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LAKEVIEW EAST — Stella’s Diner has been temporarily shut down after city inspectors found an active cockroach infestation and a number of other sanitation and maintenance violations during a late June inspection. The diner’s closure comes less than a month after The Bagel, the nearby Jewish deli that’s...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Chicago Public Schools notified 162 central and citywide employees Friday that they will be laid off, the district confirmed Monday. Half of the employees work for central office departments that focus on districtwide polic

WHITING, Ind. — A railroad conductor from Toledo died when he was hit by a train while working in northwest Indiana. Scott Shoemaker, 57, of the 2200 block of Portsmouth Avenue, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident that was reported at 3:52 a.m. Thursday, along the Norfolk Southern tracks in the Whiting are

COOK COUNTY, Ill. - A Chicago man and a suburban woman are each facing a felony gun charge after they were arrested in separate incidents on the same day, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office. CTA station arrest. The backstory:. The first arrest happened around 2:20 p.m. on July...

While pizza, hot dogs, ribs and rice balls were gobbled up at Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, the city’s school system got many fest goers nostalgic. Chicago Public Schools’ alum from the 1960s through the late ’90s got CPS butter cookies in cafeterias throughout the district.

The Union Stockyards once made Chicago "hog butcher for the world." More than 50 years after they closed, developers are modernizing the area. Why it matters: While other industrial parts of the city, like Fulton Market and the West Loop, have boomed with development in recent decades, the Stockyards have remained basi

Chicago police have released images of a vehicle wanted in a hit-and-run on the Northwest Side last week. that left a motorcycle driver critically injured.

Chicago police have issued an alert about a person they are seeking in connection with the shooting of a child on the city's South Side.

A man on pretrial release in a felony retail theft case that he picked up while already on pretrial release for another shoplifting charge disappeared from the Cook County chief judge’s electronic monitoring program for 11 days before authorities found him again — in the back yard of Gov. JB Pritzker’s Gold Coast mansi

CHICAGO — When Mildred Jenkins finally found a home at Deborah’s Place, it was one of the best things that ever happened to her. After living in the organization’s shelter for a year, she got her own apartment through the nonprofit’s Permanent Supportive Housing program, which subsidizes long-term housing for people ex