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Feb 23, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 23, 2026
Nick Reiner may finally enter a plea Monday in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, after two previous court hearings that brought some drama but little practical progress in the case.
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Feb 23, 2026
Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the northeastern U.S. were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings Monday.
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Feb 23, 2026
Conan O'Brien has broken his silence on the slayings of Rob and Michele Reiner, who the night before attended his holiday party with their son, accused murderer Nick Reiner.
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Feb 23, 2026
Thornton Fractional District 215 investigated former twin teachers well before quit and were charged with sexual assault.
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Feb 23, 2026
Between 2,000 and 4,000 coyotes live in Cook County, and they generally look for places to hide where they won't be spotted by people, experts say.
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Feb 23, 2026
Those arrested during and after Operation Midway Blitz are facing a rapidly shifting legal and administrative landscape with fewer and narrower paths to securing legal status and continuing their lives in the U.S.
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Feb 23, 2026
Lio Cundiff jumped into Belmont Harbor Wednesday afternoon and treaded water for three to four minutes, keeping a stroller afloat and saving a baby girl.
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Feb 23, 2026
Lio Cundiff jumped into Belmont Harbor Wednesday afternoon and treaded water for three to four minutes, keeping a stroller afloat and saving a baby girl.
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Feb 23, 2026
A pre-apprenticeship program at Bethel Family Resource Center in Chicago Heights offers an introduction to employment in 25 trades.
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Feb 23, 2026
On Feb. 23, 2023, a federal judge handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his convictions that include producing child sexual abuse materials and federal sex trafficking charges, but said he would serve nearly all of the sentence simultaneously with a 30-year sentence imposed a year earlier on racketeering charges.
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Feb 23, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho," on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico's most powerful cartel and giving the government its biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration its efforts.
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Feb 22, 2026
According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, NBC averaged 24 million viewers across its prime afternoon coverage (2-5 p.m. EST) and Primetime in Milan (8-11 p.m. EST and PST) through Friday.
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Feb 22, 2026
Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are tearing at the very fabric of American democracy.
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Feb 22, 2026
Grounded until at least April, NASA's giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard.
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Feb 22, 2026
The European Union's executive arm requested "full clarity" from the United States and asked its trade partner to fulfill its commitments after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs.
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Feb 22, 2026
A Saturday crash involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 65 near Hobart killed a 20-year-old Hobart woman, according to police.
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Feb 22, 2026
As student walkouts over federal immigration policies ramp up across Northwest Indiana, local school leaders are receiving advice from state education organizations on how to react.
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Feb 22, 2026
Court news from around Lake County.
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Feb 22, 2026
Meet all the medalists from the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Feb 22, 2026
A Saturday night fire in Logan Square left 12 adults and 10 children displaced from their homes, Chicago police said.
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Feb 22, 2026
An Indiana welfare fraud bill advanced on second reading in the House Thursday as all proposed Democratic amendments failed.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Olympics end Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games in Olympic history.
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Feb 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational despite an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown.
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Feb 22, 2026
The U.S. Secret Service announced Sunday that an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Arlington Cowboys. East Rutherford Giants and Jets. Inglewood Rams and Chargers. And maybe the Hammond Bears. Ten NFL teams don't play in their namesake cities but in their suburbs. If the Chicago Bears go through with one of their proposals for a new stadium — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged Friday that the team's […]
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Feb 22, 2026
Incumbents Steve Balich, of Homer Glen, and Jim Richmond, of Mokena, face Homer Glen Trustee Mike Lepore.
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Feb 22, 2026
Authorities say 'voluminous' video evidence ties the teens, 17 and 18, to two fatal shootings, three successful carjackings and one attempted carjacking in 90 minutes.
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Feb 22, 2026
se American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 order spurring mass incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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Feb 22, 2026
As enrollments drop at so-called directional universities, lawmakers are pushing a revised higher ed funding plan this spring despite University of Illinois opposition.
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Feb 22, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 22, 2026
On Feb. 22, 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" took place at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, as the U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviet Union, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal two days later, 4-2, over Finland.)
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Feb 21, 2026
The annual dinner with governors at the White House is typically a chance for leaders from both parties to come together, socialize and spend a low-key evening with the president.
