Articles filed under Chicago
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'Once On This Island' is a Caribbean cornucopia of theatricalityJan 23, 2020 8:00 am - “Once On This Island” - ★ ★ ★ ½ You can get a sense of the intimate theatrical magic that must have sprung from director Michael Arden's 2017 Broadway revival of the 199...
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Chicago police end effort to predict gun offenders, victimsJan 23, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police have ended a program that sought to predict people most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun crime, according to a watchdog report r...
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4 Chicago hospitals announce tentative $1.1B merger planJan 23, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Four financially challenged hospitals on Chicago's South Side on Thursday announced tentative plans to merge into a single health care system to serve som...
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Portraits of Obamas to begin 5-city US tour in ChicagoJan 23, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The official portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama from the National Portrait Gallery will begin a five-city nat...
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Defense makes case; Hinsdale murder trial deliberations to start FridayJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - Closing arguments will start Friday morning in the murder trial of Dominic Sanders, a Chicago man accused of killing a Hinsdale woman in her home in May 2017. The defens...
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Long-vacant Ravenswood Hospital being converted to senior apartments, assisted livingJan 22, 2020 10:00 pm - The vacant Ravenswood Hospital on the North Side has long been an eyesore, its walls grubby with graffiti. But on Friday, officials broke ground on an $81 million projec...
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Alderman: Council will set up police review soonJan 22, 2020 10:00 pm - A long-stalled ordinance paving the way for civilian police oversight will pass the City Council in February or March - before Mayor Lori Lightfoot chooses a permanent r...
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Correction: Chicago Schools-Discrimination Lawsuit storyJan 22, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - In a Jan. 21 story about the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against the Chicago public school district, The Associated Press erroneously reported tha...
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Hearing may set order of R. Kelly's Chicago sex abuse trialsJan 22, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors in Chicago were expected to announce on Wednesday which of the sex charges against R&B singer R. Kelly they want to take to trial first. The s...
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Murder suspect's cellphone shows searches for information on the case, the day Hinsdale woman was killed.Jan 22, 2020 12:00 am - Records for murder suspect Dominic Sanders' cellphone show that in the evening of the day Andrea Urban was killed, someone used the phone to search for news about the ca...