Illinois State Police responded to an expressway shooting on the northbound Bishop Ford Freeway near 103rd Street at 2: 11 a.m. Tuesday.No injuries were reported, said state police spokeswoman Haylie Polistina.... All lanes of the freeway were closed between 3: 34 a.m. and 3: 53 a.m. for the investigation. There have been 203 shootings on expressways so far this year, far exceeding those in all of 2020, when there were 128 such shootings, according to state police data.... And in 2020 there ha

Pierce had offered to let a few new arrivals live in the extra rooms of her roughly 1, 000-square-foot house, where she’d previously been living alone.“ What they really needed was a place to stay, ” Pierce said.... As many of them celebrate their first Christmas in the United States, various volunteers, nonprofits and churches across the Chicago area are planning seasonal events and gift giveaways to make their holidays a little brighter amid so much turmoil.Ss.... In the meantime, another ma

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When she saw a need in her community, Amethyst Davis, 26, didn’t turn away.... Sylvia Snowden of CAN TV has made public access television a platform where local leaders, politicians and media figures talk about Chicago issues regularly.... And Tiffany Walden and Morgan Johnson of The TRiiBE have been reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago since 2017....

The Chicago Bears continue to check out a variety of sites in and around Chicago — including the site of Soldier Field — as potential homes for a new stadium, officials said Wednesday. The Bears are doing due diligence on the viability of the south parking lot at Soldier Field as the location for their next stadium, according to unnamed sources cited by The Parkins Spiegel Show on WSCR-AM 670 The Score. Advertisement The Bears have proposed building a$ 5 billion enclosed stadium and entertainmen

Restaurants, other retailers, new homes and infrastructure cropped up near the campus, transforming the village’s far western edge. But the decline of traditional, big-box retail led to hundreds of store closures, thousands of layoffs and a 2018 bankruptcy.... As a result, we are seeing developers extend further out into new areas where power is more readily available, including Hoffman Estates and Aurora.” Compass Datacenters did not immediately return a message seeking comment.... It has not

The host committee for next year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago announced Wednesday the creation of an advisory council to assist efforts to ensure broad involvement of businesses owned by diverse racial, ethnic and gender entrepreneurs in the convention. The council will work with the host committee to set diversity spending goals as well as to establish equity practices, community engagement strategies and contract and event execution plans, the host committee said. Advertisement