Putting him at odds with Mayor Brandon Johnson's school board, Gov. J.B. Pritzker expressed his support for extending a moratorium on closing any public schools in Chicago by two years.
We're checking in on our friend Paul Durica, director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, as he continues to wade daily through pages of the Chicago Tribune from 100 years ago.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's bill also would attempt to prevent corporations from seeking protection under bankruptcy laws to avoid lawsuits seeking compensation for health damages.
The effort by Shedd employees is the latest in a series of unionization campaigns at Chicago’s prominent cultural institutions in recent years.
Of the eight districts surveyed -- from Highland Park to Round Lake, and from Barrington to Waukegan -- the statistics mirrored the national trend, with absenteeism higher than it was before the pandemic.
Los grupos que representan a las personas que han migrado de manera indocumentada y a sus hijos con ciudadanía estadounidense —así como a sus empleadores— instan al presidente a desplegar el mismo tipo de poder para abrir vías a los más de ocho millones de personas que viven en Estados Unidos y tienen vetado el empleo legal.
One person was killed after a vehicle struck the Barrington Road Toll Plaza in Hoffman Estates early Thursday morning, state police said. The crash happened on Interstate 90 westbound at around 4:24 a.m. The car hit the toll plaza and became engulfed in flames, according to state police. The sole occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S., launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and expanding task forces to curb carjackings.
The brewery in Long Grove, a suburb about 35 miles northwest of Chicago, created the limited edition ale with lavender in honor of Friday's release of Swift’s 11th original album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Prosecutors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump asked Thursday for the former president to be held in contempt and fined because of seven social media posts that they said violated a judge's gag order barring him from attacking witnesses.
Prince William returns to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife’s cancer diagnosis, bolstering the royal family’s ranks as health problems continue to sideline the princess and King Charles III.
An extra-alarm fire destroyed a home and damaged two others on the near West side Wednesday night, though fire officials said no one was injured in the blaze. The fire broke out around 8:30 p.m. on the 1300 block of West 16th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood, according to a social media update from the Chicago Fire Department. Officials quickly upgraded the blaze to a 2-11 fire. Neighbors who clustered around the scene Wednesday night said the home had been under construction and appeared to be vacant. Читать дальше...
To get the Chicago mayor recall mechanism question on ballots this fall, backers need to collect 56,463 petition signatures. So far, they have none.
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday misstated key details about his uncle’s death in World War II as he honored the man’s wartime service and said Donald Trump was unworthy of serving as commander in chief.
Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away.
A total of 60 former patients have now sued former gynecologist Fabio Ortega, Endeavor and/or Swedish Hospital, where Ortega previously worked.
The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel.
A former warehouse coordinator for Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is set to plead guilty next month in federal court in Chicago to charges he stole millions of dollars in Masters Tournament memorabilia over a 13-year period and transported it to Florida for resale, court records show.
