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Uptown tent city homeless move west of viaduct as city plans renovations

May 22, 2019 at 11:56 p.m.

As joggers and families walked through the Uptown neighborhood on a sunny Sunday morning, Carol Aldape sat in an electric wheelchair and sorted through a storage bin of her belongings...

An antique gauge from the Roscinco, sunk off Kenosha in 1928, in the home Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, of shipwreck enthusiast Steve Radovan, of Sheboygan, Wis.

Underwater sanctuary plan aims to preserve Lake Michigan shipwrecks off Wisconsin

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

After a year of scouring the depths of Lake Michigan with a sonar-equipped fishing boat, Steve Radovan finally got a hit on the gray-scale monitor in the captain's cabin in...

New York woman was killed in Cicero homicide-suicide: Autopsies

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

A New York City woman was killed in a homicide-suicide Tuesday in Cicero, authorities determined following autopsies Wednesday. Sara Rebeca Roche Hidalgo, 38, of Bronx, New York, died from a...

Family sues dentist accused of taking lewd images of boy, 16

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

A dentist accused of taking lewd images of a 16-year-old boy in a North Avenue Beach restroom was sued Monday by the teen's family, according to court documents. The boy...

Woman saved from kidnapping when her dog bites attacker: Cops

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

A man on the Southwest Side tried to lure a woman using candy Sunday morning, then grabbed her and put a cloth over her mouth, but was thwarted when her...

William J. Martin, the Cook County prosecutor who convinced a jury to send Richard Speck to the electric chair for the 1966 killings of eight student nurses in Chicago, died on July 7 at Elmhurst Hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 80. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-william-martin-obit-20170709-story.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.

Patricia Hill, former head of African-American Police League, dies at 66

June 2, 2018 at 3:20 p.m.

Patricia Hill, the former executive director of Chicago's African-American Police League, sought to bridge the divide between law enforcement and minority neighborhoods, serving as a Chicago police officer and as...

Weather Service’s Midwest stations gather crucial data to track Hurricane Irma

May 22, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

As Florida and the southeast coast brace for winds and rain from Hurricane Irma, meteorologists in the Midwest are gathering crucial weather measurements necessary to accurately predict the massive storm's...

Protesters shine flashlights from their cellphones at the Federal Building at Congress Parkway and Clark Street in Chicago on Sept. 5, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's action against the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program.

Hundreds march in Loop to protest Trump’s decision to end DACA

May 22, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

More than 1,000 protesters gathered downtown Tuesday to protest the Trump administration's decision to eliminate a policy aimed at protecting immigrants who were brought to the United States as children....

Man facing misdemeanor escapes court, is charged with felony, prosecutors say

May 22, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

A Cook County Jail inmate's decision to bolt out of a West Side courthouse following a hearing on a misdemeanor case added a felony to the charges he's facing. On...

Beating over fiancee leaves man in coma, prosecutors say

May 22, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

A 52-year-old man brutally beat a man he suspected of having an affair with his fiancee, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma with brain injuries, prosecutors said Sunday....

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