|
Sep 02, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.3 billion Monday night after the winning numbers failed to appear.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
Stagg High School's Jamboree has brought the area's best marching bands together to compete in September for 45 years.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
Most legal cannabis in Illinois is grown without the sun, wind, rain, or even, in some cases, soil. But opportunities to grow cannabis outdoors in Illinois have been limited. State law, which requires that cannabis be grown in an "enclosed, locked facility," allows greenhouses. But the law doesn't address similar facilities like screen houses and […]
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
Trump's reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
After flight to Mexico and ongoing delays, Fidel Urbina is still in Cook County Jail awaiting trial in the 1998 assault and murder of woman.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
On Sept. 2, 1666, the Great Fire of London began, which would destroy more than 13,000 homes and hundreds of additional structures, including St Paul's Cathedral, over the ensuing three days.
|
|
Sep 02, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
The shooting left a 17-year-old boy in critical condition at University of Chicago Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to police.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
A Chicago man is facing involuntary manslaughter charges after an altercation at a CTA station led to a 9-yar-old boy's death after he fell down stairs.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
The death of 63-year-old Nabil Abzal of Plainfield, whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan near DuSable Harbor early Saturday, has been ruled a homicide after a Sunday autopsy.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
President Trump said he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, two days after Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
A St. John man who registered a company name affiliated with Donald Trump Jr. said he did it to show what happens when municipalities accept what's presented to them without examining it first.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke alongside a group of labor leaders as the prospect of President Donald Trump deploying federal forces to Chicago grows.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump's stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
The agency will host public hearings on its national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for coke ovens and integrated iron and steel manufacturing.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ inclusion in the Catholic Church.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
The shooting left a 17-year-old boy in critical condition at University of Chicago Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to police.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Englewood First Responders have had to mourn two of their own members killed by gunfire. But for those that remain, their work continues.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
The workers want Mauser to agree to not to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers onto its property unless the officials have a signed judicial warrant.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Vladmir Putin wants Ukraine to give up the Donbas region in exchange for peace. Chicago-area Ukrainians say it would be like the United States handing over Alaska.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
On Sept. 1, 1914, the passenger pigeon, once one of the most abundant bird species on earth, went extinct as the last known example, named Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
|
|
Sep 01, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 1, according to the Tribune's archives.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Chicago's "Rooftop Pastor," the Rev. Corey Brooks, is set to embark on another yearlong, cross-country journey on foot to fundraise for a community center.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Chicago's "Rooftop Pastor," the Rev. Corey Brooks, is set to embark on another yearlong, cross-country journey on foot to fundraise for a community center.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Any deployments ultimately would be President Donald Trump's call, but Gov. JB Pritzker said such a move would be against federal law.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border late Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
The death of a man whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan near DuSable Harbor early Saturday has been ruled a homicide following an autopsy, officials said.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
When Congress decided this summer to eliminate $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, it left some 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations, each with unique issues related to their communities and history, to figure out what that means.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" of tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebrae and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
An East Porter County school board member is suing to lift a no trespass order preventing her from attending her children's school activities.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
President Donald Trump's attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve's governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank's independence in decades.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday pledged to revoke lawmakers' perks and privileges, including a controversial $3,000 housing allowance, in a bid to ease public fury after nationwide protests left six people dead.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
A federal judge issued an emergency order blocking the possible deportation of a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families, with a hearing scheduled for Sunday.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights — with the youngsters still inside — as their attorneys said authorities were violating U.S. laws and sending vulnerable kids into potential peril.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Voting rights advocates warned that ‘hasty' mid-census redistricting in Indiana would negatively impact minority voters, particularly in Northwest Indiana and Indianapolis.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
According to officials, a gunman in a vehicle opened fire at a group of people in Bronzeville Saturday night.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Police responded to a call of multiple people shot on the 2700 block of W. Haddon Ave. just after 1 a.m.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Powerball players will get another chance Monday at a jackpot estimated at over $1 billion, after no one won the big prize Saturday night.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
One man is dead and two others were injured in a shooting in Pilsen overnight Sunday.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the "pandemic of arms, large and small," as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Catholic school Mass in the United States.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Sunday that a spokesperson for Hamas' armed wing, Abu Obeida, was killed in Gaza over the weekend.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
As the prospect of President Trump sending a surge of federal forces to Chicago rises daily, the Washington occupation provides insights into what a Chicago incursion could entail.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Influencers and politicians are pushing the consumption of raw milk. And some — wrongly — point to a salmonella outbreak in Illinois to defend their position.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
The pollutants that were pumped into the river, unregulated for decades, pose the biggest threat to its ecosystem.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
On Aug. 31, 1962, the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent of British colonial rule.
|
|
Aug 31, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 31, according to the Tribune's archives.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
The Association of Volleyball Professionals took over Oak Street Beach on Saturday morning for the AVP League Championships, with winners crowned Sunday afternoon.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
In an afternoon's walk through ground zero of Americana — the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History — objects around every corner invite one question: What could possibly be more American than this?
