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Former Signature Room workers protest outside of the 875 North Michigan Avenue building on Oct. 4, 2023.

Laid-off workers at abruptly closed Signature Room rally, sue for backpay and benefits

October 4, 2023 at 7:21 p.m.

The laid-off workers rallying outside the skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center to demand pay and benefits Wednesday held up signs listing how many years they had worked...

Girl, 16, fatally stabbed in Loop attack remembered as young mother with “$1 million smile”

October 4, 2023 at 2:53 p.m.

Heaven Taylor had a big personality, bright red hair and a warm laugh, said Colleen Collins, the teen's principal at UCAN Academy South. Taylor, 16, had a son, too. The...

The sun rises over Chicago and the Eisenhower Expressway as seen from Austin Boulevard, during early-morning rush hour on Oct. 3, 2023.

Fall weather: After summery start to October, temps to tumble in Chicago this week

October 4, 2023 at 10:41 a.m.

Enjoy the heat while you can. The summerlike temperatures that have warmed Chicago to start the month will give way to cooler, seasonal conditions this weekend, according to the National...

Several grave markers spray painted with red swastikas or graffiti were damaged at Congregation Am Echod Jewish Cemetery on Nov. 15, 2022, in Waukegan. The Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic incidents and white supremacist propaganda doubled in Illinois last year.

Hate, extremism on the rise in Illinois ‘sobering,’ Anti-Defamation League report finds

October 3, 2023 at 8:07 p.m.

Lee Zoldan remembers the 2017 attack on her downtown synagogue every time she walks in the building. "Those windows were broken. Nazi stickers were placed on those doors," the Chicago...

Dorothy Hoffner, 104, becomes the oldest person in the world to sky-dive on Oct. 1, 2023, at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois. She's with tandem jumper Derek Baxter.

Chicagoan sets record for oldest skydiver at 104 years old: ‘Age is just a number’

October 1, 2023 at 6:50 p.m.

At 104 years old, Dorothy Hoffner fell. Then she kept falling, and falling, and falling. And when the lifelong Chicagoan finally touched the ground Sunday, she landed in the history...

Eloisa Luistro-Rodriguez and Gabriel Rodriguez at the corner of Crystal and Rockwell streets in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood on Sept. 29, 2023. The couple was carjacked at this location in May, with Gabriel suffering a traumatic brain injury after being hit in the head with a gun.

‘Everyone is so freaked out’: Armed robbery crews sweep city as Chicago police task forces struggle with brazen crimes

October 1, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The call that came over the police radio Monday morning was startling if familiar by now: Two men in a stolen car committing robberies at gunpoint across Chicago's South Side....

Friends Mildred Peterson, left, and Tammy Anderson cheer after the White Sox prevented the Arizona Diamondbacks from scoring with the bases loaded at Guaranteed Rate Field on Sept. 28, 2023. Peterson and Anderson attended their first White Sox game because of the $1 tickets.

Fans pay $1 to bid farewell to the ‘just horrible, a disaster of a season’ White Sox

September 29, 2023 at 11:09 a.m.

Sharing in the collective misery of a nightmare season may have cost White Sox fans sleep, joy and even dignity. But at the team's fourth-to-last home game Thursday, it at...

An adult spotted lanternfly on a tree in Huntington, Indiana.

Lakeview resident reports invasive spotted lanternfly, a threat to fruit trees, other plants; state confirms pest has reached Illinois

September 27, 2023 at 3:55 p.m.

The invasive spotted lanternfly has been identified in Illinois for the first time, the Illinois Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Environmentalists across the state have long dreaded the arrival of...

COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive result, April 5, 2023. The Biden administration has announced that it is providing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

Free COVID tests available again; Chicago hospitalizations rise

September 25, 2023 at 6:29 p.m.

The federal government is bringing back its offer of free at-home tests for COVID-19. The tests were made available Monday and can be requested at COVIDTests.gov. The orders include four...

Thieves tore a fence down at Soldier Field's Waldron Deck parking lot to steal $100,000 worth of equipment overnight Wednesday, stadium officials said.

Thieves tear down fence to steal $100,000 in equipment from Soldier Field

September 22, 2023 at 2:49 p.m.

Thieves stole around $100,000 in equipment from Soldier Field overnight Wednesday, stadium officials said. The "substantial theft of equipment" targeted mowers and John Deere Gators that belong to a subcontractor...

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