grants seven clemency petitions, denies eighty seven

Two guys find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

A puny crowd trickled into the rehabilitation center conference room and took their seats as a choir sang softly, their voices echoing in the 10th floor room. Dressed in black gowns and caps with orange tassels, two dudes wheeled themselves to the front row, turned to each other and shook mitts.

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

Melissa Macedo went to the McHenry County jail Friday to bail out her father with $500 in her arm and, she thought, the law on her side. On Monday, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the Trust Act into law, which says that police can't detain someone solely because of their immigration status. So even however.

No bail in fatal shooting on basketball court at Bradley Park

Rauner asks for federal flood help, but Hurricane Harvey could mean delays

Dame, 12, sexually assaulted in the Back of the Yards neighborhood

Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding a man who hit a 12-year-old doll and coerced her into a van where he sexually assaulted her, Chicago police said. The female was walking in the five thousand block of South May Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about Ten:30 p.m. Thursday when a.

Two killed, fourteen wounded, including 14-year-old damsel, in city shootings

Two boys were killed and a 14-year-old lady was among fourteen other people wounded in shootings from late Friday morning to Saturday morning, Chicago police said. A 26-year-old man was killed in a quadruple shooting about 1:20 a.m. Saturday in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. .

West Side violence: Triple shootings, dual homicide and police firing at man with two guns

Even for the West Side, the last twenty four hours had been furiously violent: Three triple shootings and a dual homicide within four miles of each other.Thursday evening, two officers were on patrol in the area when they eyed a man firing a gun outside a liquor store at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue.

Exhumation confirms gravesite of legendary Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes

Shelley Berman, Chicago comedian of everyday life, dead at ninety two

Naperville consultant gets fifteen months for financial scheme in San Diego mayor's race

Safe Humane Chicago group saves 'Court Case Dogs' from euthanasia

Chicago police to deploy extra 1,300 cops for Labor Day weekend

FBI confirms closing probe into shooting by Chicago cop without bringing charges

Jane Addams: Champ of the poor. Affordable housing advocate. Glitzy hotel brand?

Highland Park Jewish deli faces backlash over Facebook post featuring Nazi imagery

A Highland Park deli is facing backlash over a Facebook post that includes a cartoon drawing of a man wearing a Nazi armband, providing a stiff-armed salute and donning a T-shirt reading, “I’m with Alt-Right.” Greg Morelli, who possesses Max’s Deli with his brother, posted the picture last week. Morelli.

Assets recovered from lake south of 31st Street Beach

With top cop on mend, CPD's No. Two is in charge for historically violent Labor Day weekend

14 hours in Chicago: Woman, 13, wounded; five shot in Lawndale; police fire at gunman

Two studs were killed and at least ten other people were wounded, including a 13-year-old doll a block from her home, during a 14-hour period from late Thursday morning to early Friday in Chicago that also included a police-involved shooting, according to police.The lady was railing in a car in the.

Man attempted to lure youthfull lady on Far Northwest Side, police said

A man railing a bicycle in the O'Hare neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side attempted to lure a 12-year-old lady into his house last week, authorities said. The man was railing a light blue bike and approached the 12-year-old doll, who was walking in the eight thousand six hundred block of West Summerdale Avenue about 6:15.

Man, 42, found dead on Far South Side is identified

Wisconsin's suggest to Foxconn enhanced substantially, handwritten deal shows

Wisconsin's suggest to Foxconn Technology Group to extend $Three billion in tax cracks was made in a handwritten deal that enhanced substantially before being signed by Gov. Scott Walker, documents released Thursday under the state's open records law demonstrated.Walker's office released the documents to.

Family seeks special prosecutor in two thousand eleven fatal shooting by Chicago cop

Man arrested in Villa Park, charged with fundraising for ISIS fighters

City relaxes Friday night prohibition at Wrigley for Cubs' Sept. Eight game vs. Brewers

Bloomberg spends $Trio million more on campaign to back soda pop tax as repeal showdown looms

Former Fresh York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $Trio million more to air a fresh TV ad backing the controversial penny-an-ounce Cook County tax on sweetened beverages. The $Three million is on top of $Two million Bloomberg already plowed into a different ad supporting the tax, which went into effect.

Rauner win on schools bill comes at a price

Police: Man posing as ride-share driver stole financial information

A man who strung up out in bars posing as a ride-share driver is accused of stealing cash from his customers after taking their debit cards at least a dozen times, Chicago police said. Gabriel Jackson, 49, of the four hundred block of West Barry Avenue, has been charged with twelve counts of continuing a financial.

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A Dolton liquor licensee, already facing revocation for a May nightclub shooting that injured five, must now react to unrelated alleged tax violations. Mucho Gusto LLC, fourteen thousand one hundred twelve S. Chicago Road, has been summoned to emerge Thursday before an administrative law judge appointed by the Illinois Liquor.

Donors with ties to troubled club gave to Dolton mayor's campaign

Oak Park is 'undoubtedly' safe, police chief says

After hearing the news of a latest violent crime reported in Oak Park, resident Dan Fitzgerald was among those discussing the incident on a Facebook page for residents in the village. Fitzgerald, who moved to the village in two thousand four and lives near Oak Park's southern border, said he is worried about.

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, pistols in Chicago

An Arkansas man with ties to the Chicago area was arrested over the Labor Day weekend on charges he sold more than twenty guns, including a number of military-style semiautomatic rifles, to an informant here since spring. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested.

Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

City Council committee OKs record $9.Five million Taser injury payout

A record $9.Five million settlement for a man left paralyzed after being felled by a Taser-wielding Chicago police officer won approval Tuesday of a key City Council committee. The Finance Committee endorsed the settlement, negotiated by city attorneys after a jury determined that Officer Stevan Vidljinovic.

