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Mar 06, 2026
Inside of mastodon tusks first uncovered at Aurora's Phillips Park over 90 years ago, workers recently discovered a package dated to 1935.
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Mar 06, 2026
Almost 1,700 Chicago Public Schools support staffers have joined the Service Employees International Union after the school district dropped an objection to their organizing campaign.
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Mar 06, 2026
The UN meets every year to try and reach a consensus on how to beat back some of the biggest threats, Svenningsen said, but member countries are stuck in doing things the way they want in their own ways versus best practices, he said. Still, he remains hopeful that the 197 countries of the world will eventually pull together, especially with regard to climate change.
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Mar 06, 2026
Despite residents' objections, Joliet plan commissioners advanced a proposal Thursday for what would be the state's largest data center.
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Mar 06, 2026
The black hybrid, custom 2026 Ford Explorer Platinum was built at the Chicago Assembly Plant just five miles from the pope's childhood home in south suburban Dolton.
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Mar 06, 2026
Brett Smith, 43, fired as a substitute at Queen of Martyrs in Evergreen Park, is charged with sexual abuse in Orland Park.
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Mar 06, 2026
A Hobart man could get home detention in a plea deal for his wife's death.
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Mar 06, 2026
Republicans have pushed the SAVE Act because of election security concerns, while Democrats have opposed the bill because of worries that it would disenfranchise voters, including new citizens, women, poor people, young people, among others.
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Mar 06, 2026
Assisted by a glittering, pink soccer ball, Lionel Messi crossed yet another frontier with his visit to the White House. Until Thursday, the global soccer superstar had been equally adept at dodging defenders on the field and political leaders
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Mar 06, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 06, 2026
A crescendo of voices from the worlds of religion, politics, business, sports and entertainment converged at the House of Hope to provide a requiem to the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday.
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Mar 06, 2026
U.S. citizens described frustrations and growing fear as they encountered closed airports, canceled flights and alarming U.S. government guidance while Poland, Australia, France and other countries more quickly dispatched military or chartered planes to bring their citizens home.
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Mar 06, 2026
Marvin "Geno" Clark, 33, was convicted of four counts of murder and three counts of burglary, plus four gun enhancements. Two of the murder counts were while committing a burglary.
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Mar 06, 2026
A School City of Hammond school bus driver and aide face charges after the aide allegedly "manhandled" a 6-year-old girl with autism.
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Mar 06, 2026
American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%.
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Mar 06, 2026
A public service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson will be held in Chicago, with former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden in attendance.
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Mar 06, 2026
Until 1883, a Chicagoan asked to tell what time it was could give more than one answer and still be correct.
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Mar 06, 2026
Mourners attend a public service for civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, at House of Hope in Chicago on Friday.
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Mar 06, 2026
Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S., creating a 23-hour day that throws off sleep schedules, plunges early-morning dog walks into darkness and inspires millions of complaints.
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Mar 06, 2026
Iran will not participate in the Milan Cortina Paralympics because its only athlete set to compete can't safely travel to Italy amid the intensifying Middle East conflict.
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Mar 06, 2026
Kristi Noem never appeared able — or particularly keen — to step out of the spotlight during her time leading the Department of Homeland Security.
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Mar 06, 2026
A dense fog advisory was issued for northern and central Cook County set to expire at 10 a.m. Friday, weather officials said.
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Mar 06, 2026
Thunderstorms are expected Friday in the Chicagoland area after a dense fog advisory expired in northern and central Cook County.
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Mar 06, 2026
Serious medical and mental health emergencies have been routine at the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility since its opening, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
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Mar 06, 2026
The Trump administration is confronting mounting discontent from allies in the Persian Gulf who have complained they were not given adequate time to prepare for the torrent of Iranian drones and missiles bombarding their countries in retaliation for strikes launched by the U.S. and Israel.
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Mar 06, 2026
Wall Street was on track to open lower again Friday as oil prices continued to climb, hitting the highest level in nearly two years less than a week since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, one of the world's top oil producers.
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Mar 06, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 06, 2026
Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran on Friday as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries.
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Mar 06, 2026
In Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181, finding and keeping teachers has not been an issue.
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Mar 06, 2026
Hundreds of residents in environmental justice communities like Waukegan are being trained for careers in solar, EVs and energy efficiency.
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Mar 06, 2026
Many Black women say their professional trajectories have been deeply impacted by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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Mar 06, 2026
Michaeleen Doucleff's book is about understanding the forces that shape our habits, our days and our family dynamics. For better or worse.
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Mar 06, 2026
Welcome to Hope House, a model for fostering children and teens developed by the Chicago-based nonprofit One Hope United. The premise is a stable household with a built-in support team to help the young residents thrive.
