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Chicago police exit a building at the scene of a shooting in the 5700 block of S. Michigan Ave. Two juveniles were in a hallway in the building when someone approached the two and fired shots at them, according to a police spokesperson. Two other people also were shot.

4 shot, including boys 13 and 14, in Washington Park neighborhood

May 21, 2019 at 2:34 p.m.

Four people, including two boys, ages 13 and 14, were shot in an attack in the Washington Park neighborhood Monday afternoon, relatives and authorities said. The four were shot in...

Trees removed to make way for Maggie Daley Park on Dec. 11, 2014, are stripped of bark and turned upside down. They are being repurposed as a design feature in the Enchanted Forest.

Hundreds attend Maggie Daley Park ribbon-cutting

May 21, 2019 at 2:32 p.m.

With the debut of Chicago's Maggie Daley Park on Saturday, the snaky "bridge to nowhere" over Columbus Drive finally gets somewhere to go, the city gets another superpark tourist draw...

After 2 years of construction, Maggie Daley Park opens

August 18, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

As a construction crew drilled slabs onto climbing walls, thickened ice on the skating ribbon and finished laying a bright, soft surface on the playground inside Maggie Daley Park, Chicago...

People stage a "die-in" on Michigan Avenue on Dec. 13 in Chicago to protest police brutality.

Anti-violence activists protest across city, including at Obama home

May 21, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

At least two people were arrested during protests that sprang up across Chicago on Wednesday, including outside President Barack Obama's home. About 200 people gathered and marched in Hyde Park...

Cardinal Francis George attends a rally of students from private Catholic schools at Daley Plaza in 1999.

Cardinal George to receive city’s highest honor, the Medal of Merit

May 21, 2019 at 2:32 p.m.

Cardinal Francis George will receive the rarely bestowed Medal of Merit, the city of Chicago's highest honor, at Wednesday's City Council meeting, officials said. Mayor Rahm Emanuel will present George...

Gunman killed by off-duty sergeant in Southwest Side bar identified

May 21, 2019 at 2:26 p.m.

An off-duty Chicago police sergeant shot and killed a man who had just shot a fellow patron at a Mount Greenwood bar Sunday evening, police said. The shooting was among...

Catholic school enlists ‘Santa’ to help it stay afloat

May 21, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

At dusk Sunday, Santa rode up to a Far South Side school in a firetruck, led a cheerful crowd of parents, students and community members in a round of "Jingle...

More protests vowed in Chicago over no charges in police chokehold death

May 21, 2019 at 2:23 p.m.

The wave of protests over a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man in New York City spilled into...

Girl Scouts experience Digital Cookie, a new addition to the Girl Scout Cookie Program, for the first time.

Girl Scout Cookies to be sold online but not by troops in Chicago

August 18, 2019 at 6:21 p.m.

Thin Mints are heading online, where they will, no doubt, go viral. Girl Scouts of the USA has announced that the century-old cookie sales are expanding beyond order sheets, door-to-door...

Judge reassigned after accused of wrongly locking up suspects for contempt

August 18, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

A Cook County judge has been removed from her post in criminal court following allegations that she wrongly ordered litigants locked up for contempt of court. The Cook County Circuit...

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