Man goes missing from Lake Meadows neighborhood

A man from the Lake Meadows neighborhood was reported missing by his family Tuesday. Tamon Philpot, 26, was last seen near his home in the four hundred block of East 32nd Street, according to a statement from Chicago police. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray T-shirt with white graphics, officials.

Bottled Blonde neighbors describe big crowds outside as fate of its liquor license remains unclear

Neighbors of a Sea North establishment that drew attention for an unusually rigorous dress code described big late-night crowds outside Bottled Blonde at a hearing Tuesday about whether the business has violated its liquor license rules. A city official said at the liquor board hearing that Bottled.

Bottled Blonde, Sea North bar with lengthy dress code, has liquor license hearing

Stepfather, stepson found dead in Aurora basement

The deaths of an Aurora stepfather and stepson found in their basement Monday morning emerge drug-related, according to police. Jesus Mancilla-Nunez, 57, and his 29-year-old stepson, Jamie Vazquez Jr., were found dead about 9:45 a.m. Monday in the basement of their home on the eight hundred block of Columbia.

Durbin asks for quick approval of the Fantasy Act as Democrats assail Trump over DACA

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Tuesday called for quick approval of legislation this month to protect immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The Illinois Democrat spoke hours after President Donald Trump announced his administration was phasing out the Deferred Act for Childhood.

Trump rescinding DACA program protecting youthfull immigrants

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial embarks

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just commenced his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Evanston murder victim Dajae Coleman

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls 'murdering the hits'

Would Adele's hit ballad “Hello” have had the same influence if it had been all about life in Chicago under mayor Rahm Emanuel? Very likely not — but long odds have never been a deterrent to perennial mayoral challenger William “Dock” Walls III. So Walls, who has finished in last place in each of the.

Chicago DACA recipients fearful of future as Trump rescinds program

Ere Rendon waited all Tuesday morning for the official announcement from the Trump administration about the future of the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program — and possibly her own future too. When the news came that the Trump administration would rescind the government program protecting.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel addresses students about DACA

Labor Day violence down – but it kills a teenage day before begin of school

Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to eyeing his friends as he began another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.”He was excited about it,” his father Michael Jones said, fighting for words. “But I don't know, he . I can't talk about it.” The night before classes were to.

Downers library official faces removal after reported comments critical of diversity

Downers Grove officials are seeking to eliminate a member of the suburb's library board following comments he is reported by a civic group to have made at a meeting that library staff should not receive training on inclusion and diversity and that staff should protect children from exposure to homosexuals.

Russell Simmons launching peacekeeping program on South Side

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is scheduled to help launch a program in Chicago on Wednesday that would train South Siders how to mediate conflict in their neighborhoods. RushCard, a debit card provider co-founded by Simmons, is providing $50,000 to the Peacekeepers Global Initiative so it can expand.

Meditation class a fresh instrument for students to deal with stress

Soda tax opposition spends $1.Four million on fresh TV ads

The beverage industry-funded opposition to Cook County's sweetened beverage tax will spend $1.Four million on television ads leading up to a possible repeal vote. The Can the Tax Coalition's announcement Tuesday comes days after former Fresh York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans to spend another.

Bloomberg spends $Three million more on campaign to back soda pop tax as repeal showdown looms

How safe are CPS Safe Passage routes?

Beginning Tuesday, students at more than one hundred forty schools will walk to school along Safe Passage routes, shepherded by trained adult monitors to witness over the children and protect them from street violence. The Chicago Public Schools' anti-violence program was created in two thousand thirteen and expanded after about.

For the very first time in years, CPS classes commence with a hint of optimism

Something's missing from the very first day of classes at Chicago Public Schools this year: an instantaneous source of stress. There's no labor clash to suck up the oxygen, with the Chicago Teachers Union securing a contract last October minutes before a threatened strike. Pressure on the district's finances.

Judge to determine if ex-priest who molested boys can be committed indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records display more than two dozen boys and youthful studs have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthful Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Youth football participation declines as worries climb on about concussions, CTE

The artificial turf outside Addison Trail High School was alive with act as a practice session of the Addison Cowboys youth football club got underway. Shoulder pads cracked, coaches hollered and cheerful parents kept see on the sidelines — all signs, to the inexpert eye, of a sport in good.

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

A robbery suspect became unresponsive while in Chicago police custody and later died Monday night, officials said. Officers investigating a West Side robbery just after 8:Ten p.m. Monday detained the 25-year-old man in the one thousand six hundred block of South Pulaski Road in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

Homeless dogs, cats arrive in Waukegan from Texas

Why a later commence to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois' economy

If school districts via the state moved kicking off times to 8:30 a.m. so middle and high school students could sleep longer, Illinois' economy would build up $1 billion within five years, according to a probe by the Rand Corp. The state, along with others across the country, would benefit.

Three killed, nine wounded in Labor Day shootings

Three people, including a 15-year-old boy, were fatally shot within five hours on Labor Day, according to Chicago police. In total, twelve people were shot in separate attacks from Monday morning to early Tuesday in the city. On the Southwest Side, a 38-year-old man was shot numerous times while.

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Four people were wounded late Monday in a shooting in the one thousand block of Bellwood Avenue in west suburban Bellwood, according to police officials. About eleven p.m., the group was standing outside of a home when someone opened fire, striking four people, said Bellwood police Chief Jiminez Allen. All.

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Police are warning that burglars have cracked into concession stands in Grant Park at least three times over the past week. All three of the break-ins at seasonal food concession stands in Grant Park took place late at night or early in the morning Tuesday or Wednesday of last week, according to.

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comes back home

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Emergency responders descended on the 31st Street Beach on Monday morning for a water rescue, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was swimming with friends about 9:40 a.m., police said. But then he abruptly went underwater, police reported. Extra informaiton about what led the.