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Mar 06, 2026
On March 6, 1912, Oreo cookies were first introduced by the National Biscuit Company (later known as Nabisco).
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Mar 06, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 6, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 05, 2026
The "Today" show said Savannah Guthrie, a longtime co-host of the morning news program, plans to return to the air at some point but "remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home."
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Mar 05, 2026
Under a new Oklahoma law, Gov. Kevin Stitt will get to pick U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin's replacement if Mullin does indeed leave his Senate seat.
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Mar 05, 2026
The United States and Venezuela agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship.
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Mar 05, 2026
A Chicago federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court's injunction placing use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz, calling it "constitutionally suspect" and questioning the manner in which the district judge dismissed the underlying suit.
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Mar 05, 2026
Bernard LaFayette, a leader with the Chicago Freedom Movement and the Selma voting rights organizer who laid the groundwork for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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Mar 05, 2026
Damian Donaldson, 38, was sentenced to 49 years Thursday by Judge Salvador Vasquez. He was convicted of 18 charges in February.
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Mar 05, 2026
Conversations Donol Clark made to his brother from Calumet City police station were played during his murder trial this week.
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Mar 05, 2026
Aurora's Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday voted to recommend the city adopt regulations around data centers that are stricter than were originally presented by city staff.
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Mar 05, 2026
President Donald Trump's plans to nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to take over as Homeland Security secretary follow a meteoric political rise for the senator.
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Mar 05, 2026
A Portage man faces multiple felonies after he fired a gun from his car by a Chesterton residence, wounding a relative, documents show.
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Mar 05, 2026
A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security is stalling out again in Congress.
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Mar 05, 2026
Noem's ouster was celebrated by local officials and activists, who said good riddance to the woman who oversaw unprecedented immigration raids in the Chicago area.
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Mar 05, 2026
The majority of the candidates for Lake County Sheriff who participated in a Wednesday debate emphasized the need to rein in the department's commissary fund as well as mixed emotions about cooperating with ICE. The Democratic candidates who participated were Jerry Williams, Steven Flores, Maria Garcia Trajkovich, Edward Jenkins and Jason Gore. Democratic candidate (Jack) […]
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Mar 05, 2026
Will County Judge Derek Ewanic will rule Monday whether County Board member Jacqueline Traynere is guilty of computer tampering.
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Mar 05, 2026
A visibly frustrated federal judge on Thursday took the city to task over the Chicago Police Department's move to pull a North Side police officer out of a deposition late last month in order to strip him of his police powers.
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Mar 05, 2026
EPR Properties announced it has entered into agreements to acquire a portfolio of seven regional parks from Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
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Mar 05, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 05, 2026
A look back at Hawthorne Race Course's more than 135 years of hosting the sport of kings in west suburban Stickey.
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Mar 05, 2026
President Donald Trump says he's replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
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Mar 05, 2026
Indiana is forging ahead with a new K-12 school accountability model that will give schools letter grades this year for the first time since 2018.
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Mar 05, 2026
School District 131 does not currently have an enforceable AI policy on the books, but is considering bringing forward a policy to the school board in the future.
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Mar 05, 2026
Proceeds from the event will go to Aurora Rapid Response and the Naperville Solidarity Network of ALMAS, the organization said.
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Mar 05, 2026
A Chicago Police officer previously shot in the line of duty — who publicly rebuked his former union — has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, alleging that he was kept from joining the police department's SWAT unit because he is Black.
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Mar 05, 2026
Some two dozen states challenged President Donald Trump's new global tariffs on Thursday, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.
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Mar 05, 2026
The American beech tree in Jim Berman and Liz Bryant's Valparaiso backyard is officially the largest of its species in Indiana.
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Mar 05, 2026
Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early the following morning, though the charge was not clear, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's office website.
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Mar 05, 2026
A small plane crashed Wednesday night near a group of Deerfield-area townhouses, killing the pilot.
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Mar 05, 2026
Bob Power, a Grammy-nominated producer, mixer and recording engineer best known for his genre-bending collaborations with artists like D'Angelo, Erykah Badu and A Tribe Called Quest, died.
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Mar 05, 2026
A jury has found a Bolingbrook man guilty of drug-induced homicide in the death of a 27-year-old man from Aurora, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said.
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Mar 05, 2026
A jack-knifed semi-truck tractor was hanging from an Eisenhower Expressway overpass on eastbound I-290 overnight, Illinois State Police said.
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Mar 05, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded across the Middle East amid the U.S. and Israel's joint war against Iran. And between swaths of flight cancellations and airspace closures, many are still scrambling for next steps.
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Mar 05, 2026
Renewed retaliatory strikes from Iran again raised anxiety in U.S. markets Thursday, sending futures lower and energy prices higher with prices at the pump jumping overnight.
