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After nearly a year of construction, the Illinois Department of Transportation said the reversible lanes will be open by 5 a.m. Monday, weather permitting.
The 59-year-old man was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head about noon Friday inside a home in the 3900 block of West 104th Street, Chicago police said.
It was on Jan. 13, 2020, that a traveler returning from China arrived infected by the COVID virus. What, if anything, have we learned since?
Mr. Jiménez spent much of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s fighting gentrification in Lincoln Park, allying with other organizations in Chicago to uplift minority and low-income communities, and rallying for an independent Puerto Rico. He died Friday.
A Union Pacific Northwest outbound train No. 717 struck a car about 3:50 p.m. Saturday near Nagle and Avondale avenues. At least one person in the car died, authorities say.
A man and woman were arguing inside a home when the argument turned physical and the woman fired a gun, hitting Tarus Moore, 51, who was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died.
Storytelling group SOL Collective amplifies the voices and experiences of women of color. Its latest event, “Last Night a DJ Saved My Life,” took place Saturday at the Promontory in Hyde Park.
Chicago residents can drop off their live or natural trees at one of the city’s 27 locations starting Saturday until Jan. 25. All ornaments, lights or other decorations, as well as tree stands or plastic bags for transport must be removed before the tree is dropped off.
A semitruck driver struck the side of an ambulance at Ashland Avenue and 63rd Street about 11:20 a.m. Saturday. Three people were hospitalized in good condition.
The shooting happened about 1 a.m. Saturday in the northbound lanes near 53rd Street, according to Illinois State Police. No arrests were reported.
Nicholas Davine, 30, was on a sidewalk about 4 a.m. Saturday when someone fired shots, hitting him in the chest and back.
Chicago showed its admiration for Rose, one of Englewood’s favorite sons, on Derrick Rose Night at the United Center. Surely the city can resist the urge to fixate on that community’s struggles.
The 59-year-old man was found about noon Friday with a gunshot wound to the head.
It comes after no children died of the seasonal flu during the 2023-24 season, which runs from September to May, according to the agency.
The funding agreement ensures the $1.97 billion grant cannot be clawed back by a new presidential administration, Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter said.
To some, 2024 was the worst because of the White Sox’ record-breaking losses and the Bears’ on- and off-field drama, while others reflect not-so-fondly on the misery of 1969 and the 1970s.
“For those of us who are not physically there, we’re still trying to wrap our minds around that this really happened,” ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot told the Sun-Times. “It’s just so incredibly surreal.”
The city says Bally’s can now resume the teardown of the Chicago Tribune’s former printing plant on Friday.
Jon Burge, Ronald Watts and Reynaldo Guevara — former police officials implicated in scores of wrongful conviction cases — continue to haunt Chicago taxpayers.