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Illinois auctioning unclaimed property

August 18, 2019 at 6:57 p.m.

This week, anyone in the world can bid on items long forgotten by Illinois residents. A Morgan silver dollar, sterling silverware, a Batman comic book, a 1965 Ernie Banks baseball...

The Department of Children and Family Services stopped sending wards of the state to Hartgrove Hospital after a highly critical 2011 report alleged sexual assaults and other problems at the facility.

Girl sexually abused at Hartgrove Hospital, according to suit

August 18, 2019 at 6:54 p.m.

A girl who was treated at Hartgrove Hospital last year for psychological problems stemming from sexual abuse was assaulted by another patient assigned to the same room, according to a...

Chicago police investigate the scene where two children and their mother were struck by a semi truck in the 4300 block of South Ashland Avenue.

Lawsuit filed against semi driver in accident that killed woman, 2 kids

August 18, 2019 at 6:53 p.m.

A lawsuit was filed in the deaths of a woman and her two children who were killed Friday by a semi truck at Ashland Avenue and 43rd Street in Chicago's...

Protest on Mag Mile briefly blocks traffic near Water Tower Place

May 22, 2019 at 7:27 p.m.

Dozens of demonstrators protesting the lack of trauma care on the South Side briefly blocked northbound traffic during rush hour on Michigan Avenue near Water Tower Place on Thursday evening....

Chicago police Officers Pedro Diaz, left, and George Romero talk Tuesday, March 3, 2015, about how they administered CPR to an unresponsive 67-year-old man at a home in the 7100 block of South Marshfield Avenue on Monday.

Two Englewood cops help save grandfather with CPR

August 18, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

Officers Pedro Diaz and George Romero don't usually work as partners on their afternoon shifts in the Englewood police district, but on Monday the two were teamed up. After dealing...

A jury found last year that James Crowley, left, was fired from Chicago State University in retaliation for reporting misconduct by university President Wayne Watson. The University of Illinois withdrew a job offer to professor Steven Salaita, right, after he posted controversial tweets.

Chicago State, U. of I. land on ‘worst of’ list for campus free speech

August 18, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

The University of Illinois' rescinded job offer to a professor and a controversy over a faculty blog at Chicago State University helped land the two schools on a 2014 "worst...

Dominique King, of Chicago, enjoys skating at Lincoln Park Zoo on Sunday, the rink's last day.

Skate season winds down, even as the cold wears on

August 18, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

Cold weather and snow flurries may have worn out their welcome this season, but one winter rite that ended across much of Chicago over the weekend didn't go quietly. Sunday...

Rauner appoints West Side pastor to Chicago State board

August 18, 2019 at 6:50 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday announced the appointment of a West Side pastor to the Chicago State University board of trustees. The Rev. Marshall Hatch has worked as a pastor,...

Libby Hruby, a survivor of the Eastland disaster in 1915, gets emotional at an anniversary event in 1995.

New, more chilling film clip of Eastland disaster emerges

August 18, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

A new film clip of the 1915 SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River has surfaced just weeks after the first known footage emerged, this one showing the grim fate...

Chicago police display 170 kilos of cocaine at the Homan Square police facility in 2002.

Chicago police deny British paper’s claims about beatings, illegal detentions

August 18, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

The Chicago Police Department in a statement Tuesday night denied accusations in a story by a British newspaper that alleged people have been illegally detained, beaten and denied access to...

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