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Linda Brown with her husband, Antwon Brown. Linda Brown, a special education teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport, had been reported missing for more than a week when authorities recovered her body from Lake Michigan, Jan. 12, 2026. (Jen Rivera)

Autopsy: Missing CPS teacher drowned in apparent suicide

January 14, 2026 at 3:30 p.m.

Linda Brown, a special education teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport, was reported missing on Jan. 3.

Prosecutors: Woodlawn man charged in fatal stabbing on Loop train recorded deadly attack

January 13, 2026 at 6:49 p.m.

A 40-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 37-year-old man on a CTA train in the Loop neighborhood.

Body of missing CPS teacher recovered from Lake Michigan: ‘She was an amazing person’

January 12, 2026 at 8:41 p.m.

Linda Brown, a special education teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport, had been missing since Jan. 3, police said.

A police officer keeps watch at the scene of a shooting in the 600 block of South Paulina Street in the Illinois Medical District in Chicago, Jan. 12, 2026. The shooting left a woman critically injured. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Woman critically injured in Illinois Medical District drive-by shooting

January 12, 2026 at 7:23 p.m.

The 23-year-old woman was A Rush University Medical Center employee.

Geno DiMaria of Go Fourth Media documents a protest against ICE on 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood in response to the shooting death of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Documenting the immigration crackdown, from Chicago to Minneapolis

January 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Andrew Freer is part of a small band of filmmakers from across the Chicago area on a mission to protect constitutional rights through on the ground, documentary-style videos.

Protesters light candles at a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, 37, who was shot and killed by a federal agent while she was in her vehicle near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 7, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)

Feds’ statements after Minneapolis driver killed by ICE officer echo pattern from Midway Blitz in Chicago

January 8, 2026 at 11:30 a.m.

The feds' statement recalls claims from DHS in the aftermath of two federal agent-involved shootings that took place during Chicago's "Operation Midway Blitz."

Ayelech Gray, left, of Elk Grove High School, Jonila Ilazi of Rolling Meadows High School and Nell Krzyszczuk of Rolling Meadows High School receive training to be official election judges while operating on-campus early voting sites as part of the Cook County clerk’s office’s first-ever high school early voting program at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights on Jan. 6, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Cook County clerk’s office teams up with Chicago Bears to launch inaugural student election judge program

January 7, 2026 at 2:25 p.m.

Dubbed “Defenders of DA’mocracy,” students are training to run early voting sites at their schools for the March 17 election.

3 seriously injured in North Lawndale shooting

January 5, 2026 at 4:15 p.m.

Three people were seriously injured in a shooting Monday morning on the city’s West Side.

Joabe Barbosa runs in the Bucktown neighborhood, Dec. 21, 2025, in Chicago. Barbosa is a graduate student who has made it his mission to run every street and has completed more than 79% of the city. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

These runners are exploring every inch of Chicago, one foot at a time

January 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Joabe Barbosa is part of a new breed of "run-every-street" runners setting out to run down every Chicago street with the hopes of challenging perceptions of the city.

Jake Connelly, 13, of Arlington Heights, one of the breakout stars from the latest season of "Stranger Things," Dec. 30, 2025, in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Arlington Heights’ ‘Stranger Things’ star Jake Connelly got ‘the call’ he was going to Hawkins during a tornado warning

January 3, 2026 at 7:38 p.m.

Jake Connelly, of Arlington Heights, plays Derek Turnbow this season in "Stranger Things," a loud-mouth bully-turned-unlikely hero.

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