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Apr 25, 2024
Doctors and advocates say step therapy can prolong patients' symptoms or worsen their conditions.
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Apr 25, 2024
New regulations require coal-fired power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90% and clamp down on toxic metals dumped into lakes and rivers.
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Apr 25, 2024
On April 25, 2002, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the Grammy-winning trio TLC died in an SUV crash in Honduras; she was 30.
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Apr 24, 2024
For millions of American workers, the federal government took two actions this week that could bestow potentially far-reaching benefits.
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Apr 24, 2024
Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election were charged Wednesday with conspiracy, fraud and forgery.
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Apr 24, 2024
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state legislative leaders slow to embrace public funding for new Bears stadium and lakefront improvement plan.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish in the Lower West Side neighborhood.
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Apr 24, 2024
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers.
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Apr 24, 2024
The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University's hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern's lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players' lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]
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Apr 24, 2024
The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University's hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern's lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players' lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]
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Apr 24, 2024
A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros ($32 million).
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Apr 24, 2024
Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent students from marching through the campus Wednesday, eventually clashing with the protesters and detaining multiple people. And at the University of Southern California, police removed several tents, then got into a tugging match with protesters before falling back. The actions across the U.S. came after Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier in the day.
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Apr 24, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed against Dolton and Mayor Tiffany Henyard alleges a business license for a barber shop was denied due to "arbitrary and capricious" actions by the mayor.
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Apr 24, 2024
A proposed repeal of Arizona's near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that has bedeviled former President Donald Trump's campaign to return to the White House.
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Apr 24, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hotspots.
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Apr 24, 2024
A Pullman group opened up the home of Italian immigrant Americo L. Lisciotto, who led an effort to keep Chicago's Pullman neighborhood from being bulldozed as part of a 1960s industrial redevelopment project.
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Apr 24, 2024
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
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Apr 24, 2024
Photos from the scene show workers removing the Roscoe Village sidewalk slab before refilling the hole with cement. It's unclear where the beloved imprint will be displayed next.
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Apr 24, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Bears — one of the National Football League's charter franchises — unveiled plans for a new stadium project on the lakefront partly funded by the public that would give the team a facility in line with many of the NFL's ultra-modern, fan-friendly structures.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Bears — one of the National Football League's charter franchises — unveiled plans for a new stadium project on the lakefront partly funded by the public that would give the team a facility in line with many of the NFL's ultra-modern, fan-friendly structures.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Chicago Bears released images for a state-of-the-art enclosed stadium with open space access to the lakefront on the Museum Campus on April 24, 2024.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Chicago Bears primarily have played home games at Wrigley Field and then Soldier Field, but a sprinkling of other venues also have hosted the team.
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Apr 24, 2024
Prairie State College leadership announced Tuesday it will no longer plan events at Victory Apostolic Church in Matteson after concerns from students about the church's opinions of same-sex marriage.
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Apr 24, 2024
The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded. The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed's family's attorneys at a press conference outside the CPD's […]
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Apr 24, 2024
Nearly a year after April Perry was nominated to be Chicago's first female U.S. attorney, President Biden has changed tack in the face of blanket opposition from a single Republican senator and is naming Perry instead to be a federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois. The announcement Wednesday ends Perry's bid to take over the top federal law enforcement job in Chicago, which has been officially vacant since U.S. Attorney John Lausch stepped down in March 2023. Perry is being nominated to fill a seat being vacated by U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonaldo, who has been nominated to […]
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Apr 24, 2024
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Apr 24, 2024
Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden as he resists calls to cut off U.S. support for Israel while trying to hold together the coalition of voters he'll need for reelection.
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Apr 24, 2024
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers.
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Apr 24, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Apr 24, 2024
The success of a September swim may depend on weather. Sewage and stormwater runoff can spill into waterways raising bacteria levels during heavy rains.
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Apr 24, 2024
Today's Highlight in History: On April 24, 1995, the final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of bombings that killed three people and injured 29 others.) On this date: In 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. In 1915, in what's considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political […]
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Apr 23, 2024
The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban.
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Apr 23, 2024
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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Apr 23, 2024
Residents and taxpayers of Barrington School District 220 rated safety and security, and a new auditorium at Barrington High School, as priorities for the school district, officials learned as community input was collected in preparation for a potential multi-million-dollar referendum that would be placed on the ballot in the November election. The data was shared with school board members April 2 by EO Sullivan Consulting, which was hired by the district to collect community feedback through phone and online surveys, four public engagement sessions and referendum advisory committee meetings. Information had been collected in three phases and began earlier this […]
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Apr 23, 2024
One club rule is clear: Discussions about personal lives are encouraged, but no questions are permitted about why other members are in jail.
