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A hand showing the peace sign was painted by artist Kyle Holbrook, on left, on the alley side of a store in the 2200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue on Aug. 3, 2021, in Chicago. On the right is a mural by Myron Laban.

International artist promotes peace with new mural in Logan Square. ‘I know about the pain that people feel.’

August 7, 2021 at 10:51 a.m.

A simple black and white hand with two fingers in the air in a peace sign recently painted on a wall along Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square comes with a...

Angela Taylor, a longtime Garfield Park resident, talks about her neighborhood in Chicago on July 28, 2021.

Violence spike of 2020 widened familiar safety gap between city neighborhoods, University of Chicago Crime Lab analysis shows

July 29, 2021 at 9:53 a.m.

The senior citizen leaned against a wrought-iron fence, a tall umbrella in one hand as he gazed down the street. Across the manicured lawns and leafy trees on Douglas Boulevard,...

Chicago police looking for man suspected of sexually assaulting 7-year-old girl in Rosemoor

July 27, 2021 at 2:39 p.m.

Chicago police are looking for a man who they believe broke into the bedroom of a 7-year-old girl in the Rosemoor neighborhood and sexually assaulted her late last week. At...

Members and supporters of Chicago's Italian American community attend a rally July 25, 2021, at Arrigo Park commemorating one year since three Columbus statues were removed from parks in the city.

Italian Americans gather in Little Italy to demand Christopher Columbus statues be put back

July 25, 2021 at 7:14 p.m.

Hundreds of people gathered at a park in Little Italy on Sunday afternoon to demand that the three Christopher Columbus statues that were removed last summer be put back. During...

Chicago police officers investigate a crime scene July 22, 2021, after eight people were wounded in a shooting involving a party bus in the 1600 block of North LaSalle Drive in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood.

At least 7 party bus riders, 1 bystander wounded in Old Town Triangle in 1 of 3 mass shootings

July 22, 2021 at 7:31 p.m.

Eight people were wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of people using a party bus service Wednesday near a gas station in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood on...

A Divvy bicycle on the sidewalk inside a crime scene in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard, around the corner from the 1300 block of South Christiana Avenue, where the block was taped off by Chicago police on July 21, 2021.

Police: Boy, 15, killed was among 10 shot in separate shootings in North Lawndale

July 22, 2021 at 3:25 p.m.

Ten people were wounded, one fatally, in two shootings within blocks and minutes of each other Wednesday evening in the West Side's North Lawndale community, Chicago police said. A 15-year-old...

Community members gather at the end of a peace walk for 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at McDonald's on Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale on April 25, 2021.

Fugitive suspected in slaying of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams outside a West Side McDonald’s arrested by FBI

July 20, 2021 at 2:23 p.m.

A man who allegedly opened fire with an AK-47 in the killing of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at a West Side McDonald's drive-thru in April was arrested by the FBI this...

Police work the scene where a 30-year-old man was fatally shot July 18, 2021, in the 5500 block of West Rice Street in the South Austin neighborhood of Chicago.

Weekend Chicago violence: 61 people shot, 10 of them fatally. Five killed from late Sunday afternoon into early Monday.

July 19, 2021 at 3:44 p.m.

Five people were fatally shot in a nine-hour period from late afternoon Sunday into early Monday in Chicago, bringing the weekend toll to 10 dead among at least 61 shot....

Evidence technicians photograph the scene where a 73-year-old man was fatally struck in the head.

73-year-old grandfather dies in attempted robbery in parking lot of Hyde Park strip mall

July 15, 2021 at 6:24 p.m.

Keinika Carlton woke up from a nap Wednesday afternoon and noticed her dad was late. They were supposed to meet at 1:30 p.m. for an appointment, she said. A while...

Travelers board the Saluki Amtrak train bound for Carbondale on Nov. 21, 2018, at Union Station.

Amtrak to resume full service to St. Louis, Quincy

July 14, 2021 at 12:24 p.m.

Amtrak passenger trains will resume full service to St. Louis, Quincy and Carbondale starting early next week, officials said. The services to these three locations, along with stops in several...

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