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Mar 05, 2026
An 11-year-old girl reported she was sexually assaulted by three known juveniles in the Near South Side neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Mar 05, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 05, 2026
The House is preparing to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump's attack on Iran, a sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.
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Mar 05, 2026
Iran launched a new wave of attacks Thursday at Israel, American bases and countries around the region.
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Mar 05, 2026
Delayed distributions of Cook County property tax revenues cost Orland High School District 230 $1.3 million, officials say.
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Mar 05, 2026
In the March 17 Democratic primary for Illinois' 2nd Congressional District, a crowded field differs sharply in political style and campaign strategy as they seek to replace U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly.
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Mar 05, 2026
The lawyer played a key role in the passage of the Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act, which took effect in 2017.
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Mar 05, 2026
A super PAC created by Meta has spent nearly $340,000 on on mailers and digital advertising to support four Chicago and Chicago-area Democratic state House primary candidates.
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Mar 05, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 5, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 05, 2026
On March 5, 2004, Martha Stewart was convicted in New York of conspiracy, obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she'd sold her Imclone stock just before the stock's price plummeted; her ex-stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, also was found guilty in the stock scandal. (Each later received a five-month prison sentence.)
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Mar 04, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrapped up two days of scrutiny in Congress on Wednesday, appearing for the first time in front of lawmakers since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers.
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Mar 04, 2026
The LA city council voted unanimously on Wednesday to designate the the so-called "Brady Bunch" house in the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument.
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Mar 04, 2026
Cook County prosecutors say that Arturo Taylor strangled and stabbed his girlfriend Colleen Bagley and then left her body in a dumpster outside an Elk Grove Village hotel.
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Mar 04, 2026
Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump's war against Iran, demonstrating early support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.
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Mar 04, 2026
Chicago Board of Education Vice President Olga Bautista will step down after receiving an award to continue her environmental justice work.
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Mar 04, 2026
An Austin man faces several felony charges after Chicago police said he tried to steal a sprinter van carrying eight dogs inside from the front of Lincoln Park pet salon earlier this week.
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Mar 04, 2026
Aurora Mayor John Laesch's promised campaign ethics reform package heads to a final vote next Tuesday, but several aldermen have expressed concerns with it.
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Mar 04, 2026
Lou Holtz won 249 games over 33 seasons at six schools, including a 100-30-2 record in 11 seasons at Notre Dame and the 1988 national title.
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Mar 04, 2026
Gena Ciodo of Calumet CIty disappeared in October 2012. Donol Clark went to trial this week on murder charges, after numerous delays.
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Mar 04, 2026
Temple Israel Valparaiso Rabbi Shoshana Feferman woke up early Saturday and saw the news alerts about the U.S. and Israel bombing Iran.
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Mar 04, 2026
The deceased U.S. soldiers were assigned to an Army Reserve unit headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, which is temporarily operating under the 1st Theater Sustainment Command at Fort Knox.
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Mar 04, 2026
A Merrillville Intermediate School 5th grade teacher was suspended with pay pending an investigation for telling his students "You all are acting like monkeys in a zoo," Superintendent Dexter Suggs said Wednesday.
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Mar 04, 2026
Each year since 2003, Preservation Chicago has highlighted historical places or objects that could be lost to demolition if action is not taken to restore them.
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Mar 04, 2026
Andrea Rebeles, 24, of Whiting, was charged Tuesday with Level 4 felony sexual misconduct, trafficking with an inmate, and misdemeanor trafficking.
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Mar 04, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 04, 2026
It's a given that pollution is adversely affecting health in Northwest Indiana. Scientists are digging deeper to measure the extent.
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Mar 04, 2026
The Chicago Fire hosted a groundbreaking event for their privately funded $750 million soccer stadium on a vacant former rail yard in the South Loop, staking their turf in the city's competitive sports landscape.
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Mar 04, 2026
Southland crime items compiled from police and court reports and news releases.
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Mar 04, 2026
Cook County prosecutors dismissed 21 cases that were filed against protesters at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview.
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Mar 04, 2026
Robert De Niro walked onto Carnegie Hall's stage Tuesday night, unannounced and to loud applause. He didn't make any speeches, at least none of his own. After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, the Oscar-winning actor recited a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.
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Mar 04, 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook promised a "big week" of product announcements has seen the introduction of a new budget-friendly iPhone trim, an entry-level Macbook tier, updated iPad Air models, refreshed monitors and higher-end chipsets. All of which was on display at hands-on media events held Wednesday in New York, London and Shanghai.
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Mar 04, 2026
Tens of thousands of airline passengers are stranded by the Iran war that has spread across the Gulf region, but some wealthy travelers are getting out — by paying large sums for luxury flights to Europe via airports that are safe from Iranian drone and missile attacks.
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Mar 04, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Gregory Bovino made disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota.
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