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A woman has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man outside his Lincoln Park home on April 16, according to Chicago police. Josalyn Fowler, 25, of south suburban Thornton, was charged with murder and attempted robbery in …

The Board of Education approved the Chicago Teachers Union’s new contract agreement Thursday, putting the final touch on a deal that took almost a year to negotiate. The four-year, $1.5 billion contract is now official after union members also ratified …

GREEN BAY, Wis. — When Bears general manager Ryan Poles volunteered his prediction earlier this week that the first round of the NFL Draft could “be a little wild,” he might have been thinking about his own plans. Although they …

Chicago Public Schools is taking steps to get a long-awaited Black Student Success Committee underway, even as the Trump administration takes aim at initiatives that single out particular student groups for extra support. The committee will monitor the Black Student …

A man was fatally struck by a train Thursday night after he fell onto the tracks near a CTA Blue Line station in West Town. The man, whose age wasn’t known, was hit by a train after he fell onto …

What the Bears did the last time they visited Lambeau Field led to what happened in the adjacent parking lot Thursday night. Had the Bears lost to the Packers in the season finale in January, they would’ve drafted seventh. Instead, …

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The NFC North arms race continued Thursday as the Packers selected a wide receiver in the first round of the draft for the first time since 2002. They’re hoping Texas’ Matthew Golden, whom they picked 23rd, …

A man is in custody after a woman was fatally stabbed during an argument Thursday afternoon in Austin on the West Side. The woman, 25, and a man, whose age wasn’t known, were outside in the 300 block of North …

Moon alert After 3 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Aries. Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day This is a powerful day for you because the moon is in …

SUMMERLIN, Nev. — With one more race until the Marlboro Cup at Belmont Park, that cold and wet first Saturday of October 1976, Mike Colucci examined his pockets. Six bucks. “Had been losing all day,” he said. “I’ll never forget …

When Carole Clancey Cotter retired, she didn’t slow down. She had raised seven kids — all attending Catholic schools — and worked with at-risk kids in Chicago for nearly two decades as a social worker. Then, in retirement, it was …

A 54-year-old patron of Rivers Casino in Des Plaines arrived on an unseasonably warm early morning in January 2023 only to be greeted by someone sticking a gun in his face in the parking lot. The victim was patted down, …

As the second presidency of Donald Trump approaches its 100th day, nationwide protests have cropped up, attracting tens of thousands in many cities, including Chicago. Yet many have come away from the events, which they describe as attended by overwhelmingly …

A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in …

DEAR ABBY: I’m in my early 40s and have been working hard since my mid-20s. I have a nice house that my wife and I are trying to pay off and two kids. We live pretty comfortably, but by no …

Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less competition around the paper-pushing rite of Tax Day. Yet on the heels of tax season, here …

Samarth Narang has only lived at 820 Michigan for 10 months, but he knows there’s a colorful history behind the South Loop building. “Just walking through the doors, you can get a sense that maybe it was something else,” Narang …

The animating beliefs of this administration range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than …

The dancers — eight of them — are young, lean and eager to please. The man directing them was that way too, years ago. He’s 65 now, and the sharp edges of his dancer’s physique are long gone. The dancers …