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Al Balde, left, father of Mamadou Balde, and Mamadou's sister Fatoumata Balde, speak with a tv crew, outside the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

‘I am keeping hope alive,’ dad of Marine vet fatally shoved into Red Line train says as authorities charge suspect

April 12, 2020 at 11:43 a.m.

An 18-year-old North Side man has been charged after witnesses saw him "punching and pushing'' a 29-year-old Marine veteran into the path of a CTA train, killing him Tuesday in...

CTA confirms first coronavirus-related death

April 11, 2020 at 6:42 p.m.

A 14-year veteran of the CTA has died from COVID-19, the transit agency announced on Saturday. Antonio Martinez was a machinist and 14-year veteran of the CTA who worked out...

After his gun went off on CTA train, guard tossed the weapon and claimed he was shot by 16-year-old, cops say

April 11, 2020 at 12:07 p.m.

A security guard whose gun went off during a scuffle on a CTA train, wounding himself and a 16-year-old girl, threw his weapon in a trash can afterward and told...

Cops: Charges filed after security guard’s gun goes off on Red Line train, injuring him and a 16-year-old girl

April 9, 2020 at 8:32 p.m.

A 38-year-old security guard and a 16-year-old girl have been charged with felonies after the guard shot himself and the girl during a pre-dawn scuffle at the Belmont Red Line...

Jeffrey Baute of St. Charles, father of Alexandria Baute, 27, holds a cellphone image of his daughter, outside the Cook County medical examiner's office on April 8, 2020. Alexandria Baute was shot and killed outside a 7-Eleven at Milwaukee and Fullerton avenues the previous evening.

‘The world has lost a great spirit’: Logan Square woman gunned down while social distancing outside 7-Eleven

April 9, 2020 at 6:16 p.m.

A "vibrant'' Logan Square woman who "loved the city'' was shot dead while waiting in a social-distanced line outside a 7-Eleven on Tuesday night, only blocks from her apartment, her...

Fatoumata Balde holds a cellphone image of her brother Mamadou Balde in the Marines on April 8, 2020. Mamadou Balde was push onto the Red Line tracks and killed.

Father says Marine vet was walking away from confrontation when he was pushed into moving CTA train and was killed

April 9, 2020 at 11:24 a.m.

Mamadou Balde grew up tough. He lost his mother to cholera when he was 3, moved from West Africa when he was 9, joined the Marines when he was 18...

Photographer Victor Skrebneski at the unveiling of the Chicago Film Festival's 50th anniversary poster, which includes his photograph, at Expo 72 in Chicago on Sept. 10, 2014.

‘My heart is broken’: Friends remember legendary photographer and lifelong Chicagoan Victor Skrebneski

April 5, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

Famed photographer Victor Skrebneski has died, friends and officials said. Skrebneski, who was 90, passed away Saturday of cancer after a 70-year career, according to a statement from Emily Osborne,...

Parolee facing new charges after slaying outside Aldi

April 4, 2020 at 8:39 p.m.

A man on parole for a 2013 shooting is accused of a fatal shooting during a drug deal outside an Aldi grocery on Thursday afternoon on the West Side, police...

Andrea Aloria stands outside Transcell Technology, where she works, on March 26 in Buffalo Grove. Her husband, Jerome, was recently laid off so they are hoping to make good use of a stimulus check.

How do Chicago-area residents plan to spend their coronavirus emergency stimulus money?

March 27, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

Chicagoans watching as political leaders in Washington hash out details of a massive $2 trillion stimulus bill can count on at least one thing, regardless of what the subsidies and...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at a news conference at City Hall in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2019.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot closes City Hall to general public until further notice

March 20, 2020 at 6:21 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered the closure of City Hall to the public, effective Friday, in an effort to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus. It will remain open...

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