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Four aldermen running for first time walking tightrope of being appointed by Lightfoot yet trying to explain their independence from her.

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The primary cause of Peter Salvino’s death was drowning with a secondary cause of ethanol intoxication, according to the medical examiner’s office.

A 79-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man were both seriously injured Saturday morning in a blaze that broke out in an apartment building on the North Side, officials said.

At least 19 car passenger side mirrors were vandalized in West Rogers Park on the city’s North Side early Wednesday, according to police.

The owner of a Chicago senior living facility has been fined after three elderly women died during a heat wave. The temperatures during the heat wave were in the low 90s.

At approximately 1:21 a.m., the 35-year-old man got into a fight with someone else at the lounge in the 1800 block of North Clark Street. The other person then shot the 35-year-old in the chest.

A 13-year-old boy was found fatally wounded Friday night at a park in the West Ridge neighborhood on the North Side, Chicago police said.

Western Avenue is one of the city's busiest streets, but it's daunting for pedestrians and cyclists, and it has many empty storefronts.

On Wednesday, community organizations urged Mayor Lori Lightfoot to negotiate a resolution to an environmental justice complaint after the federal government threatened to block millions of dollars in federal aid to Chicago.

A man driving a white sedan entered the north lanes of the 2000 block of North Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive heading south, striking a silver sedan head-on, Chicago police said.

Video captured the woman pacing in the hallway shortly before her nude body plummeted through a window to the alley below, authorities said.

Chicago police are investigating two more violent attacks on the transit system, which recently has seen a spate of similar violent robberies.

The city of Detroit is addressing digital equity with a new $10 million fiber-optic pilot project. The pilot will be funded by federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act and will take place in the Hope Village neighborhood.

Airbnb announced the company will be taking legal action against the person who booked out the home on Pittsburgh’s North Side where a mass shooting took place on Easter Sunday.

SAGINAW, MI — For the third time this year, gunfire has claimed the life of a Saginaw resident. They arrived to find 35-year-old Shardae T. Davenport inside the house, dead from at least one gunshot wound. The prior two firearm-related homicides are those of Alan L. Salter, 40, and Demore Harris, 42. Salter suffered a fatal gunshot wound inside a house in the 1400 block of Greenwich Street on Jan. 28. Read more:Saginaw woman accused of shooting at man has case dismissedSaginaw woman faces assault with intent to murder chargePolice seize guns, drugs, cash after shooting in Saginaw’s Sheridan Park neighborhoodSaginaw man shot and killed on city’s West SidePolice investigating homicide after Saginaw man found shot to death on East Side

Across the state, nine property insurance companies have entered liquidation with some of their policies being picked up by other carriers.

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Authorities are investigating the death of a 5-year-old who was pronounced dead at a hospital after being found unresponsive in a Chicago hotel’s swimming pool.

“If General Iron wasn’t suitable for an affluent community how can it be suitable for a blue-collar neighborhood,” asks one resident.

16-year-old Joseph Christopher Sunpongo was identified as the boy shot in the head Monday in what police believe may have been an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles as they drove through the North Side.

Federal lawsuit filed by former Illinois Governor and ex-con Rod Blagojevich dismissed by one expert as 'frivolous'

A 58-year-old Joliet man has been accused of stealing an ambulance from Amita St. Joseph Medical Center early Thursday, Joliet Police Department said in a news release.

Black people led all ethnic groups in arrests with 2,311 arrests, making up more than three-quarters of all marijuana arrests in Chicago. Latinos made up the second highest number of arrests with 506, and whites made up about 4% of arrests in Chicago with 117.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

In some of the more heavily vaccinated parts of Chicago, COVID-19 cases on the rise.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

She and her mother were among hundreds gathered in Horner Park on Chicago’s North Side for a vigil and rally after a shooting spree at Atlanta-area spas that left eight people killed, six of them Asian women. It was a chance for Amelia to learn about social justice, her mom, Pauline, said, but they are of Asian descent and the gathering also meant more to the two of them.

A woman believed to be in her 60s was found dead Wednesday morning during an apartment fire in the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood on the North Side, Chicago Fire Department officials said.

