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Students line up to enter Dyett High School for their first day, Sept. 6, 2016.

After hunger strike, Dyett reopens as arts-focused neighborhood high school

June 12, 2018 at 3:52 p.m.

Freshmen walking through the doors of Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts on the South Side experienced feelings similar to those of new high school students everywhere, a...

St. Sabina protest sends SOS on Chicago violence

May 22, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

Ten-year-old Anya Washington sprawled herself out on the ground, her cheek pressed against the hot pavement, right where 79th Street crosses Racine Avenue. She joined dozens of others who blocked...

Woman sets self on fire in Rep. Danny Davis’ West Side office

May 22, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

A 43-year-old woman walked into the lobby of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis' West Side office Tuesday afternoon, drank from a bottle of hand sanitizer, poured the sanitizer over herself and...

Vehicles head toward the toll booths on the Chicago Skyway on June 30, 2016.

Skyway maintenance workers set to strike Tuesday

May 22, 2019 at 10:23 p.m.

The union representing Chicago Skyway maintenance workers said it plans to strike Tuesday after nine months without a contract. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 filed unfair labor...

Nykea Aldridge's mother, Diann Aldridge, hugs three of Nykea's four children, Summer, 12, from left, Shavae, 8, and Sincere, 10, during a prayer vigil on Aug. 28, 2016, at New Creation Church in Chicago.

Family remembers slain cousin of Dwyane Wade: ‘An awesome, little quiet storm of a daughter’

August 21, 2019 at 7:52 p.m.

Nykea Aldridge was a "real fashionista," whose favorite color was purple and who loved creating elaborate hair styles, according to her family. The 32-year-old was a talented writer. She was...

$5M bail for Lakeview man accused of sexual assault, kidnapping

May 22, 2019 at 10:22 p.m.

A 43-year-old Lakeview neighborhood man is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman he met outside a Near North Side nightclub in 2013, prosecutors said. Robert Walters, of...

Ashake Banks talk to reporters June 30, 2012, about the arrest made in the shooting death of her 7-year-old daughter Heaven Sutton.

Woman who lost daughter comes to aid of young girl: ‘I just couldn’t see another baby losing their life’

May 22, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

Ashake Banks has lost count of all the vigils she's attended for gun victims since her 7-year-old daughter was shot and killed while selling candy four years ago.She was headed...

A girl was shot in the wrist about 7:50 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2016, in the 1600 block of North Major Avenue in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Girl among 15 shot in Chicago on Sunday

May 22, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

A young girl was among at least 15 people shot in Chicago on Sunday afternoon and evening, police said. The girl was shot in the wrist and a 40-year-old woman...

Former Rosemont public safety superintendent dies at 63

June 10, 2018 at 7:29 a.m.

Donald E. Stephens II, the former public safety superintendent of Rosemont and son of the village's founding mayor, died Saturday, according to a news release from the village. Stephens, 63,...

Activist Michael Davis, second from left, speaks to the media on Aug. 15, 2016, near where 19-year-old Arshell Dennis III, the son of a Chicago police officer, was shot and killed in the 2900 block of West 82nd Street. The group gathered to support the Dennis family and issue a call for an end to the violence.

Activists gather to decry killing of Chicago police officer’s son

May 22, 2019 at 10:20 p.m.

Seven activists who in recent months have protested police brutality gathered on the South Side on Monday afternoon to decry the killing of Arshell Dennis, the 19-year-old son of a...

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