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Two studs were fatally shot and at least twelve other people were wounded in separate attacks across Chicago during a 15-hour period from Sunday afternoon to early Monday, according to police. One man was shot dead and another man was wounded about Ten:40 p.m. Sunday in the Belmont Central neighborhood.

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax violates to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools. The stir is a boon for Catholic education — and showcased Cupich's considerable political savvy. But an amusing, nosey.

CPS says high school graduation rate resumes to climb

The rate of Chicago Public Schools students who graduated within five years of commencing high school climbed past seventy seven percent this year, a four percentage point build up from a year ago that district officials credited in part to marked improvement by African-American boys, according to figures provided.

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Hammering over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A 52-year-old man cruelly hammer a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday. Reckie Clay, of the eleven thousand block of Homewood Avenue, appeared in Cook County Bond Court on Sunday, charged with attempted.

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

It began with a trainload of cattle. In the summer of 1877, the United States suffered an outbreak of labor unrest so widespread and violent that some thought a fresh American revolution was in the offing, this time tinged with the communist ideals that had just burned through France. The Good.

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Ass-pipe Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media shove to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making good progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

The woman bleeding from a gunshot wound to her hip was holding her 3-year-old son on a porch in Gresham when Chicago police officers arrived. A youthful police officer scooped up the boy and put him in a squad car so paramedics could tend to the injured mother, 23. The boy was not hurt. Officers.

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper forearms out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Richard Posner announces unexpected retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

Emanuel calls on Trump to stop attacking Obama legacy and not dismantle DACA

Rauner grants seven clemency petitions, denies eighty seven

Two studs find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

A petite crowd trickled into the rehabilitation center conference room and took their seats as a choir sang softly, their voices echoing in the 10th floor room. Dressed in black gowns and caps with orange tassels, two dudes wheeled themselves to the front row, turned to each other and shook mitts.

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

No bail in fatal shooting on basketball court at Bradley Park

Rauner asks for federal flood help, but Hurricane Harvey could mean delays

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Norman McIntosh spent more than fifteen years in prison for a two thousand one murder based on the testimony of three people who claimed they spotted him fire the fatal shots from a gray Oldsmobile. But the case unraveled last year after all three eyewitnesses — two of whom were twelve years old at the time — recanted.

Norman McIntosh released from prison after prosecutors drop charges

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

Midlothian man dies in car crash near Orland Park

A 24-year-old Midlothian man died Sunday after the Jeep he was driving was involved in a crash at the intersection of 143rd Street and Harlem Avenue in unincorporated Cook County near Orland Park. Ronald Bobowski, of the fourteen thousand one hundred block of South Kilpatrick Avenue, died from numerous injuries suffered.

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, other guns in Chicago

An Arkansas man with ties to the Chicago area was arrested over the Labor Day weekend on charges he sold more than twenty guns, including a number of military-style semi-automatic rifles, to an informant here since spring. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested.

Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

14-year-old boy shot in South Chicago neighborhood

A 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded in an attack in the South Chicago neighborhood, minutes after a 17-year-old was hurt in a Near West Side shooting, authorities said. Chicago Fire Department paramedics were called to the eight thousand block of South Manistee Avenue just after five p.m. and took the boy.

Antioch motorcycle crash victim ID'd as longtime postal carrier in Fox Lake

Funeral services have been set for Russell Schultz, a 57-year-old Antioch Township resident who died over the weekend in a motorcycle accident in Antioch and was well-known in the village and Fox Lake. Schultz was identified Tuesday by Lake County Coroner Howard Cooper, who said an autopsy exposed.

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

DACA decision generates anxiety, frustration in Illinois business community

Miramar Group CEO Juan Ochoa knows what it is like to grow up living in the U.S. illegally. Brought from Mexico when he was eight years old, he heard stories from his uncles about immigration raids, eyed relatives get deported, and felt “a sense of desperation and anxiety” about his future. Ochoa, now.

Downers library official faces removal after reported comments critical of diversity, homosexuality

Downers Grove officials are seeking to liquidate a member of the suburb's library board following comments he is reported by a civic group to have made at a meeting that library staff should not receive training on inclusion and diversity and that staff should protect children from exposure to homosexuals.

University of Illinois Hospital nurses plan strike

About 1,200 University of Illinois Hospital nurses plan to strike Sept. Thirteen if they are incapable to reach a contract agreement beforehand. The nurses voted overwhelmingly for the strike last week, and will strike for twenty four hours, said Alice Johnson, executive director of the Illinois Nurses Association.

Durbin asks for quick approval of the Wish Act as Democrats assail Trump over DACA

Trump rescinding DACA program protecting youthfull immigrants

Dolton liquor licensee at center of Mother's Day shooting faces alleged state tax violations

Donors with ties to troubled club gave to Dolton mayor's campaign

Three shot in Gary over weekend, one possible victim remains unknown

Police believe a person was shot Monday night in Gary but have not been able to find the gunshot victim, according to a department spokeswoman. Gary police responded to three shootings over the three-day Labor Day weekend, said Lt. Dawn Westerfield. At about Ten:30 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched.

Despite latest robberies and carjackings, police chief says Oak Park is 'undoubtedly' safe

City Council committee OKs record $9.Five million Taser injury payout

Man goes missing from Lake Meadows neighborhood

Neighbors tell liquor board about big crowds outside Bottled Blonde

Neighbors of a Sea North establishment that drew attention for an unusually rigorous dress code described big late-night crowds outside Bottled Blonde, at a hearing Tuesday about whether the business has violated its liquor license rules. A city official said at the liquor board hearing that Bottled.

