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After racking up more complaints than any other Chicago police officer in recent years, Joseph Vecchio now faces firing in two of the disciplinary cases tied to his work on a notorious downtown tactical team. Vecchio was among three members …

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Did a Chicago cop hand over two guns to a now-convicted extortionist and then lie to the police department about what happened to them? That explosive question arose in federal court filings in the case of Jawad Fakroune, a politically …

Manasseh listened to Brandy’s 1994 debut on cassette so many times that the tape melted. It was the first secular album the Chicago artist was allowed to own, a gift from his mother, Idella. Twenty-six years after her death, Manasseh …

Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant has spent years as an international star — first with the band 10,000 Maniacs and then as a successful solo artist. But one of her biggest musical satisfactions has nothing to do with the big-stage limelight. Merchant’s …

Nooran Amin knows the drill by now at the Best Sub #2 sandwich shop in Humboldt Park. On a stiflingly hot weekday morning, he opens the door, heads toward the kitchen and turns on the grill and the deep fryers. …

On Tuesday night, Darline Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., revealed somewhat awkwardly that she is entirely unprepared to be a U.S. senator. At a South Carolina debate, she was asked a perfectly reasonable and straightforward question: …

DEAR ABBY: My friend of many years, whom I consider to truly be part of the family, has made food the only thing that makes her happy. Besides my husband, she’s all I have left. She went to a doctor …

Last month in Nashville, at the National Urban League Conference, I delivered the 2026 State of the Urban League address with a simple message: America is facing a crisis of priorities. As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, we should …

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s so-called Protecting Renters Ordinance is a cynical effort to garner votes among those who are ignorant of economic realities. Without a doubt, Chicago is experiencing a deplorable lack of affordable housing. But this proposed ordinance will increase …

I am a bicentennial baby in the throes of perimenopause. Spirit of ‘76, baby. The United States is a young democracy, and I am becoming, ahem, a woman of a certain age. My social media feed alternates between the latest …

Todd Blanche was Donald Trump’s personal attorney, so it was natural that when he was elevated to attorney general, a journalist asked whether he would “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House.” The correct …

Police are looking for a vehicle that ran into a woman and left the scene late Thursday in the Garfield Park neighborhood. The woman was found unresponsive with trauma to her body in the 3800 block of West Van Buren …

Diamond V. Galindo grew up in Humboldt Park’s New Life Community Church. She stopped by after school for homework help. She spent her summers there, signing up for its programs for kids. Artist Alecks Cruz didn’t know any of that …

Un incendio en el vecindario Back of the Yards que se desató la mañana del jueves en una casa desocupada dejó cuatro bomberos heridos, tres de ellos de gravedad. El edificio residencial comenzó a arder a eso de las 11:30 …

Un exdirector de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) ha sido condenado a poco más de un año de prisión federal por fraude electrónico en un plan de casi una década para defraudar a varias redes escolares y organizaciones sin …

Police continue to seek the assailants who chased down and shot a man 41 times, with one of the bullets mortally wounding a woman walking across the street in a double murder late Wednesday morning in the Garfield Park neighborhood. …

Stickney officials say they oppose construction of a data center at the site of the now-closed Hawthorne Race Course, which closed down last month after 135 years of horse racing. On Thursday, the village’s board of trustees voted unanimously to …

CINCINNATI — The game was called “Punt Return.” When he was 13, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor would drag his 8-year-old brother Press out onto the 10-yard patch of grass in their Norman, Okla., front yard. “I’d throw the ball …

A Chicago man convicted of fatally stabbing a man 20 years ago is charged with murder in the Tuesday stabbing in Little Village of a 61-year-old woman who was his partner for 30 years. David Wilcox, 59, was arrested minutes …