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Students leave Oak Park-River Forest High School in Oak Park at the end of the school day on Dec. 6, 2021.

Oak Park-River Forest student activities return but with tightened COVID-19 rules

December 6, 2021 at 8:01 p.m.

In a letter to parents, staff and families of Oak Park-River Forest High School, Superintendent Greg Johnson announced Monday night that all athletics, activities and clubs would resume as normal...

College prep program Chicago Scholars joins forces with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago to change lives

December 8, 2021 at 10:18 a.m.

Jeffery Beckham Jr. the CEO of a nonprofit organization called Chicago Scholars called the next move of the program "potentially life-changing." Chicago Scholars, an initiative that works with first-generation and...

Illinois State University students and community members participate in a student-athlete-led Black Lives Matter rally and march through the Bloomington-Normal campus on Sept. 4, 2020.

Former Illinois State University football coach who removed Black Lives Matter poster alleges violation of First Amendment rights in lawsuit

December 5, 2021 at 8:29 a.m.

Kurt Beathard, a former assistant football coach for Illinois State University, is suing the school's head football coach and its former athletic director, claiming his First Amendment rights were violated...

The city's winter overnight parking ban went into effect early Dec. 1, 2021. Between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., cars cannot be parked on 107 miles of Chicago's main streets.

Fewer cars towed on the first night of the winter parking ban this year, Streets and Sanitation says

December 1, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

It's a panic-inducing scenario: Nearly 200 people awoke Wednesday to find their vehicles gone, towed away under Chicago's winter parking ban, which had gone into effect overnight. Still, the number...

Man who fell from CTA railing at Blue Line ‘L’ stop on Northwest Side dies, police say

December 1, 2021 at 1:25 p.m.

A man who plunged 30 feet from a Blue Line "L" railing he was climbing Tuesday night in Logan Square has died, officials said. After scaling the rail, the man...

‘It was like quicksand’: Firefighters rescue worker whose leg was trapped in hole in South Shore neighborhood

November 24, 2021 at 3:49 p.m.

A dozen firefighters worked for nearly an hour to rescue a worker whose leg became submerged in a hole filled with water and sand in the South Shore neighborhood on...

Los estudiantes se manifiestan el 16 de noviembre de 2021 para llamar la atención sobre la violencia reciente que rodea el campus de la Universidad de Chicago.

‘Todos tenemos miedo a la muerte’

November 24, 2021 at 11:29 a.m.

Shirley Cai permaneció en un semicírculo protegida por sus amigos durante un reciente mitin en la Universidad de Chicago. Llegó tarde y se quedó a orillas de la multitud estudiantil,...

A small group of people gather at 60th Street and Ellis Avenue in Chicago on Nov. 19, 2021, to call for things like disarming the University of Chicago Police Department and to speak out against the use of security cameras in the community.

‘We’re all afraid of death’: A tragic shooting sparks a search for solutions at University of Chicago, amid divided opinions on policing

November 22, 2021 at 7:41 a.m.

Shirley Cai stood in a semicircle shielded by her friends during a recent rally at the University of Chicago. Arriving late and staying on the outskirts of a student crowd,...

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.

Accused in armored truck guard slaying, 2 defendants ‘tried to copy every armed robbery movie out there, right down to the double-cross’, prosecutors say

November 18, 2021 at 5:29 p.m.

Calling it a "brazen" operation, a judge denied bail for two men accused of shooting two armored car staffers — killing one — and an hour later "executing" two men...

4 wounded in West Town drive-by shooting early Wednesday

November 17, 2021 at 10:10 a.m.

Four people were wounded during a drive-by shooting in West Town, as they stood near the intersection of Randolph Street and Racine Avenue early Wednesday, according to Chicago police. Police...

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