Bottled Blonde, Sea North bar with lengthy dress code, has liquor license hearing

Stepfather, stepson found dead in Aurora basement

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial embarks

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just embarked his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls 'murdering the hits'

Chicago DACA recipients fearful of future as Trump rescinds program

Ere Rendon waited all Tuesday morning for the official announcement from the Trump administration about the future of the Deferred Act for Childhood Arrivals program — and possibly her own future too. When the news came that the Trump administration would rescind the government program protecting.

Labor Day violence down – but it kills a teenage day before commence of school

Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to watching his friends as he began another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.”He was excited about it,” his father Michael Jones said, fighting for words. “But I don't know, he . I can't talk about it.” The night before classes were to.

Russell Simmons launching peacekeeping program on South Side

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is scheduled to help launch a program in Chicago on Wednesday that would instruct South Siders how to mediate conflict in their neighborhoods. RushCard, a debit card provider co-founded by Simmons, is providing $50,000 to the Peacekeepers Global Initiative so it can expand.

Soda tax opposition spends $1.Four million on fresh TV ads

How safe are CPS Safe Passage routes?

Kicking off Tuesday, students at more than one hundred forty schools will walk to school along Safe Passage routes, shepherded by trained adult monitors to observe over the children and protect them from street violence. The Chicago Public Schools' anti-violence program was created in two thousand thirteen and expanded after about.

For the very first time in years, CPS classes commence with a hint of optimism

Something's missing from the very first day of classes at Chicago Public Schools this year: an instant source of pressure. There's no labor clash to suck up the oxygen, with the Chicago Teachers Union securing a contract last October minutes before a threatened strike. Pressure on the district's finances.

Judge to determine if ex-priest who molested boys can be committed indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records display more than two dozen boys and youthfull guys have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthful Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Youth football participation declines as worries climb on about concussions, CTE

The artificial turf outside Addison Trail High School was alive with activity as a practice session of the Addison Cowboys youth football club got underway. Shoulder pads cracked, coaches hollered and cheerful parents kept witness on the sidelines — all signs, to the inexpert eye, of a sport in good.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

Why a later embark to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois' economy

If school districts across the state moved kicking off times to 8:30 a.m. so middle and high school students could sleep longer, Illinois' economy would build up $1 billion within five years, according to a examine by the Rand Corp. The state, along with others across the country, would benefit.

Trio killed, nine wounded in Labor Day shootings

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comebacks home

A 15-year-old damsel who went missing from the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side has returned home on her own, Chicago police said. Aaliyah Walker had been last seen Aug. Thirty in the area of the seven thousand seven hundred block of South Calumet Avenue, according to a missing person alert issued Friday. She “returned.

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax violates to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools. The stir is a boon for Catholic education — and showcased Cupich's considerable political savvy. But an amusing, nosey.

CPS says high school graduation rate proceeds to climb

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Hitting over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A 52-year-old man aggressively strike a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday. Reckie Clay, of the eleven thousand block of Homewood Avenue, appeared in Cook County Bond Court on Sunday, charged with attempted.

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

The four-vehicle motorcade pulled into a Little Village parking lot with all the hoopla of a royal visit: a crowd cheered, a welcoming banner was unfurled and a dozen TV cameras jostled for the flawless shot. The subjects of this celebrity treatment were forty three dogs and cats brought to Chicago on Sunday.

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Chicago police on Sunday updated information on a 14-year-old damsel who disappeared from the West Woodlawn neighborhood in early August. Kiara Jones was last seen Aug. 8. She’s missing from the six thousand six hundred block of South Vernon Avenue, and Chicago police have issued alerts asking for the public's help.

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media thrust to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making superb progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper mitts out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Richard Posner announces unexpected retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

Emanuel calls on Trump to stop attacking Obama legacy and not dismantle DACA

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some unsolicited advice for President Donald Trump on Friday as the president considers removing some protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children: Stop “tearing down President Obama's agenda and embark figuring out how to build your own.” “(Trump) is.

Rauner grants seven clemency petitions, denies eighty seven

Two fellows find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

A puny crowd trickled into the rehabilitation center conference room and took their seats as a choir sang softly, their voices echoing in the 10th floor room. Dressed in black gowns and caps with orange tassels, two guys wheeled themselves to the front row, turned to each other and shook forearms.

Cracking News – Chicago Tribune

Cracking News

Norman McIntosh spent more than fifteen years in prison for a two thousand one murder based on the testimony of three people who claimed they witnessed him fire the fatal shots from a gray Oldsmobile. But the case unraveled last year after all three eyewitnesses — two of whom were twelve years old at the time — recanted.

Norman McIntosh released from prison after prosecutors drop charges

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

Midlothian man dies in car crash near Orland Park

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, other guns in Chicago

Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

14-year-old boy shot in South Chicago neighborhood

Antioch motorcycle crash victim ID'd as longtime postal carrier in Fox Lake

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

DACA decision generates anxiety, frustration in Illinois business community

Miramar Group CEO Juan Ochoa knows what it is like to grow up living in the U.S. illegally. Brought from Mexico when he was eight years old, he heard stories from his uncles about immigration raids, witnessed relatives get deported, and felt “a sense of desperation and anxiety” about his future. Ochoa, now.

Downers library official faces removal after reported comments critical of diversity, homosexuality

University of Illinois Hospital nurses plan strike

Durbin asks for quick approval of the Wish Act as Democrats assail Trump over DACA

Trump rescinding DACA program protecting youthfull immigrants

Dolton liquor licensee at center of Mother's Day shooting faces alleged state tax violations

Donors with ties to troubled club gave to Dolton mayor's campaign

Trio shot in Gary over weekend, one possible victim remains unknown

Despite latest robberies and carjackings, police chief says Oak Park is 'undoubtedly' safe

City Council committee OKs record $9.Five million Taser injury payout

Man goes missing from Lake Meadows neighborhood

Neighbors tell liquor board about big crowds outside Bottled Blonde

Bottled Blonde, Sea North bar with lengthy dress code, has liquor license hearing

Stepfather, stepson found dead in Aurora basement

The deaths of an Aurora stepfather and stepson found in their basement Monday morning show up drug-related, according to police. Jesus Mancilla-Nunez, 57, and his 29-year-old stepson, Jamie Vazquez Jr., were found dead about 9:45 a.m. Monday in the basement of their home on the eight hundred block of Columbia.

