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This may be the ultimate example of free will. All big cities have to deal with rat problems to some extent. But generally, everybody does their best to try to limit the presence of the rodents instead of attracting them. That’s apparently the problem the city of Chicago is dealing with (along with plenty of others) after a Chicago billionaire won’t stop paying people to spread expensive nuts around one of the city’s most popular neighborhoods. It all started when […] The post A Billionaire In C

A Chicago police officer who repeatedly used racial slurs while on duty should be fired, the agency tasked with investigating police misconduct and former Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling agreed, records show. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined that not only did Officer John Kaporis repeatedly use anti-Black and...

The squadfitness brand is expanding beyond the New York area, opening two Chicago locations as it pursues national growthClub Athletic has officially arrived in Chicago, marking the New York-born fitness brand’s first expansion into the Midwest as it looks to build a national footprint.The squad-based fitness concept opened Old Town Athletic at 1350 N. Wells Street on Sept. 21 and is preparing to open Lake Street Athletic at 1035 W. Lake Street in the West Loop on Oct. 12. The latter location ha

Eight months have passed since community pressure paused the demolition of Chicago’s former Fisk Generating Station. Since then, public updates have been scarce. For residents of Pilsen and surrounding areas, however, the demands and questions surrounding the site are more relevant now than ever. Fisk sits in Pilsen, a...

A new state could be on the horizon in Illinois. Some counties in rural Illinois want to break away from Chicago– including a couple in the Quad Cities area. Some people in Illinois support a move to form a new state if 33 counties secede from the state of Illinois. The proposal is on the […]

CHICAGO — A man accused of stabbing a 55-year-old to death in 2022 was found and arrested in Hawaii. Nasir Reed, 25, of Chicago, is charged with first-degree murder via a warrant. He was located taken into custody at O’Hare by US Marshals Saturday, but Chicago police said he was previously located and extradited from […]

A man with criminal ties to La Salle County has been given life in prison by a federal judge. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois, 30-year-old Romeo Blackman has been sentenced to life in prison for committing multiple murders and engaging in other acts of violence. Prosecutors say Blackman personally committed four murders and three attempted murders while leading a Chicago street gang known as the Goonie Boss/Goonie Gang. Investigators say Blackman also sold

Chicago Ridge School District 127.5 plans to buy the Candle Light Banquets building and turn it into its headquarters after the Village Board approved a special-use permit and zoning variance for the project on Sept. 22. Moving the district offices out of Finley Junior High School would free classroom space...

A man was charged Sunday with carjacking another man along Cannon Drive in the north lakefront park of Lincoln Park early Sunday.

“After 6 months without receiving rent, it was finally eviction day.” That is how @inspirebytyler opens the caption on her reel. A title card runs across the bottom of the […]