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Restaurant owner Dave Bonomi said he’s been forced to eliminate jobs at his three restaurants after Chicago’s ordinance to phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers took effect last year. “We eliminated almost 20 positions between our three restaurants. …

A driver escaped a fiery rollover crash early Friday on the Stevenson Expressway on the Southwest Side. The crash happened around 4:20 a.m. on the southbound ramp of I-55 at Pulaski Road, when a driver struck a guardrail, overturned and …

El hombre de Chicago acusado de matar a dos empleados de la Embajada de Israel en Washington D.C. continuó disparando a una de las víctimas incluso cuando ella trató de arrastrarse lejos de él, informaron el jueves las autoridades federales. …

Post Malone is a man of his words. When he said he’d bring a “big-a**” production for his first-ever stadium tour, he delivered. Thursday night’s showdown at Wrigley Field brought enough fireworks and pyrotechnics to detonate the North Side, along …

Jussie Smollett will give $50,000 to a West Side nonprofit to settle a city lawsuit filed against him to recover $130,000 in taxpayer dollars that were spent investigating the hate crime hoax he allegedly staged in 2019. The ex-”Empire” TV …

Agentes federales arrestaron el jueves al menos a cuatro personas que se presentaron a su audiencia programada regularmente en la corte de inmigración de Chicago. Agentes vestidos de civil estaban esperando en el piso 15 de 55 E. Monroe St. …

John Wayne Fry no interactuó mucho con su vecino. Con el tiempo, hubiera deseado haber hablado con él sobre la guerra en Gaza. Su vecino, Elías Rodríguez, fue arrestado en conexión con el tiroteo fatal de dos miembros del personal …

The White Sox surprised Friday by sending first basemen Andrew Vaughn and Tim Elko to the minor leagues. The moves came as two veteran outfielders, Andrew Benintendi and Mike Tauchman, were brought back from the injured list. The struggling Vaughn …

The owners of Monday Coffee never wanted to open a coffee shop because the responsibility of managing a brick-and-mortar business wasn’t attractive to CEO Amanda Harth and head roaster Felton Kizer. But six months after opening in November 2024, Harth …

Entering the Cubs’ weekend series in Cincinnati, one man topped the charts on an excellent offensive team in both batting average (.289) and OPS (1.004). Come on, who else? Of course it was Carson Kelly. In this week’s “Polling Place,” …

Lashing out at Apple’s plans to make most of its U.S. iPhones in India, President Donald Trump threatened Friday to slap a 25% tariff on the popular device unless the tech giant starts building the product in its home country …

In the aftermath of two blowout losses to begin the season and his head-coaching career, the Sky’s Tyler Marsh has been grasping for positives. He has talked about his “constant belief” in Angel Reese and the rest of the players, …

A truck driver was killed in a rollover crash Friday afternoon near southwest suburban Darien. Illinois State Police troopers responded to a call of a multi-vehicle crash on the southbound lanes of I-55 near the Cass Avenue exit ramp around …

Authorities said Friday that they will not file murder charges against a person who allegedly fatally shot two men at a Roseland restaurant earlier this week, saying he acted in self-defense. The shooting was sparked by an argument over what …

ROME — Last week, Stephen Colbert, the famously Catholic former Chicagoan, surprised the world and himself when he got a bit verklempt while talking about the election of Pope Leo XIV. “When I heard it was an American pope, I …

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is getting a bit of a god complex. It’s not exactly his fault after defying death and completing impossible missions time and time again. But in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” now playing at local …

Pierre was just five weeks old when he arrived at Pasadena Humane in the spring of 2023. The young kitten appeared bright and healthy, and our team quickly placed him in a foster home so he could grow big enough …

By SOPHIE BATES JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months. Related Articles Privacy and hunger groups …

By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting a major law firm, calling it unconstitutional retaliation designed to punish lawyers for their legal work that the White …

A man who opened two gun cases and claimed to have six firearms while standing outside the Apple Store in Pasadena was arrested Friday — an incident witnessed by a local TV news crew. The incident unfolded around 9:20 a.m. …