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A social media video showed the armed couple standing outside of their large ag8亚集团官方网站home Sunday evening in the upscale Central West End neighborhood of the Missouri city.

Birders are keeping watch over a second annual hatching of piping plovers, federally endangered shorebirds, at Montrose Beach.

With new cases of COVID-19 continuing and no vaccine, some parents feel more comfortable keeping their children out of schools.

By Alison Bowen

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A 40-year-old man was taken to a hospital for some minor scrapes and bruises after he fell on the Pink Line tracks Sunday night, according to Chicago police.

By Paige Fry

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The shooting deaths marked a bloody Saturday, in which eight people including the children were killed in separate shootings.

Three young children were shot Saturday and the violence continued Sunday, with three homicides in a matter of hours.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

The plan to reopen Illinois depends on a host of metrics laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Here's a breakdown of where each region stands.

Search COVID-19 cases in Illinois by ZIP code

As the coronavirus spreads, the Tribune is tracking Illinois cases here.

A 23-year-old from Northlake was killed in a single-vehicle accident about 1:45 a.m. Sunday and his passenger, a 23-year-old from Harvey, was seriously injured.

By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas

Jun 28, 2020

District 300 condemns video posted by students and described as racist

The University of Notre Dame has hired former South Bend mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as a researcher and teacher for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Naperville Park Board decides that incurring additional litigation expenses was not warranted since Phases 3 and 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan concerning the use of park district facilities and programs provided greater flexibility in park operations.

Black Lives Matter protest calls on Cook County State's Attorney to take action in 2018 Jemel Roberson shooting.

A third person died Saturday afternoon who was critically wounded in a shooting at a warehouse in central Illinois where the suspect had fatally shot two coworkers before apparently killing himself, ities said.

A 10-year-old girl died in a hospital after she was shot in the head by a bullet that came through a second-floor apartment window Saturday night in Logan Square, according to Chicago police.

By Paige Fry

Jun 28, 2020

Contributions members of the LGBTQ community have made to society would have to be taught in Illinois’ public schools. Workers, regardless of the size of their employer, will now be protected from discrimination on a number of reasons including race, sex, age, sexual orientation and religion. And distracted drivers who hurt someone while paying attention to their cellphones could face steeper penalties. More than a dozen state laws and policy changes for Illinois kick in July 1. Here’s a look at some of the highlights:

The boy, identified as 20-month-old Sincere Gaston, was with his mother after a visit to a laundromat when it happened shortly after 2 p.m., police said.

Balloon release and rally hopes to push for passage of new law promoting better communication of CTA workers following the death one year ago of a woman named Felon N. Smith, who was run over by a CTA train.

Health care workers and Black Lives Matter supporters rallied in Chicago's Medical District to demand funding for mental health and social services.

By Ariel Cheung

Jun 27, 2020

Chicago enters phase four of reopening. We're going to be here awhile.

The Pritzker administration released for the first time details of the number of cases and deaths tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois. The data shows at least 189 long-term care facilities in 22 counties reporting at least one case. In all, at least 1,860 cases can be tied to these facilities, with 286 deaths as of April 19.

President Donald Trump ripped Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot over Chicago’s gun violence in a Friday night letter.

As phase four began, pent-up Chicago-area residents on Friday returned to many of the businesses Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered closed as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in March.

A 16-year-old boy from Harvey faces two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the May 11 slaying of 19-year-old New Lenox resident Charles Baird outside the Circle K gas station on Nelson Road.

An appellate court has ruled that Melodie Gliniewicz’s text messages with her husband, the Fox Lake police lieutenant who ities say staged his death to look like a homicide, can be used as evidence in the case against her.

A class-action complaint filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court accuses Dr. Van Koinis of faking routine vaccinations, falsifying medical records and failing to inform patients and their parents of his alleged subterfuge.

Chicago police are on the scene of a bank robbery, during which SWAT members are also on hand Friday evening in the Loop.

James Hill, 57, was sentenced in October 2018 to 47 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in a Nov. 14, 1980 robbery that left Lawrence Pucalik dead.

A CTA bus jumped the curb and slammed into a commercial building after a tow truck broadsided it and fled the scene on Friday morning, injuring six people including the bus driver, Chicago police said.

“The blunt force of the water bottle cut the victim across the nose and left eye," leaving a school employee bleeding, according to a Chicago police report.

By Hannah Leone

Jun 26, 2020

A 19-year-old Englewood neighborhood man was ordered held without bail after he was charged with murder in the killings of two teens on the South Side on Saturday during one of the most violent weekends Chicago has seen in years, police said.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed how we interact and relate with one another. Here's guidance on some of the new situations we are facing.

By Hannah Herrera Greenspan

Jun 26, 2020

The program aims "to close Chicago’s Black and Latinx education and wealth gap," a school representative said.

Longtime East Side resident paleta seller Don Rosario didn't just get the Father's Day present of having a local family buy all his ice pops to allow him to go ag8亚集团官方网站home early to enjoy the day. They also raised almost $40,000 for his retirement fund.

By Laura Rodríguez Presa

Jun 26, 2020

Investigations of anonymous complaints against some Chicago cops would be allowed under a contract decision announced Friday.

By Dan Hinkel

Jun 26, 2020

Illinois casinos and video gaming locations can reopen on July 1 with capacity limits, social distancing and other required measures aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19

Cook County could incur a projected $410 million budget gap during the next fiscal year — the largest hole since 2011 and a sign of the extent the coronavirus pandemic has capsized local government finances.

Chicago’s annual summer jobs program will hire 20,000 young people this year, including 2,000 as part of a new youth service corps dedicated to service that will include helping with the city’s COVID-19 response, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

Among the myriad challenges employers face at the mid-point of this difficult year is how to manage the stockpiles of unused paid time off that many employees have accumulated as COVID-19 sidelined spring break trips and summer getaways.

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

Jun 26, 2020

Here's the Tribune's annual roundup of outdoor-dining options: Make reservations now because seating is even more limited than usual due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Two dozen people face federal drug, weapons and money laundering charges in an investigation into two Chicago street gangs whose alleged misdeeds occurred largely on the West Side, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Friday.

By Jeremy Gorner

Jun 26, 2020

Convicted Chicago police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo may not have gotten rich off his scheme to use bogus search warrants to steal drugs and cash, but his corruption still has cost plenty, a federal judge said Friday.

Through Sunday, the city saw a jump of more than 25% in the number of homicides, reaching 295, which is 60 more than the same period a year ago, according to a review of crime statistics. Shooting incidents with at least one victim shot fatally or nonfatally jumped by almost 40% through Sunday, totaling 1,250.

By Jeremy Gorner

Jun 26, 2020

Almost all Cook County court functions can resume, mostly via videoconference, on July 6, according to an order signed Friday by Chief Judge Timothy Evans.

By Megan Crepeau

Jun 26, 2020

A central Illinois judge has dismissed for a second time a lawsuit filed by the estate of a slain visiting Chinese scholar against two social workers at a University of Illinois counseling center.

A northern Illinois man was electrocuted when he came into contact with power lines in Rockford, ities said.

Chicago and its violence have been a frequent subject of President Donald Trump's attention. It was a common campaign thread Trump used to hammer Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and others. Since becoming president Trump has returned the theme. Here are Trump's mentions of Chicago -- and the state of Illinois -- with annotations where appropriate.

By Kori Rumore

Jun 26, 2020

At least six people were injured when a CTA bus crashed into a building Friday morning on the Northwest Side.