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Ald. Brian Hopkins reignited the debate, proposing an 8 p.m. curfew downtown for unaccompanied minors, two hours earlier than the current curfew. But research already shows curfews are “ineffective at reducing crime and victimization.”
Customers lined up almost an hour before the restaurant’s 9 a.m. reopening time.
Officers found the man lying on the ground in an alley with multiple gunshot wounds. A handgun was recovered at the scene.
Timothy Toczylowski, 77, was pronounced dead after an explosion at his home Tuesday night in the 23500 block of North Overhill Road, according to the Lake County coroner’s office.
Lake Zurich man killed in house explosion identified
Timothy Toczylowski, 77, was pronounced dead after an explosion at his home Tuesday night in the 23500 block of North Overhill Road, according to the Lake County coroner’s office.
A 12-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl were shot about 9:20 p.m. in the 500 block of East 31st Street. A 16-year-old boy was shot about 10:15 p.m. in the 3400 block of South King Drive.
The third annual event, hosted by the Chicago Park District, included a full-course meal, a live DJ and other entertainment.
Francisca “Paquita” Morales was born June 6, 1917 in Puerto Rico. She moved to Chicago in 1970.
Students delivered a petition calling for the reinstatement of Anne d’Aquino on Thursday morning. She was fired on May 8 after she offered an optional assignment, asking students to analyze the impact of “the genocide in Gaza on human health.”
David O’Donnell, 27, died and another worker was injured Thursday after they fell from scaffolding at still-under-construction University of Chicago Cancer Center. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.
Ruling means charter schools are not protected by the state’s school closing moratorium, which ends next year. The appellate decision is important because it frees the board to vote not to renew charter school contracts.
“This world shines a lot less because she’s gone,” a family friend said.
If they truly want to clear up any “misunderstandings,” Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. should meet with lawmakers about the Alito flag controversy and court ethics in general.
Syed Shaukat Ahmed’s companies were paid more than $30 million by the federal government to provide free COVID-19 test kits to Medicare recipients has been charged with health-care fraud.
Jeffrey Austwick, 54, is charged in the shooting deaths of Marc and John Austwick on Wednesday, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
The investigation into the death of Chrys Carvajal led to last month’s highly publicized FBI raid in Lincoln Square.
In one case, the CHA revoked a rent voucher for a woman accused of getting fraudulent loans through the Paycheck Protection Program that a broker on Facebook offered to arrange. And six fired Illinois state workers also said they kicked back some of their loans. But the people arranging them escaped punishment.
Johnson is “mayor 24-7,” a spokesman says. “Appearances matter.” Most of his spending went to a South Side makeup artist, and a West Side barbershop was paid $4,000.
The two men fell while working at a construction site in Hyde Park on Thursday. The case is being investigated as an accident. Winds were strong in the area.