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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft speaks over Zoom during a news conference at Chicago City Hall on May 24, 2023. Local Jewish leaders and allies introduced a resolution to declare May as Jewish American History Month in Chicago.

At City Hall, Jewish leaders call attention to rise in antisemitism

May 24, 2023 at 9:46 p.m.

Leaders of Chicago's Jewish communities condemned a sharp rise in antisemitism across the city, state and country Wednesday ahead of the new City Council's first meeting. Ald. Debra Silverstein, 50th,...

Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 23, 2023. Cupich said all reports of abuse are reported to civil authorities and thoroughly investigated by an independent review board and added that the church deeply apologizes to abuse survivors.

Scope of clerical sex abuse against children in Illinois widens with release of new report. Abusers able to ‘hide, often in plain sight.’

May 24, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.

One survivor of clerical sex abuse recounted being kept inside her fifth grade classroom at her Woodlawn neighborhood Catholic school during recess in the 1980s, where a Carmelite religious order...

Fatal bike hit-and-run in early May still unsolved, police say

May 23, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Two weeks after a driver crashed into biker Rick Lomas in Humboldt Park and fled the scene of the fatal hit-and-run, police say they are still investigating and have no...

A family of foxes in Millennium Park on May 21, 2023, in Chicago.

Family of foxes make Chicago’s Millennium Park home

May 23, 2023 at 11:36 a.m.

Below the towering skyscrapers lining Chicago's Millennium Park, an unlikely group is holing up in a garden: A family of foxes. Several kits frolicked in Lurie Garden as their mother...

Norman Smith, a field supervisor with Cook County Board-Up, removes a broken glass door at the United States Post Office in the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago on May 22, 2023. He then sealed the opening with a sheet of wood.

Men break into Thompson Center post office, police say

May 22, 2023 at 6:24 p.m.

A group of around 18 men broke into the James R. Thompson Center early Monday morning, according to police. The men broke a front door at the center and got...

Bernard Kersh stands beside the Rev. Jesse Jackson after Kersh bonded out of Cook County Jail in Chicago on Dec. 6, 2019. Kersh was charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer after allegedly spitting at an officer and being slammed to the ground.

Police Board gives Chicago officer involved in body slam arrest 90-day suspension

May 19, 2023 at 4:24 p.m.

More than three years after an officer was seen on video slamming a man to the ground, the Chicago Police Board voted to suspend another officer involved in the arrest...

Officers work at the scene where a 12-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy were shot outside the Legler Regional Library on May 16, 2023 in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Brookfield man charged in shooting of two boys outside West Garfield Park library, police say

May 19, 2023 at 11:33 a.m.

A Brookfield man has been charged in the Tuesday shooting of two boys, ages 12 and 16, outside a library in West Garfield Park. Police charged Adam Avizius, 37, with...

Nakili, an eastern black rhinoceros at the Brookfield Zoo, was euthanized on May 17, 2023, due to kidney disease.

Brookfield Zoo black rhino euthanized, was oldest male in a North American zoo

May 18, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

Nakili, an eastern black rhinoceros at the Brookfield Zoo, was euthanized Wednesday, the zoo said. The 33-year-old rhinoceros was the oldest male of his species living in an accredited North...

Chicago police interim Superintendent Fred Waller, Mayor Brandon Johnson and others gather for the funeral of Chicago police Officer Arèanah Preston.

At funeral for slain Chicago officer Aréanah Preston, her mother thanks God for ‘loaning us this angel’

May 17, 2023 at 5:34 p.m.

Family, friends and fellow officers gathered to remember slain Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston at her funeral Wednesday, praising her commitment to the city and her job, which ended in...

A worker displays a vial of smallpox/monkeypox vaccine at the Cell Block Chicago club in the 3700 block of North Halsted Street on Aug. 6, 2022.

Monkeypox resurgence in Chicago triggers warnings ahead of Pride Month, International Mr. Leather conference

May 16, 2023 at 6:42 p.m.

Health experts are urging caution amid a resurgence in Chicago monkeypox cases. The Chicago Department of Public Health reported five cases this year through mid-April. However, 20 cases have been...

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