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A cannabis-themed mural by artist Olusola "Shala" Akintunde on display, April 4, 2022, outside Sports World in Wrigleyville.

New Cannabis Research Institute will study the effects of marijuana and how best to manage it

December 16, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

A new cannabis research center in Chicago will explore the effects of the plant and how best to manage the industry, officials announced Thursday. The Cannabis Research Institute is expected...

Miembros de la Marina de EEUU cargan el féretro en el funeral del veterano Keith Tipsword, el 15 de noviembre de 2022, en el cementerio de Moccasin, Illinois.

Los restos de veterano regresan a casa desde Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Elmes pasado, en un cementerio rodeado de campos de maíz en el sur de Illinois una guardia militar ejecutó una salva de honor antes de que los restos del veterano...

U.S. Navy pallbearers carry the casket of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword on Nov. 15, 2022, at Moccasin Cemetery in downstate Moccasin. Tipsword was 22 when he died in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

Illinois veterans’ remains finally come home from Pearl Harbor after the Navy identifies them using DNA

December 7, 2022 at 10:07 a.m.

In a cemetery amid the cornfields of downstate Illinois last month, a military honor guard fired shots in salute before the remains of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword was...

Phyllis Gary, an intake and referral specialist with the 211 hotline in DuPage County, answers calls on Nov. 17, 2022, in Wheaton. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

New 211 hotline in DuPage County — and soon in Cook and Kendall — is a quick connection for non-emergency health and social services

November 26, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Unsure where to go for help, a homeless single mother named Mary made an important call after she had a baby in 2020. She dialed 211, a social service hotline...

The Young Lincoln statue covered in red paint with the words "COLONIZER" and "LAND BACK!" written underneath in Senn Park in Chicago on Nov. 24, 2022.

Lincoln statue in Chicago’s Edgewater park defaced

November 25, 2022 at 4:54 p.m.

A statue of young Abraham Lincoln was splashed with red paint on Thanksgiving Day with the words "COLONIZER" and "LAND BACK!" written below it in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. The vandals...

A female wild turkey takes flight in Bartlett.

A Thanksgiving success story: Wild turkeys, once hunted to oblivion in Illinois, have spread across the Chicago area

November 27, 2022 at 8:38 a.m.

Last winter, residents of north suburban Winthrop Harbor joined online to follow the exploits of seven wild turkeys dubbed The Magnificent Seven. The birds strutted through neighborhood yards and roosted...

Students walk on campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Aug. 24, 2022.

UIC dentistry professor used racist imagery and treated students of color unequally, lawmakers say in letter to school

November 22, 2022 at 11:16 a.m.

Lawmakers alleged Monday that racist comments and unequal treatment of students has been ongoing for years at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, including racist imagery and...

Exterior of the former Rainforest Cafe, on May 19, 2022. The cafe could become the home for a cannabis dispensary.

Controversial marijuana dispensary plan for former Rainforest Cafe in River North gets zoning OK despite worries of ‘pot district’

November 21, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

A controversial plan to open a fifth marijuana dispensary within Chicago's River North neighborhood won approval early Saturday, despite residents' concerns it would turn the area into a "pot district."...

A memorial in front of the Dobosz family home in Rolling Meadows is seen on Aug. 1, 2022. The family members were victims of a fatal head-on crash early Sunday on I-90 near Hampshire.

Woman who drove wrong way on I-90 and killed 6 from Rolling Meadows family and another girl was drunk at the time, coroner reports

November 14, 2022 at 6:34 p.m.

The driver who killed an entire Rolling Meadows family when driving the wrong way on Interstate 90 this summer in McHenry County had more than twice the legal amount of...

Lorri Grainawi, left, speaks with voters outside the Arlington Heights Village Hall on behalf of a referendum to create a tax levy for a mental health board Nov. 3, 2022, in Arlington Heights. Grainawi is a volunteer with the League of Women Voters and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Mental health programs to start in select suburbs after voters approved property tax hikes

November 15, 2022 at 8:59 p.m.

Publicly subsidized counseling, therapy and medical care soon will be available in select Chicago suburbs after voters approved property taxes for new mental health programs. Mental health boards were approved...

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