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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will seek City Council approval for the 10 p.m. weekend curfew for minors that she announced after a teenager was shot and…
With less than two months to go until ex-R&B superstar R. Kelly and two of his former associates go on trial in Chicago, the sparks are…
Making, selling or owning ghost guns, untraceable weapons such as the one police said they recovered amid the mayhem in Millennium Park over the weekend, is…
A 39-year-old former Lansing man faces 45 years to life in prison after being convicted of murder Wednesday for a 2017 road rage shooting in Oak…
Applications for Cook County’s $42 million direct cash assistance program will open this fall, officials said Wednesday while outlining new details on the initiative they say…
One of the Chicago-area’s biggest-name health systems, Rush University System for Health, is promoting Dr. Omar Lateef to the role of president and CEO, and the…
Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools freshmen were automatically enrolled in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps classes over the last two school years even though JROTC programs…
There soon will be a new president of the Chicago Teachers Union — as three contenders battle for the chance to lead one of Chicago’s most…
The mother of an elementary school student who took a gun to school in a backpack — which “accidentally discharged in the backpack while inside a…
Last week Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, removed some of its augmented reality effects and applications, such as avatars and filters, from…