The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals.Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this ...

Marc Kelly Smith has bronchitis. Yet the 76-year-old poet still drove three hours this morning from his home on in Savanna, Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi, to the Newberry Library on the Near North Side, to deliver piles of paper that could be easily mistaken for garbage, even by their owner."I would have the tendency to throw it all out," ...

Cook County is known as the wrongful-conviction capital of America. The National Registry of Exonerations includes 215 murder cases that have been cleared here since 1989 far more than in any other U.S. county. Brown University sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is out next week with a book about them called "Crime Fictions." Van Cleve writes that ...

Lake County authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting in north suburban Mundelein that left a woman dead.According to a news release from the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, police were called to a home on the 1100 block of Ashbrook Drive just before 6 p.m. Monday.A caller informed police a female relative was threatening to harm ...

Rocker Patti Smith will receive the 2026 Harold Washington Literary Award, the Near South Planning Board announced Tuesday.The nonprofit community development organization awards the prize annually at a September dinner that kicks off the Printers Row Lit Fest. The 41st edition of the free outdoor literary festival will be held Sept. 12-13. ...

Good morning, Chicago. Below: In Joliet, the rise of next-day deliveries has meant thousands of semitrucks roll in and out of sprawling warehouses, making for at times deadly conditions on the highway some call "Die-80." Plus: Cook County's property tax sale violations, the Chicago Public School Board's $60,000 investigation into leaks and more news you ...

A woman who was injured in a mass shooting in Little Village last month died Monday. The woman, 47, was among four people shot April 22 in the 3400 block of West 26th Street, Chicago police said. She was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m. Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. An autopsy is scheduled.A man who was struck multiple times in ...

Police are looking for a maroon-colored vehicle that left the scene after hitting a 45-year-old pedestrian, critically hurting her Monday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.She was walking north in the 3100 block of West Franklin Boulevard just before 8 p.m. when she was struck by a a maroon-colored vehicle going east, Chicago police said. She was ...

A shootout between a gunman and two Chicago police officers left the gunman seriously hurt Monday night in the South Chicago neighborhood. Around 10:35 p.m., officers responded to a person with a gun call in the 8200 block of S. South Shore Drive and stopped a man matching a description in the 3100 block of East 83rd Street, police said. Officers approached ...

DEAR ABBY: I'm engaged to a wonderful man. We are incredibly happy, and I cannot wait for our life together to begin. There's just one problem his best friend, "Joey." Joey is wonderful to my fiance and a nice person overall, but he's a serial cheater.In the five years I've known him, Joey has dated and cheated on multiple women, some of whom I befriended ...

In politics, fear has a color.For most of American history, that color has been Black.No ad has taught that lesson more brutally than the Willie Horton ad of 1988. It showed the face of a Black man convicted of murder. It blamed Michael Dukakis for a furlough program. It told voters mercy was dangerous.After that, clemency withered. Democrats especially ...

Ryan Manon has been collecting John Wayne Gacy murderabilia for decades. He has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and much of his 44 years, amassing more than 300 original paintings, letters, logbooks and other ephemera connected to Gacy, who raped and murdered 33 young men and boys before burying them in a subterranean crawl space on the Northwest ...

At Kouklas Greek Eatery, this whipped feta is one of those dishes that seems simple but leaves a lasting impression. Created by chefs Jimmy Bannos Jr. and Kevin Stack, its rich, tangy and incredibly smooth something guests immediately want to recreate at home after their first bite. In Greek cooking, feta is often served in its natural form, but this ...

Its a typical weekday afternoon at the intersection of Route 53 and Laraway Road, 40 miles southwest of Chicago, and semi-trucks thunder by in a steady stream.They start at the sprawling warehouse complexes on the fringes of Joliet, rumble alongside the fading polyester petals of a roadside memorial for someone who died in a truck crash and roll past the ...

Moon Alert Caution! Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and major decisions from 4:45 a.m. until 7:45 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Pisces into Aries.Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; ...