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Memphis authorities released more than an hour of footage Friday of the violent beating of Tyre Nichols in which officers held the Black motorist down and…
A judge set bond at $2 million Friday for an 18-year-old Illinois man who is accused of traveling to Michigan to meet a teenager and then…
A Chicago man was sentenced to 31 years in prison for intentionally crashing his SUV into a stranger’s van at high speed in McHenry County, killing…
Just 10 minutes after leaving her Berwyn home, Roxana Vera got a call from her oldest son, crying and pleading for help. He had been shot…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged calm ahead of the release Friday of video depicting Memphis officers’ fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. AdvertisementLightfoot acknowledged the footage would…
Uber Freight, which opened a sprawling new headquarters in Chicago 15 months ago, has laid off 150 people.The layoffs amount to 3% of the freight business’s…
Sledding, snowman-building and other outdoor activities were paused in the Chicago area this winter because a key ingredient was missing — snow.Eight of the coldest temperatures…
Winter should be white. Nobody knows that better than people who depend on snow and cold for a living.A midwinter meltdown earlier this month forced the…
National Weather Service officials issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook Friday cautioning of excessive cold temperatures, gusty conditions and blowing snow drifts for portions of north central…
The death of iconic WXRT-FM disc jockey Lin Brehmer not only left a hole in Chicago’s once mighty rock radio landscape, it’s a further reminder of…