Angie Leventis Lourgos – Page 17

Carolyn Pinta speaks during a Pride flag-raising ceremony on June 1, 2023, in Buffalo Grove.

Advocates say Pride celebrations are even more important this year as attacks on the LGBTQ community intensify. ‘It’s terrifying.’

June 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Carolyn Pinta and her family have been busy constructing a float and getting rainbow-hued decorations ready for the Buffalo Grove Pride Parade on Sunday, an annual event launched in 2019...

Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 23, 2023.

Latest report on clergy sex abuse within Catholic Church gives ‘voice to survivors’

May 28, 2023 at 9:09 a.m.

The 11-year-old boy was an altar server at St. John Vianney in west suburban Northlake during the early 1960s, when a popular priest began inviting him out to dinner, drive-in...

A building sits empty on the site of a proposed abortion clinic at 600 N. Logan Ave. in Danville on May 2, 2023.

Illinois man accused of attempted arson to planned abortion clinic said he’d ‘finish the job’ if freed from jail, feds say

May 24, 2023 at 3:33 p.m.

The Illinois man accused of crashing his car into a future abortion clinic in Danville while attempting to set it on fire told authorities he intended to destroy the building...

Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 23, 2023. Cupich said all reports of abuse are reported to civil authorities and thoroughly investigated by an independent review board and added that the church deeply apologizes to abuse survivors.

Scope of clerical sex abuse against children in Illinois widens with release of new report. Abusers able to ‘hide, often in plain sight.’

May 24, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.

One survivor of clerical sex abuse recounted being kept inside her fifth grade classroom at her Woodlawn neighborhood Catholic school during recess in the 1980s, where a Carmelite religious order...

Man allegedly rammed car into prospective Danville abortion clinic while trying to set it on fire, feds say

May 23, 2023 at 6:06 p.m.

An Illinois man allegedly attempted to set fire to a prospective abortion clinic in Danville and also rammed his car into the building entrance, according to federal authorities. The property...

The white casket carrying Ricky Barcenas, 17, of Arlington Heights, passes in front of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe following his funeral mass on May 22, 2023, in Des Plaines. Barcenas was one of four teens from Buffalo Grove High School who died in a car crash last week.

Amid the pain, a community comes together to remember 4 Buffalo Grove HS students killed in crash

May 18, 2023 at 4:47 p.m.

Mourners described an unrelenting sense of shock and anguish Thursday as they remembered four Buffalo Grove High School students at a memorial near the site of a three-car crash that...

Mourners embrace at the scene, May 17, 2023, on West Dundee Road in Wheeling where four Buffalo Grove High School students were killed in a three-vehicle crash overnight.

Four Buffalo Grove HS teens killed Tuesday in multi-vehicle pileup: ‘They were sweet guys. They loved everyone’

May 18, 2023 at 5:47 p.m.

A three-car crash killed four Buffalo Grove High School students in Wheeling on Tuesday night, a cataclysm that sounded to neighbors like an explosion that plunged the neighborhood into darkness...

People hold signs during an anti-abortion rally to oppose Senate Bill 1909 outside of the Illinois Capitol in Springfield on April 26, 2023.

Legislation aims to prevent deceptive practices by groups seeking to deter women from abortions

May 17, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A measure aimed at keeping anti-abortion pregnancy centers from employing deceptive practices in an effort to dissuade women from seeking the procedure has been sent by Illinois legislators to Democratic...

Kayla Unbehaun, left, who disappeared at the age of 9 from South Elgin, in 2017. At right is an age-progressed image of Kayla, who was found in North Carolina.

South Elgin girl missing for 6 years is found in North Carolina after being featured on ‘Unsolved Mysteries’

May 16, 2023 at 5:41 p.m.

A girl missing from South Elgin for nearly six years was found safe in North Carolina last weekend after an employee of a used clothing store recalled seeing her plight...

Activists gather outside the Robert E. Jones Municipal Building before the City Council voted to approve an ordinance that would ban the mailing or shipping of abortion pills on May 2, 2023.

Downstate Danville approves ban on mailing abortion pills. But attorney general, civil liberties experts say ordinance is illegal.

May 3, 2023 at 5:19 p.m.

With a wave of recent medication abortion court rulings in the national spotlight, the City Council in downstate Danville on Tuesday narrowly approved a controversial ordinance that bans the mailing...

All Stories