Foreign Journalists Praise Chicago, Say They'll Be Back
While few foreign journalists had time to enjoy, Chicago during the NATO Summit just ended, several of them praised the city and say they will return on their own time.
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While few foreign journalists had time to enjoy, Chicago during the NATO Summit just ended, several of them praised the city and say they will return on their own time.
More than 2,000 reporters from around the world will be covering the NATO summit here. Chicago hopes they'll pass along the good word about the Windy City.
On the one year anniversary of becoming Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel was talking Wednesday about what has surprised him about the job over the past 12 months.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel insisted Wednesday that the upcoming NATO summit will not only be good for Chicago, but historic as well.
On his first anniversary as Chicago's Mayor, Rahm Emanuel and developers have announced a new office building to be built in the West Loop, the first in several years.
It was one year ago tomorrow that Chicago inaugurated a new mayor.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced a $200 million deal to build a massive cargo center at O'Hare International Airport, a project set into motion by former Mayor Richard M. Daley more than 15 years ago.
It's been a year since Mayor Daley left office and Mayor Emanuel took the reins of city government.
The tan mom who had the world abuzz has tanning front and center again. A Chicago alderman has proposed a ban on tanning for anyone under 18 in the city.
Is the city of Chicago double-crossing demonstrators planning protests during the weekend of the NATO summit? That's what protest organizers are charging, claiming the city is going back on its word on where and how two big marches will conclude.
The head of the Better Government Association is giving the Emanuel administration high marks for changing a controversial sick day policy at the City Colleges of Chicago.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas says the State's Attorney is working to recover almost $7 million her office overpaid to the City of Country Club Hills and has yet to get back.
A South Side alderman says he is working to protect residents despite how it looks as he tries to lift Chicago's moratorium on landfills.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is celebrating an agreement with streets and sanitation workers that could save the city $30 million, and help provide faster response time for tree-trimming requests, rodent control, and graffiti removal.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is reassuring Chicago taxpayers that they won't be stuck with the bill for all the activity, security and disruptions that will occur around the NATO Summit the weekend of May 19.
Illinois lawmakers warn that reality is catching up with them as they grapple with the state's budget problems this Spring.
As part of the activities leading up to the NATO Summit next month, some Chicago high school students traded performances and questions with music students from Afghanistan in a live, electronic hook-up.
The Illinois Attorney General's office and a West Side alderman teamed up Wednesday to warn seniors about consumer fraud.
Now that his controversial construction financing plans have passed the City Council, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he does not mind if the aldermen make a couple more changes.
The City Council on Tuesday approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan for a controversial infrastructure trust.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says thanks to the mild weather, the City of Chicago is already starting to resurface more city streets than before.
A day after delaying a City Council vote on his complicated plan to fund public works projects with private money, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he's listening to complaints from aldermen who were upset with a lack of council oversight in the proposal.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is shrugging off comments from United Airlines' CEO that there's no demand for the expansion of O'Hare International Airport right now.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to put off consideration of his $1.7 billion project to rebuild the city's infrastructure, amid questions about oversight of the program.
The full City Council Wednesday will vote on a nearly three-quarter of a million dollar settlement in a case of rogue cops shaking down drug dealers.
Joliet police said Joseph D. Johnson, 29, was released from medical care at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood on Sunday morning.
Village President Fitzgerald Roberts said that the repairs on Paige were completed at around 3 p.m.
An Illinois State Police squad car was struck and damaged on Route 53 in Chicago's northwest suburbs.
Chicago police were on the scene of a SWAT incident in the North Edgebrook neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side.
Police in Joliet, Illinois, were searching Sunday for a man who held up a cellphone store this weekend.
The footage is included in a video that promotes false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Mr. Trump.
The FBI has arrested "one of the key participants" behind the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 that killed four Americans.
A new push to pass a GOP elections bill known as the SAVE America Act is underway in Congress, but Democrats warn the proposal could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
As immigration sweeps expand nationwide, the work of justifying detentions is overwhelming federal prosecutors, who are being forced to sideline a range of other cases in order to keep pace.
Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October, plans to attend President Trump's State of the Union address to Congress later this month, according to her attorney.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
A Near West Side diner known for drawing in Blackhawks fans and players is up for sale.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Brad Arnold, the founder and lead singer of the 3 Doors Down has died following "his courageous battle with cancer," the rock band announced Saturday on social media.
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Gamers across the world can now recreate drone strikes in Ukraine from the comfort of their own home, with this newly released game.
The members of Ratboys were teenagers when they met by chance, and now in their 30s, the Chicago band formed by two college friends almost two decades ago appears to be on the brink of something big.
Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog Night whose lead vocals powered a string of hits for one of the top rock acts of the late 1960s and early '70s has died. He was 83.
Temperatures drop into the teens, with clouds thickening up.
The driver of a Nissan SUV was transported from the scene and pronounced dead at an area hospital, while the driver of the truck was hospitalized with injuries in an unspecified condition.
At 10 p.m. Saturday, police were called to the 4400 block of South Drexel Boulevard, where they found the girl unresponsive.
Sunday marks one week since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing.
Neighbors said 33-year-old Dominique Servant and her boyfriend, 38-year-old Joey Ruffin, charged with first-degree murder and child endangerment, but kept to themselves.
A mother and her boyfriend will appear at a detention hearing on Monday after her 8-year-old son was found dead in their home from apparent abuse and malnourishment.
A driver was killed early Sunday when a sport-utility vehicle hit a Chicago Transit Authority bus in Chicago's Pilsen community.
Village President Fitzgerald Roberts said that the repairs on Paige were completed at around 3 p.m.
Joliet police said Joseph D. Johnson, 29, was released from medical care at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood on Sunday morning.
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Fewer Chicago kids are getting the dental care they need, and some dentists are blaming Chicago Public Schools.
Cynthia Eason recounted the moment Chicago police officers raided her family's home in 2018.
Water bills could be going up in several Chicago suburbs and other parts of Illinois, as Illinois American Water seeks a rate increase to fund infrastructure improvements.
The case involves a Chicago grandmother, her daughter, and her four grandchildren, who all said that Chicago police officers pointed guns at them during the botched raid.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel no longer will have to testify about an alleged "code of silence" at the Chicago Police Department, after a federal judge reversed an earlier ruling that would have allowed him to take the stand in a lawsuit over a botched police raid.
Lindsey Vonn, who came out of retirement to compete in the Milano Cortina Games, is in stable condition after her crash.
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Family and former coaches expressed pride knowing that players will be representing their communities on one of the biggest stages in sports.
Illinois led 39-35 at halftime after six ties and nine lead changes and was ahead by nine points early in the second half.
The Bulls led 104-97 after closing the third period on a 16-2 run, but Denver started the final quarter on a 20-2 spurt to take the lead for good.
Police in Joliet, Illinois, were searching Sunday for a man who held up a cellphone store this weekend.
A woman was in custody after another woman was slashed in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood this weekend.
Local and federal authorities said "investigators are actively inspecting the information provided in the message for its authenticity" regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
A South Side community came together on Friday, hoping for justice after a woman was shot and killed while her baby was in the back seat of their car earlier this week.
A Chicago city employee was found shot to death Friday morning inside an apartment in the West Ridge neighborhood.
