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The playroom almost closed twice in 2024 due to lack of business. Owner Vanessa Ávalos said health issues are behind her decision to close now.
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The Cook County state's attorneys office is training some of its staff to bolster prosecutions of crime on the CTA. A new internal transit crime task force will train more than 30 prosecutors and provide guidance on seeking court orders to restrict defendants from accessing parts of the CTA, accordi
Officials approved the change after hearing from speakers who argued it would hamper the state’s economy and push immigrants to work without licenses in the black market.
“Perhaps the Attorney General only recently learned of this program; perhaps the office’s attention was focused elsewhere,” lawyers for Abbott wrote, noting the fund has existed for five years.
MILWAUKEE — So we’re doing this again, are we? Talking about the big-market Cubs as though the National League Central is theirs to lose? Minimizing the mini-market Brewers as though maybe, if all goes right, they’ll little-engine-that-could their way back into the postseason picture? All the major
Chicago is celebrating Easter with egg hunts, art classes, a matcha tasting and more.
Improved drainage and other upgrades to the park’s baseball and soccer fields will prevent them from becoming muddy swamps after rain. A ribbon cutting is April 10.
A Coco delivery robot collided with an Old Town bus shelter on Tuesday afternoon, just days after a Serve Robotics robot did the same thing in West Town.
The district includes Bryn Mawr Avenue from Broadway to Sheridan Road and famed residences like the Edgewater Beach Apartments. An initial hearing is April 2 with the city's landmarks commission.
Michael Hunter was looking for the person who stole his truck when he was shot and killed Sunday near 80th and Hermitage, police and family members said. “Someone knows something.”
A woman was sexually assaulted Sunday morning in North Center on the North Side. The woman, 21, was in the 3600 block of West Bryn Mawr Avenue around 7 a.m. Sunday when a male she didn’t know sexually assaulted her, according to Chicago police. She was taken to Swedish Memorial Hospital, police said
An argument apparently sparked a CTA passenger to stab two other passengers aboard a CTA Red Line train early Wednesday in Fuller Park on the city's South Side. The victims, only described as males, were riding a train around 1:25 a.m. in the 200 block of West 47th Street when another male passenger
Police are looking for five assailants who attacked two men, fatally shooting them late Tuesday in Chatham. Around 11:20 p.m., two men, 37 and 44, were in the 7800 block of South Calumet Avenue when five individuals approached and at least one opened fire, Chicago police said. The younger man was sh
The building at the Sheepshead Bay Houses where police say a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot, on March 24, 2026 The defendant is also facing criminally negligent homicide and gun possession charges. [ more › ]
My husband and I had just celebrated 20 years of marriage when we heard the words, “You have ALS.” As the pain and heartache of those words slowly sank in, we realized that his life, my life and our children’s lives would be forever changed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’
Recently, I drove from my father’s birthplace in Biddeford, Maine, to my mother’s birthplace in Petersburg, Virginia. Two different towns. Two different states. Two different regions. And yet, oddly, just different ends of the same sad street. Most Americans now live at the same address: “We live wh
DEAR ABBY: Seven months ago, my son filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years. Three months ago, he introduced us to "Carlene." Abby, the woman has five children with three different men and is currently married to her second husband. (She filed for divorce two months ago.) She has custody of only
Demonstrators in favor of the New York For All Act blocked an entrance to the state Capitol on Tuesday. Lawmakers are haggling over when ICE and local police departments could cooperate. [ more › ]
Choreographer Rena Butler’s connection to Chicago runs deep. She has garnered meaningful experiences in the city, from the halls of her alma mater, the Chicago Academy of the Arts, to the stage of the Lyric Opera House, where she has presented her work. But some of her most formative moments took pl
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