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Chicago police are searching for a man wanted in connection to two armed robberies in the Greater Grand Crossing area on the South Side.

CROWN POINT — A new restaurant is looking to open in the former Great Harvest Bread Co. at 204 S. Main St. Sakura, a sushi and hibachi restaurant, is set to move into the location, which owner Guan Yu said he hopes to open by October. Yu appeared Monday before...

CHICAGO - Two people were hurt, including a 16-year-old boy, in a shooting Tuesday night in Austin on the West Side. Just after 7 p.m., the teen and a 42-year-old man were standing in the 1700 block of North Mango Street when someone shot them, Chicago police said. The teen...

A series of LGBTQ-rights bills signed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will reverse “archaic” laws and change the way county clerks issue marriage licenses, the governor said Tuesday. Pritzker signed four bills that will expand rights to the LGBTQ community. One of the most historic, HB 1063, will make Illinois...

CHICAGO - Chicago is less than 48 hours away from Lollapalooza. So, will the city be able to keep the event from becoming a COVID-19 super spreader?. Thousands of people will be flying into Chicago from all over the country, and even though the Windy City is not considered a COVID hotspot right now, Lolla fans may be coming from areas rampant with the delta variant.

Police across the country have misused and altered data from a citywide surveillance system used to detect gunfire that many departments rely on as evidence in court cases, according to a report from Motherboard. ShotSpotter uses commercial microphones planted in neighborhoods to detect the sound of gunfire and its location...

HUMBOLDT PARK — Chicago’s only all-girls baseball team is making waves after just two years of existence. The Humboldt Park Gators won the national title at the 2021 Baseball For All tournament last week. The team went undefeated with a 6-0 record, including one thrilling, come-from-behind win in the semi-finals. The Gators called themselves the Chicago Scouts for the tourney and its national audience.

COOK COUNTY - Dozens of Cook County food pantries are getting an important delivery to help families in need. A new pilot program will supply about six-million diapers over the next year to partners of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. At the weekly food pantry at Mission of Our Lady...

PHOENIX - With Arizona's active monsoon season comes dangerous walls of dust over the state, clouding drivers' vision and blanketing cars and homes. The Arizona Department of Transportation says to stop driving and turn off your lights if the dust becomes too thick to see safely. On Tuesday, parts of...

With precious few organs to go around, there are objective measures doctors use to determine if a patient is a candidate for transplant. Are they fit enough for surgery? Are they smokers? But other considerations are not as easy to measure. Is the recipient able to comply with the strict regimen that comes with a new organ?

The Chicago Symphony has announced the fall season of its 2021-22 season. Here is a look at the vocal and choral performances of the first half of the year. Michael Lewanski conducts Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with soprano Whitney Morrison. The program includes music by Montgomery, Joachim, Hearne, and Smith.

There are a lot of life lessons to be learned in the game of poker. Kenny Rogers sang of knowing when to hold ‘em or fold ‘em and when to walk away. Lady Gaga has sung of keeping men in the dark with poker face. But there’s a lot more...

At first glance, the Italian beef sandwich isn't much more than a massive roast-beef hoagie, a blue-collar staple from Chicago's south side that's almost cartoonish as it drips wet from a quick dip in a jus bath. The package is a bit blunt in its presentation, but accessible and comes at a low price point, making it hard not to think of it as Chicago's answer to Philly's cheesesteak.

PORTAGE — After stealing an ambulance at a gas station, a man abandoned the emergency vehicle at a Portage Walmart, police said. On Tuesday night a man jumped into an ambulance that was at the Family Express at U.S. 6 and Ind. 149 in Valparaiso, said Porter County Sheriff's Department Chief of Police Tim Manteuffel.