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Instructor Unika Venson, left, and Cerissa Deocampo practice during an open pole session at Fempress Fit in Chicago on Feb. 4, 2020.

Core strength? Check. Cardio? Yes. Sex appeal? Absolutely: ‘Pole is a little of everything’

February 14, 2020 at 6:52 p.m.

In a small fitness studio in Lakeview earlier this week, Patty Yaconis taught a pole dancing class to a handful of women dressed in metallic booty shorts and crop tops....

Nell Dickens, 2, picks up a snowball as her parents, Jack and Laura, watch her play on Feb. 9, 2020, in Lincoln Park.

As snowfall tails off in Chicago, cloudy skies are on tap for Monday

February 9, 2020 at 4:27 p.m.

Chicago and much of northern Illinois were hit with snow Sunday morning and afternoon, though it was tailing off by 4 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The pocket...

Chicago police investigate the shooting near West Waveland and North Marshfield.

Armed man shot and killed by Chicago police officer in Lakeview, police say

February 11, 2020 at 9:32 p.m.

A Chicago police officer shot and killed an armed man Sunday morning in the North Side neighborhood of Lakeview, authorities said. Police were called about 5:15 a.m. to the 3600...

Lincoln Park High School junior Jovani Muñoz talks to reporters outside of the high school Thursday. He said a newly installed administrator reached her hand out and held his chin momentarily during an encounter at the school Tuesday. She has since left the school.

Lincoln Park High School leaders address growing safety concerns after day of student protests and some altercations as another misconduct claim surfaces

February 7, 2020 at 12:15 p.m.

Tensions at Lincoln Park High School resulting from a widening misconduct scandal were heightened Thursday by student walkouts, sit-ins and, in a few instances, physical altercations. Amid the upheaval of...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi extends a hand to President Donald Trump ahead of the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4, 2020.

Snubbing handshakes, as Trump did with Pelosi at State of the Union, more common as norms fall away

February 5, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.

Taking a pass on a handshake, as President Donald Trump did Tuesday night with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or even shaking hands awkwardly has become more common in politics and...

El veterano del Ejército de Estados Unidos, Miguel Pérez Jr., con sus padres Miguel Pérez y Esperanza Pérez.

Veterano deportado asistirá al discurso del Estado de la Unión de Trump

February 4, 2020 at 4:44 p.m.

Miguel Pérez Jr., un veterano del ejército que fue deportado y luego se le permitió regresar al país y obtuvo la ciudadanía después de un indulto estatal, asistirá al discurso...

U.S. Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. is flanked by his parents at a news conference Sept. 24, 2019, at Lincoln Methodist Church in Chicago. Perez was deported, then granted clemency by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Deported Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. who got pardon, citizenship will attend State of the Union

February 4, 2020 at 5:01 p.m.

Miguel Perez Jr., a veteran who was deported then allowed back into the country and gained citizenship following a state pardon, will attend the State of the Union address Tuesday...

Groundhog Club co-handler John Griffiths holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 134th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 2, 2020. Phil's handlers said the groundhog has forecast an early spring.

Early spring in Chicago? Forecasters say it’s too soon to tell — no matter what the groundhog says

February 2, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

The groundhog wasn't the only one throwing shade Sunday morning. Hours after the country's most highly esteemed groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, was hoisted in the air by his handler in Pennsylvania,...

1 dead, 4 injured after a series of shootings in one hour in Chicago early Sunday

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

A series of four separate shootings, including a homicide, occurred within a one-hour span in Chicago on Sunday morning — three of them in less than five minutes, according to...

Paramedics transport a man believed to be Hong Kong's first coronavirus patient to a hospital on Jan. 22, 2020.

First US person-to-person case of coronavirus reported in Chicago. ‘We believe people in Illinois are at low risk.’

January 31, 2020 at 1:41 p.m.

The first U.S. case of the new coronavirus spreading from one person to another, the husband of a woman who caught the disease while in China, was reported in Chicago...

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