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial starts

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just embarked his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls 'murdering the hits'

Would Adele's hit ballad “Hello” have had the same influence if it had been all about life in Chicago under mayor Rahm Emanuel? Most likely not — but long odds have never been a deterrent to perennial mayoral challenger William “Dock” Walls III. So Walls, who has finished in last place in each of the.

Chicago DACA recipients fearful of future as Trump rescinds program

Labor Day violence down – but it kills a teenage day before embark of school

Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to witnessing his friends as he began another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.”He was excited about it,” his father Michael Jones said, fighting for words. “But I don't know, he . I can't talk about it.” The night before classes were to.

Russell Simmons launching peacekeeping program on South Side

Soda tax opposition spends $1.Four million on fresh TV ads

How safe are CPS Safe Passage routes?

For the very first time in years, CPS classes commence with a hint of optimism

Something's missing from the very first day of classes at Chicago Public Schools this year: an instant source of strain. There's no labor clash to suck up the oxygen, with the Chicago Teachers Union securing a contract last October minutes before a threatened strike. Pressure on the district's finances.

Judge to determine if ex-priest who molested boys can be committed indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records display more than two dozen boys and youthful fellows have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthful Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Youth football participation declines as worries climb on about concussions, CTE

The artificial turf outside Addison Trail High School was alive with act as a practice session of the Addison Cowboys youth football club got underway. Shoulder pads cracked, coaches hollered and cheerful parents kept witness on the sidelines — all signs, to the inexpert eye, of a sport in good.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

Why a later begin to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois' economy

If school districts via the state moved commencing times to 8:30 a.m. so middle and high school students could sleep longer, Illinois' economy would build up $1 billion within five years, according to a examine by the Rand Corp. The state, along with others across the country, would benefit.

Three killed, nine wounded in Labor Day shootings

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comes back home

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Emergency responders descended on the 31st Street Beach on Monday morning for a water rescue, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was swimming with friends about 9:40 a.m., police said. But then he abruptly went underwater, police reported. Extra informaiton about what led the.

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

CPS says high school graduation rate proceeds to climb

The rate of Chicago Public Schools students who graduated within five years of kicking off high school climbed past seventy seven percent this year, a four percentage point build up from a year ago that district officials credited in part to marked improvement by African-American boys, according to figures provided.

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Immigration activist Elvira Arellano led a march Sunday from a park in the Pilsen neighborhood toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the South Loop to support the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program now under review by the Trump administration. Holding a white.

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Striking over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A 52-year-old man fiercely strike a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday. Reckie Clay, of the eleven thousand block of Homewood Avenue, appeared in Cook County Bond Court on Sunday, charged with attempted.

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

It embarked with a trainload of cattle. In the summer of 1877, the United States suffered an outbreak of labor unrest so widespread and violent that some thought a fresh American revolution was in the offing, this time tinged with the communist ideals that had just burned through France. The Superb.

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Chicago police on Sunday updated information on a 14-year-old lady who disappeared from the West Woodlawn neighborhood in early August. Kiara Jones was last seen Aug. 8. She’s missing from the six thousand six hundred block of South Vernon Avenue, and Chicago police have issued alerts asking for the public's help.

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Cave Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media thrust to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making good progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper palms out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Richard Posner announces unexpected retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

Emanuel calls on Trump to stop attacking Obama legacy and not dismantle DACA

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some unsolicited advice for President Donald Trump on Friday as the president considers removing some protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children: Stop “tearing down President Obama's agenda and begin figuring out how to build your own.” “(Trump) is.

Rauner grants seven clemency petitions, denies eighty seven

Two guys find friendship, education after gunshots alter their future

A puny crowd trickled into the rehabilitation center conference room and took their seats as a choir sang softly, their voices echoing in the 10th floor room. Dressed in black gowns and caps with orange tassels, two guys wheeled themselves to the front row, turned to each other and shook mitts.

Violating News – Chicago Tribune

Cracking News

A 14-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded in an attack in the South Chicago neighborhood, one of at least three people shot since late afternoon in the city, authorities said. Chicago Fire Department paramedics were called to the eight thousand block of South Manistee Avenue just after five p.m. and.

At least two boys working together have committed a string of at least thirteen robberies on the North and Northwest Sides in the last two weeks, according to a police community alert. A man or fellows have gone up to victims on the street and either shown a gun or hit victims in the head with something and.

Downers Grove leaders voted late Tuesday to eliminate a library board member from office after a civic group reported that he'd made comments about homosexuality during a board meeting. Village leaders, without comment, voted 6-0 to revoke Arthur Jaros' seat on the library board, prompting applause.

A man at the center of a dispute over Illinois' fresh law on detaining immigrants living in the country illegally will remain behind bars and is now facing possible deportation, despite his lawyers' insistence that he should be released on bail under the Trust Act. On Tuesday, a judge denied a request.

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial commences

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just embarked his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Evanston murder victim Dajae Coleman

Trump administration's decision to end DACA draws hundreds to Loop protest

More than 1,000 protesters gathered downtown Tuesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration's decision to eliminate a policy aimed at protecting immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. The protesters gathered in Federal Plaza and then marched down Dearborn Street to.

City Hall to cover CPS security costs

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is making plans to pick up security guard costs for Chicago Public Schools to help reduce a remaining district budget slot of about $119 million. To do that, Emanuel plans to include $70 to $80 million in spending on CPS security in his proposed two thousand eighteen budget that he'll introduce.

