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Chicago

August 2024

  • A close-up of spicy chicken wings

    Chicago woman gets nine-year sentence for stealing $1.5m in chicken wings

    Routine audit found school food service director took more than 11,000 cases of wings intended for remote learners
  • Travellers with bags at airport

    Chicago: woman dies in baggage-claim machinery at O’Hare airport

    Officials say unnamed woman, 57, was discovered entangled in conveyor belt system in baggage room
  • a side-by-side image Donald Trump and audience members at a convention

    Black journalists were right about Trump. NABJ ignored them

    Shamira Ibrahim
    An occasion of fellowship devolved into a spectacle at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention

July 2024

  • man in a suit sits on an armchair on a stage

    Incredulous laughter, audible gasps: Trump’s performance at Black journalists’ panel left him exposed

  • Three young Black women, one is bright orange, one in bright pink, and one in olive, watch a live video on a cellphone.

    Black journalists respond to ‘disastrous’ Trump panel at annual convention

  • a man in a suit and tie appears to rant on stage while a woman in a blue suit holding papers looks off to the side

    Trump repeats lies and attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity at panel of Black journalists

  • Chicago police officers salute as pallbearers carry the casket for Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso into St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for his funeral, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Chicago. Vasquez Lasso, 32, who had nearly five years on the force, was shot and killed March 1 on the Southwest Side as he chased an armed suspect who turned and fired "at close range," police said. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

    UN urges ‘immediate’ action for victims allegedly tortured by Chicago police

  • ‘It puts everyone in a really bad position’: Black journalists react to Trump joining NABJ panel

  • Son of El Chapo pleads not guilty in Chicago as mystery cloaks cartel arrests

  • Democratic National Committee to hold virtual roll call vote before convention

  • Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir obituary

  • Tornado reported at Chicago airport as storms blow through midwest

  • Family of missing woman in Bahamas shielded trans identity over fears of bias

June 2024

  • Students and armored police line up in front of each other.

    Students walk out of University of Chicago graduation over Israel policies

    Pro-Palestinian students staged the walkout as school withheld degrees of four seniors pending disciplinary review over protests

May 2024

  • Black woman in white and brown shirt surrounded by press at the White House

    Marian Shields Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

    Robinson, who moved to White House when Barack Obama won presidency, helped to care for granddaughters Malia and Sasha
  • Brandon Johnson, the Chicago mayor

    America's dirty divide
    Wealthy residents of Chicago may live 30 years longer than poorer ones. Can a new mayor help close the gap?

    Brandon Johnson promised to tackle the city’s legacy of environmental racism, with communities of color facing disproportionate climate risks
  • Steve Albini pictured in his recording studio in Chicago.

    Steve Albini, US alt-rock musician and producer, dies aged 61

    Vocalist, guitarist and producer for Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey suffers heart attack

April 2024

  • Patricia smiles as she sits in a window seat on a plane

    ‘They thought I was a child’: US airline repeatedly registers 101-year-old as baby

    Airport staff surprised by arrival of centenarian instead of infant after American Airlines booking system errors
  • An artist's rendition of new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium.

    Chicago Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

    The Chicago Bears unveiled a nearly $5bn proposal Wednesday for an enclosed stadium next door to their current home at Soldier Field
  • A section of sidewalk cut out in the shape of a rat and filled with water

    Chicago’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

    City officials made the decision after saying the sidewalk in Roscoe Village was damaged and needed to be replaced
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