On Sept. 9, 1919, four men were killed and 64 were injured after police and security guards fired shots into a striking crowd where Columbia Avenue and Highland Street intersect in Hammond.
The Crawford Avenue span over the Cal-Sag Channel was built by the same company as the Golden Gate Bridge and NYC’s Washington Bridge.
With the high-stakes 2024 presidential election looming, alumni and former faculty of Wheaton College are playing an outsized role in the race.
Unit owners can opt-in to electronic communications, but they can’t be forced to communicate that way with a condo association.
Drought monitor shows 45% of Illinois is being affected by at least a moderate drought and parts of southern Illinois are experiencing severe drought.
A 17-year-old boy accused of killing his mother was ordered detained Saturday after prosecutors described an unprovoked shooting at point blank range inside the family’s South Shore home. The teen, Davion Pryor, was identified by his father as the person who shot and killed his 43-year-old mother, Tatanisha Jackson, inside her residence in the 6800 block of South Cornell Avenue Thursday afternoon, authorities told a Cook County judge during a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. Pryor was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in connection with Jackson’s death, after turning himself into a police station in […]
As the sun rose on Saturday, thousands of fans made their way to Lincoln Park to watch their favorite teams play football—the British kind. With nine screens projecting live games between soccer teams from England’s Premier League, the Guinness flowed freely as fans wearing their favorite players’ jerseys waved flags and broke out into chants. […]
A 29-year-old man was fatally wounded late Saturday morning in a shooting on the South Side in the Washington Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 11 a.m., the victim was in the 5700 block of South Prairie Avenue when two people exited a black SUV and opened fire in his direction. The man suffered gunshot wounds to the body, and was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.
The newly reopened South Haven Boys & Girls Club has had so many renovations that only one room still has the same dimensions it did before the $5.5 million addition and remodeling project began.
What do Plato and J. Robert Oppenheimer have to do with Taylor Swift? North Central College faculty are going to tell you. Wednesday night, the Naperville college is hosting a series of “TayTalks.” That’s right, a whole evening of faculty presentations about the superstar herself. Call yourself a Swiftie? Buckle up. Speakers are set to celebrate and discuss Swift through the context of everything from physical therapy to physics.