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Apr 23, 2024
For nearly a decade, the "Black Teen Empowerment Summit" in Township High School District 214 has included students from across the six-school district who take part in what has become an annual tradition. This year, the summit was held April 19 at Rolling Meadows High School, and featured motivational speakers and inspirational activities with goals according to organizers, to promote belonging, personal appreciation, wellness and self awareness. Principal Megan Kelly said approximately 150 students attended from across the district. The Arlington Heights-based school district has nearly 12,000 students, with 49% of them of minority heritage - including 2% African-American. "I […]
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Apr 23, 2024
The United Nations called Tuesday for "a clear, transparent and credible investigation" of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops.
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Apr 23, 2024
What began last week when students at a New York Ivy League school refused to end their protest against Israel's war with Hamas had turned into a much larger movement by Tuesday as students across the nation set up encampments, occupied buildings and ignored demands to leave.
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Apr 23, 2024
A current administrator at the high school in Oak Park will be the principal of East Leyden High School starting next school year, Leyden High School District 212 officials announced. Julie Lam will start as head of the school, located in Franklin Park, as of July 1. But a SD212 spokeswoman told Pioneer Press that Lam is expected to work with outgoing Principal Dominic Manola "on a transition plan" and will likely be at the school ahead of that official start date. "We are incredibly excited to welcome Dr. Lam to the Leyden Family. Her vast experiences in the classroom […]
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Apr 23, 2024
In a city awash with firearms, finding a gun in the possession of a convicted felon in Chicago is hardly an unusual occurrence. But what about one emblazoned with Donald Trump's image? That's what happened in October 2020 when parole officers visited Sheldon Bains' South Side home and found a 9 mm Glock 19 pistol […]
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Apr 23, 2024
In a city awash with firearms, finding a gun in the possession of a convicted felon in Chicago is hardly an unusual occurrence. But what about one emblazoned with Donald Trump's image? That's what happened in October 2020 when parole officers visited Sheldon Bains' South Side home and found a 9 mm Glock 19 pistol […]
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Apr 23, 2024
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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Apr 23, 2024
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
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Apr 23, 2024
A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president.
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Apr 23, 2024
The Chicago Police Department has determined that Officer Luis Huesca, who was shot and killed in the Gage Park neighborhood over the weekend, died in the line of duty. The designation was announced Tuesday, on what would have been Huesca's 31st birthday, and it entitles his family to survivor's death benefits. In a message to […]
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Apr 23, 2024
Scott Craig, a versatile and award-winning producer of television documentaries for two Chicago television stations, has died.
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Apr 23, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 23, 2024
A state senator and former broadcast meteorologist was arrested on suspicion of burglary early Monday in the northwestern Minnesota city of Detroit Lakes, police said.
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Apr 23, 2024
Yenedy Reys-Pardo had just started attending Eisenhower High School after her family arrived in Blue Island from Colombia seeking asylum when her new friend had a seizure in the swimming pool. Her help may have prevented tragedy.
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Apr 23, 2024
Yenedy Reys-Pardo had just started attending Eisenhower High School after her family arrived in Blue Island from Colombia seeking asylum when her new friend had a seizure in the swimming pool. Her help may have prevented tragedy.
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Apr 23, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016.
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Apr 23, 2024
Val Gray Ward, an accomplished actress, director and producer who founded Kuumba, a pioneering African-American theater company in Chicago, has died at 91.
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Apr 23, 2024
A 14-year-old boy was charged in a fatal shooting in March in the South Loop neighborhood that killed a 17-year-old boy and wounded a 15-year-old, police said. The boy, whose name was not released due to his age, was arrested Monday in the 100 block of South Central Park Avenue after he was identified as the person who fatally wounded Jeremy Smith, 17, during a teen take over in the South Loop, officials said. Another boy, 15, also was injured in the shooting. The 14-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder, attempt murder and aggravated battery discharge […]
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Apr 23, 2024
National Weather Service officials are expecting thunderstorms to roll into the area Tuesday afternoon into the evening with temperatures dropping to the high 30s. The storms are expected across northern Illinois Tuesday afternoon and into northwest Indiana by the evening, officials said. Some of the storms are expected to be strong to severe with large […]
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Apr 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power.
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Apr 23, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin's ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine's second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attack.
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Apr 23, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 23, 2024
A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president.
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Apr 23, 2024
The case, to be argued Thursday, stems from Trump's attempts to have charges against him dismissed. Lower courts have found he cannot claim for actions that, prosecutors say, illegally sought to interfere with the election results.
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Apr 23, 2024
The spotted lanternfly, identified for the first time in Illinois in September, targets fruit trees. The spongy moth can defoliate large swaths of land.
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Apr 23, 2024
On April 23, 1993, labor leader Cesar Chavez died in San Luis, Arizona, at age 66.
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Apr 22, 2024
The suspect 'should be considered armed and dangerous,' police said.
