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Police investigating morning shooting at bar in Wheaton

December 22, 2023 at 12:58 p.m.

Police are investigating after a shooting occurred Friday morning at Rosie O'Reilly's bar in unincorporated Wheaton in the west suburbs. DuPage County and Wheaton police responded to the restaurant at...

People hold signs during a news conference Dec. 21, 2023, outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building where politicians and activists spoke about the need for the federal government to increase funding for migrants.

Chicago politicians urge federal government to provide funding to help house, care for migrants

March 11, 2024 at 12:10 p.m.

Chicago politicians are calling for the federal government to increase funding for migrant care after earlier this week a 5-year-old boy staying at a Lower West Side shelter died and...

A group looks on as two banners reading "U of C $$$ kills Palestinians" and "Divest from Genocide" are hung over a balcony at the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center building on Dec. 8, 2023.

Student groups call out U. of C. and UIC for restricting freedom of speech

December 20, 2023 at 10:24 a.m.

When Youssef Hasweh got arrested for trespassing on his own college campus, he lost that "beaming sense of pride" he once felt for the University of Chicago. "It's a really...

Jack Murray was shot at least four times by Elk Grove Village police officers on Dec. 1, 2023. Mayor Craig Johnson released partial body camera footage from two officers as well as partial recordings of calls between a 911 dispatcher, Murray and Murray's father. This is a screenshot from the first officer's body camera footage.

New body camera footage shows Elk Grove Village man shot by police after calling 911 on himself

December 18, 2023 at 8:48 p.m.

An Elk Grove Village man fatally shot by police on Dec. 1 called 911 himself to warn he planned to "hurt someone," according to recordings released Monday. Officers came to...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, during a Mass on May 20, 2023, at Holy Name Cathedral. Cupich is expected to issue a statement following Pope Francis' formal approval of letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples.

Chicago Catholics heartened by pope’s support of blessings for same-sex couples: ‘I have never felt so affirmed’

December 18, 2023 at 8:49 p.m.

As the Vatican announcement that Pope Francis supports blessings for same-sex couples in the Catholic Church reverberated around the world Monday, Chicago-area Catholics saw it as a surprising but reaffirming...

Karen Nevotti, 47, left, of Albany Park, and Karen Bunkenburg, 50, of Naperville, watch the Nebraska vs. Pittsburgh NCAA women's volleyball semifinal game at The Globe Pub in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago on Dec. 14, 2023.

College women’s volleyball is drawing record interest — and Chicago fans are all in

December 16, 2023 at 10:18 a.m.

When Tarah Dickerson, a longtime volleyball referee from Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood, goes to watch college women's volleyball at a bar, she is used to having to request the match...

Aidan Chung, right, and his mother, Jennifer Chung, volunteer at a food pantry in Ravenswood in 2011.

As the holidays approach, community leaders offer advice for engaging kids in volunteering

December 15, 2023 at 8:09 a.m.

On a recent Saturday, Amanda O'Rourke attended an event at the National Veterans Art Museum with her 7-year-old daughter, Sienna, where kids created cards for active duty military families in...

Landyn DeWitt and his dog Pistachio walk around the Loop on Dec. 13, 2023. DeWitt adopted Pistachio from the Anti-Cruelty Society on Tuesday.

Anti-Cruelty Society sees uptick in adoptions after waiving fees for December to reduce overcrowding

December 14, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

From the moment he saw him, Landyn DeWitt had his heart set on adopting Poseidon, a 9-week old shepherd mix puppy taken in by the Anti-Cruelty Society. DeWitt recently moved...

A Jeep had crashed into a clothing store for an apparent smash-and-grab robbery early in the morning at 171 N. Aberdeen St. on Dec. 12, 2023.

Luxury retail store in West Loop targeted for fourth time this year with latest smash-and-grab

December 12, 2023 at 3:23 p.m.

A retail store in the West Loop is reeling after being the target of a smash-and-grab robbery for the fourth time this year. Drake Sweeney, creative director of SVRN, a...

People stand by tents at a homeless encampment under a viaduct near the intersection of Clinton Street and Milwaukee Avenue in the West Loop on Nov. 14, 2023.

Debate over controversial homeless encampment boils over in wake of fatal shooting

December 7, 2023 at 6:32 p.m.

After weeks of the ward's alderman asking Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration to remove a West Loop homeless encampment struggling with safety issues, a man was shot and killed Thursday, adding...

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