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Two people were shot and 13 police officers were injured amid the August 2020 rioting that led to standoffs with police and left heaps of shattered glass and empty storefronts from the South Loop to Lincoln Park.

CHICAGO — Many years ago, sitting in his office high atop the Wrigley Building, Mike King was telling me about the many people he had worked with in his long career as a sound engineer — a star-studded crowd that included Jonathan Winters, Burgess Meredith, Bob Newhart, Ellen Barkin, Dionne…

"Delia is who I believe in," Garcia told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Patrick Daley Thompson’s fellow Council members call him an unassuming man of his word lacking the arrogance they might have expected from a scion of Chicago’s most famous — and once, all-powerful — political family.

Chicago Public Schools’ Harriet Tubman Elementary had long been named for Swiss American biologist Louis Agassiz before it was changed last year to honor the Underground Railroad activist.

A grandson and nephew of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors has been convicted of tax crimes and making false statements

CHICAGO — Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was convicted by a federal jury Monday of filing false tax returns and lying to federal regulators about a line of credit he had with a failed Bridgeport bank.

Last year, the mayor unveiled a plan to confront gender-based violence and human trafficking. It was designed with input from survivors and supported by $25 million in "new investments" made possible by federal relief funds.

City officials last week said they’d follow the state’s lead in lifting a mask mandate by Feb. 28 — unless COVID-19 numbers worsened. Now, though citing "tremendous progress" against the Omicron surge, the mayor doesn’t want to set what she called an "artificial date."