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May 18, 2024
An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported.
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May 18, 2024
A Northbrook man was charged in the horrific crash that killed a 17-year-old Glenbrook South High School senior and injured two others in Glenview Sunday, police said. Taeyoung Kim, 21, was charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence causing death, reckless homicide, aggravated driving under the influence causing great bodily harm, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content over .08, driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving, speeding, driving without lights when required, improper lane usage and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Kim was […]
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May 18, 2024
Two popular summertime destinations, Lords Park Pool and Festival Park's splash pad, are reopening this summer in Elgin.. Lords Park Pool closed four years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It remained closed until a group of residents rallied the city to reopen it. A community meeting last year drew a crowd that overwhelmingly wanted to see the eastside pool reopen. The Elgin City Council voted last July to spend an estimated $500,000 to get the pool ready to open this season. "We're currently filling the pool and will soon run tests on the mechanical systems," Parks and Recreation Director […]
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May 18, 2024
Dozens of migrants interviewed by the Tribune at four migrant shelters around the city say they are unclear about where they will live and what will happen to them on the day of the deadline.
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May 18, 2024
Dozens of migrants interviewed by the Tribune at four migrant shelters around the city say they are unclear about where they will live and what will happen to them on the day of the deadline.
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May 18, 2024
On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, a gay newspaper, carried a story concerning rumors of "an exotic new disease" among homosexuals; it was the first published report about what came to be known as AIDS.
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May 17, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has a lot more to do and is committed to doing it.
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May 17, 2024
The Buffalo Grove Fire Department is investigating the cause of a blaze that broke out in a semi-tractor trailer truck Friday afternoon that was on The Clove construction site in the northwest suburb. The Clove is a sprawling $150 million redevelopment being built that is planned to include 297 luxury residences, retail and dining establishments, and park space. According to a village news release, at around 2:30 p.m. Friday, firefighters were called to the site, in the 200 block of McHenry Road, on a report of "a large garbage trailer on fire." "Upon arrival, firefighters confirmed a large open top […]
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May 17, 2024
Three teenagers were hurt Friday evening in a triple shooting in the city's Austin neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The victims were two teen males, aged 14 and 18, along with a 15-year-old girl, authorities said. Police said the trio was standing near the sidewalk in the 5500 block of West Quincy Street just before […]
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May 17, 2024
Students and alumni from the University of Chicago briefly occupied the university's Institute of Politics late Friday afternoon to protest the war in Gaza and demand that the university divest itself of financial assets associated with Israel.
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May 17, 2024
As the school year winds down, so does the yearslong tenure of the Arlington Heights School District 25 chief - a run that includes shepherding through a global pandemic, helping to bring full-day kindergarten to the district and, most recently, dealing with allegations of a school nurse misusing student medication. Superintendent Lori Bein said she has spent her 33-year career in education being genuine and authentic and after a decade of leading the district, she's ready to retire. "This job has definitely become the best job I've ever had," said Bein, 56, in an interview with Pioneer Press. She's excited […]
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May 17, 2024
Whether performing music, hosting radio programs, producing events or helping to create a concert space, Stuart J. Rosenberg charted his own course, shunning the mundane as he sought to expose listeners to lesser-known styles of music.
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May 17, 2024
A man fired a shot inside a River North business Friday morning following a "verbal and physical altercation," according to Chicago police.
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May 17, 2024
At least three bills addressing the opioid and fentanyl overdose crisis have already passed through one chamber of the General Assembly.
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May 17, 2024
The doctors sought a statement in support physicians in Palestine, for management to contribute humanitarian aid, the creation of "safe spaces to discuss Gaza" at work and a leadership pledge of "sustained commitment to this effort and other efforts regarding global health crises around the world."
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May 17, 2024
The request follows Tribune reporting about a potential conflict of interest and spending issues at the foundation while it was pursuing an expanded partnership with the county's public health system.
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May 17, 2024
Pierre Tyler, once a Chicago police officer and now on trial for murder, stood up in the witness box and mimicked for the jury the series of events that he said led to the shooting death of his girlfriend.
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May 17, 2024
The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
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May 17, 2024
Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean "Diddy" Combs physically assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
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May 17, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 17, 2024
Here's what to know about the 2024 cicada emergence in Chicago and Illinois.
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May 17, 2024
The suspect in a fatal officer-involved shooting in Valparaiso last month fired three shots directly at a police officer as the confrontation began to unfold, according to Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann, who said Friday his office will not take further action in the case and that the five officers involved were justified in their use of deadly force.
