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Manny Hernandez has been leading a group in weekly screaming sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions.
Months past a federal deadline, more than 90% of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe. Of the 10 cities with the most lead pipes, only Chicago has confirmed it hasn’t finished sending out notices.
Kenneth Weddington, 28, faces two felony charges for allegedly threatening a public official and disorderly conduct related to making false bomb threats, police said. The public official was not identified.
A blue Chevrolet pickup truck hit the two on the motorcycle in the 7100 block of South Michigan Avenue at 6:33 p.m. Sunday, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was approached by a person on an electric scooter in the 2100 block of West Granville Avenue at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, then robbed and shot, police say. The teen is hospitalized in critical condition.
On Sunday, the shelter hosted its annual adoption event in Roscoe Village, bringing cats and dogs together with new pet parents and marking 12 years of the initiative in the neighborhood.
A child was hit by a dark SUV, which investigators believe to be a four-door Lincoln Corsair, going westbound in the 800 block of East Marquette Road at 8:51 p.m., police said. The driver fled the scene.
The transport van struck a utility pole about 7:20 p.m. Saturday at Prime Parkway and Route 31. Thousands were left without power.
The three chicks, born in June, were given Chicago-themed names: Bean, El and Ferris.
Thirty years after the deadly 1995 heat wave, we pay lip service to problems, but the underlying social conditions are the same, or worse.
The Mirage is gone, undergoing a massive renovation with a new 660-foot purple guitar-shaped tower out front with strings that will shoot beams into the night.
The man, 41, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, police said.
Following questions from the Chicago Sun-Times in 2023, the Illinois Gaming Board moved to revoke the license that had allowed Jeffrey Bertucci’s Firebird Enterprises Inc., to operate video gaming machines at his Steak N Egger franchise in the west suburb. Because he’s appealing, the establishment is still allowed to keep the devices operational, raking in money.
The cyclist, a 56-year-old man, was struck by a motorist July 5 in the 6300 block of South Halsted Street. He died Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, and his death is ruled an accident.
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame honorees' work is still relevant in a moment of civil rights reversals
Inductees Harriette Gillem Robinet, Timuel Black and Oscar Brown Jr. are not only celebrated writers but civil rights activists who promoted a message of perseverance.
A male whose age wasn’t known was struck by a vehicle and found on the pavement about 11:40 p.m. Friday in the 18400 block of South LaGrange Road, Orland Park police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Part of the sidewalk caved in as the worker, a 49-year-old man, was outside about 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the 100 block of West Jackson Boulevard, police said.
A decades-old Supreme Court ruling bars the president from taking away citizenship of native-born people. The president and the comedian, who moved to Ireland in January, have feuded for years. Trump said she should stay in Ireland “if they want her.”
Nine states will share in a total of $720 million in a deal with eight drug-makers. Illinois has collected about $1.4 billion of the $50 billion nationwide in opioid settlements.
For many at the festival on Saturday, attendance was twofold — to celebrate their Puerto Rican culture and to show solidarity after the museum was swarmed last week by Department of Homeland Security.
Lontray Clark, 23, was arrested in Springfield on Thursday and charged with 19 felonies, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated arson. He was ordered detained pending trial on Saturday.
Officers found Prince Johnson shot several times around 9:40 p.m. in the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The order will prevent the government from solely using apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent or someone’s occupation as the basis for reasonable suspicion to stop someone. It also requires officials to open an ICE detention facility in Los Angeles to visitation by attorneys seven days a week.
Lontray Clark, 23, is accused of intentionally starting a fire June 26 at an apartment building at 5222 W. North Ave., killing four people, including a 5-year-old boy and a pregnant woman, and injuring at least three others. Twenty-eight people were left homeless. Clark was arrested in Springfield.
The victim, a male whose age wasn’t known, was shot about 4 p.m. Friday in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police said. He died at a hospital. No one is in custody.
President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a ban on federally funded programs for anyone who can’t show legal status, including babies in the Head Start child care program.
Jeremy Miller, 35, was fatally shot and another man, 30, was wounded in a shooting about 2 a.m. Thursday in the 3700 block of South Wells Street, officials said. The second man is in good condition. No one is in custody.
While Illinois has had eight cases of the virus so far this year, at least 1,288 cases have been confirmed nationwide, the most in more than 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But Chicago Public Schools says the majority will get hired at other schools within the district. The layoffs don’t help CPS close its $734 million deficit.