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No major back up at O'hare security lines as Real ID requirement takes effect
Most airports around the United States operated smoothly Wednesday as new REAL ID requirements took effect because travelers without the updated document were still allowed to move through security easily. Those without the IDs were given flyers informing them that going for...
11h ago
Measles cases continue to grow across the U.S. with cases in Illinois and Indiana
With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to figures posted Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's confirmed measles cases count is 884, triple the amount seen in all of 2024. The now ...
Apr 30, 2025
Alderman Slams Mayor
(CHICAGO) -- Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) is slamming Mayor Brandon Johnson's appointed Public Health Commissioner's decision to restrict 2025 PlayStreets grants to only traditionally known African American communities. "This is an egregious decision that reeks of di...
Apr 25, 2025
The Highland Park shooter sentenced to life in prison
The suburban Chicago man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consec...
Apr 24, 2025
Funeral services set for Pope Francis
Pope Francis ' funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on Wednesday in St. Peter's Basilica, days after the popular pontiff died of a stroke at age 88. He is currently lying in state in the Santa Marta Domus in...
Apr 22, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks in Chicago
The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday. "As that great Chicagoan Ferris Bueller once noted, 'Life m...
Apr 16, 2025