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Apr 16, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday.
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Apr 16, 2024
Here are some things to know as the "Rust" case against Alec Baldwin nears.
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Apr 16, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.
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Apr 16, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 16, 2024
The first day of Trump's history-making hush money trial in Manhattan ended with no one yet chosen to be on the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates.
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Apr 16, 2024
Parents of a teenager who committed suicide join push for law that would prohibit social media platforms from blocking outside safety software.
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Apr 16, 2024
On April 16, 2003, Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
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Apr 15, 2024
Hundreds of people Monday filled a Southwest Side street where a 9-year-old girl was killed in a shooting that left 10 of her relatives wounded over the weekend.
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Apr 15, 2024
The family-owned dairy has dozens of ice cream stores and shelf space in grocery stores across the Midwest.
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Apr 15, 2024
The first witness was called in the long-awaited trial of Gerald Reed, whose complicated legal saga has involved a murder conviction, allegations he was abused by police, a reversal of that conviction, a reversal of the reversal, a commutation, and now a second murder trial.
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Apr 15, 2024
Winnebago County Judge Debra Schafer ordered the evaluation for Christian Soto when the 22-year-old man appeared in court by video link for a scheduled arraignment on charges of first-degree murder.
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Apr 15, 2024
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday announced the creation of a new position within the embattled Illinois Prisoner Review Board that will put an emphasis on expanding domestic violence training for its members after the board allowed a parolee with a history of violence against women to be released from state custody last month before, authorities say, he attacked a pregnant woman he once dated and killed her young son. James G. Montgomery Jr., who once served as mayor of a small town west of Chicago, was named executive director of the review board and his appointment will be an interim […]
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Apr 15, 2024
The plan passed the Budget and Government Operations Committee in a 20 to 8 vote following contentious debate over the continued costly effort to care for the city's recent migrants arrivals.
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Apr 15, 2024
Workers are entitled to time off and other job accommodations for abortions — along with pregnancy-related medical conditions like miscarriage, stillbirth and lactation — under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to finalized federal regulations published Monday.
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Apr 15, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts.
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Apr 15, 2024
In a singular moment for American history, the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former commander in chief and the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial.
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Apr 15, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson left uncertain his plan for advancing aid for Israel and Ukraine on Monday, keeping the future of the funding in doubt as lawmakers returned to Washington for a crucial week of foreign policy work.
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Apr 15, 2024
Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor's announcement Monday that she's letting the proposal become law without her signature.
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Apr 15, 2024
Former police officer Patrick Sheehan will replace Republican Rep. Tim Ozinga of the 37th District who abruptly resigned, Sheehan spent 17 years as a police officer, is a former Lockport alderman and former Lockport Township Park Board member.
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Apr 15, 2024
A 5-year-old girl died Sunday afternoon after she suffered multiple abuse-related injuries, according to officials. The girl, whom the Cook County medical examiner's office identified as Lyric Jackson, lived in the far South Side neighborhood of Roseland. Chicago Police were called to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Lyric was […]
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Apr 15, 2024
The massive container ship that caused the deadly collapse of a Baltimore bridge experienced apparent electrical issues before it left port but set out anyway, someone with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday, hours after the FBI said it was investigating whether any laws might have been broken.
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Apr 15, 2024
After reporting dismal first-quarter sales, Tesla is planning to lay off about a tenth of its workforce as it tries to cut costs, multiple media outlets reported Monday.
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Apr 15, 2024
Hyped as the "next Sandy Koufax" when he came up, Ken Holtzman is one of two pitchers to throw two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs in the modern era.
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Apr 15, 2024
Women on the South Side of Chicago and in the south suburbs are at a particular disadvantage in accessing care given the closure of hospital obstetrics units in recent years, including at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest and Holy Cross Hospital on the South Side, they said.
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Apr 15, 2024
The plan was scheduled to face a Finance Committee vote, but the committee chair tabled it after a colleague tried to force major revisions.
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Apr 15, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 15, 2024
A government attorney faced tough questioning Monday from U.S. Supreme Court justices over concerns that the federal bribery statute often used to prosecute public officials is vague and potentially criminalizes innocuous gift-giving by people from all walks of life.
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Apr 15, 2024
A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has grown to affect more than two dozen herds in eight states, just weeks after the nation's largest egg producer found the virus in its chickens.
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Apr 15, 2024
The family-owned dairy has dozens of ice cream stores and shelf space in grocery stores across the Midwest.
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Apr 15, 2024
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport said a protest on I-190 Monday morning may substantially delay incoming traffic.
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Apr 15, 2024
"Stalled Justice," a Tribune series exposing dysfunction in the Cook County courts, has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism.
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Apr 15, 2024
The redesign is part of the city's multifaceted approach to make several downtown spots focal points of activity to foster vibrancy, community and support local businesses, according to city officials.
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Apr 15, 2024
A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust," with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court.
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Apr 15, 2024
A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust," with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court.
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Apr 15, 2024
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport said a protest on I-190 Monday morning may substantially delay incoming traffic.
