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Bottlenose dolphins Allie and Tapeko are joined by a newly born calf at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago on June 7, 2025. (Brookfield Zoo Chicago)

Bottlenose dolphin born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, takes its first breath on video

June 8, 2025 at 8:10 a.m.

A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the...

Shakira Howard, 17, center right, leads a prayer for girls in the community outside of a town house under investigation on the 1600 block of McKool Avenue in the Woodland Heights East complex on May 29, 2025, in Streamwood. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Suspect considered ‘armed and dangerous’ after sisters, 10 and 21, found dead in Streamwood home, police say

May 29, 2025 at 7:01 p.m.

Eyani Jones, 10, and Janiya Jenkins, 21, were found inside a home in the 1600 block of McKool Avenue just after 8 p.m. Wednesday night, according to the Cook County...

Hasan Piker at home in West Hollywood, California, on Jan. 16, 2025. Piker, a popular online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his leftist political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at O'Hare International Airport after flying back to the United States from overseas on May 11, 2025. (Adali Schell/The New York Times)

After being stopped and questioned at O’Hare, Twitch star Hasan Piker says he isn’t changing political commentary

May 23, 2025 at 6:34 p.m.

Hasan Piker doesn’t plan to change a single thing about his tone or his rhetoric in his criticisms of President Donald Trump or the war in Gaza as he blasts...

Peter Isely, one of the founders of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and a survivor of sexual abuse by a priest, speaks during a news conference discussing Pope Leo XIV’s past and what SNAP would like him to do regarding sexual abuse in the Catholic church, on May 20, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Pope Leo XIV failed to ‘properly investigate’ child sexual abuse in Chicago, victims’ group alleges

May 20, 2025 at 6:43 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV failed to properly investigate sex abuse claims while in prominent leadership roles in Chicago, victims' group says

Identity released for 15-year-old boy killed in Roseland drive-by shooting

May 18, 2025 at 3:33 p.m.

A 15-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday evening in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Police: 7-year-old boy stabbed by woman inside Rogers Park home

May 17, 2025 at 3:33 p.m.

A woman was arrested after allegedly stabbing a 7-year-old boy Saturday morning inside a Rogers Park home, according to Chicago police. The 26-year-old woman pulled out a sharp object and...

Sakara Heade, from left, her daughter Micah Heade, and Adelia White, all from Detroit, walk toward Soldier Field before the first Chicago night of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter performance, May 15, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Beyoncé is in town for 3 shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field for her Cowboy Carter tour. Here’s what to know.

May 16, 2025 at 7:19 a.m.

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour” opens in Chicago this week, with shows Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights.

Gladys Reconquista-Bayot and her nephew Aaron Reconquista take a selfie with a digital image of Pope Leo XIV outside Holy Name Cathedral on May 9, 2025, following the election of new pope. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Chicago loudly and proudly claims homegrown Pope Leo XIV — and the ‘Pope’s Pizza’ at Aurelio’s

May 10, 2025 at 10:28 p.m.

Chicagoans have predictably reacted in grandiose fashion with humor and genuine affection for South Sider Robert Prevost as he begins heading the Catholic Church.

Man shot by off-duty cop during domestic disturbance faces felony weapons charge, police say

May 7, 2025 at 3:18 p.m.

A Chicago man shot by an off-duty cop during a domestic disturbance in a Roseland home earlier this week faces a felony weapons charge, Chicago police announced Wednesday. Police said...

17 students injured in school bus collision on Southwest Side, police say

May 3, 2025 at 10:00 p.m.

Seventeen high school students were taken to the hospital Friday morning after a school bus and SUV collided in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

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