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Feb 21, 2026
Friends, teachers, dancers and relatives of Boaz Flemister gathered at Warren School in the Calumet Heights neighborhood days after his death in a fatal crash.
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Feb 21, 2026
Thousands filled Argyle Street in Uptown to enjoy a vibrant celebration of Asian culture, featuring music, dance, food and interactive community events.
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Feb 21, 2026
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.
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Feb 21, 2026
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
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Feb 21, 2026
The Lake Central School Board has named Assistant Superintendent Sarah Castenada to succeed retiring school chief Larry Veracco.
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Feb 21, 2026
Governments and companies around the world scrambled Saturday to determine the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down some of the Trump administration sweeping global tariffs.
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Feb 21, 2026
Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell.
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Feb 21, 2026
Socorro is among at least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. that have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's $45-billion expansion of detention centers.
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Feb 21, 2026
Many Republicans greeted the Friday morning decision with measured statements, some even praising it, and GOP leaders said they would work with Trump on tariffs going forward.
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Feb 21, 2026
NASA's new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts' first lunar trip in decades into spring.
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Feb 21, 2026
Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision "Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday," by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Feb 21, 2026
Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision "Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday," by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Feb 21, 2026
An unidentified man was discovered fatally shot Saturday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Feb 21, 2026
Indiana Republican legislators were able to reinstitute a year-long effort for a shorter early voting period by approving an amendment to an early voting bill in the Senate Elections committee.
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Feb 21, 2026
The attack in Russia's Udmurt Republic left 11 people wounded, three of whom were hospitalized, according to a Telegram post by Sergei Bagin, the local health minister.
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Feb 21, 2026
Two girls, ages 6 and 15, were struck by a hit and run driver Friday morning in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
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Feb 21, 2026
A 29-year-old woman was fatally wounded overnight in a drive-by shooting that also injured another woman who was standing with a crowd in a parking lot in the East Side neighborhood.
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Feb 21, 2026
Meet all the medalists from the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Feb 21, 2026
It takes an immense amount of energy to power venues and make snow for the Winter Olympics and, for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, organizers pledged that virtually all of the electricity would be clean.
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Feb 21, 2026
Students in Hinsdale High School District 86 and Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 have limits on when they can use phones.
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Feb 21, 2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson's career as a civil rights leader and politician took him across the country and around the world, yet he remained close to Illinois.
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Feb 21, 2026
The charter network ASPIRA has announced it is facing a $4.8 million deficit and could be forced to shutter its three Chicago schools in March.
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Feb 21, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 21, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 21, 2026
On Feb. 21, 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published "The Communist Manifesto" in London.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Trump administration said Friday it backs a 10-year deadline for most cities and towns to replace their harmful lead pipes, giving notice that it will support a tough rule approved under the Biden administration to reduce lead in drinking water.
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Feb 20, 2026
If anything, Friday opened a new chapter in Trump's ongoing tariffs drama and raised urgent questions about his ability to make good on his promises of an economic revival.
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Feb 20, 2026
A bill aimed at lowering housing costs barely passed out of the Senate Judiciary committee Wednesday, with many voting in favor of the bill expressing concerns and indicating they may vote against the bill as it advances.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ability of federal safety regulators to oversee airplane maintenance at United Airlines has been hindered by inadequate staffing, high employee turnover and the improper use of virtual inspections instead of on-site reviews in some cases, according to a government watchdog audit released Friday.
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Feb 20, 2026
An East Chicago man is facing criminal charges for beating and choking a woman celebrating her birthday until she passed out.
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Feb 20, 2026
The White House insisted that President Donald Trump was visiting Georgia to promote the economy.
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Feb 20, 2026
A Winfield man who is an elementary school principal in Pulaski County is facing charges after allegedly threatening his ex-wife.
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Feb 20, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said, "I think we're down to the question of whether they're going to build in Arlington Heights or they're going to build something in the state of Indiana."
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Feb 20, 2026
A Gary man was sentenced to 10 years Friday after admitting he robbed a sex worker at gunpoint of just under $60.
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Feb 20, 2026
The nation's highest court struck down some of U.S. President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs on Friday, in a 6-3 decision that he overstepped his authority when using an emergency powers law to justify new taxes on goods from nearly every country in the world.
