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Vanessa Williams Johnson said she hopes the book will help children “go out into the world and feel OK.” Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Shots fired from a vehicle killed a 7-year-old girl attending a birthday party in northern Indiana, according to police. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

A 45-year-old South Side man is accused of shoving an 85-year-old woman to the ground and stealing her purse on Chicago’s Near North Side, police said. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The nine taken into custody in the SWAT-style operation Wednesday were among dozens of people arrested this week in southern Wisconsin. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Cladio Velez’s newly opened tamale restaurant, with opening lines 10 blocks long, is currently closed. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

A Cook County judge is to hear arguments Friday morning on whether to release a special prosecutor’s full findings from an investigation into State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Kyle Rittenhouse, who’s charged with murder in fatal shootings during this week’s unrest in Kenosha, will remain in Lake County in Illinois for another month after a judge allowed a delay in his extradition proceedings. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

As food insecurity soars, dozens of small, grassroots initiatives that have stepped up to tackle surging food insecurity. The efforts are marshaling people and resources that sometimes go overlooked, with a spirit of collaboration and long-term vision that seek to leave battered communities stronger than they were before. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press…

A top aide to Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson been charged with lying to the FBI about whether he passed secret bid information about a massive $1 billion custodial contract to a lobbyist working for one of the bidders. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Wisconsin Lutheran College said Thursday that “after further review with careful consideration of the escalating events in Kenosha,” it decided to not have Pence deliver the speech. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The Chicago Dental Society has canceled its annual meeting at McCormick Place next year and will instead hold the event online, a sign that the toll the coronavirus is taking on the city’s tourism industry will stretch into next year Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Chicago’s controversial police union boss John Catanzara says he will be on the South Lawn of the White House Thursday when President Donald Trump formally accepts the Republican Party’s nomination for reelection. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Illinois is applying for the $300 weekly unemployment benefits supplement President Trump ordered earlier this month to provide financial assistance to jobless workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The dad of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Have ideas for how to do outdoor dining in winter? Enter the Winter Design Challenge and win a $5,000 cash prize. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

River Forest police: Driver of crashed car that left four dead faces homicide charges Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Police responded to a report of shots fired in the 500 block of Lincoln Avenue at 3:14 a.m. Aug. 20 and found the man sitting in the vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds, police said in a statement. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

More than 400 people marched on the Near West Side, calling for the removal of Chicago police officers in Chicago Public Schools and to demand that police be defunded. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service