For the very first time in years, CPS classes embark with a hint of optimism

Ex-inmate sues over murder conviction, alleges Chicago police rigged evidence

Norman McIntosh spent more than fifteen years in prison for a two thousand one murder based on the testimony of three people who claimed they eyed him fire the fatal shots from a gray Oldsmobile. But the case unraveled last year after all three eyewitnesses — two of whom were twelve years old at the time — recanted.

Norman McIntosh released from prison after prosecutors drop charges

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

Crestwood man dies in car crash near Orland Park

A 24-year-old Crestwood man died Sunday after the Jeep he was driving was involved in a crash at the intersection of 143rd Street and Harlem Avenue in unincorporated Cook County near Orland Park. Ronald Bobowski, of the fourteen thousand one hundred block of South Kilpatrick Avenue, died from numerous injuries suffered.

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, other guns in Chicago

Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

Antioch motorcycle crash victim ID'd as longtime postal carrier in Fox Lake

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

DACA decision generates anxiety, frustration in Illinois business community

Miramar Group CEO Juan Ochoa knows what it is like to grow up living in the U.S. illegally. Brought from Mexico when he was eight years old, he heard stories from his uncles about immigration raids, witnessed relatives get deported, and felt “a sense of desperation and anxiety” about his future. Ochoa, now.

University of Illinois Hospital nurses plan strike

Durbin asks for quick approval of Fantasy Act as Democrats assail Trump over DACA

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Tuesday called for quick approval of legislation this month to protect immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The Illinois Democrat spoke hours after President Donald Trump announced his administration was phasing out the Deferred Activity for Childhood.

Trump completes DACA program protecting youthful immigrants

Dolton liquor licensee at club where Mother's Day shooting happened accused of state tax violations

A Dolton liquor license holder, already facing revocation for a May nightclub shooting that injured five people, must now react to unrelated alleged tax violations. Mucho Gusto LLC, fourteen thousand one hundred twelve S. Chicago Road, has been summoned to emerge Thursday before an administrative law judge appointed by the.

Donors with ties to troubled club gave to Dolton mayor's campaign

Trio shot in Gary over weekend, one possible victim remains unknown

Despite latest robberies and carjackings, police chief says Oak Park is 'undoubtedly' safe

City Council committee OKs record $9.Five million Taser injury payout

Man goes missing from Lake Meadows neighborhood

Neighbors tell liquor board about big crowds outside Bottled Blonde

Neighbors of a Sea North establishment that drew attention for an unusually stringent dress code described big late-night crowds outside Bottled Blonde, at a hearing Tuesday about whether the business has violated its liquor license rules. A city official said at the liquor board hearing that Bottled.

Deaths of stepfather, stepson found in Aurora basement likely drug-induced, police say

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls 'murdering the hits'

Chicago DACA recipients spurred to act after Trump completes program

A morning of heartbreak turned into an afternoon of determination for Chicago-area recipients of the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program, who vowed to turn fear into activity after the Trump administration announced it would rescind the government program. Ere Rendon said she had to step.

Labor Day violence down – but it kills a teenage day before begin of school

Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to watching his friends as he embarked another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.”He was excited about it,” his father Michael Jones said, fighting for words. “But I don't know, he . I can't talk about it.” The night before classes were to.

Russell Simmons launching peacekeeping program on South Side

Soda tax opposition spends $1.Four million on fresh TV ads

How safe are CPS Safe Passage routes?

Embarking Tuesday, students at more than one hundred forty schools will walk to school along Safe Passage routes, shepherded by trained adult monitors to see over the children and protect them from street violence. The Chicago Public Schools' anti-violence program was created in two thousand thirteen and expanded after about.

For the very first time in years, CPS classes begin with a hint of optimism

Judge to determine if ex-priest who molested boys can be committed indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records display more than two dozen boys and youthfull boys have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthfull Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

Homeless dogs, cats arrive in Waukegan from Texas

Why a later begin to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois' economy

If school districts across the state moved commencing times to 8:30 a.m. so middle and high school students could sleep longer, Illinois' economy would build up $1 billion within five years, according to a explore by the Rand Corp. The state, along with others across the country, would benefit.

Three killed, nine wounded in Labor Day shootings

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comebacks home

A 15-year-old woman who went missing from the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side has returned home on her own, Chicago police said. Aaliyah Walker had been last seen Aug. Thirty in the area of the seven thousand seven hundred block of South Calumet Avenue, according to a missing person alert issued Friday. She “returned.

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Emergency responders descended on the 31st Street Beach on Monday morning for a water rescue, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was swimming with friends about 9:40 a.m., police said. But then he abruptly went underwater, police reported. Extra informaiton about what led the.

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

CPS says high school graduation rate proceeds to climb

The rate of Chicago Public Schools students who graduated within five years of beginning high school climbed past seventy seven percent this year, a four percentage point build up from a year ago that district officials credited in part to marked improvement by African-American boys, according to figures provided.

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Striking over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

The four-vehicle motorcade pulled into a Little Village parking lot with all the hoopla of a royal visit: a crowd cheered, a welcoming banner was unfurled and a dozen TV cameras jostled for the flawless shot. The subjects of this celebrity treatment were forty three dogs and cats brought to Chicago on Sunday.

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Cavern Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media thrust to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making superb progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper forearms out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

Violating News – Chicago Tribune

Violating News

At least two guys working together have committed a string of at least thirteen robberies on the North and Northwest Sides in the last two weeks, according to a police community alert. A man or guys have gone up to victims on the street and either shown a gun or hit victims in the head with something and.

Downers Grove leaders voted late Tuesday to liquidate a library board member from office after a civic group reported that he'd made comments about homosexuality during a board meeting. Village leaders, without comment, voted 6-0 to revoke Arthur Jaros' seat on the library board, prompting applause.

