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On top of her responsibilities as a public school lunchroom porter — lugging heavy boxes of fruit, inventory checks, cleaning floors — Amy Mendez also finds herself consoling hungry little kids. “Sometimes they don’t want the food, so they cry,” said Mendez, known as “Ms. Amy” in the...

CHICAGO - A video showing a coyote watching off-leash dogs at Montrose Beach is getting attention as people share more coyote sightings online across Chicago. Craig Shimala said he recorded the video Wednesday in the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area, a protected area where dogs are not allowed. According to...

West Suburban Medical Center has not made any payments toward its $71 million debt to the State of Illinois, $2.6 million of which the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has recouped. Instead, West Suburban CEO Manoj Prasad said that, like other financially strapped safety net hospitals, West Sub...

CHICAGO, IL – A nationwide recall of Chips Ahoy! Baked Bites Brookie is being expanded. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the updated recall alert includes additional pouches of the product which were sold at a limited number of retail stores nationwide. Mondelez Global LLC first announced...

State Representative Amy Briel (D-Ottawa) joins John Williams to clear up some information regarding a proposed bill that would require permits and possibly pay up to a $5 fee for open burning in unincorporated areas.

Imagine shelling out $400 for a coat to brave Chicago’s winter, only for it to be given away for free without you knowing. To make matters worse, management initially refuses to give any reimbursement or apology. One woman is being forced to withstand below-zero temperatures through no fault of her own. On New Year’s...

SKOKIE - A suburban Chicago man is in custody after striking a pedestrian and fleeing the scene of a crash on the Edens Expressway, Illinois State Police said. Damian Lopez, 30, of Beach Park, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a personal injury crash, a Class 4 felony, and failure to report a personal...

The man accused of killing Nabil “Captain Bill” Adzal at a downtown boat harbor last summer first did what you might expect of a casual bystander: He called 911 to report that someone had fallen into Lake Michigan and then stayed at the scene to speak with responding police officers, prosecutors said Thursday.

The Chicago Housing Authority reversed course after moving to permanently block the daughter of longtime CHA Board Commissioner Debra Parker from continuing to do business with the agency, records show. Lovie Diggs faced what the CHA calls permanent debarment after she was arrested, charged and entered a guilty plea,...

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said he backed an effort to give the agency charged with probing police misconduct the authority to investigate whether CPD officers and leaders have violated city law by helping federal immigration agents because no one would “trust” probes conducted by internal affairs. That...