After weeks of pushing early deals, retailers in the United States and some other countries tried to seduce customers with promises of bigger discounts on Black Friday, the sales event that still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season even if it’s lost some luster.
After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019.
Two children and a woman were crushed to death Friday as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory, medical officials said.
Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year.
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Wegrzyn scored 26 points in Libertyville’s season opener this week.
A 37-year-old woman was taken into custody after shooting a younger woman in the legs during a fight overnight in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 1 a.m. Friday, two women were arguing on the sidewalk in the 7000 block of South Eberhart Avenue when the argument became physical, police said. One of the woman, shot the other, who was younger once in the right leg and twice to the left, police said. The victim, 35, was taken to UChicago Medicine where she was listed in fair condition, police said. A firearm was recovered at the scene and […]
Aritzia is filling the long-vacant space at 555 N. Michigan Ave., former home of The Gap.
A 17-year-old boy was gunned down early Friday morning on the West Side in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 2:15 a.m., the boy was standing on the street in the 2800 block of West Polk Street when a black vehicle pulled alongside and someone opened fire, striking the teenage boy multiple times to the body, police said. The boy was taken to the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody for the fatal attack and detectives were investigating.