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial starts

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just embarked his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Evanston murder victim Dajae Coleman

Trump administration's decision to end DACA draws hundreds to Loop protest

City Hall to cover CPS security costs

For the very first time in years, CPS classes embark with a hint of optimism

Ex-inmate sues over murder conviction, alleges Chicago police rigged evidence

Norman McIntosh released from prison after prosecutors drop charges

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

Crestwood man dies in car crash near Orland Park

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, other guns in Chicago

Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

Antioch motorcycle crash victim ID'd as longtime postal carrier in Fox Lake

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

DACA decision generates anxiety, frustration in Illinois business community

Miramar Group CEO Juan Ochoa knows what it is like to grow up living in the U.S. illegally. Brought from Mexico when he was eight years old, he heard stories from his uncles about immigration raids, witnessed relatives get deported, and felt “a sense of desperation and anxiety” about his future. Ochoa, now.

University of Illinois Hospital nurses plan strike

Durbin asks for quick approval of Fantasy Act as Democrats assail Trump over DACA

Trump completes DACA program protecting youthfull immigrants

Dolton liquor licensee at club where Mother's Day shooting happened accused of state tax violations

A Dolton liquor license holder, already facing revocation for a May nightclub shooting that injured five people, must now react to unrelated alleged tax violations. Mucho Gusto LLC, fourteen thousand one hundred twelve S. Chicago Road, has been summoned to show up Thursday before an administrative law judge appointed by the.

Donors with ties to troubled club gave to Dolton mayor's campaign

Trio shot in Gary over weekend, one possible victim remains unknown

Despite latest robberies and carjackings, police chief says Oak Park is 'undoubtedly' safe

City Council committee OKs record $9.Five million Taser injury payout

Man goes missing from Lake Meadows neighborhood

Neighbors tell liquor board about big crowds outside Bottled Blonde

Deaths of stepfather, stepson found in Aurora basement likely drug-induced, police say

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls 'murdering the hits'

Chicago DACA recipients spurred to activity after Trump finishes program

Labor Day violence down – but it kills a teenage day before embark of school

Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to observing his friends as he commenced another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.”He was excited about it,” his father Michael Jones said, fighting for words. “But I don't know, he . I can't talk about it.” The night before classes were to.

Russell Simmons launching peacekeeping program on South Side

Soda tax opposition spends $1.Four million on fresh TV ads

How safe are CPS Safe Passage routes?

Embarking Tuesday, students at more than one hundred forty schools will walk to school along Safe Passage routes, shepherded by trained adult monitors to witness over the children and protect them from street violence. The Chicago Public Schools' anti-violence program was created in two thousand thirteen and expanded after about.

For the very first time in years, CPS classes embark with a hint of optimism

Judge to determine if ex-priest who molested boys can be committed indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records showcase more than two dozen boys and youthful fellows have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthful Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Simeon Wright, cousin who was with Emmett Till the night Till was kidnapped, dies

Tronc acquires Fresh York Daily News

Homeless dogs, cats arrive in Waukegan from Texas

Why a later begin to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois' economy

If school districts across the state moved embarking times to 8:30 a.m. so middle and high school students could sleep longer, Illinois' economy would build up $1 billion within five years, according to a investigate by the Rand Corp. The state, along with others via the country, would benefit.

Trio killed, nine wounded in Labor Day shootings

Four wounded in Bellwood shooting

Fire hits CHA senior building on West Side, no one injured

Burglars targeting Grant Park food stands: Cops

Man charged with scalding toddler who wiped butter on himself

Teenage who disappeared from South Side comebacks home

A 15-year-old chick who went missing from the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side has returned home on her own, Chicago police said. Aaliyah Walker had been last seen Aug. Thirty in the area of the seven thousand seven hundred block of South Calumet Avenue, according to a missing person alert issued Friday. She “returned.

Man shot while switching tire on I-290 with woman, toddler in car

Milwaukee police officers fatally shot man

Southern Illinois mine donated to bat conservation group

Antioch-area man killed in motorcycle crash Sunday night

Friends help pull fighting swimmer to shore

Emergency responders descended on the 31st Street Beach on Monday morning for a water rescue, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was swimming with friends about 9:40 a.m., police said. But then he abruptly went underwater, police reported. Extra informaiton about what led the.

Rapper Lil Wayne rushed to Northwestern from Chicago hotel

Rap starlet Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was transported from Dana Hotel and Spa, six hundred sixty N. State St., to nearby Northwestern.

Dual shooting in Belmont Central: 'We're numb to it'

Two dead, twelve others wounded in city shootings

Woman rescued from Chicago Sea

1 dead, one injured in Kennedy Expressway crash

The time Cardinal Cupich's dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax cracks to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools. The budge is a boon for Catholic education — and showcased Cupich's considerable political savvy. But an amusing, nosey.

CPS says high school graduation rate resumes to climb

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

Immigration activist Elvira Arellano led a march Sunday from a park in the Pilsen neighborhood toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the South Loop to support the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program now under review by the Trump administration. Holding a white.

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

Striking over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

A growing stink over soundproof windows near airports; buses come to I-90 shoulder

Pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey arrive in Chicago area

Labor Day's radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution

Hobart man kills self after shooting Highland man to death

Police update info on 14-year-old missing from South Side

Chicago police on Sunday updated information on a 14-year-old doll who disappeared from the West Woodlawn neighborhood in early August. Kiara Jones was last seen Aug. 8. She’s missing from the six thousand six hundred block of South Vernon Avenue, and Chicago police have issued alerts asking for the public's help.

