Tatyana Turner

Students from Eric Solorio Academy High School and Irene Hernandez Middle School for the Advancement of the Sciences arrive for the first day of classes on Aug. 30, 2021.

Masks, nerves and trying to social distance: How the 1st day went in Chicago Public Schools

August 31, 2021 at 2:57 p.m.

Hundreds of thousands of students returned to Chicago Public Schools' classrooms Monday, most for the first in-person instruction since the pandemic prompted a statewide school shutdown in March 2020. Here's...

CPS reopening: Worries, excitement, busing woes mark first day as schools reopen fully

August 30, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

Bianca Sligh returned to Kenwood Academy High School on Monday for her senior year after spending the last school year remote learning because of the pandemic. "I would hate to...

The Gwyneth Anne pusher/tug prepares to move a barge on the North Branch of the Chicago River at Cortland Street in Chicago with dramatic clouds in the sky on Aug. 24, 2021.

Weekend forecast calls for hot and humid conditions

August 26, 2021 at 5:06 p.m.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms swept over Chicagoland Wednesday evening, drenching much of the area and causing some wind damage. Though some rain is possible for the weekend, there will be...

3 people shot, 1 fatally, in unrelated Chicago attacks, police say

August 26, 2021 at 5:12 p.m.

Three people were shot, one of them fatally, in unrelated attacks over a roughly 13-hour period beginning Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said. Officers first were called to an alley in...

Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks at a news conference outside Benito Juarez Community Academy on Aug. 18, 2021.

With start of school days away, CPS parents seek more COVID safety measures and a remote learning option: ‘They want us to blindly hand our children over’

August 25, 2021 at 6:33 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is set to open for full-time, in-person learning Monday for the first time since the pandemic closed schools in March 2020. But some area parents say they...

Illinois State Police search for evidence at the scene of a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway between 87th and 95th streets on May 20, 2016, in Chicago.

Illinois State Police to install license plate-reading cameras on Chicago-area expressways as violence persists

August 23, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

With two fatal expressway shootings in less than a week, Illinois State Police, along with city and state transportation agencies, is poised this week to begin installing license plate-reading cameras...

Chicago police process a crime scene at the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line station at Garfield Boulevard on Aug. 19, 2021.

Man shot and killed on Red Line train in Fuller Park; four others injured in a shooting at a nearby business minutes earlier

August 20, 2021 at 6:41 p.m.

Police have not yet identified a man who was killed while riding on a northbound CTA Red Line train near the Garfield stop in Fuller Park on Thursday afternoon. No...

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