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Warmth and Breezes Usher in Chicago Spring Despite Looming Showers and Storms
As Chicagoans break out their spring jackets to bask in the warm breeze of the season's first day, the National Weather Service cautions that sporadic showers and thunderstorms are on the horizon, starting tonight. "Happy first day of May! It will be warm and breezy today with highs in the 70s." But the agency warns that thunderstorms could roll in overnight, leading up to what could be a wet end to the workweek, according to the NWS Chicago.
Watch: Thornton Township Board meeting 4/23/24
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (April 30, 2023) – The Thornton Township Board met on Tuesday, April 23 and heard two public comments, voted to approve bills, and heard from Finance Director Robert Hunt on the tentative budgets for the three township funds: General, General Assistance, and Road & Bridge. Supervisor...
Chicago police searching for 12-year-old boy missing from North Lawndale
CHICAGO — Chicago police are asking for help finding a missing 12-year-old boy who was last seen Sunday in North Lawndale, according to police. Adreon Hibbler is described as being about 5 feet 9 inches, weighing about 120 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen in the 4000 block of West […]
Chicago dispensary operators are pleased about plan to reclassify marijuana, but not everyone is
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Illinois legalized recreational marijuana in 2020, and since then, the Cook County State's Attorney's office has expunged thousands of pot-related cases.Now, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing for a historic shift—to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug. It would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and move it from Schedule I—alongside heroin and LSD – to Schedule III, alongside ketamine, codeine and some anabolic steroids.This move would not legalize recreational marijuana outright at the federal level.Supporters of rescheduling marijuana call the DEA's proposed move a step in the right direction—even though it falls short of federally decriminalizing marijuana. Those...
Bruce Neubauer: Chicago man reported missing from NW Side
CHICAGO - A 23-year-old man was reported missing from his home in Portage Park Wednesday morning. Bruce Neubauer was last seen on Sunday at his residence in the 4800 block of West Dakin Street. Police said Neubauer could be in Norridge or near the University of Chicago campus. He has...
If you have these trees and shrubs in your yard, expect to see more cicadas, experts say
Although Illinois' full 17-year cicada emergence isn't quite here yet, several have begun to pop up across the Chicago area, and more are on the way. "The periodical cicadas have been emerging for the last week and a half," Stephanie Adams, Plant Pathologist at Morton Arboretum in Lisle said Tuesday of Brood XIII, which will soon overspread across the entire Chicago area. "We found them both out here in our landscape and also in our East woods."
Former COO of Illinois hospital sentenced for pocketing over $620K in hospital funds
CHICAGO - The ex-Chief Operating Officer of an Illinois hospital has been sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison for unlawfully pocketing over $620,000 in hospital funds. Robert Spadoni, 59, of Darien, pleaded guilty earlier in the year to a charge of mail fraud. Robert Spadoni, previously an attorney who...
Walgreens pharmacists to rally outside Chicago-area stores
Pharmacists at Walgreens across the Chicago area are demonstrating at stores to call for better pay and hours. The big picture: The protests follow labor disruptions at pharmacies nationwide — dubbed "pharmageddon" — in response to understaffing and growing workplace demands that they say put patients' health at risk.
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