North Branch Park project could cost up to $200 million, backers say
An ambitious plan for a 24-acre green space to replace an open-air scrap yard along the North Branch of the Chicago River could cost as much as $200 million, Ald....
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Family of off-duty Chicago cop killed in high-speed crash while fleeing police sues city
The family of Taylor Clark, an off-duty Chicago police officer who died after running a red light and striking and killing another motorist at Roosevelt Road and Kostner Avenue last...
State Board of Education appoints monitor to improve CPS special education services
The Illinois State Board of Education on Wednesday announced the appointment of a monitor to work with Chicago Public Schools officials to make a number of changes to the district’s...
New treatment lowers risk for death from aggressive prostate cancer by over 70 percent, study finds
Some of the 165,000 U.S. men who are estimated to receive a new diagnosis of prostate cancer this year will develop resistance to hormonal therapies for the disease, but a...
Petition asks CTA to install ‘calming’ blue lights to prevent suicide
A Chicago resident has started an online petition asking Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority to install blue lights, which some say are calming, at all train stations as a...
Artist Anish Kapoor sues National Rifle Association for using The Bean in 2017 video
Anish Kapoor, the artist who created the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park, has filed a federal lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, alleging the organization infringed on the copyright...
TV journalist Elizabeth Brackett’s death ruled an accident: Medical examiner
Veteran television journalist Elizabeth Brackett’s death was an accident, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled Tuesday. Brackett, 76, died Sunday at Stroger Hospital, four days after she was seriously...
Elizabeth Brackett, longtime ‘Chicago Tonight’ reporter, dies at 76
Chicago television reporter and accomplished triathlete Elizabeth Brackett has died, her former employer WTTW announced Sunday, four days after she was injured in a serious accident while biking on the...
Chicago Public Schools mistakenly emails private data of thousands of students, including names, phone numbers
Chicago Public Schools officials have apologized after an employee emailed private student information to more than 3,700 families on Friday, an error described to families as “an unacceptable breach of...
St. Sabina peace march draws celebrities, Parkland survivors
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Auburn Gresham on Friday for an annual antiviolence march organized by St. Sabina Catholic Church, among them entertainers Chance the Rapper, Jennifer...