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A manicured medical marijuana flower is shown during a tour of Illinois Grown Medicine in Elk Grove Village.
Politics
Could Illinois weed prices drop if the DEA reclassifies marijuana?
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Thousands participate in a community walk through downtown on the one-year anniversary of the Highland Park mass shooting, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. The year before, authorities say Robert Crimo fired a high-powered rifle from a rooftop onto a crowd attending a Fourth of July parade, killing seven and wounding dozens.
Arts & Culture
Highland Park to resume Independence Day parade
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Man smiling
Robert Grossman, Hyde Park lawyer and writer, dies at 89
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Illinois governor bowing head during memorial service
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough remembered as trailblazer at Hyde Park memorial service
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Porscha Banks, sister of Dexter Reed, joined in a demonstration Tuesday night outside the 11th District Police Station at 3151 W. Harrison. She questioned how a traffic stop could have led to officers opening fire on her brother: “Whether he shot or not, he should not have been murdered.”
Criminal Justice
Clashes break out at protest on West Side after release of Dexter Reed shooting footage
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Child looks at the sun with eclipse glasses
Arts & Culture
Want to see the solar eclipse in Chicago? Here’s what to know and where to go.
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Woman speaks at podium
Politics
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough dies at 73
By Emmanuel Camarillo  and Violet Miller
 
Thousands attend Adler Planetarium’s Eclipse Fest during the solar eclipse
Environment & Public Health
Staring at solar eclipse can damage your eyes for months if you don’t use protection, Chicago doctors say
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Clayton Harris III and Eileen O’Neill Burke, Democratic primary candidates for Cook County state’s attorney, speak at their election night watch parties last Tuesday. The two are vying to replace Kim Foxx.
Politics
City mail vote slices Burke lead over Harris to less than half a percentage point in state’s attorney’s race
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Zenobia Stonewall prepares to watch the solar eclipse outside Adler Planetarium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Chicago.
Arts & Culture
What to know, where to go for the total solar eclipse
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Elizabeth French, mother of Chicago Police Officer Ella French, walks and holds hands with Ella’s police partner Carlos Yanez
Criminal Justice
Jury takes just hours to convict man of killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French
By Emmanuel Camarillo  and Matthew Hendrickson
 
“Russian War Prisoner,” a watercolor and pencil work by Egon Schiele.
Arts & Culture
Art Institute showed ‘willful blindness’ in buying Nazi-looted art, NY prosecutors say
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Residents and community members pack the Evanston City Council chamber Monday evening. Last week, speakers affiliated with a group identified as an antisemitic hate group spoke at a council meeting via Zoom and in person.
Politics
Jewish residents in Evanston denounce antisemitic comments made at recent City Council meeting
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
A woman holds up a sign reading “Cancel The Contract” at a Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability special public meeting on the ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.
Criminal Justice
At public forum on South Side, residents are divided on city’s renewing ShotSpotter deal
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, seen in 2022, dismissed the idea of the village board introducing a Gaza cease-fire resolution, calling the war a “complicated foreign policy” issue in which the village has no influence or authority.
Politics
Orland Park mayor rejects Gaza cease-fire resolution, suggests those opposing U.S. interests ‘go to another country’
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
A message written in chalk and a sign dedicated to Daveon Gibson at a candlelight vigil Thursday outside Trinity Church, 1244 W Thorndale Ave., in Edgewater. Daveon, 16, was killed and two other Senn High School students wounded in a shooting Wednesday.
Edgewater community holds vigil for students shot near Senn High School
By Emmanuel Camarillo  and Sophie Sherry
 
Tuesday’s high temperature was 2 degrees at 4 p.m. at O’Hare.
Environment & Public Health
Chicago weathers extreme cold stretch not seen in nearly 30 years
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
The 15400 block of Begonia Court, where Terrence Clyne allegedly punched his Palestinian neighbor and made hateful comments toward them Wednesday.
Criminal Justice
Man who allegedly punched Palestinian neighbor, shouted epithets in Orland Park is charged with hate crime
By Emmanuel Camarillo