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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.

Restaurant owner threatened with deportation gets congressional help

May 25, 2019 at 1:01 p.m.

Ibrahim Parlak, a Michigan restaurant owner and Turkish immigrant who has fought deportation for more than a decade, is getting congressional help. Parlak and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., signed a...

Sonja Henderson, artist with the Chicago Public Art Group, works Jan. 18, 2016, at the Youth & Arts Wellness Center on a permanent art installation commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1966 march in Chicago's Marquette Park.

Martin Luther King Jr. art installation to commemorate Marquette Park march

May 22, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

The face of Martin Luther King Jr. sprung forth from the wall of wet, gray, clay brick. Kneeling on a dusty studio floor Monday, Sonja Henderson, a Chicago Public Art...

Taxi executive sentenced to 12 months, 1 day in prison

May 22, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

A former top executive from a politically connected taxi company was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison for filing fraudulent paperwork to obtain clean titles...

Rupa Khanal, left, 26, folds a flag as she and her husband, Kamal, 29, pack up belongings from their smoke-damaged apartment Jan. 13, 2016, after a recent fire in the 1700 block of West Estes Avenue in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.

Refugee family feared losing everything after fire broke out

May 22, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

Bhutanese refugees Rupa and Kamal Khanal feared they would have to start over — again. They woke early Monday morning to screams, sirens, whirling lights and a loud knock at...

Lottery balls in a box at Kavanagh Liquors in San Lorenzo, California.

Powerball: Mathematically speaking, the payoff is entertainment

June 25, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Washington and Lee University mathematics professor Aaron Abrams has a challenge for you. An alarm will go off sometime in the next nine years. It will last one second. Predict...

Brian Washington, of Chicago, is seen on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, with the Powerball tickets he bought at the Citgo gas station at 83rd Street and King Drive in Chicago. Washington bought four dollars worth of tickets and said of the $1.5 billion jackpot, "Why not take a chance?"

Powerball players in Chicago dream of millions

May 22, 2019 at 9:12 p.m.

The line winding into the aisles of the 7-Eleven on East Ohio Street Friday was full of self-proclaimed lottery winners of what has grown to be an $800 million Powerball...

‘Making a Murderer’ raises questions about interrogation technique from Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 9:12 p.m.

In March 2006, detectives in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, brought 16-year-old Brendan Dassey to the sheriff's department and questioned him about the rape and killing of Teresa Halbach, who vanished after...

Lawyers make weekly trip to Brown elementary to tutor kids in reading

June 11, 2018 at 7:06 a.m.

Elizabeth Lewis has taught kids to read for nine years. But she's not a teacher. She's a lawyer. Each Wednesday afternoon, Lewis and 28 other McDermott, Will & Emery attorneys...

A campground site at Camp Reinberg at Deer Grove East Forest Preserve in Palatine is seen July 31, 2015.

Cook County picnic permits on sale for 2016

May 22, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Picnic permits for 2016 for Cook County forest preserves went on sale at 8 a.m. Monday. Groups of 25 or more people need a permit to use any of the...

Activists protest again outside Mayor Emanuel’s house

May 22, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

A small group of protesters returned to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house Thursday afternoon, repeating a call for Emanuel to resign in the wake of the latest police-involved shooting. About 50...

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