Articles filed under Chicago
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Car chase through Darien, Burr Ridge ends with crash into 2 police carsNov 24, 2020 12:00 am - A high-speed chase Monday night ended with a Chicago man crashing a stolen vehicle into two police vehicles. Carlos Perez, 22, of the 5500 block of North Sawyer Avenue, ...
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Nearly 700 mostly Chicago-area nursing home workers strikingNov 23, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly 700 nursing home workers walked off the job Monday at 11 mostly Chicago-area Infinity Healthcare Management facilities, saying they won't return un...
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Chicago's Wrigley Field granted top historic landmark statusNov 21, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Wrigley Field, the 106-year-old baseball shrine that's the Chicago Cubs' home, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. U.S. Secretary of the Int...
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Wrigley Field granted federal landmark statusNov 20, 2020 12:00 am - Wrigley Field has been named a National Historic Landmark to recognize "the significant role the ballpark has played in the city of Chicago and the history of profession...
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Aquino to replace Garcia as Illinois presidential electorNov 20, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia will not serve as a presidential elector in Illinois. Instead, he is being replaced by state Sen. Omar Aquino, the state Demo...
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Chicago dad hopes for recovery after drive-by wounds sonNov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man whose 5-year-old son was shot in the head at home when gunfire from a drive-by shooting smashed through a window says there are encouraging ...
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Protesters sue Chicago Police over 'brutal, violent' tacticsNov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Activists who protested in Chicago over George Floyd's death and the killing by police of other Blacks across the U.S. filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing c...
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Chicago park renamed for abolitionist Frederick DouglassNov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A sprawling park on Chicago's West Side will now bear the name of 19th century abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray-Douglass and not that of a...
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Constable: Drone view of city and suburbs comes to WTTWNov 19, 2020 4:00 am - Any of us who have flown into Chicago have gazed out the airplane window and tried to spot landmarks, expressways or maybe even our house. “It's hard to get your bearing...
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Chicago police release video in drive-by shooting of boy, 5Nov 18, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Video released by Chicago police after a 5-year-old boy was shot in the head while playing on an iPad at home shows that an SUV drove past the apartment b...