Metra Electric Line car gets first surveillance cameras
Metra has installed its first rail car cameras as a pilot to determine whether trains can benefit from the surveillance technology. Eleven cameras were installed a few weeks ago on...
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‘Amazing gift’ — no homicides in Chicago on Easter Sunday
Chicago went through Easter Sunday without a homicide, something a coalition of Far Southwest Side churches striving for a no-murder day on Easter considered miraculous. Churches in Beverly and Morgan...
West Side boy, 13, who was hit by stray bullet advocated against violence
Zarriel Trotter, a 13-year-old who hails from the city's West Side, was part of an award-winning anti-violence campaign just a year ago. However, on Friday night, the teen was hit...
Chicago area sees greatest population loss of any major U.S. city, region in 2015
After years of financial woes, Lindsey Yates and her husband had to at last address the nagging question: Should they stay or should they go? The young couple's continued residency...
Activist given home, community confinement for releasing minks
An animal rights activist was sentenced to both home and community confinement Wednesday for breaking into a downstate Morris farm with a longtime friend and releasing more than 2,000 minks...
For team of Chicago high school poets, slam serves as political platform
The four teens standing shoulder to shoulder on a Far North Side high school stage have a palpable urgency in their voices, felt with each rhyming syllable that rolls off...
Charge reduced for man accused of jamming cellphones on CTA
A week after a commuter was arrested in an undercover sting over cellphone jamming on a CTA train, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, officials...
Citing ‘negative image,’ Waukegan bans some storefront security shutters
When the cellular store Stay Connected opened a little more than a year ago in West Humboldt Park, the owner installed a security shutter outside to deter would-be criminals. Manager...
Thousands flock to St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The motorboats whizzing down the Chicago River Saturday morning were met with vuvuzela roars and cries of "Kiss me, I'm Irish!" from the crowds that marveled at the boats' fluorescent...
Dr. Quentin Young, Chicago activist for civil rights and public health, dies at 92
Dr. Quentin Young, a champion of civil rights and public health reform who was chairman of medicine at Cook County Hospital during a tumultuous period in the 1970s, died Monday,...