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Guests crowd into Illinois' first legal sportsbook that opened at Rivers Casino in Des Plaines in 2020. Chicago is proposing to allow sports betting at stadiums and ballparks.

Tom Ricketts, Rocky Wirtz and Jerry Reinsdorf all make the case for stadium sports betting to Chicago aldermen

December 14, 2021 at 9:37 a.m.

Chicago is on the cusp of allowing in-person betting at professional sports stadiums. After a contentious meeting last week where aldermen criticized the plan and worried it would hurt a...

Anjanette Young participates in a march in Chicago for National Day of Protests Oct. 22.

$2.9 million settlement for Anjanette Young over bungled police raid advances to City Council

December 13, 2021 at 3:08 p.m.

Anjanette Young is in line for a $2.9 million settlement for the botched police raid on her home that prompted the Chicago Police Department to change its policies and became...

Traffic moves past the Neiman Marcus department store in the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue Dec. 8, 2021, in Chicago.

Chicago to have more cops on duty this weekend to guard against downtown violence and disorderly conduct. Security firm to monitor CTA driver safety.

December 10, 2021 at 7:07 p.m.

A 12-year-old was shot in the back and a CTA bus driver was attacked within 20 minutes and less than half a mile apart in the Loop last Saturday night....

Chouer Lee, 83, holds a sign that translates to "We need our voice heard" during a rally in Chinatown to promote a redistricting map that has a majority Asian ward.

Fight over Chicago’s new ward map won’t be resolved until 2022 — if then

December 10, 2021 at 6:39 p.m.

Chicago's ward remap standoff has shifted into the holiday doldrums after the frantic politicking that marked the run-up to a Dec. 1 "deadline," which aldermen promptly ignored. While the false...

Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, left, speaks as relatives, friends and co-workers of jonL Bush gather for a candlelight vigil Thursday to remember the Carnegie School special education classroom assistant who died from COVID-19 in November.

CPS sees spike in COVID-19 cases, and 10,000 students are in quarantine

December 10, 2021 at 6:27 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools saw its highest number of new daily COVID-19 cases in students this week, according to district data. CPS reported about 600 student cases this week through Thursday....

The proposed ordinance would allow Soldier Field, pictured in 2018, to set up a sports betting operation on site or within five blocks, as could Wrigley Field, Guaranteed Rate Field, the United Center and Wintrust Arena.

Plan to allow sports betting at Chicago arenas stumbles amid concerns about casino competition

December 7, 2021 at 6:54 p.m.

Chicago aldermen balked Tuesday at a plan to allow sports betting at Wrigley Field, the United Center and elsewhere, despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot's hope that adding a 2% city tax...

Chicago Ald. Michelle Harris, chair of the Rules Committee, decided not to call a vote on a proposed ward map presented at a special City Council meeting Wednesday.

Aldermen take no vote on controversial new ward map, vow more public input

December 1, 2021 at 5:46 p.m.

Chicago aldermen essentially gave themselves a do-over on the ward remap saga Wednesday, sailing past an arbitrary deadline and setting a series of meetings stretching into January to let Chicago...

Neighborhoods around Midway International Airport in Chicago, shown in 2019, could be in play in the new ward map.

Once-a-decade Chicago ward remap still in flux; city has yet to release a favored proposal despite Wednesday deadline

November 30, 2021 at 6:42 p.m.

The fight over Chicago's new ward map entered a chaotic new phase Tuesday, as a deadline loomed for aldermen to agree on ward boundaries they design themselves and thereby avoid...

Chicago Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, shown at an October City Council meeting, criticized the map-making process as one that "puts political gerrymandering ahead of the data and ahead of the Voting Rights Act. It's a process that lands us in a referendum and in court."

Backroom tensions between Black and Latino aldermen go public as ward map deadline and possible referendum loom

November 29, 2021 at 6:35 p.m.

Latino and Black aldermen clashed Monday over the best way to draw the ward boundaries that will help set the racial makeup of Chicago's City Council for the next decade....

First-grader Rihanna Chihuaque watches as Raquel Gallegos, a medical assistant with Alivio Medical Center, gives her doll a bandage after Rihanna received her first COVID-19 vaccination at the Arturo Velasquez Westside Technical Institute in Chicago Nov. 12.

‘Think about not gathering’ for Thanksgiving if you’re not vaccinated, Chicago’s top doctor advises; no states removed from travel advisory

November 23, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

Anyone with symptoms "that could be COVID or could be flu" should skip Thanksgiving get-togethers, even if they've been vaccinated, city public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said Tuesday. And...

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