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She's traveling the state, listening to people in Illinois agriculture to put together a strategy for equality in the farming industry, as well as ways to fight food insecurity.
Former Illinois U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun on Tuesday took U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to task – calling some recent comments he made an insult to Black women.
The Chicago area could get totals ranging from 3 to 16 inches of snow by Thursday, and Central Illinois could see the worst of it, with totals possibly approaching 18 inches.
The Cook County Treasurer's office has mailed out the first-installment property tax bills for Tax Year 2021.
"The Omicron variant of course has had greater ability to evade immunity. We have seen more people get breakthrough infections if they have been vaccinated."
A major snowstorm is yet again in the forecast for Groundhog Day this year – this coming Wednesday. It will mark the 11th anniversary of one of the most severe blizzards in Chicago history, and the seventh anniversary of an occasion when it happened all over again.
The city's at-home COVID-19 vaccination program will be canceled Wednesday and Thursday due to the winter storm bearing down on the area.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) said Blue Line trains were halted at the Cumberland stop for a period of time Tuesday because of a medical emergency on the tracks.
Crews couldn't even open the front door of the building at 2200 N Ashland Av., as water gushed through.
Some of the online offerings include a history of Chicago's first non-indigenous settler, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, and a discussion on how African Americans can pursue a career in a science, tech, engineering, or mathematics.
A gas station burglary in the northern suburbs led to a police pursuit that ended in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood.
One-way tickets are now only good for two weeks. The 10-ride tickets will only be valid for 90 days.
Watts also admitted to routinely extorting money from drug dealers and was sentenced to 22 months in prison.
Two people were killed and another was wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Police said the boy was walking on the sidewalk in the 11000 block of South Racine Avenue around 10 p.m., when someone shot him in the right leg.
