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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Chicago, IL – A colder and more active early-winter pattern is expected across Illinois from Nov. 29th through Dec. 5th, bringing widespread chances for accumulating snow, including in the Chicago metro and...

Chicago Public Schools spent $7.7 million on excessive travel while only 30.5% of students read proficiently, sparking outrage over misplaced priorities.

Read Borderless Magazine’s free food resource guide for 2025. Click here to find the food pantry near you. Corene Mendoza arrived 15 minutes before Onward Neighborhood House’s food pantry opened in Belmont Cragin. She wanted to get there early. The first time she visited the pantry a few...

This post features an OpenAI-powered summary derived from the NewsBreak users' discussions on Illinois Citizens Are Outraged After Seeing The State Police Shake Hands With ICE Inside the Broadview Facility: ‘Birds of a Feather’.

Two men were shot, one fatally, on the West Side Sunday night, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO - A 30-year-old man was charged with attempted murder of a 42-year-old man in South Shore in September, according to police. Christopher Jones, 30, has been charged with one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, one felony count of aggravated battery using a deadly weapon, and one felony count of...

This post features an OpenAI-powered summary derived from the NewsBreak users' discussions on CTA fire attack suspect knocked a psych ward employee unconscious, but a judge decided to let him walk the streets: court docs.

Joseph Pecora, a former Chicago police officer who served federal time in 2006 for taking 50 pounds of pot from a drug supplier, has been sentenced to probation after DNA evidence allegedly tied him to a $350,000 burglary on the city’s Northwest Side. Shortly before 8 a.m. on May...

Video of a mother and her nine-year-old son being swarmed and beaten by a mob of kids outside a Chicago school has shaken the city – and reignited questions about bullying, parenting, and the breakdown of basic respect for adults.

Police say that Lawrence Reed, accused of allegedly setting a woman on fire aboard a CTA train, has been arrested 72 times since he turned 18. Lawrence Reed, 50, was charged in a federal criminal complaint with committing a terrorist attack or other violence on a mass transportation system. U.S....