Sylvia Goodman

Abandoned items remain along a street in Waukesha, Nov. 22, 2021, after the driver of an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade on Sunday.

Twitter comment linking Waukesha tragedy and Kyle Rittenhouse verdict costs DuPage County Democratic Party social media director Mary Lemanski her post

November 22, 2021 at 4:43 p.m.

Mary Lemanski, social media manager for the Democratic Party of DuPage County, was let go from her position Monday morning after posting a series of tweets comparing Kyle Rittenhouse to...

Rev. David Ryan on July 10, 2003. Rev. Ryan has been reinstated as pastor of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish and School in Lake Zurich

A year after the investigation began, a Lake Zurich priest accused of sexually abusing minors has been reinstated, Cardinal Cupich announces

November 22, 2021 at 12:31 p.m.

Rev. David F. Ryan has been reinstated as pastor of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish and School in Lake Zurich after the Archdiocese of Chicago's independent review board determined...

14 people steal merchandise in a broad-daylight ‘grab and run’ at Louis Vuitton store in Oak Brook shopping center, police say

November 18, 2021 at 11:06 a.m.

Fourteen people acting together went into a Louis Vuitton store in Oakbrook Center in broad daylight Wednesday, stole merchandise and then fled, police said. At 3:31 p.m., police responded to...

An Illinois State Police squad car blocks the Stevenson Expressway at Damen Avenue following a fatal shooting on Nov. 18, 2021.

1 dead, another wounded in 2 shootings on the Stevenson, state police say. Total expressway shootings this year: 213.

November 18, 2021 at 4:49 p.m.

One person was killed and another was wounded in separate expressway shootings early Thursday on the Stevenson Expressway. The shootings brought the total number of expressway shootings to 213 this...

A GardaWorld armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in the 200 block of West 83rd Street on Nov. 15, 2021. Two armored truck security guards were shot Monday during an attempted robbery. One of the guards, whom family identified as Lashonda Hearts, died after being shot six times.

Friends recall slain armored truck guard’s excitement about getting ‘dream job.’ Security company says fatal ATM attack was a ‘foiled robbery attempt.’

November 17, 2021 at 9:17 a.m.

As news spread that Lashonda Hearts was the armored truck guard fatally shot Tuesday in Chicago's West Chatham neighborhood, a friend posted on Facebook that Hearts' relatively new position with...

Caretaker Jose Billegas picks up some of the tributes left by well-wishers on the doorstep of the former residence of Cardinal Bernardin after his death, Nov. 21, 1996. The items were taken inside and dried and saved for the cardinal's family.

At rarely opened Bishop’s Mausoleum, Cardinal Bernardin remembered on the 25th anniversary of his death

November 15, 2021 at 10:41 a.m.

The cold limestone edifice of the Bishop's Mausoleum stands on a bluff overlooking Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside. A bronze statue of the angel Gabriel sits atop blowing a trumpet,...

Jervin Roman, 9, gets nervous before he receives his COVID-19 vaccine from Veronica Flores, left, at the southwest vaccine clinic of Esperanza Health Centers on Nov. 3, 2021, in Chicago. His mom, Angela Lopez, and sister Anahi Morales, 11, tried to keep him calm as he received his shot.

‘Vaccine Awareness Day’ in Chicago as city races to get more shots to kids with COVID-19 on the rise and holidays approaching

November 12, 2021 at 5:03 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot kicked off "Vaccination Awareness Day" Friday by getting her COVID-19 booster shot in front of cameras at a vaccine clinic at Michele Clark Magnet High School....

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