Chicago Weather: A Night Of Light Rain
Clouds and spotty showers linger Thursday night and Friday.
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Clouds and spotty showers linger Thursday night and Friday.
The jobs crisis continues, with more than 25,000 people in Illinois applying for unemployment benefits last week.
A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot in the stomach Thursday morning near 91st and Ellis, and was hospitalized in critical condition.
Seven people were rushed to the hospital, including a 3-year-old girl who was trapped, when a house exploded in Porter, Indiana on Thursday.
"I really hope truly that it was an accident. That he tried to move out of the way. We don't have all of the details, just that he went into the closed lanes of traffic."
The House Special Investigating Committee held its first hearing Thursday in Springfield as lawmakers on the panel consider whether to recommend Madigan face any political sanctions over his dealings with ComEd, which has been charged with a years-long bribery scheme.
The City of Chicago plans to begin paying to replace old lead pipes connecting the water to some people's homes and installing meters on those old lines to measure usage.
People will be hired and trained as contact tracers and temperature screeners Others will be in charge of things like sanitizing buildings.
It's the highest daily total of new COVID cases in Illinois this week, but still part of an overall downward trend from the last few weeks.
Four businesses were broken into within miles of each other on the Northwest Side Thursday morning.
Sheriff's deputies are searching for several people who carjacked a man as he ordered at a McDonald's drive thru in Homer Glen before leading police on a chase down I-80.
Bellamy has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with fraudulently obtaining $1.2 million in coronavirus relief funds and spending the money at a South Florida hotel and casino and on luxury goods such as Dior, Gucci and other designer items.
The Juice Man lawsuit claims the company used child-friendly flavors like cotton candy and used social media platforms with cartoons and giveaway competitions to entice young people.
Lyft on Thursday announced it is expanding its LyftUp Jobs Access Program, offering free or discounted rides to those looking for work.
"I'm hopeful that Region 7 might become a testament to the community's ability to turn the ship around in the right direction," Pritzker said.
