Vice President Kamala Harris is propelling her presidential push by speaking Thursday to the American Federation of Teachers, the first labor union to formally endorse her candidacy.
The fair started Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the Lake County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Grayslake.
Chicago police responding to ShotSpotter technology Thursday night discovered a man in a wheelchair wounded on the South Side near the Englewood neighborhood. About 10:20 p.m., the man was discovered shot to the right hip in the 7400 block of South Perry Avenue on the sidewalk. The suspect fled in an unknown direction from the scene, police said. The victim was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was listed in fair condition, but he refused to provide details about the shooting, police said. No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.
A new director of campus safety will start at Oak Park-River Forest High School next week, the fourth hire for the role in 14 months. On July 11, the Oak Park-River Forest High School District 200 Board of Education approved the hiring of Kristen Devitt to be campus safety chief at OPRFHS, the district’s lone school. Devitt, who has been working as a regional director of security for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, will start at the high school Aug. 1. She will be the school’s fourth director of campus safety in a little more than 14 months. The three previous campus […]
The project promises to boost Chicago as a leader in the nascent quantum computing field, while revitalizing the city’s Southeast Side, which has struggled economically since U.S. Steel closed its once massive plant more than 30 years ago.
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Southwest Airlines is doing away with its 50-year tradition and plans to start assigning seats and premium seating for customers who are seeking more legroom.
Some people have an admirable capacity to forgive. Look no further than former Chicago Blackhawks prospect Kyle Beach finding it in himself to have a phone conversation with former general manager Stan Bowman, who by his own admission failed Beach with his silence when Hawks senior management failed to act on Beach’s sexual assault allegations […]
Geneva receiver Talyn Taylor, a Georgia commit ranked No. 6 in the nation at the receiver position, was invited to play in the Adidas All-American Bowl.
The director of “Twisters” says no one in the movie says the words “climate change” because he doesn’t think “films are meant to be message-oriented.”