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Artist Rob Loukotka, whose Kickstarter campaign promised to create posters for Looney Tunes fans, prepares posters for shipping from his Chicago home. After he fell behind on deliveries, some donors complained to the Illinois attorney general's office.

Crowdfunding is a popular way to raise money. Just don’t count on getting a refund if something goes wrong.

April 18, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

Rob Loukotka launched his fifth Kickstarter project in the summer of 2017. Within a month, the Chicago-based artist had raised more than $20,000 online from nearly 400 people across the...

6 things you need to know before giving money on a crowdfunding website

April 15, 2019 at 5:02 a.m.

Online crowdfunding is a relatively new phenomenon, but the leading websites have quickly gained wide name recognition and become common tools for raising and donating money online. Still, there are...

A marching band plays under the snow during "El Dia del Nino" ("Day of the Child") parade in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on April 27, 2019.

Thundersnow drops more than 5 inches of accumulation at O’Hare, cancels more than 1,000 flights

May 22, 2019 at 6:53 a.m.

A spring storm dumped more than 5 inches of snow on parts of the city and brought sightings of a rare weather phenomena — thundersnow — on Sunday, nearly breaking...

Since Saturday afternoon, two women killed, two injured in separate city shootings

May 23, 2019 at 1:58 a.m.

A 23-year-old woman killed Sunday morning while sitting in a vehicle in the South Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, one of four women shot in separate incidents since...

Robert Krankvich, right, and attorney Jeffrey Anderson announce the filing in April 2018 of a lawsuit alleging that the Rev. Richard McGrath, the former Providence Catholic High School president, sexually abused Krankvich when he was a student there in the 1990s.

Where is Father McGrath? Priest who was accused of child sex abuse is still AWOL from order but criminal investigations end

April 8, 2019 at 11:48 a.m.

In the 15 months since the Rev. Richard McGrath abruptly retired from Providence Catholic High School amid a probe into “potentially inappropriate material” on his phone, the priest was the...

Gary Powell helps Bonnie Noe cast her ballot at the 48th ward 5th precinct polling site in the Edgewater Beach Apartments April 2, 2019.

Voter turnout for Chicago likely to rival historic low, election official says

June 14, 2019 at 10:50 a.m.

It was an election that made history in Chicago, sending the first black woman to City Hall, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the dismal turnout at the polls...

Woman who got out of disabled vehicle on I-294 in Des Plaines fatally struck by another car

May 23, 2019 at 1:55 a.m.

A 27-year-old woman who stepped out of a disabled vehicle was killed early Saturday when a car hit her and another man on Interstate 294 in Des Plaines, authorities said....

Members of the jury for Robin Gecht examine the van used in the attempted murder of a North Side woman who was raped, sexually mutilated and left for dead along railroad tracks in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, Sept. 22, 1983.

Thomas Kokoraleis, Ripper Crew murderer released from prison, registers to live at Aurora halfway house

May 23, 2019 at 1:55 a.m.

A day before his deadline, a convicted murderer from the sexually sadistic Ripper Crew has notified the Aurora police that he is set to live at a halfway house in...

‘Dark day’ for Illinois State Police as another trooper hit by vehicle, killed on the job

May 23, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

Ever since an Illinois state trooper was hit by a car and killed in January near Northbrook — followed by a spate of other crashes into stopped squad cars —...

Oficial de la Policía de Illinois muere atropellada cerca de Rockford

March 28, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

Una oficial de la Policía de Illinois fue atropellada por un camión y murió el jueves por la tarde durante una parada de tráfico cerca de Rockford. El accidente ocurrió...

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