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Sarah Dolitsky, sister of David, is consoled at the vigil to remember David Dolitsky. David was struck and killed by a senior driver Friday, June 17th while mowing his lawn. Monday, June 20th, 2016, at Arctic Ice Arena in Orland Park. | Gary Middendorf-baiduhai Media Group

Orland Park teen dies after being struck by car while mowing lawn

May 21, 2019 at 7:14 p.m.

David Dolitsky was having the summer of his life. Every week for the 17-year-old, was graduation parties of friends eager for college after four years at Carl Sandburg High School,...

Family and supporters hold a vigil on Dec. 23, 2015, in support of restaurateur Ibrahim Parlak of Harbert, Mich., who was facing a Christmas Eve deadline to be deported back to Turkey, at his restaurant, Cafe Gulistan. He is now receiving congressional help in his bid to stay in the U.S.

Turkey launches campaign against beloved Kurdish businessman facing deportation in Michigan

June 8, 2018 at 10:29 p.m.

The Turkish government has begun an unusual campaign aimed at undercutting support for a popular Michigan restaurant owner whose fight against a deportation order has won the backing of legislators...

A new CTA 5000 series rail car is trucked out of the CTA Skokie Shops and loaded onto a flatbed on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. The CTA board is expected to vote on buying as many as 846 new cars, the first of which may see service in 2020.

CTA’s plan to spend $2B on 800 rail cars is up for vote

May 22, 2019 at 9:30 p.m.

New CTA rail cars are coming, with what the agency hopes is a more popular style of seating. The Chicago Transit Authority board is expected to vote Wednesday morning on...

Cyclist chased, punched in face for telling driver: ‘You’re in a bike lane, bro.’

June 12, 2018 at 2:24 a.m.

Biking to a barbershop in South Austin before class, Colton Sodt whizzed past the driver's side window of a white SUV parked in the bike lane on Madison Street. "You're...

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

First Chicago Zika case confirmed

August 19, 2019 at 3:25 a.m.

Chicago has its first case of the Zika virus, the source of an outbreak that has swept through the Americas and raised concerns among health officials in recent weeks. The...

Ibrahim Parlak, left, and Jeff Tweedy hug on stage Feb. 26, 2016, at the Acorn Theater in Three Rivers, Mich., before Tweedy began his benefit concert. Tweedy, lead singer of the band Wilco, played the concert for Parlak, a restaurant owner in southwest Michigan who faces possible deportation to Turkey.

Wilco’s Tweedy plays benefit for Kurdish man threatened with deportation

March 27, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.

It was hard to tell who got louder applause: Ibrahim Parlak, a Kurd fighting deportation, or Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. Not that the two usually share a stage. But on...

A young boy looks into the distance at the scene of a shooting in the 8300 block of South Carpenter Street on Feb. 24, 2016, in Chicago.

Woman, 72, shot in her home in Englewood: ‘They just got my gramma’

May 22, 2019 at 9:25 p.m.

Police officers were driving down a block in Englewood on Wednesday night, checking out a report about shots fired, when a man ran up and told them, "They just got...

Barbara Blaine, president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, tries to hand out fliers to parishioners at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago on Nov. 8, 2015. The pastor, the Rev. George Waddles, has been accused of sexual abuse and is still preaching at the church. Church officials, shown here, tried to keep Blaine away from the church members.

Family recounts interactions with South Side pastor charged with assault

June 11, 2018 at 6:51 a.m.

For more than a decade the modest Gresham neighborhood church was the center of the family's life. The mother was a church council member, praise leader and Sunday school teacher....

Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder with Chicago Survivors, gathers information as he walks the street Feb. 19, 2016, where a 12-year-old boy was shot in the chest a day earlier in the Gage Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Boy, 12, shot while playing outside Gage Park home: ‘This neighborhood is being attacked’

May 22, 2019 at 9:24 p.m.

The five boys were taking advantage of the mild night Thursday and playing tag on their Gage Park block when a red SUV pulled up."Raise the crown," someone inside yelled,...

The University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park.

University of Chicago gets $50 million boost to programs for low-income students

May 22, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

Writer Harriet Heyman and her husband, venture capitalist Michael Moritz, have donated $50 million to expand University of Chicago programs for low-income students, the university announced Wednesday. The donation provides...

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