Lincoln Park
Before Jovan McPherson shot the officer, he held a 21-year-old woman at gunpoint as they drove from Elgin to Chicago, police said.
The exhibit opens Friday at the Chicago History Museum.
Police said they were investigating the fire at 400 block of West Wrightwood Avenue as an arson.
Reserve Management Group/Southside Recycling has since built a new shredding facility at its longtime property along the Calumet River at 116th Street and Burley Avenue.
Ald. Brian Hopkins wants to require party buses to halt operations at 10 p.m. The shooting at a gas station at North Avenue and LaSalle Street occurred just after midnight, and was the third mass shooting of the day.
Post-COVID life in all its joyful complexity is opening up for the vaccinated.
As eateries emerge blinking from their COVID caves, the first Lettuce Entertain You restaurant hits the big 5-0.
Dom’s Kitchen and Market — part restaurant, part grocery store — opened Tuesday at Diversey and Halsted.
Community members met with Ald. Michele Smith and Chicago police officers Friday, days after a teen was grazed by a bullet nearby.
Hard to believe now, but, from 1912 until its demise 30 years ago, the Lincoln Park Gun Club occupied a choice lakefront locale just north of the mouth of Diversey Harbor.
Southside Recycling, formerly known as General Iron in Lincoln Park, wants a federal judge to order the city to issue a final permit that will allow the opening of a new facility at East 116th Street and the Calumet River.
Police believe the males involved ages range from 17 to 30-years-old.
He helped about 16,000 Irish students visiting Chicago on summer visas. “I will never forget what he and his family did for us,” one said.
About 500 individuals and more than 70 organizations sent the mayor a letter urging her to halt the metal shredder’s opening on the Southeast Side. A Rush doctor calls the matter a “textbook example of environmental racism.”
Visitors are required to make reservations to enter.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is confronting the ‘hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,’ launching a process to review 41 statues and other monuments, including some of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.
The zoo’s auxiliary board is hosting a reopening celebration March 6 called Beers and Bears.
Chicago Public Schools announced that Tuesday’s in-person classes were canceled due to travel concerns stemming from “the significant snowfall on the ground and anticipated inclement weather.”
The pair, 31 and 27, were inside a Chrysler about 7 p.m. in the 1110 block of West Montana Street when two males came up and threatened them with a handgun, Chicago police said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the carjackings — which all happened within three hours — were related.
In each incident, two to four men approached someone on the sidewalk and demanded their property at gunpoint or by use of force, police said.
It’s the zoo’s second pandemic-related closure.
Lawyers for Lori Lightfoot’s Administration this week asked a federal agency to drop its civil rights investigation and downplayed the city’s role in the car shredder’s relocation from Lincoln Park.
Within minutes of the robbery, one victim pinged his stolen cellphone to the Avondale neighborhood, police say.
A city lawyer accuses community groups of exaggeration and says fears about air pollution are unwarranted.
Vanille Patisserie partners with the community group I Grow Chicago to distribute holiday desserts to families in need.
The carjackings happened within minutes of each other in the 2500 block of North Southport Avenue and the 2600 block of North Bosworth Avenue, police said.
About 11:20 p.m. the 19-year-old was driving a Hyundai sedan south on Lake Shore Drive, when he lost control in the 2400 block of North Lake Shore Drive, and crashed into the median wall.
The boys punched the woman in the face and threw her to the ground before running off with her purse and other items, police said.