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Marchers high-five people during a brief rainstorm along Broadway at the 52nd annual Chicago Pride Parade on June 25, 2023.

‘Pride should be a happy, welcoming place’: Thousands celebrate Chicago parade amid anxiety over anti-LGBTQ politics

June 26, 2023 at 9:10 a.m.

Mark Brandt, 26, and Wes Conkling, 30, got up at 7 a.m. to make it to Chicago from Aurora for Sunday's Pride Parade. They sat on the sidewalk waiting for...

Elizabeth Gillette, owner of Arabella Remedies in Streator on June 14, 2023. Since her diagnosis in 2020, Gilette has been an advocate for Lyme disease, which led her to open her holistic healing business.

‘These things are everywhere’: Experts and Lyme disease patients warn of tick season

June 24, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

For eight years, Streator resident Elizabeth Gillette experienced symptoms that her doctors could not explain. She sometimes forgot how old she was, had irregular heartbeats, and even got lost in...

Gulls are perched on a railing as a building demolition is completed in the 900 block of Chicago's North Halsted Street on June 21.

Residents and birders frustrated that developer proceeded with demolition that damaged gull colony on Goose Island

June 22, 2023 at 5:53 p.m.

The squawking of a ring-billed gull colony could be heard over the sounds of the demolition of their home at the southern point of Goose Island on Wednesday afternoon. Construction...

A pride flag flies on the town square in Petersburg, about 20 miles north of Springfield, on June 15, 2023.

Petersburg’s first Pride festival: Residents proud of growth in their small central Illinois town, and many have moved back

June 21, 2023 at 12:08 p.m.

Along the storefronts in Petersburg's town square, dozens of people sat on benches on a recent weekday, striking up conversations with friends and neighbors who passed by. Any available seating...

Police investigate the scene where more than 20 people were injured, one fatally, in a shooting in a parking lot outside B.C.D. Liquors in Willowbrook, Illinois in the early hours of June 18, 2023.

Woman who was among 23 shot at strip mall near Willowbrook recounts how celebration turned to chaos; slain man ID’d

June 20, 2023 at 12:02 p.m.

There had to be at least 200 people in the parking lot when Mariah Dixon arrived Saturday night for what has been billed as a Juneteenth celebration outside a strip...

Darryl Tall speaks outside his Roseland home on June 19, 2023, about the Father's Day shooting that killed two and injured three more people during a barbecue nearby at Wendell Smith Park.

Mass shooting at South Side park likely caused by personal dispute, CPD says

June 19, 2023 at 5:19 p.m.

Chicago police officials on Monday said a personal dispute was likely the cause of a mass shooting at a South Side park over the weekend that left two men dead...

Police investigate the scene where at least 22 people were injured, one fatally, in a shooting in the parking lot of a strip mall near Willowbrook in the early hours of June 18, 2023.

1 killed and at least 22 injured in shooting at a strip mall near Willowbrook, authorities say

June 19, 2023 at 12:16 p.m.

One person was killed and at least 22 injured in a mass shooting near Willowbrook in southeast DuPage County early Sunday morning, authorities said. Fire officials received calls reporting gunshot...

Horticulturist Holly Larson waters a tree root ball at Gethsemane Garden Center on June 12, 2023.

No April showers, no May showers: Chicago experiencing moderate drought

June 13, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

There was a background hum at the Gethsemane Garden Center on Monday of misting sprays, bubbles in a fountain and a showering hose. Water at the Edgewater garden center isn't...

Elgin man charged in fatal Hoffman Estates car crash that killed two teens

June 12, 2023 at 11:13 a.m.

Charges were filed against a man involved in a Saturday car crash in Hoffman Estates that left two teenagers dead, police said. Deni Rubio, 34, of Elgin was charged with...

2 teens killed in Hoffman Estates car crash, police say

June 11, 2023 at 3:21 p.m.

Two 18-year-olds were killed in a car crash Saturday morning in Hoffman Estates, according to police. The crash occurred around 8:52 a.m. at the intersection of Higgins Barrington roads and...

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