Metra BNSF service was temporarily halted early Tuesday for a death investigation near the Naperville station, officials said. A man was found dead about a mile east from the station, at Loomis Street and 5th Avenue, around 4 a.m., though …
Metra BNSF service halted temporarily by death investigation near Naperville station Read MoreA 46-year-old man was found suffering from three gunshot wounds to his leg Saturday night in the Roseland neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Officers discovered the man around 10:45 p.m. in the 10900 block of South Wabash Avenue. He was …
Man fatally shot in Roseland Read MoreGood morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: With the Chicago Public Schools board moving from mayoral control to a fully elected membership for the first time, new political considerations mean tax hikes might no longer be a foregone conclusion. 🗞️ Plus: …
New school board could mean end of property tax hikes Read MoreThe Chicago area shattered a record high that stood for nearly two decades Monday. The high at O’Hare Airport reached 88 degrees — four degrees higher than the previous record for Oct. 12, set in 2008, according to the National …
Chicago area smashes nearly 2-decade record high heat Read MoreChicago Public Schools has released the new Public League basketball conference alignments. The Red Conference has expanded from 32 to 40 teams. No teams were relegated after last season and Longwood, Dunbar, Chicago Richards, Jones, Schurz, Corliss, Prosser and Wells …
Public League expands Red conference from 32 to 40 teams in new basketball alignment Read MoreUna mujer de 22 años que recibió un disparo mortal el sábado por la noche en La Villita después de llegar a casa tras comprar artículos para Halloween con su madre fue identificada, informaron las autoridades. Abbigail Somoza estaba de …
Una mujer de 22 años muere baleada en La Villita tras regresar de hacer compras de Halloween Read MoreOlivia Rodrigo can clearly buy herself flowers. A lot of them. On Sunday night, the celebrated singer-songwriter drowned her horseshoe-shaped stage at the United Center with thousands of pink and white stems, probably enough to give one to every fan …
Review: Olivia Rodrigo blooms into best version of herself in Chicago performance Read MoreIt is impossible not to perceive 1787 opera, “Don Giovanni,” in a more fraught way in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. But there is no need for a director today to try to somehow unduly amp up the ugly …
Review: Lyric Opera’s ‘Don Giovanni’ enhances the drama, brings out sometimes uncomfortable contradictions Read MoreA reader writes, aghast at government plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army major who murdered 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. “I am so upset, so disgusted and in disbelief,” she says. …
Trump weighs a public execution, which once elicited delight — and revulsion Read MoreAn investigation is underway after firefighters extinguishing an apartment fire in North Lawndale found a 50-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound — and his missing car was located about a mile and a half away. On Tuesday, an autopsy …
Death of man burned in West Side fire, shot in head ruled homicide Read MoreShe came to a fraternity party Saturday near the University of Chicago campus, where she told the Chicago police she danced and had some drinks. But as Saturday night gave way to Sunday morning, the 21-year-old woman said she “began …
Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report says Read MoreLa inspectora general de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) podría emitir pronto conclusiones en su investigación, reabierta recientemente, sobre si Hilario Domínguez, candidato a la presidencia de la Junta Escolar de Chicago, actuó de manera inapropiada con una joven …
Investigación de presunto contacto inapropiado de candidato a presidente de la Junta de CPS y una menor podría concluir pronto Read MoreESPN’s Mike Greenberg might have overseasoned things just a little. Paying on-air tribute to Mike Ditka, who died Friday at 86, Greenberg (ahem, no relation) talked about arriving on the Chicago media scene in 1992 before Ditka’s final season as …
Mike Ditka a bigger star than Michael Jordan? Well, yeah, for a little while Read MoreNearly 90% of Chicagoans surveyed want to tax corporations to expand city services, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday, promising to deliver what he can locally while asking the state to empower the city to impose more business taxes. Johnson released …
Public wants taxes boosted on big business, and survey proves it, Mayor Johnson claims Read MoreUna mujer acusada de apuñalar mortalmente a una niña de 7 años permaneció detenida el viernes, mientras los seres queridos de la menor llenaban una sala de corte del Condado de Cook para una audiencia inicial enfocada en el brutal …
Juez ordena mantener detenida a mujer ‘tan peligrosa’ acusada de matar a una niña de 7 años en Chicago Read MoreIt is a Bulls offense that is starting to take on the Tiago Splitter philosophy, but far from a finished product. Very far at times. The first-year coach has made that more than apparent on several occasions throughout the preseason, …
A few wait-and-sees surround the Bulls as regular season approaches Read MorePope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said Tuesday. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a …
Vatican says the pope has lung cancer, and the lower lobe of his right lung was removed Read MoreLeaning to his right and watching the puck fly to the left of and behind the goalie from his vantage point, Blackhawks winger Nick Lardis thought he might have scored. A second later, he realized that wasn’t true. He had …
Nick Lardis reaches developmental crossroads as Blackhawks send him down to AHL Read MoreA brutal Sunday for the Bears has bled into an even worse week. Defensive end Montez Sweat, who is the Bears’ highest-paid player this season, was suspended two games by the NFL on Tuesday for violating its performance-enhancing drug policy. …
Bears DE Montez Sweat suspended 2 games for drug violation Read MoreTwo Chicago residents were arrested and charged in a September shooting on the Stevenson Expressway, according to Illinois State Police. Pedro Anzaldua, 28, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated assault, police said. Janie Palomo, …
2 charged in Stevenson Expressway road rage shooting Read More