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Patrons visit the children's area of the Chinatown branch library on Aug. 8, 2019. Libraries remain an important part of community life despite a slight dip in attendance, a Chicago Public Library spokesman says.

Here are the city’s most popular books, according to the Chicago Public Library

August 10, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.

In Chicago, millions of books and people pass through the Chicago Public Library's 80 locations each year. In 2018 alone, 10.5 million books, DVDs and other materials were circulated throughout...

Chicago police Officer Keisha Harris cares for an infant while the child's mother went to their apartment to retrieve personal items after a fire caused the evacuation of their apartment building in the 12100 block of South Indiana Avenue in Chicago on Aug. 9, 2019.

‘Take my baby, my boy’s on fire!’ mom screams to neighbor during blaze that badly burned boy on Chicago’s Far South Side

August 9, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.

A family of four including a boy who suffered burns to more than 90% of his body were injured when a fire started in the bedroom of their West Pullman...

Famous boxer Joe Louis waves to the crowds on the South Side on Aug. 14, 1954, as he sits atop a float heading the Bud Billiken Parade. With the ex-champion are Booker Trotter, 9, left, and Joe Jr., 7. (baiduhai historical photo) published August 15, 1954

Bud Billiken Parade celebrates 90 years this weekend

August 9, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

Since 1929, African Americans in Chicago have marched 2 miles down what's now King Drive through Bronzeville and into Washington Park in a celebratory display of pride and commemoration of...

Eat your greens: Study finds frogs, lizards aren’t as rare as you might think in prepackaged lettuce

August 5, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

It turns out amphibians are fans of spinach and kale too. There have been 40 documented instances of wild vertebrates found in prepackaged produce in the United States, mostly leafy...

West Virginia man faces 2 felony charges following assault of paramedic outside Lollapalooza, police say

August 3, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

A man from West Virginia is facing two felony charges after assaulting a paramedic who was treating him and inflicting more than $500 in damages to equipment outside Lollapalooza, Chicago...

Corry Lee cools off his head with water from a fire hydrant faucet outside a fire station on Waveland Avenue, across the street from Wrigley Field on July 17, 2019, in Chicago.

Medical examiner confirms 2 heat-related deaths in Chicago, making 5 this season in Cook County

August 2, 2019 at 6:54 p.m.

Two people died from heat-related deaths in July, including a man who died months after a fall at Wrigley Field, bringing the total of those killed by the heat to...

Police investigate the scene where a pedestrian was struck and pinned under a CTA bus in the 600 block of North Fairbanks Court in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood on Aug. 2, 2019.

Woman hit by CTA bus, critically injured on Near North Side

August 2, 2019 at 6:10 p.m.

A woman was hit by a CTA bus and critically injured after being pinned underneath the bus Friday morning on the Near North Side, authorities said. Preliminary reports were that...

La Policía investiga la escena donde una mujer fue atropellada y quedó atrapada debajo de un autobús de la CTA, en la cuadra 600 N. Fairbanks Ct. en el vecindario de Streeterville, el 2 de agosto.

Una mujer se quedó atrapada debajo de un autobús de la CTA tras ser atropellada

August 2, 2019 at 11:18 a.m.

Una mujer fue atropellada por un autobús de la CTA y se encuentra en estado crítico después de quedarse atrapada debajo del autobús hoy en la mañana en el norte...

Teens work on their gardens at Urban Roots on July 23, 2019.

West Side teens become ‘plant experts’ for Garfield Park Conservatory through Chicago’s Urban Roots program: ‘It feels good to teach other people’

August 1, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

Diavionne Harris and her tour partner, soon to be juniors at Raby High School, led a group of preschoolers around the Garfield Park Conservatory. They paused in front of a...

Sister Pat Murphy meets with imprisoned undocumented immigrants during pastoral care time at the McHenry County Jail in 2017 in Woodstock.

Chicago nuns, 86 and 90, take protest for immigrants to Washington after years of prayer at Broadview ICE center

July 27, 2019 at 7:11 p.m.

Sister Pat Murphy and Sister JoAnn Persch marched into the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill recently with their identification and $50 worth of bail money,...

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