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
A body was pulled from Lake Michigan near DuSable Harbor early Saturday morning, Chicago police said. Chicago Fire Department divers pulled the unidentified male from the lake near the 200 block of North Lakefront Trail around 3:00 a.m. and he was pronounced at the scene, according to police. Belmont Area detectives are investigating the death […]
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Urban leaders, police officials and civil rights advocates say federal agents are not the best equipped for this type of policing.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Friday that she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that's controlled 4-3 by liberals.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
While extensive, the "Protecting Chicago" initiative was also a tacit acknowledgment that the mayor and city cannot stop any White House efforts to follow through on Trump's threats on the nation's third-largest city.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
While extensive, the "Protecting Chicago" initiative was also a tacit acknowledgment that the mayor and city cannot stop any White House efforts to follow through on Trump's threats on the nation's third-largest city.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Christine Mefford entered a plea deal in July after killing Grace Norris, 19, of DeMotte, in a July 2023 Winfield crash.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Over 100 people descended with their dogs on Humboldt Park for free shots and microchips early Saturday morning in Cook County's third-annual "Vets and Pets" event.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
While extensive, the "Protecting Chicago" initiative was also a tacit acknowledgment that the mayor and city cannot stop any White House efforts to follow through on Trump's threats on the nation's third-largest city.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Israel will soon halt or slow humanitarian aid into parts of northern Gaza as it expands its military offensive against Hamas, an official said Saturday, a day after Gaza City was declared a combat zone.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
In Lake Station, 22 homicides dating back to 1972 remain unsolved, prompting the police department to put together a cold case unit.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Indiana's rising inmate population is throwing cold water on Michigan City officials' eagerness to redevelop the Indiana State Prison once the new prison in Westville opens.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
A 25 year-old woman was fatally wounded Friday night in a double shooting on the South Side in the South Shore neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before midnight, officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 7700 block of South Essex Avenue and found the entry door of a building open. Once […]
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
An unidentified man was pulled from the lake overnight at Monroe Harbor, officials said. About 3 a.m., Chicago firefighters recovered a body in the 200 block of North Lakefront Trail in the loop area, Chicago police said. The unresponsive man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police opened an death investigation pending autopsy results.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World's Fair with its latest exhibit, World of Tomorrow: A Century of Progress.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Known as Fujian hometown associations, at least a dozen such groups from across North America gathered in and around Streeterville over the past week to participate in the convention.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Three Chicago School Board members broke ranks, rejecting Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan to balance Chicago Public Schools budget with a loan.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 30, according to the Tribune's archives.
|
|
Aug 30, 2025
On Aug. 30, 2021, the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war with the Taliban back in power, as Air Force transport planes carried a remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport. After watching the last U.S. planes disappear into the sky over Afghanistan, Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air, celebrating victory after a 20-year insurgency.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Israel declared Gaza's largest city a combat zone and recovered the remains of two hostages on Friday as the army launched the start of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The the 30-year-old rescued brown bear was euthanized after a period of declining health.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The Brookfield Zoo this week euthanized the 30-year-old rescued brown bear due to his declining health, the zoo announced in a Facebook post Friday.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The holiday with activist roots is celebrated on the first Monday of September, creating a three-day weekend that marks the unofficial end of summer.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state's U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year's congressional elections.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on earth but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States, saying that plaintiffs are likely to win their claim that the Republican administration's actions were unlawful.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Logan Jentink, 29, and Sandra Zaluski, 23, of Fox Lake, each face three counts of child endangerment and five counts of cruel treatment of an animal.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Conservative Ted Dabrowski previously served as vice president at the libertarian leaning Illinois Policy Institute, which has opposed public employee unions and assisted former GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday with memorials, performances and a parade to honor those who were affected.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Veteran Fox News anchor John Roberts is opening up on his "severe" case of malaria after suffering "uncontrolled shivering" while on the air this week.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The 40-year-old victim, whose identity wasn't officially released, was discovered in a home in the 2800 block of South Cicero Avenue around 2:15 p.m. Thursday
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A southwest suburban man has been charged with soliciting pornographic videos from a 13-year-old British girl who was found by her mother in her bedroom hanged from the charging cord of her smart watch.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A Gary man faces six years after a plea deal Friday for dealing drugs in a Hammond councilman's son's death.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The huge shortfall was expected, but Mayor Brandon Johnson faces a tough fight with a restive City Council to fill it and balance the 2026 budget by the end of this year.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
This could buy a lot of Labor Day weekend sunblock: Saturday's Powerball jackpot is estimated at $1 billion, the sixth-largest prize in the game's history.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Speaking at a town hall, Mayor Brandon Johnson warned it would be "unconstitutional" and "illegal" for the federal government to send troops to patrol Chicago's streets.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa's first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa seat that could have ripple effects down the ballot as Democrats look to the state for pickup opportunities.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing a teen girl who blocked his attack during her brother's baseball game near Lowell.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
The Orland District 230 discussed possibly adding Arabic to its world languages curriculum, but officials say it would be difficult.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation's most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — claiming they are needed to crack down on crime.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Officials voted to delay the start of the 2026/2027 school year at Oak Park and River Forest High School to accommodate construction.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Anthony Driver, Jr., the first president of the city's Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, announced this week that he will soon step down as head of the body that oversees the leaders of the Chicago Police Department and two oversight agencies.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A 15-year-old boy who was among two youngsters who were wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has died from his injuries, Chicago police said. The young teen and a 12-year-old boy had a physical squabble with an "unknown number" of people in a vacant lot in the 600 block […]
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
A Garfield Park man was charged Friday morning with two counts of attempted murder of two police officers following an attempted burglary in a freight train yard in Englewood, authorities said. Barry Hayes, 32, was charged with two counts of attempt murder, two counts of criminal damage of government property between $500 to $10,000, and […]
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 29, according to the Tribune's archives.
|
|
Aug 29, 2025
Oak Lawn High School District 229 was selected as part of Omnilert's grant program that covers costs of its "gun detect appliance."
|
|
