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The Stickney Village Board unanimously appointed Clerk Mitch Milenkovic as mayor Friday, May 29, filling the position left vacant by Mayor Jeff Walik’s death on May 9. Milenkovic was sworn in by Village Attorney Michael DelGaldo at a special board meeting. “Mayor Jeff Walik did a great job,” Milenkovic...

Before I turned to writing about drinks, I made and sold beer in Vermont. After a long shift of tapping triple IPAs, pastry stouts, and fermented farmhouse ales, I wanted exactly one thing: a brutally cold Narragansett Lager or a crisp Genny Cream Ale. Beyond irony or nostalgia, I'd take an old-school American lager ov

Surveillance video from the area near Ridgeland and Jackson appears to show someone with a ladder putting up one of the signs in the middle of the night.

A Chicago mother is calling for accountability and a formal investigation after she says a man exposed himself to her 2-year-old son during a family outing at Buckingham Fountain, leaving her shaken and frustrated by what she describes as a lack of follow-up from authorities. Estella Jordan says the disturbing...

A grim discovery in a garbage container on Chicago’s West Side has sparked a new death investigation on a Lawndale block already familiar with violent crime. Chicago police say officers were called to the 4700 block of West Arthington Street on Saturday, where they found a man unresponsive inside a garbage container. H

A 28-year-old man was shot while walking in Chicago's West Town neighborhood early Saturday, turning a routine stroll into a life-or-death emergency. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body and was rushed to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in critical condition as officers flooded the area and detectives launched

A CTA rider who tracked his stolen iPhone to a Joliet address helped Chicago police unravel a pair of transit robberies that prosecutors say were committed by a repeat offender already on felony pretrial release. Alphanso Carter, 34, is charged with two counts of robbery in connection with separate robberies that occur

CHICAGO - State lawmakers are up against a midnight deadline on Sunday to pass major pieces of legislation, including a deal aimed at keeping the Bears in Illinois. Overnight, a key lawmaker said that the so-called "megaprojects" bill aimed at providing property tax relief to the Bears to build a new stadium in suburba

Spencer Leak Jr., Chicago funeral home leader and community servant, dies. Spencer Leak Jr., a prominent Chicago funeral home executive, family man and community supporter whose name was closely tied to one of the city’s most respected Black-owned family businesses, has died. His death, which came after a seizure, has

A woman was at an airport in Chicago, Illinois, ready to go home with her two non-verbal autistic children. However, a Southwest Airlines employee allegedly refused to let her scan their boarding passes, despite her explanations and her children’s condition. This caused the woman to break down, and the internet is livi