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Trinity Pierce, left, a stewardship manager from the Chicago Region Trees Initiative and the Morton Arboretum, and Reshorna Fitzpatrick, pastor of the Stone Temple Baptist Church in North Lawndale, stand with a recently planted black gum tupelo tree in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood on May 31, 2022.

Chicago planted 18,000 trees this year with 33% going to neighborhoods with the highest need, officials say

December 23, 2022 at 4:07 p.m.

Something was missing in North Lawndale. When Pastor Reshorna Fitzpatrick walked down the street, it was hard to pinpoint exactly what it was, but when she visited another part of...

People walk under the arch at Northwestern University on Feb. 2, 2022, in Evanston.

Missing 25-year-old Northwestern doctoral student last seen in Lincoln Park just after midnight Saturday

December 20, 2022 at 12:15 p.m.

Family, friends and the Northwestern University community are on the search for Peter Salvino, a doctoral student who has been missing since early Sunday. Salvino was last contacted through a...

27-year-old man shot and killed in Mariano’s parking lot in Ukrainian Village

December 19, 2022 at 8:14 p.m.

A man was sitting inside his vehicle in a parking lot in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood when two people shot him Monday at around 4:25 p.m., police said. The 27-year-old...

A police chase ended with suspects crashing into a Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation truck at the corner of Oakley Avenue and Winona Street in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago on Dec. 12, 2022.

Charges pending against 4 caught after police chase in Lincoln Square ends in fiery car crash

December 13, 2022 at 5:54 p.m.

Charges were pending Tuesday against four people in connection to a stolen Hyundai that crashed into a stopped city truck in Lincoln Square Monday morning and erupted into fiery blaze....

A pair of black-crowned night herons in Lincoln Park in April 2013.

The case of the black-crowned night herons: Abandoned nests reveal gaps in the state’s ability to protect endangered species

December 12, 2022 at 5:29 p.m.

Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot walks past memorials for the victims of homicide after speaking at Chicago Survivors' 10th annual vigil for victims of gun violence, at Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park on Dec. 11, 2022.

‘We should all be mourning’: Vigil honors victims of gun violence in Chicago and across the country in 2022

December 11, 2022 at 8:58 p.m.

Politicians and anti-violence advocates issued calls to action Sunday evening at the 10th annual vigil for victims of gun violence in Chicago and across the country. At Augustana Lutheran Church...

A candle is lit on Dec. 11, 2022, after an overnight bar fight left three dead near West School Street and North Central Avenue on the Northwest Side.

Bar fight in Portage Park leaves 3 dead, 1 critically injured, police say. Neighbor calls violence ‘a whole new level of insanity.’

December 11, 2022 at 5:23 p.m.

A bar fight in Portage Park on the Northwest Side turned fatal early Sunday morning after gunfire broke out, leaving three people dead and one person in critical condition, Chicago...

Mourners comfort each other after leaving flowers on Dec. 1, 2022, at a growing memorial near the driveway of the home in the 2800 block of Buffalo Grove's Acacia Terrace where five people were found dead the day before.

Friends recall lives of Buffalo Grove family killed in murder-suicide: ‘She was just coming into her own little person’

December 11, 2022 at 8:58 a.m.

Vivian Kisliak was a child who took charge. When her friends all tried to pile into her family's golf cart, she'd maintain order, determining whose turn it was to take...

A rendering of the proposed Bally's casino is on display as members of the public listen to a panel during a Chicago casino town hall at the the baiduhai's Freedom Center printing plant Monday night.

Chicago casino won’t be a ‘glitzy Las Vegas Strip joint’ but a ‘series of experiences,’ developers say

December 6, 2022 at 1:44 p.m.

Plans to build a permanent casino and entertainment district in Chicago's River West continue to evolve based on feedback from residents, Bally's officials said at a community engagement meeting for...

A bur oak tree, which has potentially been at its site at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since around 1800, is seen on Nov. 22, 2022. The centuries old bur oak is set to come down this spring due to natural death. The tree, which predates the City of Chicago's founding in 1837, has been a part of the zoo's natural landscape since its beginnings.

‘That tree has just witnessed so much history’: Lincoln Park Zoo’s massive bur oak, which is dying, slated for removal in spring

November 30, 2022 at 7:18 a.m.

For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur...

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