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Dozens of Hyde Park Academy students walked out of class Thursday and lined the sidewalk outside their South Side campus, protesting the abrupt removal of two community groups that ran the school’s Peace Room. Students say those adults have been a lifeline during a brutal spring, and their sudden absence has left many

A new café and event space will take over a former Chicago firehouse in Rogers Park. Organizers submitted the project to the city Department of Planning and Development ( DPD) in 2025 as part of an open call for proposals to adaptively reuse the property, which has sat vacant since 2009. The redevelopment will transfor

A spring field trip to Matthiessen State Park in LaSalle County turned into an emergency evacuation Friday when two boys had to be airlifted out after roughhousing in the water left one unresponsive, authorities said. An adult chaperone with the group began CPR while waiting for emergency crews, who later called in med

A morning walk in the Loop turned into a nightmare when a man armed with a nail-studded board allegedly beat a 67-year-old stranger unconscious, attacked a second man minutes later, and then fought with police as officers tried to arrest him, prosecutors said. Judge John Hock ordered Darion Turley, 27,...

A man who was allegedly intoxicated and drag racing at 102 mph when he slammed into another vehicle, killing its driver in June 2023, has been ordered to pay $21 million to the victim’s survivors, according to court records. Marvin Bonilla, 28, had a blood alcohol content of .13...

Gunfire tore through a South Side block Friday evening in Englewood, leaving two men in their early 20s wounded on the 7100 block of South Aberdeen Street and drawing a heavy response from Chicago police. One man was left fighting for his life, while the other was hospitalized in fair condition, officials said.

While sitting in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Chicago waiting on his fiancée to come out with a drink, a man got a talking-to from the property itself. A solar-powered camera tower parked by the store sign detected him and broadcast an order to stop loitering. He filmed the moment, and the comments turned into a discussio

CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. - A convicted felon has been charged after a struggle with police at the Chicago Ridge Mall on Friday, according to police. Mark A. Jackson, 38, of Alsip, has been charged with one felony count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, two felony counts of aggravated assault of a police off

Protesters gathered outside Chicago’s 25th Police District on Friday, demanding criminal charges against an officer involved in the 2024 fatal shooting of 19-year-old Nathaniel Fejerang. Police said Fejerang fled from officers in Humboldt Park, struggled with them on the ground, and his gun discharged, striking an offi

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