Tow truck hits, kills man
June 6, 2020A man died after being hit by a tow truck on the city’s Southwest Side. Police said the 41-year-old man was running from three male Hispanics driving the tow truck after a minor accident…
A man died after being hit by a tow truck on the city’s Southwest Side. Police said the 41-year-old man was running from three male Hispanics driving the tow truck after a minor accident…
Two men are both facing unlawful use of weapon charges following their apprehensions at large recent Chicago gatherings. Xavier Encarnacion, 28, a resident of the 2000 block of West…
The Joint Caucus of Black Elected Officials will have four days of action. Officials will be providing masks, food, and water to residents on Chicago’s West and South sides, and in…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and first lady Amy Eshleman have launched a multi-year, youth-focused initiative designed to connect youth across the city to out-of-school experiences….
Chicago businessman and philanthropist Willie Wilson will be meeting this week with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss ways to enact substantive changes to make life more…
The Chicago Police Department will be conducting DUI saturation patrols this weekend (June 5-7) in the city’s Near West and Shakespeare neighborhoods. The Near West (12th District)…
Several events will be conducted in area communities as part of Moms Demand Action’s Wear Orange events to prevent gun violence. Orange is the color that the friends of Chicago teen…
Downtown Lake Forest looks different. A large percentage of storefront windows were boarded up on June 3. Workers were still using buzz saws to cut plywood late Wednesday afternoon….
There were homemade cardboard signs promoting racial justice, messages carried by people of all ages — “Black lives matter,” “I can’t breathe.” Signs were put down…
We tend to look down on catfish. It’s probably the way they make their living. They troll river bottoms, scooping up what would make more popular creatures like trout and perch turn…
Barge traffic is getting back to normal on the lower Mississippi River for what’s typically a slower time of the year anyway. “The water levels are back up to normal south of Cairo…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week asked the College Board for more information about its reasoning for changing the final framework of a new Advanced Placement course in…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois schools are still grappling with a teacher shortage that seems to only be getting worse, a recent survey by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents…
The New Philadelphia National Historic Site in western Illinois, commemorating the first U.S. town to be legally founded by African Americans, is the nation’s newest national park….
SPRINGFIELD – Exactly 38 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Illinois will no longer be under a disaster proclamation as of May 11, Gov….
SPRINGFIELD – A temporary restraining order that partially blocks Illinois’ new assault weapons ban from being enforced will remain in place after a divided state appellate court…
This week’s farm and rural news roundup is led with a report on the Biden administration’s recent rejection of Mexico’s biotech corn compromise, and a study on how food prices…