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11-year-old shot in neck after 7-year-old discharges firearm

February 14, 2020 at 10:35 p.m.

An 11-year-old boy was shot in the neck after a 7-year-old girl was handling a firearm and discharged the weapon in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 7:45...

Lincoln Park High School Local School Council student representative Kieran O'Brien was met with loud applause after saying students "feel that many of the role models of our school are now gone."

Lincoln Park High leaders say they have ‘no clear idea’ why they were fired, while CPS denies council claim it cut off school funding

February 14, 2020 at 6:47 p.m.

Controversy at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School showed no signs of waning Friday after Chicago Public Schools officials called the Local School Council's plan to hire an independent investigator "illegal."...

Equipment is removed from the court for NBA Rising Stars practice held at Wintrust Arena on Feb. 14, 2020.

Chicago beefs up security for NBA All-Star Weekend

February 14, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.

With thousands of people expected in Chicago for NBA All-Star Weekend, two city agencies have partnered with city police to enhance security. The Chicago Police Department, the Department of Buildings,...

Periodic snowfall into Thursday morning to be followed by coldest temperatures so far this winter

February 13, 2020 at 5:22 a.m.

A winter system capable of dropping 2 to 5 inches of snow on the Chicago area began to move in from the south Wednesday afternoon, with flurries starting south of...

CTA tries to honor Black History Month with Abraham Lincoln impersonator photos: Tweet causes a frenzy, then deleted

February 12, 2020 at 5:01 p.m.

The Chicago Transit Authority's Twitter account caused a brief social media frenzy Wednesday afternoon when it retweeted photos of a man dressed as Abraham Lincoln to honor Black History Month....

A man walks his dog past old Copley Hospital in Aurora in 2015.

Niles Leaning Tower and other Illinois sites added to National Register of Historic Places

February 10, 2020 at 6:22 p.m.

The National Park Service has added two sites in Chicago and five in the suburbs to the National Register of Historic Places, including the Leaning Tower in Niles, a South...

Stephen Curry is bringing his basketball tour for underrated high school players to Chicago

February 9, 2020 at 3:33 p.m.

There he was, the son of a former NBA player with elite hand-eye coordination, good ball-handling skills and a wicked jump shot. But that wasn't good enough. Stephen Curry was...

Parishioners walk down the center aisle of St. Gall Roman Catholic Church in Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood in 2013.

23 Chicago-area Roman Catholic parishes to close, merge in latest round of restructuring

February 7, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced another round of parish mergers that will close more than a dozen parishes across Chicagoland. In total, the archdiocese announced 23 parishes would be...

A police officer, left, stands inside a train where a man was shot on the CTA Blue Line train in the 400 block of South Halsted Street in the University Village/Little Italy area of Chicago, Feb. 5, 2029.

Man shot on Blue Line train near UIC-Halsted station on Near West Side. ‘Appears to be a robbery,’ police say.

February 7, 2020 at 9:12 a.m.

A man was shot Wednesday morning on a CTA Blue Line train near the UIC-Halsted stop on the Near West Side, according to Chicago police. The victim was on the...

Big Shoulders CEO Josh Hale greets preschoolers as they switch classrooms at St. Genevieve Catholic School in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2020.

As Chicago-area Catholic schools close, parents hope new funding scheme signals church’s commitment to education

February 3, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

It has become a recurring theme with the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago's school system: mounting concern over declining enrollment and rising costs; parish leaders devising a strategy to address the...

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