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The scene in the 6900 block of South Cicero Avenue in Bedford Park where four teens were killed, July 26, 2026, after their vehicle drove off a bridge while fleeing police and crashed into a train car below, according to authorities. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Four teens killed in Bedford Park crash after fleeing police

July 27, 2026 at 11:45 a.m.

Four teens were killed in Bedford Park after a driver fleeing a police stop careened off a bridge and struck a freight train early Sunday morning.

6 hospitalized after Humboldt Park mass shooting

July 26, 2026 at 4:39 p.m.

A mass shooting wounded six people in Humboldt Park Sunday morning, Chicago police said.

Members of the Chicago police SWAT team work in an alley in the 4600 block of North Springfield Avenue on July 20, 2026. Two people, including a SWAT officer, were shot and the suspect barricaded himself in a building with a woman and a teenage girl. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Albany Park man charged, ordered detained, after Monday SWAT shooting

July 22, 2026 at 7:03 p.m.

A Northwest Side man now faces a slew of felony charges — including attempted murder of a police officer — one day after he allegedly shot his mother-in-law and a...

Agata Stelmach, center, socializes during Chicago Gourmet’s Rise & Shine event at the Harris Theatre Rooftop Terrace on Sept. 30, 2024. (Nate Swanson/for the baiduhai)

Chicago Gourmet returns in September with ‘Let Your Tastebuds Dance’ theme

July 22, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The festival, now in its 19th year, will include tastings, live cooking demonstrations and partnerships with local restaurants.

Blaze, one of the returning pair of plovers to a Waukegan nesting site, hangs out at the beach in 2025. (Nat Carmichael/for the Lake County News-Sun)

Piping plovers Pepper and Blaze hatch 2 new chicks at Waukegan Beach

July 20, 2026 at 3:05 p.m.

Waukegan’s new chicks follow the birth of four plovers at the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area in June.

CCL holder admitted to fatal shooting outside Lincoln Park bar, handed over gun: Police

July 21, 2026 at 4:03 p.m.

A fight at a Lincoln Park bar led to the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man late Sunday night, police and the neighborhood alderman said.

A few beachgoers hang out at 57th Street Beach in Hyde Park on July 16, 2026, as wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota settled over northern Illinois. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Summer comes to a standstill as air quality prompts closures and cancellations across Chicagoland

July 16, 2026 at 6:39 p.m.

As local air quality hit hazardous levels Thursday, beaches and pools were closed, day camps and other summer activities moved indoors and some events canceled altogether.

The Statue of the Republic, also known as the "Golden Lady," a 24-foot-tall gilded bronze monument in Chicago's Jackson Park, is covered by scaffolding on July 15, 2026, as it is set to be regilded. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Jackson Park’s ‘Gold Lady’ statue to be regilded

July 15, 2026 at 6:06 p.m.

Jackson Park's 24-foot-tall Statue of the Republic, built in 1918, is getting refurbished, Chicago Park District officials said.

A lot is covered in debris at the alley between 54th Street and 54th Place near Union Avenue in Chicago on July 13, 2026. The body of a woman was found in the area days earlier. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

‘Pure evil to me’: Family at a loss after woman’s body found in trash can

July 14, 2026 at 5:32 p.m.

Zenobia Weatherspoon’s official cause of death was still pending as of Tuesday afternoon, as her family seeks answers in her death.

State Sen. Lakesia Collins talks to reporters on July 13, 2026, in an alley between 54th Street and 54th Place near Union Avenue in Chicago where the body of Zenobia Weatherspoon was found days earlier. Collins said she watched Weatherspoon grow up. “She did not deserve this, and she was loved by so many.” (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Woman found in Back of the Yards garbage can identified: ‘Loved by so many’

July 13, 2026 at 6:35 p.m.

State Sen. Lakesia Collins identified a woman found dead in a garbage can in Back of the Yards Saturday evening as Zenobia Weatherspoon.

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