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Cities like Houston and Atlanta use bans and suspensions for public transit riders who repeatedly commit crimes. Now Chicago's interim Superintendent Charlie Beck thinks Chicago should follow their lead.
"Fear can not guide us in this moment. Thoughtfulness and preparations are the rule of the day."
"Violence on our [mass transit] system is just not going to be tolerated," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday morning.
Police said several people, possibly nine women, reported being hit just before 9 a.m. outside the library, near Plymouth Court and Van Buren Street.
Kelly's defense team says the racketeering case in New York is an attempt at an "end run" around the statue of limitation on the underlying claims of illegal sexual activity.
Christopher Puente, 34, was charged last week with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault, after police say he lured a 3-year-old girl into a bathroom stall and raped her while her father was tending to her brother in the next stall.
Health officials are stressing the risk of contracting coronavirus remains low here, but the public needs to plan and prepare. What does that mean?
Two ordinances were introduced to the City Council last year to remove Columbus Day as a city holiday, and replace it with Indigenous People's Day.
A weak upper-level disturbance that kept cloud flurries around this morning is on the way out, leading to clear skies as a ridge of high pressure builds over central Illinois.
"This year we continue to see the threat to our public resources, which is of great concern, from the potential sale of the James R. Thompson Center, to the loss of 20 acres of Lakefront parklands in Jackson Park, the Midway and the South Shore Cultural Center for the proposed Obama Presidential Center."
"Our top priority is keeping Illinoisans safe and we are using every tool and resource at our disposal to prepare for this virus and contain any spread."
Colder than average temperatures continue into Friday, but the cold won't last for long.
Flash is 5 years old and he's a total lap dog!
The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported a mulitstate E. coli outbreak linked to Jimmy John's.
Emergency crews are responding to a fatal crash on I-57.