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May 17, 2024
Six people have been charged in federal court in Chicago with conspiring to stage armed robberies across the city and suburbs to qualify for U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims.
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May 17, 2024
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office told a local TV station that they are conducting DNA testing to determine whether the arm is linked to the murder of the student.
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May 17, 2024
Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally Democratic state that he boasts he can carry in November.
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May 17, 2024
San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April, according to U.S. figures, the fifth region to hold that distinction in two years in a sign of how quickly migration routes are changing.
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May 17, 2024
The Biden administration said a new fast-track docket in immigration courts will cut the time it takes to decide asylum claims from years to months for some single adults.
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May 17, 2024
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies.
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May 17, 2024
Police say the shooting happened at 9:07 p.m. on the 3200 block of West 55th Street.
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May 17, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 17, 2024
A father is searching for his 25-year-old daughter who went missing earlier this month in the Morgan Park neighborhood, saying he's relying on friends and prayer to hopefully bring her home.
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May 17, 2024
Inevitably there is a well-intentioned grown-up (or five) looking past the joy and affection and pride, and wringing their hands over the prom dresses.
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May 17, 2024
Yes, babies can get depressed, said an official with the Erikson Institute. Therapy for children and their caregivers can help.
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May 17, 2024
On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.
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May 16, 2024
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea.
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May 16, 2024
A week after President Joe Biden's latest visit to Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared at a Glencoe home fundraiser.
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May 16, 2024
A Chicago police officer died Thursday afternoon in an apparent suicide on the Near West Side, authorities confirmed. The 29-year-old officer, whose identity wasn't released, was found about 2:30 p.m. with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in the 1600 block of West Warren Boulevard, police said. At least 29 Chicago police officers have […]
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May 16, 2024
The law, considered among the strictest of its kind, requires companies to gain consent before they collect and store biometric information such as fingerprints or retina scans.
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May 16, 2024
South Africa has urged the United Nations' top court to order a cease-fire in Gaza to halt Israel's military operation in the southern city of Rafah.
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May 16, 2024
Under current law hospitals must report allegations of patient abuse. But abuse that occurs at clinics outside of hospital walls is not subject to the same requirement.
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May 16, 2024
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas.
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May 16, 2024
Solar installations in the U.S. are expected to double to 10 million by 2030 and triple to 15 million by 2034. Illinois, which had only 2,500 solar installations in 2017, now has more than 87,000.
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May 16, 2024
House Republicans voted Thursday on a bill to mandate the delivery of weapons to Israel.
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May 16, 2024
Their ongoing battle to get off the list became a public flashpoint in the early months of conflict between Johnson advisors and staffers who stayed on from the Lightfoot era or earlier.
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May 16, 2024
Officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed by a 15-year-old resident, according to police records.
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May 16, 2024
Organizers said they planned to seek approval to hold their march, but the DePaul clash between police and protesters convinced them it was pointless to try to cooperate with city officials.
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May 16, 2024
The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy.
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May 16, 2024
Other "crimes of the century" have come and gone, but the "perfect murder" of Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb continues to fascinate and infuriate Chicagoans 100 years later.
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May 16, 2024
A Colorado woman has pleaded guilty to participating in a sophisticated "SIM swap" scam allegedly orchestrated out of a suburban Chicago home that led to the $400 million hack of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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May 16, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 16, 2024
Orland Park's former village manager Joseph La Margo will pay $30,000 in settling a lawsuit filed in the wake of an investigation he launched into possible bid rigging by Mayor Keith Pekau.
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May 16, 2024
At the start of the century, Lake County was experiencing a rise in population, according to archival data from the U.S. Census. In 2000, the population was 644,599; 10 years later it was 703,462.
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May 16, 2024
The office investigates waste, fraud and abuse across county government, including at the Forest Preserves and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
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May 16, 2024
FBI raises Lincoln Square home Thursday morning, executes warrant.
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May 16, 2024
Since November, the GVPI has hosted a number of town halls around the county that helped inform the violence prevention plan.
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May 16, 2024
The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
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May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that's at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers in a letter publicly released on Thursday.
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May 16, 2024
Chicago police dismantled DePaul University's pro-Palestine encampment Thursday morning after administrators signed a complaint alleging trespassing by the protestors.
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May 16, 2024
The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation's asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border
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May 16, 2024
UNICEF said an estimated 30,000 children under age 18 have crossed the jungle-clad trail between Colombia and Panama, and some have died making the trip.
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May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to debate at least twice before the election. Here's what to know.
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May 16, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 16, 2024
Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial Thursday.
