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Missouri prosecutors said Tuesday that two men have been charged with murder in last week’s shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.

Supporters and opponents of a Republican-backed Indiana bill aimed at stopping the city of Gary’s 25-year-long lawsuit against handgun makers clashed during a lengthy Senate committee hearing on Tuesday. After more than two hours of discussion and testimony, the committee went into recess without voting on the bill. Gary Mayor Eddie Melton urged members of the Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law to vote down the legislation, which he framed as a legislative overreach and an unfair usurpation of the city’s authority. Читать дальше...

Crystal Kennebrew drove down to Indianapolis Sunday to tend bar for a fellow club owner expecting a big crowd for the NBA All-Star game weekend. The Gary co-club owner and mom never made it back home. Indianapolis police said Kennebrew, 35, died early Monday after an argument escalated at an Indianapolis Waffle House restaurant on […]

The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of Chicagoans. The stretch of the lakefront, now dubbed the Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat, is part of a 3.1-acre expansion of the protected land in Lincoln Park. The Park District’s Board of Commissioners voted on the name Wednesday, which fittingly coincided on Valentine’s Day. Monty and Rose achieved... Читать дальше...

Superintendent Russell Ragon and Director of Human Resources Christine Ruddy resigned late last week “for personal reasons,” just days after the school board approved a policy forcing a teacher to take down a bulletin board with LGBTQ symbols.

David Roe, a news anchor and reporter at WBBM-AM radio in Chicago for 35 years, has died.

Dr. Kristina Butler, a Mayo Clinic gynecologic oncologist, discusses health disparities and prevention.

Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is scheduled to meet with Illinois legislative leaders on Tuesday in Springfield with the hope of securing state funding for a new baseball stadium in Chicago’s South Loop. A spokesperson for House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said the Hillside Democrat is supposed to meet with Reinsdorf at some point in the afternoon but could provide no further information. A spokesperson for Democratic Senate President Don Harmon of Oak Park could not be reached for comment. Читать дальше...

Unseasonably warm weather is predicted to grace the Chicago area this week, with high temperatures climbing into the upper 50s and 60s.

The owner of suburban trucking firm has been charged with conspiring to help applicants cheat on state commercial driver's license tests using ear pieces and a hidden wire.

The boys were traveling in a vehicle on the 7800 block of South Escanaba Avenue around 1:43 p.m. when a black sedan started to chase them.

Charles V. Hamilton, a philosophical godfather of the Black Power movement, which he envisioned as the means to subvert what he stigmatized as America’s “institutional racism,” died Nov. 18 in Chicago, it was recently confirmed. He was 94.

The birthplace of one of Illinois' more notorious politicians might soon be up for sale. Paul Powell was the Illinois secretary of state whose death in 1970 led to the discovery of $800,000 in cash in his Springfield hotel room and Capitol office.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.

Small-scale solar, which produced 10 times as much electricity nationwide in 2022 as 10 years earlier, still just scratching the surface.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker will contend with issues including funding to aid with the ongoing migrant crisis as he presents his sixth budget.

On Feb. 20, 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.

It started out as a 911 call about a domestic incident. It ended with two police officers, a firefighter and the suspect dead, a third officer wounded.

Attack occurred near a bridge over a gorge that offers a view of Neuschwanstein, one of Germany’s most famous tourist attractions.

The driver also hit several vehicles in the parking lot, and the building sustained extensive damage.