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Apr 15, 2024
Hartke may be done growing taller but is determined to keep getting better.
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Apr 15, 2024
FBI agents boarded the Dali, the container ship that struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly three weeks ago, on Monday, the agency confirmed.
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Apr 15, 2024
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the best ways to boost the economy through tax policy.
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Apr 15, 2024
A judge in Texas is set to hear arguments Monday in rap star Travis Scott's request to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston.
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Apr 15, 2024
The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians in Gaza not to return to the embattled territory's north, a day after Gaza hospital officials said five people were killed as throngs of displaced residents tried to reach their homes in the war-torn area.
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Apr 15, 2024
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 15, 2024
In a singular moment for American history, the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former commander in chief and the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial.
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Apr 15, 2024
In a singular moment for American history, the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former commander in chief and the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial.
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Apr 15, 2024
Want a sneak peek at a few of the puzzles WTTW's Geoffrey Baer will attempt to solve during his TV special "Chicago Mysteries?" Read on — though be prepared for a few spoilers.
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Apr 15, 2024
Prosecutors to try Gerald Reed again in a double-murder case more than 23 years old, despite claims of police abuse and a commutation from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Apr 15, 2024
On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland more than 2 1/2 hours after hitting an iceberg; 1,514 people died, while less than half as many survived.
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Apr 14, 2024
A collection of politicians, community activists, family, friends and co-workers filled a majestic University of Chicago chapel Sunday to say goodbye to the late Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough and remember her trailblazing spirit.
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Apr 14, 2024
Israel on Sunday hailed its air defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran, saying the systems thwarted 99% of the more than 300 drones and missiles launched toward its territory.
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Apr 14, 2024
The Republican speaker has sat for two months on a $95 billion supplemental package that would send support to the U.S. allies.
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Apr 14, 2024
An 8-year-old girl was killed and ten others were injured in a shooting Saturday evening in Chicago's New City neighborhood, police said Sunday.
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Apr 14, 2024
An 8-year-old girl was killed and ten others were injured in a shooting Saturday evening in Chicago's New City neighborhood, police said Sunday.
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Apr 14, 2024
Three children and seven adults were wounded in a mass shooting that left a 9-year-old girl killed in the New City neighborhood.
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Apr 14, 2024
An 8-year-old girl was killed and ten others were injured in a shooting Saturday evening in Chicago's New City neighborhood, police said Sunday.
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Apr 14, 2024
The film also inspired audiences to go to the cinemas this weekend where it earned $25.7 million in ticket sales in North America.
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Apr 14, 2024
Israel on Sunday hailed its air defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran, saying the systems thwarted 99% of the more than 300 drones and missiles launched toward its territory.
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Apr 14, 2024
Governor balances image as Illinois faces its most challenging budget outlook since the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Apr 14, 2024
The team is expected soon to unveil plans for a new stadium south of Soldier Field. But obstacles are in their way.
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Apr 14, 2024
While many questions remain about what happened in the March 21 shootout that left Reed shot dead by Chicago police and an officer shot in the wrist, court records examined by the Tribune show Reed repeatedly sought legal remedies for his financial, medical and psychological struggles after he was wounded in another shooting in August 2021.
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Apr 14, 2024
While many questions remain about what happened in the March 21 shootout that left Reed shot dead by Chicago police and an officer shot in the wrist, court records examined by the Tribune show Reed repeatedly sought legal remedies for his financial, medical and psychological struggles after he was wounded in another shooting in August 2021.
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Apr 14, 2024
Virginia Gardner was a star reporter for the Tribune in the 1930s, but her Communist sympathies left her at odds with archconservative publisher Robert McCormick.
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Apr 14, 2024
Today is Sunday, April 14, the 105th day of 2024. There are 261 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington. On this date: In 1828, […]
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Apr 14, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday vowed to boost social spending, develop infrastructure and make India into a global manufacturing hub
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Apr 13, 2024
Chicago firefighters found a suspected narcotics lab inside a River North apartment building Friday night while extinguishing a small fire.
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Apr 13, 2024
A 15-year-old boy has died from gunshot wounds he suffered in a shooting weeks ago in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
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Apr 13, 2024
The DuPage County Health Department announced Saturday that a resident tested positive for measles, the first case identified in the county since 2009.
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Apr 13, 2024
Coalition leaders have attested their right to be within "sight and sound" of the convention's center stage at the United Center, citing first amendment rights in a federal lawsuit filed last month.
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Apr 13, 2024
The state Senate unanimously approved a measure on Friday that would mandate various transportation agencies to issue annual public reports that detail the most up to date federal rail-safety recommendations.
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Apr 13, 2024
Johnson has joined the growing ranks of progressive candidates choosing to tell their own abortion stories.
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Apr 13, 2024
Iran says it has launched ballistic missiles as part of its attack targeting Israel.
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Apr 13, 2024
Commandos from Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday.
