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The Vermont senator will conclude a two-part launch in the Windy City, harking back to his student days in the civil rights era
With the Chicago skyline around him, Bernie Sanders will on Sunday conclude his two-part presidential campaign launch by emphasizing the role of race and racial discrimination in American society.
R&B singer taken into custody in Chicago on Friday
Cook county state’s attorney says abuse dated back as far as 1998
The R&B star R Kelly is due in court in Chicago on Saturday, charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17.
Actor’s lawyers angrily reject reports he may have staged attack
Police spokesman says trajectory of investigation ‘shifted’
Chicago police are still seeking a follow-up interview with Jussie Smollett after receiving new information that “shifted” their investigation of a reported attack on the Empire actor.
A man opened fire on Friday in a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois, an hour's drive west of Chicago. The shooter, identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, was an employee at the industrial complex in Aurora. He also wounded five police officers before he was shot dead.
Five officers were also wounded, police chief Ziman said
The shooter was shot and killed at the scene
A gunman opened fire at an Illinois manufacturing warehouse had just been fired from his job when he killed five fellow workers,authorities said.
Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said the assailant, identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, had worked at the Henry Pratt Company for 15 years before the violence unfolded at the firm’s sprawling warehouse in Aurora, west of Chicago.
Wind chills fell as low as -47C in Chicago, with the temperature hitting -23C, as bitterly cold weather moved into Illinois, US. A local newscaster published this video of Lake Michigan, as viewed from Chicago’s Edgewater neighbourhood, appearing like a ‘boiling cauldron’ on Wednesday. State and local officials have asked residents to stay indoors if possible and check on neighbours
A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex has caused temperatures to drop to as low as -46C (-50F) in Chicago. Cities in the midwest opened warming shelters as temperatures plummeted well below zero. The Illinois governor warned the weather 'poses a serious threat' to people's wellbeing. The polar vortex, a mass of freezing air, usually spins around the North Pole
Democratic gubernatorial challenger JB Pritzker said that his Republican opponent is accountable for health problems that occurred in the Quincy Veterans' Home. In their last televised debate, held Oct. 11 in Quincy, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger JB Pritzker both said their opponent is unfit for office and that a criminal investigation hangs over the other's campaign.
Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's public corruption trial is now scheduled for June in federal court in Chicago. The former Illinois congressman was once a rising Republican star and a formidable GOP fundraiser.
Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke listens while attorneys step before Judge Vincent Gaughan's bench, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Oct. 5, 2018. The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police on Friday blasted the guilty verdict of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in the 2014 fatal shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald, reports said.
U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos announced her intention this week to run for a leadership position in the House of Representatives if Democrats retake control of the chamber in January. Bustos, a Democrat representing Illinois' 17th Congressional District, which includes Henderson County, said Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," she will run for assistant democratic leader if her party flips 24 Republican-held seats in November to take control of the House.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has released a list of retailers that may have unknowingly sold ground beef contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, and some of the country's top grocery stores are included. If you haven't already checked the frozen ground beef in your freezer to see if it's included in the 130,000 pounds of ground beef recalled because of a deadly E. coli outbreak, you need to take a look now.
If combines aren't already rolling near you, chances are they will be soon, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress report. USDA has the 2018 U.S. corn harvest at 16% complete for the week ending September 23, moving ahead from 9% the prior week.
The Illinois tollway has hired a number of politically connected Republicans to work at the agency in important positions. While that is troubling to some government watchdogs who say they're concerned about favoritism, tollway officials say the agency is staffed with well-qualfied professionals.
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan visited with Illinois conservatives Saturday night in the Chicago suburbs. He is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and a lead contender to be the next speaker of the US House if Republicans can hold the majority.
In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation's deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it. He's insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was "incredibly successful," even though blackouts there remain common and several forms of federal aid have been slow to arrive compared with past disasters.
In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation's deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it. He's insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was "incredibly successful," even though blackouts there remain common and several forms of federal aid have been slow to arrive compared with past disasters.
One primary message from Democrats this election is that if they win the majority in the U.S. House, or win their respective governors' seats, they will do everything they can to increase taxes.
Former President Barack Obama's recent denunciation of President Donald Trump's treatment of the press overlooks the aggressive steps the Justice Department took to keep information from the public during his administration. Obama also made a problematic claim that Republican "sabotage" has cost 3 million people their health insurance.
Former President Barack Obama spit hot fire Friday at the University of Illinois to encourage all you young people out there to get your behinds to the voting booths in November to stop whatever is going on in Washington and bring some sanity back to democracy. But it may be harder for some than others.