Chicago IL

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson championed passage of a “One Fair Wage” ordinance that eliminated a separate minimum wage for tipped workers, but the City Council froze that change Wednesday. The measure to freeze the city’s minimum wage for tipped workers at roughly three-quarters that of other workers passed...

Bryan Montana, principal at Chuhak & Tecson, P.C., recently attended an important community meeting held by the Glenview New Development Commission to discuss a series of changes that village staff had proposed to the Glenview Municipal Code. These changes would ban a number of service-based and retail businesses in...

CHICAGO — One of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia’s favorite instruments was his trusty, custom-built, wood-grained guitar nicknamed “Tiger.”. Now “Tiger” could be coming back to Chicago after local guitar collector Bobby Tseitlin bought it at auction for $11.56 million, which was briefly a record for a guitar sale....

Earlier this month Streetsblog wrote about the March 3 case of an SUV driver fatally striking a woman on foot near Foster Avenue and Pulaski Road in the North Park neighborhood. While this was the first case I'd seen in news reports this year of a deadly crash involving a vulnerable road users on Chicago surface...

A person was taken into custody after a police chase on I-94 in the north suburbs for a hit-and-run of a police squad car in Bensenville, with no injuries reported.

A 16-year-old was shot and killed by a person he tried to rob in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Around 3:36 p.m., the 16-year-old, who was armed, approached a 27-year-old man on the 11700 block of South Normal and attempted to rob him, police said. The...

Spent all that money to beat the grandson of Holocaust survivors.

GRAND BOULEVARD — A Bronzeville mansion with a storied history is for sale for the first time in decades, and local preservationists want to ensure it remains intact. Owners of the Victorian mansion at 3736 S. Indiana Ave. put the 11,108-square-foot property on the market last week for $1.2 million, according to...

A 32-year-old man is detained after he allegedly posed as a contractor, used intimidation tactics to gain entry to an 82-year-old woman’s South Side home, then robbed the victim of cash. Sonny Miller and two other men arrived at a home in the 5400 block of South Drexel on...

Four air bags were reported stolen from vehicles parked in the 5900 and 6500 blocks of West School Street between about 2 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, according to 16th (Jefferson Park) District police. A woman reported at about 5 a.m. that five men wearing black clothing and black...