On the drive to the school, Lightfoot said she saw young kids “skipping ahead” of their parents with excitement. “This is exactly what we fought for,” Lightfoot said, alluding to the bitter fight with the Chicago Teachers Union over the return to in-person learning. The couple didn’t second guess bringing their girls for in-person learning because the family already endured the coronavirus. With 37,000 kindergarten through fifth grade students opted in to in-person learning, the second wave is more than five times bigger than the first. At Wednesday’s Chicago Board of Education meeting, CPS CEO Janice Jackson said the district hopes to bring high school students back before the school year ends.

Daniel set up four “Please take one” installations — two on the South Side, two on the North Side — where he would stick a bunch of “Help each other” signs in the ground and then, in front of them, a “Please take one” sign. Now that the ground is frozen solid, he’s mostly just operating and replenishing the “Please take one” installation in Pullman, near 108th Street and Champlain Avenue.

Similar to Chicago’s earlier decision to stick with stricter restrictions than allowed by the state, Cook County officials said Tuesday they plan to keep some rules in place that are tighter than state guidelines, including the indoor gathering limit of up to 25 people or 25% of room capacity. Restaurants will still be allowed parties of only up to 6 people, as long as tables remain six feet apart. Also, indoor playgrounds and trampoline parks remain closed while museums and zoos remain limited to 25% capacity.

Illinois has recorded its first case of a more contagious version of COVID-19, state and Chicago public health officials disclosed Friday. Those range from mass vaccination centers to more sophisticated scientific analysis of new strains and squads of local health workers to trace the contacts of infected people. Many Illinois residents felt hopeful last month when a Chicago doctor became the first person in the state to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. In Illinois, 447,348 vaccine doses had been administered as of Friday, at least 45% of the doses Illinois received, according to the state health department. —Chicago Tribune staff12:10 p.m.: Illinois confirms first case of more contagious COVID-19 variant, health officials sayIllinois has recorded its first case of a more contagious version of COVID-19, state and Chicago public health officials disclosed on Friday.

Neighbors from Chicago's North and South sides are teaming up to take on deeply rooted issues, including segregation and the inequity that comes with it. "We're twins because when you fold the map, we touch one another on the map north and south," Tucker told "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Adriana Diaz. "It's almost like you feel a light come on at a certain spot when you're going north," Tucker said. The pair met through Tonika Lewis Johnson, a social justice artist who grew up in Englewood. Lewis Johnson sought to bring the North and South together, by bringing together map twins like Tucker and Wilson.

Inflatable turkeys decorate the front lawns of homes on the North Side of Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 2020, in Chicago.

About 5:30 p.m., Zetina was in a parked vehicle in the 7400 block of North Oakley Avenue in the West Rogers Park neighborhood when a male walked up to him and fired shots, police said. He was shot in the left side and the left arm, and he was taken to Amita Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.

Critics noted the price paid by General Iron’s owners pales in comparison to the profits of selling shredded scrap to steelmakers. During the past decade alone, court records show, two members of the Labkon family that formerly owned the North Side operation each collected $64 million from General Iron.

Through Oct. 3, there had been 914 carjackings in Chicago this year, more than double the number seen through the same date in 2019 and the most the city has seen in that period since 2003, according to the city’s online crime data. Out of the Chicago Police Department’s 22 patrol districts, 16 have seen carjackings more than double so far in 2020, and in part of the North Side they have quadrupled.

Her remains were found about 15 minutes past midnight in the 3400 block of North Rockwell Street on the North Side, police said. The Chicago police marine unit and the Chicago Fire Department removed the body from the river.

Chicago artist Jim Bachor creates four pandemic-themed pothole mosaics on the city's North Side, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., May 20, 2020. The colorful creations, which glisten in the sunlight, refer to symbols of the citys experience with the pandemic. He installed the two-foot (0.61 m) pandemic mosaics three weeks ago, following the same process used in the other 85 he has completed across the city. First, Bachor spent eight to 10 hours completing the artwork in his studio. He then hauled water, concrete and the mosaics to the four potholes, where he spent about two hours installing them.