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Logan Square man who turned to Reddit to deal with ‘mosquito factory’ pool is grateful for help

May 23, 2019 at 12:56 a.m.

In Steve Pawlik’s time of need, Reddit was there. When Pawlik walked onto his condo’s back porch last week, it felt like he’d entered a rainforest. That’s because of the...

Maria Silva, 51, who died after jumping from an upper floor apartment in the 1700 block of West Touhy Avenue in Rogers Park trying to escape an extra-alarm fire on June 5, 2018.

Lawsuit filed against owners of apartment building targeted in arson that led to woman’s death

May 23, 2019 at 12:56 a.m.

The estate of a woman who died jumping from a Rogers Park apartment building to escape a fire filed a lawsuit Thursday against the building’s owners. The lawsuit filed by...

Hafa Obedi, left, is interviewed by Alana Murphy, right, as Joy Bittner assists with a microphone recorder at the Harold Washington Library, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.

One woman’s mission: cycling 4,300 miles across the U.S. in search of refugees

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

It was a gray, rainy day as Alana Murphy and Joy Bittner rode out of New York City on their long-haul trucking bicycles with little more than a tent, sleeping...

Joy Henderson who has lived in the triangle area on Lower Wacker Drive since April 2018, weeps as she talks about her living conditions on June 15, 2018.

Chicago sets Friday deadline for people to leave Lower Wacker homeless encampment

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

After conflicting information from city officials about when people in a homeless encampment along Lower Wacker Drive must move out this week, city departments have agreed on 10 a.m. Friday...

Reddit complaints about Logan Square neighbor’s kiddie pool point to warm-weather mosquito surge

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

A kiddie pool was the source of one Reddit user’s problems with the pests. In a recent post on the community website’s Chicago arm, someone with the handle “hypocalypto” asked...

‘No tenemos dónde ir’: Confusión tras desalojo de desamparados

December 13, 2018 at 6:14 a.m.

El sonido punzante de taladros perforando hormigón resuena en Lower Wacker Dr., mientras una persona en un campamento de desamparados cercano trataba de dormir. Los partidarios de la Coalición de...

‘We don’t have nowhere to go’: Confusion persists after delayed evictions of Lower Wacker homeless encampment

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

The piercing whine of drills hitting concrete echoed across Lower Wacker Drive as a person in a homeless encampment tried to sleep nearby. Advocates with the Chicago Coalition for the...

Chicago-area mental health providers field more calls as suicide rate rises in Illinois, nationally

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

The calls to Mitch Glaser’s office became overwhelming. What used to be one or two patients a day seeking mental health services has rocketed to close to 20 daily in...

The front door of a home blanketed in volcanic ash carries a handwritten help sign in the disaster zone near the Volcan de Fuego in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 5, 2018.

Chicago’s Guatemalan community organizing, offering advice on how to help after deadly volcano eruption

May 23, 2019 at 12:54 a.m.

Billy Munoz’s flight was one of the very last ones out of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City before clouds of ash filled the sky. He had been attending...

Friends of man who fell from boat in Chicago River find body near where he disappeared

May 23, 2019 at 12:53 a.m.

Friends of a boater who disappeared Monday, prompting a search that left a Fire Department diver dead, located a body in the South Branch of the Chicago River on Friday...

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