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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday due to complications from COVID-19, amid an ongoing battle with cancer. He was fully vaccinated but with several health issues.
The City of Evanston announced Monday that it will enact a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all municipal staff effective Nov. 15.
CTA Red Line service was rerouted from the State Street subway to the Loop 'L' on Monday afternoon due to someone going through a mental health crisis on the tracks at Harrison Street.
A woman has died after a stray bullet hit her in the head while she was inside her home in north suburban Zion.
A Chicago firefighter-EMT has been fired, after a watchdog investigation into a series of racist, offensive, and threatening posts on Facebook.
"Because this continuing course of conduct has no home in our Party, we will not stand silent in the face of such bigotry," the Cook County Democratic Party said of Ald. James Gardiner's behavior.
A Chicago college student was convicted Monday of assisting the terrorist group ISIS by writing computer code to help the group more effectively distribute propaganda on social media channels.
A 2-year-old boy was injured in a shooting in Joliet Sunday night.
The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police has said the city's vaccine mandate is a change to employment policies that must be negotiated with the union.
A group of men robbed three 7-Eleven convenience stores downtown in a span of 30 minutes on Monday morning, Chicago Police said.
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William Shatner Speaks At Rosemont Convention After Blue Origin Ride.
City officials have blamed ComEd for two outages at the Roseland Pumping Station in May, but an inspector general's investigation said the cause was a failure of rented city equipment.
Having your car damaged in a crash is bad, and getting your insurance claim denied is even worse.
At least 24 people were shot in weekend gun violence in Chicago, and four of them had been killed.