Man missing in West Chatham neighborhood

Missing 9-year old Hammond boy found safe

Van driver gravely injured in West Side crash

Man drowns in Chicago Sea attempting to pull woman onto bridge

A 45-year-old man drowned in the South Branch of the Chicago Sea when he attempted to help a woman onto a bridge early Sunday, authorities said. Chicago police, firefighters and divers responded to West Cermak Road and Hallway Street to a call of a person falling in the water just before 1:30 a.m.

Labor Day weekend violence: five shot in four hours Sunday morning

Rebranding the South Side: Obama Foundation uses social media thrust to counter stereotypes

Man, 20, stabbed while walking in Humboldt Park

Boy, 9, found after missing for eight hours in Hammond, Indiana

Glenbrook North employee facing gun, impersonating police officer charges

Prosecutors: Parolee, 15-year-old boy accused of two armed robberies

After hitting three vehicles, fleeing on foot, Matteson bank robbery suspect in custody, according to FBI

Top cop 'making excellent progress,' is released from hospital after kidney transplant

Two injured in motorcycle-car collision in St. Charles

Police: Woman sexually assaulted, hammered and robbed on West Side

Hammond pedestrian killed crossing street

Child asleep in nearby car when four shot, one fatally, on South Side porch

Fresh education funding law could be lifeline to private schools

Labor Day weekend: two killed, eleven wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Chance the Rapper mitts out money for arts programs at twenty CPS schools

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— A police officer in Rockford delivered his son in a hotel parking lot in the northern Illinois city. The Rockford Register Starlet reports Rockford Officer James Nachampassack was on duty early Sunday when his gf called to say she was about to give birth. Nachampassack rushed home to find.

A man was wounded in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side Wednesday morning, Chicago police said. The 27-year-old man was shot in the right calf shortly after 7:35 a.m. in the seven thousand two hundred block of South Peoria Street, according to police. He was taken in good condition to St. Bernard.

A man being held on charges of attempted murder was found dead in his cell at Cook County Jail, an apparent suicide, officials said. Nathaniel Griffin Jr., 23, was found dangling and unresponsive Tuesday by correctional officers, according to Cook County sheriff's spokeswoman Cara Smith. Griffin.

Famed California attorney Gloria Allred has joined an effort to thwart the projected parole this month of a member of Illinois' sadomasochistic Ripper Squad, thought to be responsible for the cult-like mutilation hookup slayings of as many as twenty victims during the early 1980s. The Tribune reported last month.

Member of sadomasochistic Ripper Squad due for prison release, unless prosecutors can stop it

Boy, 14, dies after being shot in South Chicago neighborhood

A 14-year-old boy was killed in an attack in the South Chicago neighborhood, one of at least seven people shot inbetween Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday in Chicago, police said.The boy was on a sidewalk in the eight thousand block of South Manistee Avenue when someone he knew came up, took out a gun.

Hearing today on whether ex-priest who molested boys should be locked up indefinitely

The accusations against “Father Dan” were seemingly endless. Court records showcase more than two dozen boys and youthfull studs have alleged Daniel McCormack molested them in their youth, most notably at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago's Southwest Side, where the youthful Roman Catholic priest coached basketball.

Chicago Archdiocese to pay $Four.45M to lodge priest manhandle lawsuits

Library official eliminated after reported comments on homosexuality

Authorities seek to deport man at center of dispute over fresh immigration law

McHenry County jail declines to release man with ICE hold, despite fresh state law

Hundreds march in Loop to protest Trump's decision to end DACA

More than 1,000 protesters gathered downtown Tuesday to protest the Trump administration's decision to eliminate a policy aimed at protecting immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. The protesters gathered in Federal Plaza and then marched down Dearborn Street to the U.S.

Protesters speak out against Trump's budge against DACA

Two injured in Lake Shore Drive crash on North Side

A crash involving a sand tractor on North Lake Shore Drive near West Fullerton Avenue sent two people to the hospital early Wednesday, authorities said. The Chicago Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes just before Trio:25 a.m., said spokesman Juan Hernandez. A.

Pritzker gave Blagojevich campaign $100,000; Holocaust museum got $1M grant

In Illinois politics, timing is everything. Consider fall 2006. J.B. Pritzker was raising money to build a Holocaust museum in north suburban Chicago. Gov. Rod Blagojevich was raising money for his re-election campaign. Each had what the other wished. On Oct. 27, Pritzker and his wifey gave $100,000.

JB Pritzker questioned about relationship to Rod Blagojevich

Police warn of at least thirteen muggings on North, Northwest sides

At least two guys working together have committed a string of at least thirteen muggings on the North and Northwest sides in the last two weeks, according to a Chicago police community alert. A man or boys have gone up to victims on the street and either shown a gun or hit victims in the head with something.

Killing of Dajae Coleman, 14, horrified Evanston; five years later trial embarks

It has taken five years for the man accused of killing 14-year-old Dajae Coleman to stand trial — long after the shooting shocked Evanston and long enough ago that Dajae's class graduated high school. Dajae had just began his freshman year at Evanston Township High School when he was gunned down.

Evanston murder victim Dajae Coleman

City Hall to cover CPS security costs

For the very first time in years, CPS classes begin with a hint of optimism

Ex-inmate sues over murder conviction, alleges Chicago police rigged evidence

Norman McIntosh released from prison after prosecutors drop charges

Robbery suspect dies after taken into custody by Chicago police

Crestwood man dies in car crash near Orland Park

Arkansas man arrested on charges he illegally sold rifles, other guns in Chicago

Antioch motorcycle crash victim ID'd as longtime postal carrier in Fox Lake

Ending DACA could cost Illinois economy $Two.Trio billion

Miramar Group CEO Juan Ochoa knows what it is like to grow up living in the U.S. illegally. Brought from Mexico when he was eight years old, he heard stories from his uncles about immigration raids, spotted relatives get deported, and felt “a sense of desperation and anxiety” about his future. Ochoa, now.