Новости за 22.02.2024

Pulte Group, Inc., a residential home construction company based in Atlanta, proposed demolishing the existing structures in the northern third of the corporate campus to develop the site with 42 single-family homes -- calling the development “Leclair Estates.”

WGN-TV's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling will retire next week. Forty-six years ago, though, he was a household name in Milwaukee.

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Chicago police sent out a community alert Thursday warning businesses of a duo who use force to rob stores of smokes and cash on the Northwest Side. The duo has done strong armed robberies in recent days to make off with cigarettes and cash, police said. The two fled on foot after the robberies. Feb. […]

A charity organized by Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been told by the Illinois attorney general's office to stop soliciting or accepting contributions, and that it needs to register with the state.

The mother of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony last week, said Thursday that she has seen her son’s body.

Two teenage boys were both accused of shooting a 19-year-old woman during a January armed robbery in the Bronzeville neighborhood, Chicago police said. The teenage boys were both charged as juveniles in a robbery of a woman that happened Jan. 15 in the 800 block of East 46th Street. Police said the boys shot the […]

A 27-year-old felon was charged with attempt murder in a shooting that happened on the same block where he lives, Chicago police said. Robert Floyd, of Chatham, was charged with attempt first-degree murder in a Feb. 6 shooting of a 31-year-old man in the 800 block of East 87th Place, police said. The victim was […]

A new study advised the county that it should take on a series of reforms before expanding the neighborhood courts, raising concerns about structural problems in the courts that it said diminish the overall impact of the program.

R. Kelly's attorneys are expected in a federal appellate court Thursday to argue that his sex-crimes convictions should be thrown out.

A male victim was discovered shot multiple times overnight inside a vacant lot in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before midnight Wednesday, the victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, and was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was pronounced dead. As of Thursday morning, the victim had not been identified, police […]

The wife and son of Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones combined to earn more than $120,000 in 2023 while working for or on behalf of the city in 2023, public records show. Saprina Jones made $92,538 for her roles while Thaddeus Jones Jr. made $32,250, according to records from Jan. 1 to Dec. 4.

The superintendent search and Holland’s appointment follows current superintendent Bruce Law’s retirement at the end of this school year.

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Chicago Board of Education plans to remove police officers from schools next school year.

The initiative includes yearlong community discussions and screenings around housing insecurity, which effects nearly 68,500 in the city.

Maryum Ali visited Villa Park's Islamic Foundation, whose school gym was renamed in honor of the athlete and activist.

At least 3,194 individuals have received financial support to reunite with friends and family in other states and U.S. cities since mid-November, according to state data provided to the Tribune on Feb. 14.

On Feb. 22, 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” took place in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

Johnson’s plan would require City Council approval, but would provide $250 million per year for housing and planning projects through 2028.

Two men were treated at an area hospital and one was arrested after a confrontation inside a Starbucks in the Loop escalated to a stabbing Wednesday afternoon, according to Chicago police. Police said the men, 52 and 46, got into an argument around 2 p.m. in the coffee shop across the street from the Art Institute on the 200 block of South Michigan Avenue. The disagreement became physical and the younger man stabbed his adversary several times in the head and the arm with a knife, police said. The... Читать дальше...

Five children and two others were hospitalized after an extra-alarm fire broke out in a 14-story apartment building in South Shore Wednesday afternoon, fire department officials said. The blaze began in the kitchen of a second-story apartment in the building on the 7100 block of South Jeffery Boulevard around 4 p.m., according to the Chicago […]

State elections board won't lower more than $100,000 in fines against group that helped Democrats expand majority on Illinois Supreme Court.

United Airlines says it plans to resume flights to Israel next month, reviving a route that was suspended in October at the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

A United Airlines flight headed to Los Angeles made an unplanned landing at O’Hare International Airport Wednesday morning after a passenger wrote in the plane’s restroom that a bomb was on the aircraft, another traveler said. United Flight 1533 took off from Newark, New Jersey, at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and landed in Chicago just before […]