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Chicago police horse named Irma C. Ruiz at the renaming ceremony Walnut Park to Irma C. Ruiz Park in Chicago on Oct.19, 2018. Irma Ruiz, was Chicago Police woman killed in a school shooting 30 years ago.

Laughter, fond memories fill a park newly named for Chicago police officer killed in school shooting

May 23, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.

On Friday morning, a boy bolted up a lime green slide in a small park tucked away on a corner of the Southwest Side. Two others pumped their legs back...

Chance the Rapper appears at City Hall where he endorsed Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago at a news conference on Oct. 16, 2018.

Chance the Rapper: 5 things to know about his growing political footprint

May 23, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.

When Chance the Rapper announced Monday that he would “hold a press conference regarding Chicago mayoral election,” his fans were doing front flips — and trying to figure out what,...

Noname performs July 22, 2018, at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

Chicago rapper Noname to change album art after local designer charged with domestic battery

May 23, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.

Chicago rapper Noname says she will replace the cover artwork of her debut album after allegations of abuse surfaced against the Chicago man who designed it. The rising local artist...

A commuter stands next to the heat lamps at the Belmont Red Line Station in 2015.

Waiting for the ‘L’ during this unseasonably cold weather? Hit the heat button — it might be on.

May 23, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.

Waiting for the “L” during this stretch of unseasonably cold weather and wish the heat lamps were on? Well, you might want to press your luck and hit the clunky...

‘Do you know who you are?’: Chance the Rapper goes undercover as Lyft driver to raise money for CPS

May 23, 2019 at 1:22 a.m.

The next time your Chicago Lyft driver asks you about your favorite rapper, think before you answer. He just might be a Grammy winner. Chance the Rapper, the Chatham born-and-raised...

53-year-old man dies in Roseland shooting

May 23, 2019 at 1:22 a.m.

A 53-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday on the Far South Side, according to police. Michael Rollins, 53, was found unresponsive on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to...

Kanye West shakes hands with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on Oct. 11, 2018.

5 Chicago-centric things about Kanye West’s White House visit

May 23, 2019 at 1:22 a.m.

Kanye West made his first visit to the Oval Office. And he had a lot to say about Chicago. President Donald Trump and West — but mostly West — spoke...

Tarana Burke, right, who coined the phrase "Me Too," participates in a rally against the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 24, 2018. Burke spoke in Chicago last week.

#MeToo’s Tarana Burke tells local activists movement ‘by us and for us’ must include women of color

May 23, 2019 at 1:22 a.m.

A year after the rise of the #MeToo hashtag and the fall of a number of powerful men, local activists who have worked for decades with survivors of sexual violence...

Ald. Milly Santiago, 31st, speaks during a police roll call in Hermosa Park in Chicago on Oct. 8, 2018.

After 2-year-old boy killed, community pleads for information to bring shooter to justice

May 23, 2019 at 1:22 a.m.

A man kneeled and bowed in front of flickering candles and a smiling, blue angel doll on the corner of a Northwest Side alley Monday night. He was just one...

Benjamin Grajeda, 3, and Daniella Gonzalez, 3, play together at Walnut Park on Aug. 13, 2018, in the Archer Heights neighborhood. Ald. Ed Burke has proposed renaming Walnut Park after Irma Ruiz, a police officer shot and killed in the line of duty at a Chicago public school in 1988.

30 years after Chicago police Officer Irma Ruiz was killed in a school shooting, her partner, husband and children have done everything but get over her

December 12, 2018 at 4:22 a.m.

The former Moses Montefiore School sits at 13th Street and Ashland Avenue on the Near West Side. Today it’s the recently opened Urban Prairie Waldorf School, and squash, corn and...

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