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Authorities say the owners of J.A.K.'S Puppies in Iowa started a nonprofit rescue organization as a way to provide pricey pups to businesses in Chicago and elsewhere. The rescue agreed to cease operations under the terms of a settlement with the Iowa attorney general.

Loophole allowing designer and purebred puppies to be sold as rescue dogs in Chicago could be closed as alderman seeks end to ‘inhumane’ practice, but pet shops push back

May 29, 2020 at 4:48 p.m.

A Chicago alderman is trying to close a loophole in the city's anti-puppy mill ordinance that has allowed some pet shops to sell pricey designer dogs from sham rescues tied...

Sherman Morisette tries to navigate life with a cellphone at his studio apartment.

Once labeled irredeemable, long-imprisoned Chicago man relishes second chance, hopes his case paves way for others during pandemic

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

Sherman Morisette served 35 years in prison for robbing a Chicago taxi driver at gunpoint on Christmas Eve in 1983. It was his third stickup in seven years, all committed...

Nigerian immigrant working as CNA dies of COVID-19 months before becoming nurse, citizen

May 14, 2020 at 6:07 p.m.

Nearly five years after emigrating from Nigeria, Ijeoma Afuke was within reach of realizing two major goals. The certified nursing assistant was studying to become a nurse in the United...

A hearse carrying the body of nurse Krist Angielen Guzman, 35, stops in front of her Bolingbrook home and pauses for a neighborhood prayer and balloon release.

‘Mommy’s not coming back.’ Another Chicago-area nurse dies of COVID-19.

February 3, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.

Five months ago, Krist Angielen Guzman gave birth to her third child. She named the boy Leandro after her maternal grandfather and an uncle, a renowned pediatric surgeon in the...

Angelo Kafkis views birthday cards given to his late father, Peter Kafkis, while clearing the home of his parents.

12 families, 24 victims: COVID-19 has been especially brutal on these Chicago families

February 3, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.

As John Nakawatase lay unconscious in a hospital bed, breathing with the help of a ventilator, his two oldest children caught one last glimpse of their father on a FaceTime...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Five inmates that tested positive for COVID-19 in the state prison system have died

April 13, 2020 at 6:54 p.m.

A fifth inmate in an Illinois prison has succumbed from a COVID-19-related illness, state officials confirmed Monday. They were all men, the youngest in his 50s, and incarcerated at Stateville...

Marissa Vazquez at the grave of her father, Jose Vazquez, at Acacia Park Cemetery.

Family buries husband and father due to COVID-19, wonders if he had to leave them

February 3, 2021 at 1:11 p.m.

As a passenger service agent at one of the world's busiest airports, Jose Vazquez found himself surrounded by thousands of people each day at his job early last month as...

Basil Powell visits with his family in Joliet on April 9, 2020, after being released from Dixon Correctional Center.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker quietly grants clemency requests to Illinois prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic, including one released Thursday who had been serving life

February 3, 2021 at 1:14 p.m.

After nearly four decades in prison for his role as the lookout in two gas station robberies, Basil Powell was given a second chance at life Thursday. Gov. J.B. Pritzker...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Chicago’s coronavirus disparity: Black Chicagoans are dying at nearly six times the rate of white residents, data show

April 8, 2020 at 6:58 a.m.

Black Chicagoans are dying from the coronavirus at a rate higher than any other racial demographic, public records show, a reflection of the deadly consequences that economically disadvantaged communities have...

The Rev. Eileen Harris, pictured near her home in Palatine on April 1, 2020. Harris' husband and daughter were killed by Russell Sedelmaier in 2005.

State’s first COVID-19 prison death was double murderer serving life for attack on Buffalo Grove family

April 2, 2020 at 2:14 p.m.

The first Illinois prisoner to die after being infected with the coronavirus was a former Chicago man serving a life sentence for murdering a pastor and his daughter during a...

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