Новости за 25.03.2024

Dave van Dyck spent four decades as a sportswriter in Chicago, becoming a prominent voice on baseball and auto racing, as well as a pioneer of sports talk radio.

A state parole official quit her post following her role in allowing a parolee with a history of violence against women to be released from state custody before, authorities say, he attacked a pregnant woman he once dated earlier this month and killed her 11-year-old son when he came to her rescue.

A Lake County resident who spent approximately 50 hours in a Lake Zurich restaurant between March 13 and 19 has a case of measles adding to the spread of the disease in the Chicago area, according to a news release from the Lake County Health Department. The Lake County Health Department confirmed the case of measles Saturday in Lake County in a news release letting the public know the individual’s whereabouts and what they can do to prevent becoming ill. People already vaccinated against measles... Читать дальше...

Three men robbed a jewelry store in a northwest suburban mall after shattering its glass display cases, police said.

A child testing positive for measles in Will County has been linked to migrant outbreak of the disease in Chicago but no details on who they are, where they live or how they contracted the disease have been released by the Will County Health Department.

The case is an unvaccinated child linked to the Chicago outbreak, said Muneeza Azher, Will County Health Department program manager of communicable diseases and epidemiology, in a statement.

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Frank Cicero Jr. was a longtime litigator and partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm who played a major role in the drafting of Illinois’ current constitution in 1970 and who later wrote several history books. “If there’s one thing that stands out about Frank beyond anything else, it’s that he was meticulous in preparation — no stone was left unturned in his research,” said former Chicago Ald. Bill Singer, who later became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. “He was driven by a passion for excellence... Читать дальше...

After a chaotic mistrial earlier this month, a federal juice loan extortion case with ties to a larger probe of the Chicago Outfit ended Monday when prosecutors announced they were dropping all charges.

A Chicago-area veterinarian who is a well-known judge on the national dog show circuit has been arrested on child pornography charges alleging he chatted online about a plan to sexually assault his newborn son.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration says that summer programming will return to park district field houses this summer.

A 20-year-old was stabbed on a CTA platform in the Loop after a man tried to rob him early Monday morning, police said.

A strong storm system is predicted to bring gusty winds and localized downpours across the Chicago area Monday and Tuesday.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year as part of a broad management shakeup after a series of mishaps at one of America’s iconic manufacturers. Boeing has been under intense pressure since early January, when a panel blew off a brand-new Alaska Airlines 737 Max. Fallout from the Jan. 5 blowout has raised scrutiny of Boeing to its highest level since two Boeing 737 Max jets crashed in 2018 in Indonesia and 2019 in Ethiopia. In all, the crashes killed 346 people.

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White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf pushed back last summer against rumors the team could abandon its South Side home for Nashville, but his December meeting with that city’s mayor kept the rumors alive.

Multimillion-dollar state effort aims to connect underrepresented farmers with communities in need so more local products get to groceries, restaurants and homes.

In 1954, RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana.

A New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case is weighing when, or even whether, the ex-president will go on trial after a postponement due to a last-minute document dump. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee arrived in court for a hearing scheduled in place of the long-planned start of jury selection in the first of his four criminal cases to go to trial. The trial has been put off until at least mid-April because of the recent delivery of tens of thousands of pages of records from a previous federal investigation. Читать дальше...

Eileen O'Neill Burke is beating Clayton Harris III 50.2% to 49.8%, with just 2,015 votes separating them.