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May 16, 2024
Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill Wednesday at the first Mexican taco stand ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide, and did exactly the same thing he's been doing for 20 years: searing meat.
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May 16, 2024
More than 112,000 Illinois residents have been deemed too dangerous to own guns, but the state doesn't know if 84,000 of those people still have them, according to a new analysis by the Cook County sheriff's department.
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May 16, 2024
On May 16, 2022, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million.
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May 16, 2024
Though the city of Chicago has lost residents in recent years, the suburbs in Cook County have lost more, while suburbs far from the city are booming, new U.S. census estimates show.
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May 16, 2024
How did things change in your area? Here's a look at 2023 population estimates for cities, towns and villages in Cook County and other Chicago-area counties.
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May 15, 2024
A bipartisan group of senators is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.
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May 15, 2024
A couple of hundred Chicago teachers and school employees rallied in Springfield in a union-led effort to secure more funding for Chicago Public Schools.
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May 15, 2024
Gerald Reed was acquitted Wednesday after a retrial of his murder case, killings for which he had spent some three decades in prison.
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May 15, 2024
A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relationships with Native American tribes has filed a lawsuit accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual harassment.
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May 15, 2024
The family of an assistant principal who was shot and killed inside a residential building in the Loop filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the alleged gunman, building management and its security, saying they "violated policies and common sense."
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May 15, 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
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May 15, 2024
Staff at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital and others in the system have access to a free program offering nurse training.
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May 15, 2024
Northwestern recently performed its 10,000th abdominal organ transplant, and was the first network in the state to reach that number
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May 15, 2024
Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday while greeting supporters at an event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe weeks before an election.
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May 15, 2024
A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a smaller and separate island that is home to a university, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.
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May 15, 2024
After experiencing a panic attack in his office following an active shooter incident, Maliszewski said he was unable to return to work. The panic attack came nine months after the former recreation director worked at the Park District's July 4 parade, where seven people were killed and dozens more were injured during a mass shooting.
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May 15, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 15, 2024
More than a decade after the killing of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton put a national spotlight on Chicago's entrenched problem with gun violence, Illinois prosecutors worked to salvage a conviction against the alleged shooter before the state's highest court.
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May 15, 2024
Richard Globensky, an ex-employee of Augusta National Golf Club, pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday to stealing golf legend Arnold Palmer's green jacket and other memorabilia.
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May 15, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates in June and September — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks.
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May 15, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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May 15, 2024
Bridgeview police said they are investigating the shooting death of a 39-year-old man who was shot multiple times walking to his car Wednesday morning outside an apartment building.
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May 15, 2024
The three men were standing in the lot on the 700 block of West 71st Street at around 9:40 p.m. when shots were fired, according to police.
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May 15, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 15, 2024
A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
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May 15, 2024
Plenty has been said and written about the Paris Summer Olympics (and will be in the coming months), but here we will set that massive event to the side and focus instead on other reasons to visit France this year.
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May 15, 2024
Unlike cars and trucks, planes are difficult to electrify, and some fuel companies believe the answer to cleaning up aviation lies in America's heartland.
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May 15, 2024
On May 15, 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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May 14, 2024
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
King Charles III has unveiled the first portrait of the monarch completed since he assumed the throne, a vivid image that depicts him in the bright red uniform of the Welsh Guards against a background of similar hues.
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May 14, 2024
Standing trial on murder charges, Pierre Tyler contends 2021 shooting of girlfriend when he was a Chicago police officer was in self-defense.
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May 14, 2024
What's going on at your church? Let us know by sending us an email including time, date, place and public contact information at least two weeks before the event or reservation deadline at religion@southtownstar.com.
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May 14, 2024
Members of the Jewish United Fund in Chicago raised a flag in Daley Plaza Tuesday to honor the date of the formal establishment of the State of Israel. The holiday — called "Yom Ha'atzmaut" in Hebrew — held more significance amid the deadliest round of fighting in the history of the conflict between Jews and Palestinians to date. Hundreds milled around in the Loop waving blue Israeli flags, while the chants of a few dozen counterprotesters could be heard from the corner of North Clark and North Dearborn streets nearby. Their messages underscore sentiments of unease that have rippled across […]
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May 14, 2024
Investigators probing the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said in a preliminary report Tuesday the cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore while undergoing maintenance.
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May 14, 2024
David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie's "Young Americans" and James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a performer of melodic, contemporary jazz, has died at age 78.
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May 14, 2024
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court with Donald Trump and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an illegitimate "sham."
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May 14, 2024
A movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust," according to court documents released Tuesday.
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