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Rodney Wells, stepfather of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, speaks at a news conference with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, seen comforting Tyre's mother RowVaughn Wells, in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 27, 2023.

Legal experts fear Chicago’s slow police reforms could lead to a Tyre Nichols incident here 8 years after Laquan McDonald firestorm

January 31, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The video-recorded killing of Tyre Nichols that led to charges against police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, stirred echoes all the way in Chicago, where eight years ago another recorded death...

A firefighter hauls equipment to a high-rise building in the 4800 block of South Lake Park Avenue in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood for a fatal fire on Jan. 25, 2023.

Disaster workers in deadly Kenwood high-rise fire accused of stealing $19,000 from tenant

January 29, 2023 at 5:54 p.m.

Two disaster restoration workers assigned to a fire-damaged Kenwood neighborhood high-rise, where a resident died and numerous others were displaced last week, entered an undamaged apartment and stole $19,000 from...

Lou Manfredini and Lin Brehmer at the Chicago Auto Show's First Look For Charity at McCormick Place on Feb. 9, 2018.

The last great Chicago DJ? With Lin Brehmer’s death and rise of AI, are radio’s glory days over?

January 27, 2023 at 6:25 p.m.

The death of iconic WXRT-FM disc jockey Lin Brehmer not only left a hole in Chicago's once mighty rock radio landscape, it's a further reminder of the slow fade of...

5 suffer ‘apparent overdose’ at Mount Greenwood bar

January 23, 2023 at 5:17 p.m.

Five people at a Southwest Side bar were rushed to area hospitals Sunday after "an apparent overdose," according to Chicago police. The five adults were found at 3636 W. 111th...

2 teens shot, 1 killed trying to buy sneakers from an online seller, police say

January 23, 2023 at 10:16 a.m.

Two teenagers were shot, one fatally Sunday afternoon during a robbery where the teens were attempting to buy shoes from an online seller on the city's Far South Side, according...

Corey Cross secures vehicles on his truck. He had been digging out abandoned vehicles along northbound Lake Shore Drive near 40th Street since 5:30 a.m.

Chicago could see ‘near blizzard’ ahead of Christmas with dangerously cold air, weather service says

December 19, 2022 at 5:52 p.m.

Chicago residents yearning for a white Christmas are likely to get more than they hoped for, as meteorologists are looking at a possible "near blizzard," with snow and subfreezing winds...

Pedestrians cross Fullerton Avenue near DePaul University in Lincoln Park during a snow storm Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Navidad en Chicago: Aire peligrosamente frío y ¿Tormenta de nieve?

December 19, 2022 at 2:48 p.m.

Es probable que los residentes de Chicago que anhelan una blanca Navidad como la nieve obtengan más de lo que esperan, ya que los meteorólogos están observando una posible "tormenta...

Chicago Fire Department Lt. Quention Curtis speaks with students at the Black Fire Brigade in the Washington Park neighborhood on April 7, 2022.

Moms, rejected applicants decry new Chicago Fire Department exam procedures that shrink testing pool for city firefighters

December 13, 2022 at 3:11 p.m.

Retired Chicago first responder Monica Davis said she and her son Eulice thought he'd have a leg up in landing a job as a Chicago firefighter-EMT during an upcoming exam...

Parishioners raise their hands in worship as the Rev. Michael Pfleger leads the Sunday morning service at St. Sabina Church on June 6, 2021. "It's good to be home," an emotional Pfleger said to a packed and jubilant crowd at St. Sabina Church — his first time leading a congregation in five months.

Pfleger returns to first Sunday Mass following the end of archdiocese investigation

December 11, 2022 at 5:58 p.m.

Expressing feelings of immense gratitude, the Rev. Michael Pfleger began his homily on Sunday by thanking his parishioners, friends and staff a day after he was reinstated at service following...

A candle is lit on Dec. 11, 2022, after an overnight bar fight left three dead near West School Street and North Central Avenue on the Northwest Side.

Bar fight in Portage Park leaves 3 dead, 1 critically injured, police say. Neighbor calls violence ‘a whole new level of insanity.’

December 11, 2022 at 5:23 p.m.

A bar fight in Portage Park on the Northwest Side turned fatal early Sunday morning after gunfire broke out, leaving three people dead and one person in critical condition, Chicago...

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