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Police say a man between 20 and 30 was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head in the 700 block of North Halsted Street about 12:46 a.m. Sunday.
Temperatures were expected to peak in the high 80s and low 90s Wednesday and Thursday after they dipped into the 40s Saturday — for the first time since May — and were expected to again after a slightly warmer Sunday.
Eggs sold under the ‘Milo’s Poultry Farms’ or ‘Tony’s Fresh Market’ labels are recalled after 65 people fall ill with salmonella in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, Utah and California,
Después del tiroteo masivo de esta semana en la Línea Azul del tren, algunos usuarios de la CTA que no tienen hogar dicen que serán más precavidos pero que seguirán utilizando los trenes y autobuses para refugiarse.
Nicholas Miranda-Newberry always has wanted to help people — and then the opportunity to be bone marrow donor presented itself.
After this week’s mass shooting on the Blue Line, some homeless CTA riders say they’ll be more cautious but will continue to use trains and buses for shelter.
The woman, 38, was in a ‘verbal altercation’ with another person in the 400 block of West 61st Place about 2:40 p.m. Sunday when the other person shot at her, police said. A person of interest is in custody.
Three people tested positive for the virus in Lake County over the last seven days, health officials say. One of the victims experienced symptom onset in mid-August and died shortly thereafter.
The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease as well as lead and copper were detected at a childcare center used by federal employees, Dirksen U.S. courthouse and at another federal office building.
Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft, her co-host on the conservative talk radio show ‘Chicago’s Morning Answer,’ mimicked the teen’s emotional reaction to his father’s speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention.
Employees are demanding the problem be fixed and they want to be allowed to work from home until the water is safe.
Health officials say they saw no sign of a COVID-19 uptick after the convention, while attendees grumble on social media about getting sick. One union official said he knows at least 14 people who tested positive since attending the convention.
Estarán disponibles a través del gobierno federal en una fecha aún no anunciada de septiembre. Aunque el número de muertes y de infecciones graves ha descendido drásticamente desde que el coronavirus comenzó a propagarse por Estados Unidos en 2020, en las últimas semanas ha comenzado a aumentar el número de hospitalizaciones.
Older residents, young kids and those with respiratory illnesses urged to minimize their exposure to the outdoors.
The combination of heat and humidity Monday and Tuesday is expected to hit the triple digits, raising risks of dehydration and exhaustion. The area is also under an air-quality alert, triggered by residual wildfire smoke from Canada, meteorologists said.
They’ll be available from the federal government at a yet-to-be-announced date in September. Though the numbers of deaths and serious infections have dropped dramatically since the coronavirus began spreading across the United States in 2020, the number of hospitalizations has started to creep up in recent weeks.
The man, 33, was found unresponsive in the entrance to a two-flat building in the 5500 block of West Quincy Street about 8:30 p.m. Saturday with several dog bites on his body, police said.
Balloon industry titan Treb Heining helped gather more than 50 volunteers on short notice to ready 100,000 balloons for the big drop as well as to honor Tommy DeLorenzo, a local balloon artist who is fighting stage 4 cancer.
Families attending a back-to-school block party on the Near South Side say they’re ready for classes to begin. But CPS staffing, gun violence and this week’s expected heat wave are issues of concern.