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Ice covers a ladder near the Adler Planetarium after the area experienced the coldest night of the season with single digit temperatures and wind chills below zero on Jan. 26, 2022 in Chicago.

Coldest night of the season: Single-digit temperatures with wind chills as low as 30 below

January 26, 2022 at 8:57 a.m.

First came the snow, and then the cold. Forecasters had been calling for the coldest temps Chicagoland has seen all winter — and the weather overnight delivered. In the far...

Louie Herrera, left, a volunteer with Lakeview Pantry, helps Maria Criollo load grocery items into her car outside the pantry on Jan. 24, 2022, in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.

Burritos, inflation and privilege: As food costs rise in Chicago, a social media uproar highlights who really bears the brunt

January 25, 2022 at 4:24 p.m.

For a brief moment over the weekend, west suburban Hinsdale became the center of an internet viral moment involving inflation, burritos, wealth and privilege. The scorn of social media users...

Altar en memoria de Melissa Ortega, de 8 años, en la escena del tiroteo fatal en la cuadra 3900 W. 26th St., en La Villita, el domingo 23 de enero de 2022.

La Policía tras ‘justicia’ para niña herida de muerte por bala en La Villita

January 24, 2022 at 10:30 a.m.

En un minuto, Melissa Ortega, de 8 años, caminaba con su madre por su comunidad, el barrio de La Villita, el sábado por la tarde. Al siguiente, sonaron disparos, y...

Winter weather advisory in effect as Chicago area braces for another 2-3 inches of snow

January 24, 2022 at 4:40 p.m.

Though the snowy morning commute may have come to an end, the winter weather advisory and corresponding warning to drive cautiously continued Monday morning. Roads are still covered with snow...

A person gets out of Lake Michigan after swimming near North Avenue Beach after several inches of snow fell in the area on Jan. 23, 2022, in Chicago.

More snowfall likely to slow Monday morning commute; coldest temp of the winter possible later this week

January 23, 2022 at 6:31 p.m.

Snow will not be the only thing coming down this week. Temperatures are expected to dip below zero Tuesday night, possibly leading to the coldest day of winter so far....

New Life Church Pastor Matt DeMateo shares a statement on behalf of Melissa Ortega's mother, Aracelia Leanos, at a news conference on Jan. 26, 2022.

8-year-old girl fatally struck by stray bullet in Little Village identified as third grade student, recent immigrant

January 23, 2022 at 6:10 p.m.

One minute 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was walking with her mother through their Little Village community Saturday afternoon. The next, gunshots rang out, and mother and daughter broke into a sprint,...

Amelia Akordor, 14, helps her mother, Stephanie Akordor, place items at a memorial for Caleb Westbrooks, at a bus stop on the corner of North Greenview and West Chicago avenues, Jan. 19, 2022, in Chicago. Caleb was shot Tuesday afternoon while waiting for a bus to go home, according to Stephanie Akordor.

‘He would light everyone up’: Loved ones of 15-year-old Caleb Westbrooks mourn his death after he was shot walking from school

January 21, 2022 at 6:53 a.m.

To loved ones, he was a beam of light. To his school community, he was a gift. Caleb Westbrooks, a 15-year-old freshman described as having an infectious personality, was killed...

A patient service coordinator draws up a syringe full of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Esperanza Health Centers vaccination clinic on Dec. 21, 2021, in Chicago.

Free COVID-19 testing site opens at DePaul’s Loop campus

January 20, 2022 at 10:08 a.m.

A new free COVID-19 testing site opened Tuesday at DePaul's Loop campus. The University of Illinois System's nonprofit COVID-19 testing unit, called SHIELD Illinois, partnered with DePaul University and the...

Man wounded in shooting by a University of Chicago police officer

January 18, 2022 at 6:02 p.m.

A man was shot and wounded by an on-duty University of Chicago Police Department officer in the Hyde Park neighborhood Tuesday, school officials said. A UCPD officer who was on...

A newborn baby boy who was left at a fire station on the 1000 block of North Orleans Street in Chicago died over the weekend. The fire station, seen here on Jan. 17, 2022, is not an active firehouse.

Newborn boy found dead in a duffel bag Saturday was left outside a barely staffed fire station. It’s exactly the outcome the Safe Haven Law was meant to prevent.

January 17, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

From the outside, there's nothing to suggest the fire station often is left unstaffed, or that it is used for maintenance rather than as a base for firefighters and paramedics...

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