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Tribune staffers on Friday were honored by the Chicago Headline Club with awards for investigative, public service and feature reporting, photography, lifetime achievement and reporting “of…
Meet Monty and Rose, Chicago’s piping plover power couple.The endangered shorebird pair chose Montrose Beach as their summer nesting spot three years ago, going on to…
Disease-spreading ticks are present throughout Illinois, but researchers say there are precautions those heading outside can take to limit risk. Take time to familiarize yourself with…
One by one the nymphs climbed up the researcher’s bright blue boot, looking like little more than specks of dirt as they searched out another meal…
For show-and-tell Friday, Genevieve Billingsley handed her granddaughter, Alaina, a green and yellow ukulele. The 5-year-old picked at the strings in front of her iPad as…
Two weeks ago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker gathered at a colorful event space in the West Loop where a few Democratic lawmakers and Illinois’ top abortion-rights activists…
They came together as a collective to say: “Stop it, do something, and do it now.”Roughly a dozen people, including mothers and community activists, gathered in…
Three men were shot, two fatally, in the West Pullman neighborhood Saturday afternoon.Two of the men were standing by the street in the 11600 block of…
A Cook County judge denied bail for a Park Forest man accused of opening fire at a south suburban smoke shop, killing one man and injuring…
A Hammond man could get time served after admitting he forced a blind woman with a mental disability into prostitution.Stefon Collins, 25, pleaded guilty to promoting…