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Apr 13, 2024
Neal Shipley guided Pittsburgh Central Catholic to two PIAA golf championships. He's won Pa. junior titles and even claimed the 2022 Pa. State Amateur trophy following his work at Llanerch Country Club in Havertown. And after two terrific, wind-swept loops around Augusta National Golf Club this week, Shipley guaranteed the low amateur at the 2024 Masters would be a Pa. native. The 22-year-old ...
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Apr 13, 2024
Early Thursday morning, a woman had reportedly set her tent on fire, and before the Chicago Fire Department could respond, at around 4:40 a.m., two other storage tents burned up in the homeless encampment.
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Apr 13, 2024
The program is one of only two in the state where a child care center is an extension of services for teen moms within a school district.
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Apr 13, 2024
Illinois records 118 tornadoes in 2023, the most in the U.S. Experts say better observation and technology could also be playing a role.
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Apr 13, 2024
The job announcement came as a bit of a surprise. Andrea "Andy" Zopp has been the CEO of World Business Chicago, the crux of the city's economic development arm. She has served as deputy mayor of Chicago under Rahm Emanuel, heading up neighborhood economic development. And with a career trajectory that includes executive positions at […]
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Apr 13, 2024
On April 13, 1999, right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient. (Kevorkian ended up serving eight years.)
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Apr 13, 2024
Police in Sydney say a man stabbed six people to death at a busy shopping center before he was fatally shot.
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Apr 12, 2024
A bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor's help is making progress.
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Apr 12, 2024
A federal judge in Delaware refused Friday to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden.
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Apr 12, 2024
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.
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Apr 12, 2024
Ben Stern survived the Holocaust and in the late 1970s vigorously opposed efforts by neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb.
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Apr 12, 2024
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died.
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Apr 12, 2024
The Illinois Senate has approved a measure that would bar consumer reporting agencies from including a person's medical debt in their credit reports.
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Apr 12, 2024
Democratic donors covered more than $1 million in legal fees racked up by attorneys representing President Joe Biden in a yearlong special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents.
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Apr 12, 2024
Mayor Johnson joined Superintendent Larry Snelling to highlight the city's efforts to use tools like helicopters, license plate readers and widespread surveillance cameras to catch criminals.
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Apr 12, 2024
While birth, death and marriage certificates can still be registered online, paper certificates are on temporary hold.
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Apr 12, 2024
Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on federal lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday by the Biden administration.
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Apr 12, 2024
The city of Chicago and the state of Illinois are set to split more than $19 million in new congressionally approved funding released to assist cities and states in addressing the migrant crisis, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced Friday. The Department of Homeland Security released the first installment of $300 million in grants to support communities providing services to migrants, federal officials said Friday. The funds come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. An allocation of $275 million will be distributed first and the remaining $25 million will be allocated later in the year, […]
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Apr 12, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security released the first installment of $300 million in grants to support communities providing services to migrants, federal officials said Friday.
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Apr 12, 2024
Donald Trump is declaring anew that the Arizona Supreme Court "went too far" with a ruling allowing prosecutors to enforce a near-total abortion ban.
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Apr 12, 2024
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, known for a flamboyant and glamorous style, has died at age 83, his company said Friday on Instagram.
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Apr 12, 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 12, 2024
Lawyers for two co-defendants of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case are asking a judge on Friday to dismiss charges against them.
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Apr 12, 2024
Nicole Brown Simpson's death forced domestic violence into the spotlight. Americans riveted by the murder investigation of superstar ex-husband O.J. Simpson, who died Wednesday at 76, heard startling and painful details of the abuse she said she suffered at his hands.
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Apr 12, 2024
A lawmaker says the driver of a stolen semitrailer intentionally rammed it into a Texas public safety office in a rural town west of Houston.
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Apr 12, 2024
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme is set to hear oral arguments in the case of an Indiana mayor which challenges the statute former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was charged under.
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Apr 12, 2024
A 13-year-old boy was among three other teens facing armed robbery charges after being arrested early Friday morning in the Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago police said. The group of teens were arrested about 5 a.m. in the 900 block of West Addison Street after being identified as the armed robbers who minutes earlier took property from a 37-year-old man at gunpoint in the 900 block of West Waveland Avenue, Chicago police said. Officers quickly responded to the armed robbery and found the teens in a vehicle reported stolen in the 6300 block of North Fremont Avenue. The boy was charged with […]
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Apr 12, 2024
John Schu has written a new book called "Louder Than Hunger," a graphic novel for middle school readers and older that shows healing is possible.
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Apr 12, 2024
Since the winning artwork will be hung in the tunnel connecting the Capitol building in Washington with the Cannon House Office Building, members will see it as they walk from their offices to the House floor for votes.
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Apr 12, 2024
Wheeling police are investigating the deaths of a couple who were discovered dead at a home after a call of a wellbeing check Thursday evening. Shortly before 5:45 p.m., officers responded to a wellbeing check at a residence in the 300 block of 12th Street after a call from a person who found two people dead after going to the home to check on them, officials said. A firearm was found next to the co Police identified the deceased as the residents of the home, a couple in their 40s, who were involved in a strained domestic relationship, officials said. […]
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