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In 1939, the University of Chicago’s football team was so bad that the Tribune headlined its report on one game with barely concealed sarcasm: “Maroons hold…
On a sweltering July evening 12 years ago, medics raced to a Midlothian apartment and found a bleeding and badly bruised toddler struggling to breathe.The little…
Anybody who thought the perjury trial of Democratic insider Tim Mapes would be a dull examination of his seven alleged lies before a federal grand jury…
Two teens were shot, one fatally Saturday afternoon in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on the West Side, authorities said.The teens, a 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl, were…
The revelers at the Chicago Caribbean Carnival smelled a mix of incense, fried conch fritter and smoking jerk chicken.They heard a bouncy medley of bass notes…
An autopsy performed Saturday confirmed the drowning of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Michigan just offshore of a Rogers Park neighborhood…
Two gunmen fired into a crowd at a large gathering Friday night wounding four people, including two 17-year-old boys in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said.Shortly…
On a group tour of Horizon Farm Forest Preserve and its rolling pastures, a visitor joked that it would make a great par 3 golf course.…
The two largest ongoing development projects in Chicago — one on the North Side, the other just south of the Loop — are primed to benefit…
They waited for more than five hours. Just days before her son, Ronald, started third grade in Chicago Public Schools, Maria Alejandra Larez was on a…