Robert McCoppin – Page 24

Members of the Chicago Hope Academy football team pray prior to practice at Altgeld Park in East Garfield Park on Nov. 14, 2023.

Tiny Chicago Hope Academy is in the state football semifinals, but its mission is bigger than sports

November 17, 2023 at 5:13 p.m.

The turning point for Chicago Hope Academy's football team this season came when four players were kept out of a game for misbehavior. That game was the tiny school's only...

Lucy Travis, center, dances in a class at Friendship Village on Oct. 31, 2023, in Schaumburg.

Bankruptcy at Friendship Village retirement community in Schaumburg has financial impact on residents and families too

November 14, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

At age 88, World War II veteran Robert Kroll moved to Friendship Village of Schaumburg, a retirement community where he would be taken care of until death, and so his...

State Sen. Ann Gillespie during a town hall meeting on June 8, 2023, at the public library in Arlington Heights.

Illinois lawmakers validate referendums creating mental health funding for 5 suburban townships and Will County

November 9, 2023 at 5:07 p.m.

Mental health funding that voters approved last year would be saved from a do-over after Illinois lawmakers voted to validate multiple referendums despite concerns that ballots were improperly written. The...

Migrants are seen outside Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Oak Park on Nov. 1, 2023, where they were being given shelter.

Oak Park announces it’s temporarily moving 160 migrants from churches to a YMCA and hotel

March 11, 2024 at 12:25 p.m.

Nearly 160 migrants will be housed temporarily in a YMCA and a hotel in Oak Park at a one-month cost that may exceed $370,000, village officials announced Tuesday. The announcement...

Giant mushrooms remain behind a fence at the former Rainforest Cafe in River North on Oct. 1, 2023.

Lawsuit alleges plan to open a marijuana store in former Rainforest Cafe is illegal

November 7, 2023 at 1:32 p.m.

A well-connected River North cannabis dispensary has filed suit to try to keep a competitor from opening its doors nearby. GRI Holdings LLC, which operates a Green Rose store, filed...

Mike Le, left, and David Michaud at craft grower Cannect Wellness on Nov. 3, 2023, in Franklin Park. The room contains equipment to extract cannabis oil.

Craft cannabis growers in Illinois try again to overcome industry opposition to expansion

November 7, 2023 at 4:18 p.m.

The day before Illinois' spring legislative session ended, lawmakers were poised to pass a wide-ranging cannabis bill that was meant to save struggling small businesses. The measure had largely been...

A bus of migrants arrives at a new shelter near South Halsted Street and West Cermak Road on Oct. 3, 2023, in Chicago.

Residents’ uprising leads to rejection of multimillion dollar grant for migrant services in Joliet area

March 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Suburban and downstate communities must address how to handle arriving immigrants amid a backlash that saw Joliet Township decline a state grant for migrants after angry residents said they opposed...

Flowering cannabis plants are illuminated by artificial lighting at a tour given by workers at Prescribd, a cannabis cultivation company, at one of its cultivation centers on July 17, 2021, in Bridgeview.

Marijuana-related car crashes, preterm births, and accidental ingestion by kids on rise since legalization in Illinois, study shows

October 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Marijuana legalization in Illinois has come with increased pot-involved deadly crashes, a rise in accidental ingestion among children, an association with psychotic disorders, and increases in preterm births by mothers...

Carlos Acosta listens to McHenry County State's Assistant Attorney Randi Freese as she delivers the state's closing argument during the trial for former Illinois Department of Children and Family Services employees Acosta and Andrew Polovin before Lake County Judge George Strickland on Oct. 13, 2023, at the McHenry County Courthouse.

In what may be state’s first conviction of its kind, ex-DCFS worker guilty of endangerment in death of AJ Freund; supervisor not guilty

June 6, 2024 at 2:12 p.m.

In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in Illinois, a former child welfare worker was found guilty Friday of child endangerment in the beating...

Woman pleads guilty but mentally ill in stabbing death of Algonquin couple in 2020

October 11, 2023 at 8:22 p.m.

A woman has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree murder in the deaths of an elderly couple who were killed in their home in Algonquin in 2020, McHenry County...

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