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Workers remove the temporary boarded-up entry to the Nieman Marcus store in the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue on Wednesday before they repair it with new doors. The store on the Mag Mile was the target of a crash-and-grab theft.

Chicago-area crash-and-grabs confound retailers, experts

August 18, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

As department stores and smaller boutiques tally their losses from a spate of brazen crash-and-grab burglaries, experts on crime and retailers have begun wondering why a tactic that makes the...

Kenneth Clarke, president and CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, said the museum's decision to donate money to help pay for efforts to commemmorate the 125th anniversary of WWI will put Chicago in the spotlight in a national campaign.

Pritzker museum donates $5 million to WWI centennial programs

August 18, 2019 at 6:23 p.m.

A $5 million donation from a Chicago military museum will help a national effort to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War with a new memorial, education campaign...

Incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich knocks on the front doors before the Rite of Reception ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2014.

Cupich declines police detail at Holy Name rectory

August 18, 2019 at 6:23 p.m.

Newly installed Archbishop Blase Cupich has declined to add Chicago police officers to his existing security detail at Holy Name Cathedral's rectory, where he resides. Colleen Dolan, the Archdiocese of...

Cardinal Francis George presides over the Annual Memorial Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Friday. The mass is in memory for all Archdiocesan bishops, priests and permanent deacons who have died in the last year.

George celebrates one of final Masses as archbishop

August 18, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

Days before Cardinal Francis George plans to step down as Chicago's archbishop, he spoke of forgiveness at a Mass to remember clergy who have died in the last year. Friday's...

Lyons elementary school reopens after flu closes it for a day

May 21, 2019 at 2:05 p.m.

Classes were back in session at an elementary school in west suburban Lyons Friday after it was closed for a day for a thorough cleaning as a third of its...

West Chicago road re-opens after train-vehicle crash; Metra delayed

May 23, 2019 at 6:54 a.m.

High Lake Road from Sunset Avenue to Main Street just outside of West Chicago is open again after a freight train and vehicle crash closed the road Thursday afternoon. DuPage...

U.S. voters cast votes in Iraq election: ‘It’s amazing’

June 17, 2018 at 3:01 p.m.

Iraqi-American Agnes Merza of Morton Grove said she made sure she was first in line Sunday at her local polling place to vote in her home country's election. "It's amazing,"...

U.S. voters cast votes in Iraq election: ‘It’s amazing’

December 23, 2018 at 5:35 p.m.

Iraqi-American Agnes Merza of Morton Grove said she made sure she was first in line Sunday at her local polling place to vote in her home country's election. "It's amazing,"...

‘Nothing is ever without hope,’ ailing George tells Catholics on Easter

May 21, 2019 at 8:31 a.m.

Battling cancer and celebrating what could be his last Easter Sunday Mass as Chicago's Catholic leader, Cardinal Francis George said he was in good spirits and that the holiday teaches...

‘Nothing is ever without hope,’ ailing George tells Catholics on Easter

December 23, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

Battling cancer and celebrating what could be his last Easter Sunday Mass as Chicago's Catholic leader, Cardinal Francis George said he was in good spirits and that the holiday teaches...

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