Kaitlin Washburn

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough was hospitalized for serious medical condition, her spokesperson said. “Her family is requesting privacy, and we ask for prayers for the Clerk and her family at this difficult time,” said Sally Daly, deputy clerk of communications.

Sendy Soto, a former official with the city’s Department of Housing and co-chair of the housing committee on Johnson’s transition team, will take on the job next week.

His surgeons spent 10 hours transplanting his new lungs and liver in September. Six months after the operation, Dr. Gary Gibbon remains cancer-free, able to breathe on his own and celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday.

Unite Here Local 1, representing the workers at the Signature Room and its lounge, said in a lawsuit in October the employer failed to give 60 days notice of a closing or mass layoff, violating state law.

The city of Chicago has worked for years on building design standards that prevent fatal crashes of migratory birds. Making those standards optional for builders is a problem, bird lovers say.

The new report by ACLU of Illinois and Women’s Justice Institute shares stories from women who were pregnant while jailed across Illinois. Researchers also say a quarter of county jails don’t have written policies on how to care for people who are pregnant or postpartum.

The 43rd annual 8K run kicked off Sunday at Columbus Drive and Monroe Street. ‘It’s just a great experience, especially the feeling of running with a big group of people,’ said one runner about racing.

An ordinance introduced in the City Council would ban the sale of alternative cannabinoids, the compound found in cannabis and hemp, outside of licensed weed dispensaries and impose tighter zoning restrictions on unregulated sellers.

The donation, given to the Instituto del Progreso Latino, comes as the nonprofit’s funds for rental assistance are running low.