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Feb 20, 2026
All truckers and bus drivers will have to take their commercial driver's license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry.
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Feb 20, 2026
After FIFA leader Gianni Infantino took part in U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace launch, IOC President Kirsty Coventry said Friday the Olympic body will "look into" his conduct.
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Feb 20, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 20, 2026
While questions remain about where the Chicago Bears will build a new stadium, the team reaffirmed Friday that its practice facility and corporate headquarters — Halas Hall — will remain in Lake Forest.
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Feb 20, 2026
The University of Chicago is among 31 universities nationwide to cut ties with The Ph.D. Project, an organization known for helping students of color attain professional degrees, amid an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Feb 20, 2026
A wind advisory was issued for parts of north central and northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana set to expire at 4 p.m. Friday.
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Feb 20, 2026
A 42-year-old man died of his injuries early Friday in Harvey after being shot before his car crashed into a home on Center Avenue.
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Feb 20, 2026
A Kane County grand jury has returned a 76-count indictment against a Batavia chiropractor who has been accused of secretly recording videos of child and adult patients while they were undressed or unclothed, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said on Friday.
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Feb 20, 2026
A brief altercation recorded during Lake Zurich High School's Feb. 12 walkout protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone viral.
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Feb 20, 2026
The late Rev. Jesse Jackson will not lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda after a request for the commemoration was denied by the House Speaker Mike Johnson's office due to past precedent.
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Feb 20, 2026
Jeff Butts, the new executive director of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, delivered a rapid-fire rundown Thursday of 17 education-related bills pending in the General Assembly, which has four days left before adjournment.
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Feb 20, 2026
A federal jury has found that disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara coerced a confession and manipulated evidence in a 1989 murder case, awarding $750,000 to a former Latin Kings gang member who spent 17 years in prison for the crime.
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Feb 20, 2026
The longtime Evanston resident represented judges and other lawyers for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
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Feb 20, 2026
A woman died and a man was critically injured in a house fire early Friday in Liberty Township, officials said.
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Feb 20, 2026
President Donald Trump still has options to keep taxing imports aggressively even after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs he imposed last year on nearly every country on earth.
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Feb 20, 2026
As spring property tax bills approach, High School District 218 still hasn't received all its expected income from the fall bills, leaving it about $7 million short. District 218 includes Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, Richards High School in Oak Lawn and Shepard High School in Palos Heights. "We really get our money, like, […]
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Feb 20, 2026
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
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Feb 20, 2026
Starting in fall 2026, Waubonsee's in-district and online tuition rate will go from $141 to $146 per credit hour, the school said Thursday.
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Feb 20, 2026
When the federal government in 2009 targeted carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a public health danger because of climate change, it led to tighter regulation of pollution and cleaner air in some communities. But this month, the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency overturned that "endangerment finding."
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Feb 20, 2026
President Donald Trump has long spread conspiracy theories about voting designed to explain away his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Now that he's president again, Trump has stocked his administration with those who have promoted his falsehoods and in some cases helped him try to overturn his loss.
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Feb 20, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 20, 2026
Police continued on Friday to search the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for the best part of 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office linked to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Feb 20, 2026
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott called the proposed Chicago Bears stadium at Wolf Lake an opportunity for Hammond, Northwest Indiana and the state.
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Feb 20, 2026
Indiana and the Chicago Bears announced plans for a potential stadium in Hammond as an amended bill to fund the stadium passed out of the House Ways and Means committee Thursday.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon. A presidential candidate. A global leader. But for the people living on tree-lined South Constance Avenue in South Shore's Jackson Park Highlands, Jackson was a neighbor.
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Feb 20, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 20, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 20, 2026
On Feb. 20, 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House from what was believed to be typhoid fever.
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Feb 19, 2026
The ad features six people — including incumbent U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth — repeating the phrase, "F--- Trump." The version to run on broadcast stations will bleep out the expletive.
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Feb 19, 2026
An Elburn man has been sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago to 37 years in prison for sexually exploiting nearly 100 children he communicated with on social media, according to a press release on Wednesday from the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Illinois.
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Feb 19, 2026
Eric Dane, the actor known for "Grey's Anatomy" and "Euphoria," has died at 53 due to ALS.
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