Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Mayoral candidates Ja’Mal Green, Willie Wilson drop ballot challenges against each other

The ballot spots for community activist Green and millionaire businessman Wilson are expected to be secured at a board meeting next week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s what Chicago area attractions, entertainment are closed, postponed due to severe weather

The Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium and Botanic Gardens are among the many area attractions whose hours of operation are affected by the winter snow storm.

Chicago Sun-Times

Homelessness can’t be fixed with one-size-fits-all approach

Chicago shouldn’t copy New York City’s approach. Hospitalization takes an individual who has a mental health condition off the street, but it doesn’t guarantee they won’t end up there again.

Chicago Sun-Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Venezuelan migrant dies by suicide in suburban Chicago hotel run as shelter, raising concerns about mental health crisis among asylum-seekers

CHICAGO — Like the thousands of migrants who arrived in Chicago from the Texas border in the summer on charter buses, Rona Matahary Rozo, who was 30, had a dream of a better life in this country for her and her family. But on Dec. 2 she was found dead…

Chicago Tribune

Chicago mayor, top doctor urge masking in public as COVID-19 cases rise

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged residents to get vaccinated and boosted as the Christmas holiday approaches and noted that the city will issue a mask advisory if COVID-19 cases continue rising.

Chicago Tribune

3rd apparent suicide by a Chicago police officer in a week highlights continuing CPD problem

A psychologist and former cop said the department must do more to help officers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago moves toward high risk for COVID-19; Lightfoot urges all to get shots

Mayor says mask “advisory” is coming as virus cases rise.

Chicago Sun-Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Young men ‘three times more likely’ to be shot dead in two US cities than in Iraq or Afghanistan

Shocking findings put the risk of firearm-related death in perspective, sparking calls for urgent need for violence reduction policies

The Independent UK

Chicago under winter weather warning: Wind-whipped snow much of the day, temps dropping 20 to 30 degrees, glazed roads

The powerful Arctic front is expected to drop 3 to 6 inches of snow, most of that Thursday afternoon and evening. But the real danger will be the wind and the cold, with possible white-out conditions with near zero visibility.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cops dressed as Father Christmas and elves bust drug kingpin dubbed 'the Chicago Grinch'

Peru's National Police donned festive costumes while on an undercover operation, where they busted a drug kingpin in Lima and seized a large quantity of drugs including cocaine

Daily Mirror

How we told the story of ‘Little Chicago’

As Sun-Times journalists dug into 2020 U.S. census data about the city, we searched for the neighborhood that most closely reflected Chicago’s racial makeup. We found it on the Far North Side.

Chicago Sun-Times

Why Dansby Swanson is buying into Cubs’ vision for winning now: ‘They definitely have a clear plan’

CHICAGO — Finding a new home with the Chicago Cubs carried deeper meaning for Dansby Swanson.

Chicago Tribune

No Chicago Bears players made the 2023 Pro Bowl roster

There won't be any Bears at this year's Pro Bowl, but a couple of former players earned a spot on the roster.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chicago native, onetime Bull Dwyane Wade nominated for Hall of Fame

Wade headlined a list of first-time nominees by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Wednesday that also included Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker and Pau Gasol. Bulls coach Billy Donovan and former Heat guard Goran Dragic reflected on Wade.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

Emmett Till and his mother honored with congressional medal

Congress awards Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teen murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Things to do in Chicago Dec. 22-Jan. 4

Concerts by Robbie Fulks, Michael McDermott and Straight No Chaser, “Cirque Dreams Holidaze” and comedy by John Oliver and Cameron Esposito are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Tribune

Bulls guard Lonzo Ball ‘still a ways out’ from returning from knee injury: ‘Just trying to work through the pain’

CHICAGO — Lonzo Ball greeted a group of fathers as he made his way through Carter’s on North Halsted on Wednesday afternoon.

USA Today Sports Media Group

ESPN’s 2021 re-draft sends Justin Fields to New York, Zach Wilson not in top 15

ESPN 2021 redraft sees Justin Fields in New York instead of Chicago.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Sports Illustrated

Dansby Swanson Explains Family Connection to Cubs In Press Conference

The shortstop said he ‘felt called to’ sign with Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blizzard conditions expected to sweep Chicago area Thursday through Christmas

Less than 6 inches of snow is forecast, but dangerously cold temperatures and brutal wind gusts will make travel treacherous throughout Christmas weekend, officials warned Wednesday.

Chicago Tribune

As possible blizzardlike conditions barrel toward Chicago, advocates for homeless work to provide shelter, save lives

CHICAGO — As Chicago braces for possible blizzardlike conditions this week, Andy Robledo headed to West 16th Street and South Union Avenue Tuesday morning to check on two people living in black winterized tents he built. Although it was a cold morning, the weather was nothing like the extreme wind,…

Chicago Sun-Times

Another walleye moment off the Chicago lakefront

Jon Bannister and his nephew Kayden Monterestelli caught multiple walleye in Calumet Harbor in September, another glimmer of hope for walleye fishing on our end of Lake Michigan.

Chicago Sun-Times

Countdown to 2023: 10 Chicago New Year’s Eve events

From hotel parties to bar pop-ups and comedy shows to concerts, here’s a guide to some of the events to ring in the new year on Dec. 31.

Tribune News Service

Winter ‘bomb cyclone’ bears down on Chicago ahead of holiday travel rush

Chicago is in the cross-hairs of a powerful winter storm that could become a “bomb cyclone” — with deep snow, searing winds and an Arctic chill — threatening to disrupt Christmas travel for millions of people in the U.S.

Fortune

McDonald’s former security chief claims he was fired for publicly criticizing CEO's controversial text messages

Michael Peaster claims he was barred from using the company's private jet after he accused the CEO of victim-blaming following two fatal shootings in Chicago.

1 … 365 366 367 368

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Wear Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.