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A federal judge has cleared the way for a high-profile trial this summer over allegations that Black employees at the Chicago Department of Water Management were subjected to years of racist and sexist slurs, including some by politically connected top-level supervisors.

After clocking out of her shift at The Gage restaurant near Millenium Park Monday, Jess Dennsion saw a message on a Taylor Swift fan page that she couldn’t ignore. She ran to River North, where painters hoisted on a green scissor lift created a fairly inconspicuous QR code using the letters “ttpd” and the number “13” on the side of a building at 33 West Grand Avenue. The QR code links to a 13 second YouTube short on Swift’s account, where the message “Error 321” and a faded “13” pop up in a typewriter font. Читать дальше...

Ald. Nicholas Sposato sent a letter to the city’s Office of the Inspector General calling for COPA’s ongoing probe into the 26-year-old’s death to be turned over to state police.

With the five year anniversary of the slaying of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez looming, the woman accused of killing the teen and cutting her baby out of the womb in a sensational case that drew international attention was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday.

An order up for a final vote Wednesday is designed to give the City Council power to determine ShotSpotter’s fate.

Arlington Heights Police Department have joined the FBI in the North Suburban Safe Streets Task Force to expand crime-fighting initiatives, officials announced. “It’s an opportunity to network with our federal partners and it’s a force multiplier,” said Arlington Heights Police Chief Nicholas Pecora in an interview with Pioneer Press April 1. “By embedding a police officer in an FBI task force, we get to use the resources of the FBI and conversely, we can maintain that northwest suburban collaboration... Читать дальше...

On Monday, staff members delivered a petition with 150 signatures to Columbia President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim, who is stepping down in July, imploring him to seek alternative budget strategies.

Chicago Teachers Union unveils demands for new contract with Chicago Public Schools calling for fully funded schools amid budget shortfall

Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s, has died.

In the aftermath of the referendum, Lockport District 205 will investigate other potential life safety issues that can be done within its bonding authority. This includes updates to the roof, electrical, heating and cooling, masonry, windows and bathrooms to make the building more handicap accessible.

Confronted with an influx of migrants making their way to Chicago, New York and other big cities, Biden has used executive power to allow several hundred thousand of them to live and work temporarily in the United States in an effort to make them less reliant on shelters and other assistance.

President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.

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

The first day of Trump’s history-making hush money trial in Manhattan ended with no one yet chosen to be on the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates.

Parents of a teenager who committed suicide join push for law that would prohibit social media platforms from blocking outside safety software.

Hundreds of people Monday filled a Southwest Side street where a 9-year-old girl was killed in a shooting that left 10 of her relatives wounded over the weekend.

The first witness was called in the long-awaited trial of Gerald Reed, whose complicated legal saga has involved a murder conviction, allegations he was abused by police, a reversal of that conviction, a reversal of the reversal, a commutation, and now a second murder trial.

Winnebago County Judge Debra Schafer ordered the evaluation for Christian Soto when the 22-year-old man appeared in court by video link for a scheduled arraignment on charges of first-degree murder.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday announced the creation of a new position within the embattled Illinois Prisoner Review Board that will put an emphasis on expanding domestic violence training for its members after the board allowed a parolee with a history of violence against women to be released from state custody last month before, authorities say, he attacked a pregnant woman he once dated and killed her young son. James G. Montgomery Jr., who once served as mayor of a small town west of Chicago,... Читать дальше...

The plan passed the Budget and Government Operations Committee in a 20 to 8 vote following contentious debate over the continued costly effort to care for the city's recent migrants arrivals.