On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 5, according to the Tribune’s archives.
President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term, signing a proclamation Wednesday night preventing people from a dozen countries from entering the United States.
A Cook County judge on Wednesday released a Rolling Meadows man on electronic monitoring while he awaits court proceedings after he was charged with reckless homicide for striking a car and killing a 14-year-old passenger in the West Ridge neighborhood last January. Judge Ankur Srivastava denied the state’s petition to detain 25-year-old William Andrade pending trial […]
Advocates demanded the release of Ramon Morales Reyes, who appeared virtually before a Chicago immigration judge Wednesday following his arrest in Milwaukee on May 21.
South Florida-based Michelin-star chef Jacob Bickelhaupt is charged with a brutal assault on a woman that left her in critical condition with bleeding in her brain.
South Side Ald. Lamont Robinson’s campaign and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s 4th Ward Democratic Organization are on the hook for $1.475 million in punitive damages.
A Niles man remains in Lake County Jail after he allegedly shot a man at a Lake Forest dog park on Sunday, authorities said.
Before the proliferation of the internet as a change factor for the media landscape, newspapers, television and radio reigned supreme.
Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room is Empty,” has died. He was 85.