Jessica Villagomez

Cresco Labs employee Nicholas Stankus counts out cash received for a medical cannabis sale on Dec. 30, 2019.

Legal weed in Illinois: The first day of recreational marijuana sales features long lines, some glitches — and mostly happy customers

January 2, 2020 at 5:33 p.m.

Illinois started off the new decade by embarking into the world of recreational marijuana, where people can buy the intoxicating plant legally and without a prescription. Across the Chicago area,...

Tow truck driver killed on Eisenhower Expressway as he responded to an earlier crash

January 1, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.

Tow truck driver Andrew R. Dove-Ferdere, 23, of Berkeley, was killed when a car hit him Wednesday morning as he stood outside his truck on the Eisenhower Expressway after responding...

Evelyn Hightower and Darius Bell talk about their daughter, 19-year-old Michigan State University student Lyniah Bell, who was home for winter break when she was shot and killed, allegedly by her boyfriend, Lafayette Hodges, 18, as he played with a revolver in a South Side apartment.

Family mourns lost promise of their daughter, shot to death while home on break from Michigan State. ‘I’m very proud of her. Her legacy will live on.’

December 31, 2019 at 1:56 p.m.

Lyniah Bell dreamed of being a news anchor, and she was well on her way by the time of her senior prom in June. The North Lawndale College Prep student...

Three people canoe on Lake Michigan at Loyola Beach on an unusually warm day on Dec. 26, 2019, in Chicago.

Chicago’s stretch of unseasonably warm weather is coming to an end

December 29, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

Pack up the cargo shorts and flip-flops: Colder winter weather — including snow — is once again on the horizon this week, according to the National Weather Service. Sunday was...

A bullet hole can be seen in the lower right portion of the window of a home in the 3500 block of South Washtenaw Avenue on Dec. 25, 2019. A 7-year-old girl was critically wounded after she was shot in the Brighton Park neighborhood in the early morning hours of Christmas Day.

$1,000 reward offered for information about shooting of 7-year-old girl on Christmas morning on Southwest Side of Chicago

December 26, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

A $1,000 reward is being offered for information about the shooting of a 7-year-old-girl as she watched television with her cousins early Christmas morning in the living room of a...

Police, activists and members of the community pray during an "Operation Wake Up" rally in the 5700 block of South May Street on Dec. 23, 2019, where 13 people were shot early Sunday morning when a shooter opened fire inside a large memorial gathering.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Shooting that injured 13 at memorial party in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood ‘an act of cowardice’

December 22, 2019 at 8:22 p.m.

Chicago police are questioning a person of interest after 13 people were wounded, four of them critically, during a shooting inside a memorial gathering early Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood...

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Legal weed in Illinois: The first day of recreational marijuana sales features long lines, some glitches — and mostly happy customers

Tow truck driver killed on Eisenhower Expressway as he responded to an earlier crash

Family mourns lost promise of their daughter, shot to death while home on break from Michigan State. ‘I’m very proud of her. Her legacy will live on.’

Chicago’s stretch of unseasonably warm weather is coming to an end

$1,000 reward offered for information about shooting of 7-year-old girl on Christmas morning on Southwest Side of Chicago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Shooting that injured 13 at memorial party in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood ‘an act of cowardice’

Shipping container belonging to Englewood anti-violence group located

Chicago mom born in Chile who’s struggled with addiction is spared from deportation — for now

Chicago police expanding number of detective divisions in hopes of improving response time and clearance rate

Guerra entre pandillas se cobra otra víctima inocente