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Under heavy Russian shelling, Kateryna Shvartsman and her 12-year-old son Oleksandr hastily grabbed a few possessions and ran for cover to the basement beneath their apartment…
About 35 people gathered outside a four-bedroom house in Humboldt Park on Friday enjoying some sunshine, music and food. They were stationed there to serve as…
With little more than a week to go until jury selection, R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago is shaping up to be a hot-blooded, bare-knuckle legal…
Officials pulled an invasive silver carp from the waters of Lake Calumet on the city’s Far South Side Thursday.Anglers began looking for it after someone spotted…
Three months after completing a long and challenging quest to convert the Chicago Reader to a nonprofit, Tracy Baim announced she is stepping down as publisher…
Days before aldermen were set to vote on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to sue gang members as an anti-violence strategy, she texted an impassioned…
A U.S. appeals court in Chicago on Friday called for an end to federal court oversight of state hiring, freeing Gov. J.B. Pritzker and future governors…
The Illinois State Police were investigating a shooting that occurred Thursday shortly after 10 p.m. on northbound Stevenson Expressway near Archer Avenue.The shooting left one person…
Monty and Rose, who achieved local fame in 2019 as the first federally endangered piping plovers to raise a family in Chicago in almost 60 years,…
Joliet City Council members unanimously voted Tuesday night to buy a house, with plans demolish it and turn the land into a park — a tactic…