A 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were accused of theft and criminal damage after they allegedly attempted to steal a car in the South Chicago neighborhood Tuesday, police said.
Robert Cotton, president of the Valparaiso City Council, has issued a public apology for a remark he made on his personal Facebook page about police actions in a fatal shooting on April 25 and lauded the "skill and professionalism" of police that day.
The brother of James Weiss, a businessman convicted of bribing state officials, plans to plead guilty later this month to charges he lied to federal investigators about Weiss' contacts with an Outfit hit man.
Ascension "detected unusual activity on select technology network systems" on Wednesday.
Ballots, bullets and a birth certificate made headlines in Chicago one hundred years ago. That's what our friend Paul Durica, director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, discovered as he continues to wade daily through pages of the Chicago Tribune from 1924.
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Under the twinkling lights at the Lake County Fairgrounds, more than 140 teachers, administrators and support staff were recognized as nominees for a number of Educator of the Year categories.
Experts said the baby owl almost certainly died from rodent poisoning, and the two adult birds are suspected of dying from the same cause.
Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, has been chosen to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention, the state party chairman said Wednesday.
A 20-year-old passenger of a vehicle was pronounced dead after an overnight crash on northbound DuSable Lakeshore Drive that also injured the driver, Chicago police said.
Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about their alleged sexual encounter and the money she was paid to keep quiet.
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A new family of COVID variants nicknamed “FLiRT” are spreading across the country, as vaccination rates in Chicago – as well as nationwide – remain concerningly low for some public health experts. While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more transmissible, said infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy. “A new more contagious variant is out there,” said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institute... Читать дальше...
The attack has left some residents with mounting frustrations toward unleashed dogs in public. Just a few hundred feet from the attack is a gated, 25,000-square-foot designated dog park.
On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president.
Voter turnout in Lake and Porter counties was low in Tuesday’s primary, which local Democratic and Republican officials said was disappointing. In Lake County, there were 41,510 ballots cast out of 362,561 registered voters in Tuesday’s primary, which resulted in a 11.45% voter turnout, according to Lake County Board of Elections and Registration data. Voter turnout in Porter County for Tuesday’s primary election came in slightly better than Lake County at 13.87%. There were 18,983 votes cast for... Читать дальше...
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to restore rules to prevent broadband internet providers from favoring some sites and apps over others.
For the second time in a month, President Joe Biden came to Chicago, which has proven to be a fertile fundraising city for the Democrat.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers to make his pitch for more state funding for critical city operations such as the public schools.
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A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed appointee to the RTA board, a politically connected West Side pastor, struggled Wednesday to answer aldermen's questions about the role.
The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants.