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Apr 22, 2024
The Arlington Heights Village Board granted developers of the planned Arlington 425 project in downtown Arlington Heights another construction-related extension - making this at least the second one - even as financing for the work has still not been secured. The mixed-use development, planned for 225 W. Campbell St., has been in the works for five years. "We're looking to get it going," Stephen Messutta, general counsel for Norwood Builders of Park Ridge, told the board at the April 15 meeting. The developer requested a zoning extension for the proposed redevelopment on the longtime empty land parcel located just steps […]
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Apr 22, 2024
For many Jews, the first Passover since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack holds special significance. Carol Cohen visited Chicago from London for the holiday. "I feel guilty being here, all dressed up with these lovely people, we're going to have a wonderful evening, and our brethren, the hostages, God knows what's happening to them," Cohen […]
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Apr 22, 2024
The foundation wouldn't say exactly how much Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson gave in total, but a list of other contributors indicates the bulk came from them. EIF said more than 20,000 individuals and companies donated to the fund.
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Apr 22, 2024
Still to come are weeks of what's likely to be dramatic and embarrassing testimony about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's personal life as he simultaneously campaigns to return to the White House in November.
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Apr 22, 2024
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and DARLENE SUPERVILLE (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars they receive go toward wages for care workers is a long-overdue "milestone" that […]
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Apr 22, 2024
A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
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Apr 22, 2024
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to diffuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas.
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Apr 22, 2024
Schools and environmental groups mobilized for Earth Day, organizing trash pickups across the Far South Side.
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Apr 22, 2024
Johnson wants to change the sequencing of construction on the long-awaited Global Terminal and two new satellite concourses.
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Apr 22, 2024
Almost everyone agreed that Frances Walker was cherished by neighbors, family and her tenants. Even the attorneys defending the woman accused of killing Walker said friends and family of the Rogers Park landlord "loved her to her core." The 69-year-old was a smiling presence in the 5900 block of North Washtenaw Avenue where she rented […]
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Apr 22, 2024
The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.
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Apr 22, 2024
The Kane County Health Department is tracking the outbreak of measles and is concerned about the high number of cases that have been reported in the Chicago area within the last two months, health officials said.
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Apr 22, 2024
Express Inc — once a trendsetter of casual office attire that has struggled to compete with the likes of Zara and H&M — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Apr 22, 2024
Johnson's remarks came on the heels of the early Sunday morning shooting of Luis Huesca as the 6-year veteran of the Police Department was heading home from his CPD shift.
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Apr 22, 2024
Kandice Cole of Wheatfield choked up Monday as she recalled the fateful day almost seven years ago when her young son Eric Cole was killed after gaining access to an unsecured handgun in his babysitter's Center Township home.
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Apr 22, 2024
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program.
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Apr 22, 2024
A Crown Point woman who was taken into custody Friday on multiple felony fraud counts for taking almost $81,000 from her now-former employer, a Valparaiso business, has checked herself into a rehab facility for gambling addiction, according to court documents.
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Apr 22, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 22, 2024
The Broncos are trading for New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson in a swap of late-round NFL draft picks, sources confirmed Monday to The Denver Post.
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Apr 22, 2024
Two days before the schoolwide graduation on May 18 at the church, Prairie State College will host "Lavender Graduation," intended as a "celebration of Culture, Community and Inclusion."
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Apr 22, 2024
Two people were suffering life-threatening injuries and were taken in critical condition to the hospital, police said. A third person was treated at the hospital and later released, police said.
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Apr 22, 2024
Ukrainian commander Oleksiy Tarasenko witnessed a frightening shift last month in Russia's efforts to punch through Kyiv's defense of the industrial region known as the Donbas.
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Apr 22, 2024
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program.
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Apr 22, 2024
The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Apr 22, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 22, 2024
For the first time in history, prosecutors will present a criminal case against a former American president to a jury Monday as they accuse Donald Trump of a hush money scheme aimed at preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public.
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Apr 22, 2024
For the first time in history, prosecutors will present a criminal case against a former American president to a jury Monday as they accuse Donald Trump of a hush money scheme aimed at preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public.
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Apr 22, 2024
The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago's legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants and turn it into a unified shelter structure that advocates for the homeless have long championed.
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Apr 22, 2024
Advocates fighting opioid crisis express frustration over slow distribution of funds in Illinois from massive legal settlements.
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Apr 22, 2024
Gerald Reed was finally brought to a retrial last week, and the focus of his case shifted away from police torture to whether he is actually guilty of a gruesome 1990 double murder.
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Apr 22, 2024
On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first "Earth Day."
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Apr 21, 2024
A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said.
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Apr 21, 2024
Israeli leaders are harshly criticizing an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military. The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has ever imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military. It also further strains relations between the allies that have grown grown increasingly tense during Israel's war in Gaza. The move is especially surprising given the close ties between the two armies, which train together and share research and intelligence with one another. Israeli leaders condemned the decision as unfair, especially at a time when Israel is at war, and vowed to oppose it.
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Apr 21, 2024
Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie "Footloose" was filmed more than 40 years ago.
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Apr 21, 2024
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America's longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
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Apr 21, 2024
He was singularly popular among the Lyric musicians with whom he worked and who perhaps knew him the best during the second half of his career.
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