Chicago-area health systems hope to start vaccinating kids ages 12 to 15...
Doctors from Advocate Aurora Health, NorthShore University HealthSystem and Comer Children’s Hospital said they plan to give COVID-19 shots to children ages 12 to 15 at vaccination clinics.
View ArticleGroup of cases involving a controversial former Chicago police detective who...
Cook County judges will no longer preside over eight cases involving a controversial former Chicago police detective who is married to one of their fellow judges, the Tribune has learned.
View ArticleSWAT team responds to report of men with guns at South Loop commercial...
A SWAT team was sent early Tuesday to a South Loop building after a call about men with guns and released five suspects after partygoers police believe the group attacked declined to press charges,...
View ArticleIllinois surpasses 10 million COVID-19 vaccinations as daily average of new...
More than 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have now been administered in Illinois, while the daily average of new coronavirus cases over the past week dipped below 2,000 for the first time in over a...
View ArticleColumn: ‘It’s a beautiful struggle.’ Evanston principal and his brother share...
Oakton Elementary principal Michael Allen and his brother Gilbert want their book to help middle school kids feel believed in and supported.
View ArticleOnetime law student sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for terrorizing...
Niles native and former law school student sentenced to 27 years in prison for “sextorting” a girl and at least four other teens over a four-year period.
View ArticleFormer teacher at Catholic schools in Joliet diocese is arrested, posts bond...
A former Joliet diocesan teacher charged with traveling to meet a child and grooming was arrested early Tuesday after being released from the hospital, police said in a news release.
View ArticleChicago Archdiocese announces Catholic parish mergers for Northwest,...
Several Catholic parishes on the Northwest and Southwest sides will consolidate as part of the Archdiocese of Chicago’s restructuring efforts, officials announced late Monday.
View ArticleMan stabbed to death in dispute over children playing too early in the day,...
A 55-year-old Englewood man stabbed to death the 32-year-old boyfriend of his grandchildren’s mother Sunday morning in a dispute over the younger man’s children playing too raucously early in the day,...
View ArticleStudy links short stays at Cook County Jail early in the pandemic to the...
Study finds that brief stays in Chicago's Cook County Jail fueled racial disparities in the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic.
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court weighs harshness of 19-year-old’s life sentence
Fifteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that minors' lack of maturity warrants different treatment in criminal courts from adults, the state's high court hears oral arguments about applying...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines did not impact placentas during pregnancy, according to...
Researchers who studied the placentas of vaccinated pregnant women saw no evidence of injury from vaccines.
View ArticleNo charges filed in shooting death of 12-year-old girl in Hazel Crest; ‘a...
Hazel Crest police said Tuesday that no charges will be filed in connection with Saturday's shooting death of a 12-year-old Chicago girl in what the chief said was "a tragic accident."
View ArticleTeen driver expected to be charged after 62-year-old grandmother killed in...
A 17-year-old driver is expected to be charged in the Mother's Day traffic death of a grandmother killed as she was leaving church, the mayor of Posen said.
View ArticleAmbassador Rahm Emanuel: Former Chicago mayor reportedly President Joe...
President Joe Biden is expected to select former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as his ambassador to Japan, according to multiple reports Tuesday.The move would give Biden a deeply experienced government...
View ArticleThe Spin: Rahm Emanuel to soon get President Biden’s nod as Japan ambassador:...
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View ArticleCOVID-19 vaccines for kids 12 to 15 begin at Chicago city-run sites Thursday;...
Parents must be present and will also be encouraged to get vaccinated.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: State passes 10 million COVID-19 vaccine...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleWith younger teens now vaccine eligible, schools aim to be their source for...
If students get shots now, it will help schools reopen next the fall, one official said.
View Article3 U.S. Army soldiers accused of illegally selling weapons used in Chicago...
Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of conspiring to buy firearms in Tennessee and illegally sell them in Chicago, where the weapons were traced to at least one mass shooting and other gun attacks,...
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