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Protesters chant slogans at the entrance to the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont on Sept. 13, 2017. People gathered to protest the handling of the investigation of the death of Kenneka Jenkins. The 19-year-old was found dead inside a walk-in freezer in a vacant part of the hotel on Sept. 10.

Amid pressure from Kenneka Jenkins’ family, police offer new details of death probe

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

Rosemont officials released some new details late Wednesday about their investigation into the death of Kenneka Jenkins and said they will share hotel surveillance video with her mother. The developments...

Axelrod and Kristol bridge political gap in distaste for Trump

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Former President Barack Obama's onetime senior adviser David Axelrod and Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol may have spent their careers on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they were...

Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd looks over at Proco Joe Moreno, 1st during a city council meeting May 20, 2015.

Ald. Hopkins no longer tormented by ambulance sirens

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

If City Council members have noticed a fresher-looking Ald. Brian Hopkins around City Hall lately, there's a good reason. Hopkins has escaped the din of late-night ambulance sirens in Streeterville...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pauses as she participates in a conversation with Judge Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Roosevelt University Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Chicago.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her workout, love life and the Notorious B.I.G.

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

She's already a U.S. Supreme Court justice, a feminist icon and a hero to millennials, but at 84, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about to add another unlikely string to her...

Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash could be extradited "within weeks," his lawyer said Monday.

Lawyer says extradition of oligarch tied to Trump campaign chief imminent

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Billionaire Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is at "great risk" of being brought from Austria to face justice in a Chicago courtroom "within weeks," his lawyer told a federal judge Monday....

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool.

Forrest Claypool and Karen Lewis share an unlikely love of Ayn Rand

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

It's no secret that Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis and Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool don't see eye to eye on much. But Lewis revealed this week that...

Hillary Clinton speaks as Donald Trump hovers nearby during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 9, 2016.

At about $90 and up, Hillary Clinton book tour tickets double what was originally advertised

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Hillary Clinton's promoters painted her as a woman of the people when they last month told Chicago Inc. that tickets to the Chicago stop of her upcoming book tour would...

Left, Jesse Jackson Jr. exits the courtroom with his attorney Brendan Hammer at the Daley Center courthouse following his divorce hearing in Chicago, Friday, April 28, 2017.

Sandi Jackson subpoenas Tamron Hall, strip club and bath house owners in Jesse Jr. divorce

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Former Ald. Sandi Jackson's divorce from former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. keeps getting nastier. Now she wants to subpoena television reporter Tamron Hall as well as a Harvey strip...

William "Dock" Walls attends a mayoral debate at ABC-Ch. 7 on Feb. 5, 2015, in Chicago.

Listen: Perennial mayoral candidate Dock Walls ‘murdering the hits’

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Would Adele's hit ballad "Hello" have had the same impact if it had been all about life in Chicago under mayor Rahm Emanuel? Probably not — but long odds have...

Cardinal Blase Cupich's late father, Blase Cupich Sr., was a retired rural mail carrier who was elected to Omaha's Sarpy County Council in 1976. And according to the World-Herald's account of Cupich the elder's victory over a rival incumbent, the race came with a dose of Chicago-style intrigue.

The time Cardinal Cupich’s dad allegedly won an election with a little Chicago-style help

May 23, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Cardinal Blase Cupich scored a major victory last week when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a program granting tax breaks to folks who donate to scholarships at private schools....

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