Every one of Chicagos 22s police districts will have access to an alternate response team to assist non-violent people with mental health challenges, under a long-awaited expansion unveiled Wednesday that may or may not last.For now, Mayor Brandon Johnson is using $31 million from the final chunk of federal stimulus funding delivered to Chicago during the ...

Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas was fined $214,000 for violating campaign finance rules by accepting excessive donations from individuals doing business with the city.The Chicago Board of Ethics unanimously found that Paul Vallas violated the rules by accepting $202,000 in contributions during the 2023 city election from 12 individuals doing ...

Jurors this week have watched hours of surveillance footage that's central to Cook County prosecutors case against Tony Robinson, a homeless man accused of fatally stabbing visiting graduate student Anat Kimchi.In one video, a man resembling Robinson is seen running with a knife near the scene of the unprovoked killing in downtown Chicago. In another, the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson are once again wooing top Democratic leaders this week as they try to position Chicago to land one of the next two Democratic National Conventions.This time around, the Democratic National Committee asked cities to submit bids for both the 2028 and 2032 conventions mirroring a process Republicans have in place for ...

Two months into its security surge, CTA leadership boasted Wednesday that violent crime is decreasing on public transit.But statistics shows that serious attacks on transit are still historically high.The largest drops in violent crime have been on trains and buses, where police statistics show there has been a 30% drop over last year through May 10. That's ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to Rome later this month to visit Pope Leo XIV.Johnsons first visit with the pontiff will happen before the end of the month, the mayors office told the Sun-Times."I am just elated that the pope is from Chicago, right? And so I'm looking forward to this visit at the end of the month," Johnson said during an interview with ...

Director Joe Sedelmaier, a giant in the world of television commercials whose style was as identifiable as spotting a Wes Anderson film, died of natural causes at home in Lincoln Park Friday in his favorite chair. He was 92.Mr. Sedelmaier often preferred casting regular people who naturally oozed character, like Clara Peller a manicurist and beautician from ...

Jims Original, el famoso puesto de hot dogs de Chicago conocido por sus salchichas polacas, o Polish, al estilo de Maxwell Street, se trasladar de su ubicacin emblemtica porque su propietario, la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago (UIC), planea reurbanizar la propiedad.En una publicacin en redes sociales, los operadores de Jim's Original informaron que UIC ...

Josh Giddey had a lengthy list of offseason priorities he wanted to work on, including his shooting.Off the bounce stuff is probably going to be the next step that I want to get into more, Giddey said last month when discussing the holes in his game he wanted to continue to patch up. It doesnt mean Ill be coming this Kyrie Irving-esque (player) but just ...

Good morning, Chicago. Below: A Sun-Times/WBEZ analysis has found most of Illinois' public universities and community colleges have failed to follow a state law requiring protections for immigrant students on their campuses. Plus: How state lawmakers want to rein in AI, Chicago Public Schools' plan to cut teacher positions and more news you need to ...

The Bears wont go overseas this year they werent on the list of the NFLs nine international games released Wednesday.The Bears, who last played overseas in 2024, didnt expect to be part of the international slate. The final two potential landing spots were wiped out when the NFL announced Tuesday the Bengals would play the Falcons in Spain and, on ...

No one was hurt when an American Airlines flight from Miami landed with two flat tires Tuesday night at O'Hare International Airport. Flight 791, a Boeing 737, landed safely around 10:30 p.m. and passengers were deplaned on the taxiway and bused to the terminal, according to a spokesperson with the Federal Aviation Administration. Chicago police responded ...

An orange SUV is sought after a fatal hit-and-run late Tuesday on the Southwest Side. The victim, an unidentified 53-year-old man, was on the street in the 6800 block of South Pulaski Road around 11:10 p.m. when an orange Honda SUV that was traveling northbound on Pulaski Road slammed into him and left the scene, Chicago police said. The man was taken to ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have recently found out that our 14-year-old granddaughter, a freshman in high school, is being encouraged to drink, or more accurately, "chug," beer out of cans with her stepdad at parties and social gatherings he has been having at their house.Our son, the girl's biological father, is very concerned about this illegal activity, ...

I must respond to the Sun-Times article published last week headlined New Zoning chair Villegas begins chipping away at backlog of stalled projects." The Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance is a grassroots-driven initiative that came out of decades of local organizing to protect our communities from the harms of environmental racism. Zoning Committee ...

Illinois lawmakers are moving a package of bills branded as the Building Up Illinois Developments, or BUILD, agenda, promising more housing and lower costs. But in Chicago neighborhoods already struggling with displacement, these proposals sound painfully familiar. Weve heard this story before. It didnt end with affordability. It ended with luxury ...

Jimmy Bannos Jr.s earliest memories are of working in his fathers restaurant.After spending plenty of time at Heaven on Seven, his dad Jimmy Bannos Sr.s now-closed Cajun restaurant in the Loop, hed always dreamed of opening a restaurant. At the tender age of 25, Bannos Jr. made that dream happen with The Purple Pig. There, Bannos Jr. won the 2014 James ...

Replacing or altering controversial monuments is not new for the city of Chicago. Think of the two statues of Christopher Columbus, removed permanently in 2020, or the Haymarket Police Memorial Statue, which officials have moved over a half-dozen times.Another marker, the Balbo Monument, has fueled debate for at least eight decades and still stands in the ...

The Chicago Fire's stadium at The 78 has a new moniker McDonalds Park as part of a naming rights deal announced Wednesday.As we take the next step on our journey to build a world class Club, our commitment to Chicago is at the center of everything we do, Joe Mansueto, the billionaire owner and chairman of the Fire, said in a news release. Thats why ...

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