Turnout high in Chicago area for presidential election; long waits at some sites
Voters turned out in the high numbers typical of a presidential election Tuesday, with waits at some polling places but few significant problems reported.
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Chicago firefighter hurt after falling down shaft Sunday evening in Humboldt Park
The fire took place on the second floor of a three-story apartment building in the 800 block of North Hamlin Avenue around 6 p.m.
Pilsen celebrates Day of the Dead 5K race: ‘Everyone has somebody to represent’
Thousands of runners, joggers and walkers carrying thoughts of deceased loved ones scampered around Pilsen Saturday morning during a themed 5K race for the Day of the Dead. Some ran...
New Rohingya Americans step up to vote: ‘If you don’t go vote, we lose one voice’
Rohingyan Americans are part of a predominantly Muslim and Burmese ethnic group that, since the 1980s, has been denied legal status in Myanmar
A chapter has ended, but story not over for bookstore owner thought to have died: ‘People can think you’re dead all they want’
Bill Fiedler, 73, lives in his Elk Grove Village home with his wife, enjoying retirement with little concern that news of his death had begun to circulate.
‘A haunting in the woods’: Mushroom club searches for understudied topic that thrives in the creepiest places
During mushroom season in Illinois, mid-April to early November, the club conducts surveys around Chicagoland a few times a month.
One of Chicago’s oldest public art pieces is saved, thanks to arts grant
Peter Schoenmann leaned over a rectangular hunk of plaster with a historic mural painted on it Friday morning in Berwyn. He began slowly shaving material off the backside of the...
CTA employee attacked, pulled off bus Tuesday: CPD
The employee, a 44-year-old woman, was involved in an argument with another woman near the 400 block of East 71st Street around 11 a.m.
15-year-old shot and killed in Woodlawn Tuesday night
The boy, 15, was shot in the abdomen and his left leg in an alley in the 6600 block of South Champlain Avenue around 8:25 p.m.
Chicago gun violence prevention groups hold march to the polls
The marchers believe increasing civic participation — specifically, bolstering registration for and turnout in the Nov. 5 election — is a means of reducing neighborhood gun violence.