Bronzeville
The National Weather Service confirmed that 11 tornadoes touched down Monday night and six on Sunday. Interstate 55 remains closed in both directions near Channahon after power lines fell on the highway.
A partir de las 9:45 p.m., el servicio meteorológico informó de 10 tornados activos en el área de Chicago, según los meteorólogos de ABC7 y WGN-TV. Era demasiado pronto para evaluar los posibles daños, pero poco después de las 10 p.m., ComEd informó de 2,226 fallos que afectaron a 201,217 clientes.
The City Council’s Aviation Committee authorized a 10-year deal for Bronzeville Bar and Bites to operate in Terminal 5. The joint-venture partnership will have 55% participation by minority and disadvantaged businesses.
Three people have been killed in separate shootings this week near the beach.
The two women were in the 600 block of East 31st Street when they were shot, police said.
That makes nine schools renamed since a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders, and schools named after white people — mostly men — vastly outnumbered those named for African Americans, Latinos and indigenous people.
Ivan Weldon, 42, is charged with stabbing a man in the neck, shoving and kicking another man, and punching a third man at two Green Line stops on the South Side.
“We need to make a lot of noise and draw attention to the people who get paid to investigate and look for missing people,” said “We Walk for Her” marcher Zakiyyah Muhammad, 78.
The man, who was taken to a hospital in critical condition following the incident, forced open the doors and stepped off the tracks.
Leaders including state Sen. Dick Durbin applauded the move as a path toward sustainability as weather threats and climate change become more common throughout Illinois.
A 36-year-old man died after an argument turned physical Thursday night, police said.
The train was approaching the 47th Street station when the man was shot in the leg, police said.
Bears President Kevin Warren has rejected the 48.6-acre Michael Reese site, saying it’s too narrow and doesn’t work because the stadium would have to be built “over an active train line.”
The cause of the fire was apparently accidental, police said.
Since the pilot project launched in 2022, the Bronzeville stations have served almost 300 drivers and provided more than 2,800 charging sessions, according to ComEd officials.
The Chicagoan quit a career in sales to pursue his dream of being a chef.
The Phillips boys basketball team won the Class 2A state championship Saturday. At a celebration held in the school’s gym Wednesday, players from the 1975 championship team joined this year’s squad.
One day after the Bears offered to spend $2 billion in private money to help build a publicly owned dome near where Soldier Field sits now, Friends of the Parks board member Fred Bates was not appeased by the team’s sketchy promise to create nearly 20% more open space.
The 23-year-old was standing outside in the 4000 block of South Dearborn Street about 9:45 a.m. when he was shot in the right leg, police said.
The 44-foot display at McCormick Place was just a prototype for what will be an 88-foot installation inside the museum telling the story of the “Power of Words.”