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An Aurora police squad car is lit on fire by rioters in Aurora as a peaceful protest turned violent on May 31, 2020.

Aurora’s police chief joined peaceful protests. Rioters wreaked havoc in the downtown hours later.

June 1, 2020 at 6:32 p.m.

The state's second largest city erupted into chaos Sunday night, as rioters in west suburban Aurora looted stores and set a series of fires around a downtown area already financially...

Hundreds of people gather during a rally Sunday outside the Aurora Police Department.

Fire, looting, tear gas in downtown Aurora; mayor imposes curfew after protest turns violent

June 1, 2020 at 7:31 a.m.

Police and protesters clashed in downtown Aurora and businesses were looted Sunday night after hundreds of people rallied in the city following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Aurora...

A demonstrator burns an American flag during a march in the Loop on May 29, 2020, to bring attention to the May 25 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

George Floyd fallout in Chicago: Downtown locked down, unrest spreads to South, West sides and some suburbs

May 31, 2020 at 10:10 p.m.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot requested the Illinois National Guard be brought in to prevent a second night of downtown violence and looting, the chaos spilled into some city neighborhoods...

Brian Finegan, Left, and his sons, Mason, 12, and Nolan, 7, right, enjoy lunch outdoors at Quigley's Irish Pub on Friday in Naperville. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Shoppers and diners return to downtown Naperville as businesses reopen

June 7, 2020 at 10:47 a.m.

A steady stream of families filed along downtown Naperville's sidewalks Saturday afternoon, many wearing masks and many without. There was a line outside to get into clothing boutique Havana, as...

Erick Granada Ocampo a server at Egg Harbor Cafe, left, waits on Robin and Mike Weseen on the patio on May 29, 2020, in Barrington. The Weseens were the first customers served when they opened Friday morning. Robin Weseen said, "We usually come here three times a week. They are like our family and we love them."

Dining, shopping, personal training back on the menu as suburban Chicago reopens during coronavirus pandemic

May 29, 2020 at 7:40 p.m.

After 68 days under a broad government order to stay home, many Illinoisans took their first tentative steps back into restaurants, shopping malls and fitness centers Friday despite a viral...

Authorities say the owners of J.A.K.'S Puppies in Iowa started a nonprofit rescue organization as a way to provide pricey pups to businesses in Chicago and elsewhere. The rescue agreed to cease operations under the terms of a settlement with the Iowa attorney general.

Loophole allowing designer and purebred puppies to be sold as rescue dogs in Chicago could be closed as alderman seeks end to ‘inhumane’ practice, but pet shops push back

May 29, 2020 at 4:48 p.m.

A Chicago alderman is trying to close a loophole in the city's anti-puppy mill ordinance that has allowed some pet shops to sell pricey designer dogs from sham rescues tied...

With a shuttered Buckingham Fountain as a backdrop, people attend a Reopen Illinois rally in Chicago's Grant Park on Memorial Day, May 25, 2020.

Anti-lockdown protest held at Grant Park fountain on Memorial Day

May 26, 2020 at 10:33 a.m.

At a Memorial Day rally in front of Buckingham Fountain, a crowd protested Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order as an affront to the freedoms that service members have died defending....

A person waves while in a convoy of 15 to 20 police, fire department and military vehicles as the convoy passes through Elmhurst, Illinois for Memorial Day, May 25, 2020.

A different Memorial Day in Chicago: Crowds are out, livestreamed ceremonies are in

May 25, 2020 at 11:28 p.m.

Chicagoans marked Memorial Day in a different way Monday, as local leaders tried to balance paying respect to those who died serving their country while also respecting the coronavirus-driven stay-at-home...

Nurse Kaylea Karas steps out of a patient room in the emergency department.

Chicago hospital on the financial brink: St. Anthony’s fights for survival, sues state for money owed

May 18, 2020 at 7:27 p.m.

In a workshop at St. Anthony Hospital, maintenance crews spend time each morning making the sanitizing wipes the medical center can no longer afford to buy. After soaking paper towels...

Shelby Voyles prepares for a nursing shift in the ICU.

Little Company of Mary hospital was up against it when the coronavirus hit. Then central Illinois nurses came to the rescue.

May 15, 2020 at 3:09 p.m.

Shelby Voyles and her firefighter fiance, Jake Mohr, often talked about what would happen if another Sept. 11 attack occurred. Without children or other pressing family responsibilities, the couple decided...

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