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Feared defender of the Chicago Bears NFL team, who later acted on television and in films

We do not need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to providing mental health services to Latinos in Chicago, a nonprofit leader writes.

Elizabeth French spoke during a hearing where 25-year-old Eric Morgan pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, battery with a deadly weapon and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 7 years.

About 2:25 a.m., a man, 22, was found in the 6200 block of South Troy Street with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, Chicago police said.

There are things to potentially like in the mayor’s first budget. But there is an all-important issue on which the upcoming City Council budget hearings must shed considerable light: Does it all add up?

War in the Middle East plunged humanity to new lows on Sunday 8 October 2023 that have gripped international attention since. If that were not the case, the world would likely be abuzz with the breathtaking exploits of a 23-year-old Kenyan who changed running history in Chicago on the same…

Myrtle Brown’s body was found in a creek behind her home in suburban Chicago last month

The free festival allows the public to explore more than 170 culturally, historically and architecturally significant sites around the city.

The judge spent part of the hearing asking about Chicago’s persistent public corruption problem. At one point he stopped a prosecutor and asked, ‘Why does public corruption keep happening?’

Unlike the former department scrapped by Rahm Emanuel, the new City Hall addition would not enforce pollution laws.

This venerable Michigan Avenue denizen, which sits across from Grant Park and between Van Buren Street and Ida B. Wells Drive, counts among Chicago’s most distinctive and most visited architectural gems.