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Kade Heather

Wire Desk Reporter
woman looks up at solar eclipse
Arts & Culture
Sky high: Solar eclipse sparks exhilaration across Chicago and southern Illinois
By Jessica Ma , Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco , and 2 more
 
Yasmeen Elagha, of Oakbrook Terrace, has been trying to help her relatives (in photo on television) evacuate from Khan Younis in Gaza. Two of the family members pictured, Borak and Hashem Elagha, are U.S. citizens whose evacuation with their family has been approved by the U.S. but hasn’t happened yet.
Race, Class & Communities
U.S. citizens with Chicago-area roots stuck in Gaza: ‘Our lives are at stake’
By Kade Heather  and Nader Issa
 
Medical assistant Tyla Wilson collects a nasopharyngeal swab sample to test for COVID-19 for 15-year-old Brianna Green at Roseland Community Hospital on the Far South Side, Wednesday morning, Jan. 5, 2022.
Environment & Public Health
Masks are back in Chicago-area health care settings
By Kade Heather
 
This converted warehouse in the 2200-2300 block on South Halsted Street in Pilsen houses more than 2,000 migrants.
Race, Class & Communities
5-year-old boy dies, five others hospitalized after becoming ill at Pilsen migrant shelter
By Kade Heather  and Michael Loria
 
Teresa Haley speaking behind podium
Politics
Illinois NAACP president pushed to resign for alleged comments calling migrants ‘savages,’ rapists, burglars
By Kade Heather
 
Formento's restaurant exterior
Arts & Culture
Chicago’s outdoor dining program ends for the season, but some restaurants think it should be year-round
By Kade Heather
 
A small handful of people attend a Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability meeting at Malcolm X College on Thursday regarding a recommendation that the Public Safety Inspector General investigate Chicago police officers with possible ties to extremist groups.
Criminal Justice
Police oversight panel asks city watchdog to investigate Chicago Police Department’s ties to extremist groups
By Kade Heather
 
Tom Skilling on the weather desk at WGN studios in 2005. He joined WGN in 1978 and has seen technological advances that make weather reporting more accurate and timely.
Tom Skilling, longtime WGN weather forecaster, to retire in February
By Kade Heather
 
A photo of a tornado over Western Springs on July 12.
Environment & Public Health
Illinois tops nation in tornadoes in 2023 with 119
By Kade Heather
 
A few dozen neighbors met Monday near a Willowbrook-area shopping center parking lot to release balloons in memory of the 23 victims of a shooting early Sunday during a celebration of the holiday.
Man slain in Willowbrook-area mass shooting was a ‘happy-go-lucky’ young father of 2
By Cindy Hernandez  and Kade Heather
 
Chicago police officers embrace Tuesday outside Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn, where a visitation took place for Officer Aréanah Preston.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston was ‘slated for big things,’ CPD official says
By Kade Heather
 
Gov. JB Pritzker signs the criminal justice reform bill into law at Chicago State University in February of 2021.
Criminal Justice
A judge ruled the portion of the SAFE-T Act ending cash bail is unconstitutional
By Emmanuel Camarillo , Andy Grimm , and 3 more