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When the Shedd Aquarium's Stingray Touch exhibit was previewed on May 13, 2013, visitors could touch two kinds of stingrays, the cownose ray and yellow ray.

More than 30 stingrays died at the Shedd Aquarium over the winter, and officials still don’t know why

August 9, 2019 at 1:36 p.m.

More than 30 stingrays died at the Shedd Aquarium early this year, but officials have not figured out why and have replaced the fish with catches from the Gulf of...

Mom cries at news of arrest in slaying of Northwestern grad student: ‘It’s like doing it all over again. It doesn’t change after one year’

August 8, 2019 at 6:06 a.m.

The call from Chicago detectives jolted Tonya Colombo back to the agonizing day a year ago when her youngest child was shot to death hours after arriving in the city...

Chicago man wanted for murder arrested in Boston

August 6, 2019 at 4:52 p.m.

A 30-year-old man wanted in connection to a Southwest Side home invasion that left a man dead and a woman wounded the day after Christmas was arrested this week in...

Keith Flowers holds a photograph of his son, Demetrius, 33, who was killed when shots were fired into a large group of people gathered early Sunday in the 1800 block of South Kildare Avenue in Chicago.

His son was killed in the worst shooting of Chicago’s most violent weekend. He ‘just happened to be one of them’

August 6, 2019 at 11:09 a.m.

Demetrius Flowers had just returned home from work Saturday night when a friend asked him to a small block party on the West Side. Flowers, 33, due to be married...

Police investigate the scene where a pedestrian was struck and pinned under a CTA bus in the 600 block of North Fairbanks Court in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood on Aug. 2, 2019.

Woman hit by CTA bus, critically injured on Near North Side

August 2, 2019 at 6:10 p.m.

A woman was hit by a CTA bus and critically injured after being pinned underneath the bus Friday morning on the Near North Side, authorities said. Preliminary reports were that...

La Policía investiga la escena donde una mujer fue atropellada y quedó atrapada debajo de un autobús de la CTA, en la cuadra 600 N. Fairbanks Ct. en el vecindario de Streeterville, el 2 de agosto.

Una mujer se quedó atrapada debajo de un autobús de la CTA tras ser atropellada

August 2, 2019 at 11:18 a.m.

Una mujer fue atropellada por un autobús de la CTA y se encuentra en estado crítico después de quedarse atrapada debajo del autobús hoy en la mañana en el norte...

Man, 56, dies after being run over by driver who fled scene in Lakeview

August 2, 2019 at 6:10 p.m.

A 56-year-old man died about seven hours after being found in a Lakeview alley Thursday morning suffering from injuries from a hit-and-run driver, according to Chicago police. A man identified...

Two given 11 years in federal prison each for carjacking in Goose Island neighborhood

August 1, 2019 at 7:27 p.m.

Two men were each sentenced Thursday to 11 years in federal prison for carrying out a violent carjacking at gunpoint in Chicago's Goose Island neighborhood and leading police on a...

Man, 62, hit and killed by car in Ashburn

August 1, 2019 at 7:53 a.m.

A 62-year-old man was hit and fatally injured by a car early Wednesday evening in the Ashburn neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The driver of the car told police he...

Captan en video un robo en la Línea Roja de la CTA; en tanto la Policía alerta sobre recientes atracos

July 31, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

La Policía de Chicago alerta a usuarios de la CTA sobre varios recientes robos de teléfonos en el Loop, y solicita la ayuda del público para identificar al ladrón que...

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