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Bradley leader: Pocketbook issues turned election January 25, 2025. PEORIA — Poll data shows that 90 million eligible voters declined to participate in the 2024 presidential election that pitted Vice President Kamala Harris, a liberal, West Coast…

6 hours ago · A man was killed Sunday on Chicago’s’ Far North Side. Shortly after 10:45 p.m. Sunday, police and fire personnel responded to a call of a person down on the 7600 block of West Talcott Avenue in the Norwood Park neighborhood. A witness said a man was discovered in a basement bedroom. Fire personnel attempted to...

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7 hours ago · Three teens were shot Sunday afternoon in a residence on the city’s South Side. The shootings occurred shortly before 12:15 p.m. Sunday in a residence of the 13100 block of South Corliss Avenue in the city’s Pullman neighborhood. An 18-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the right arm and wrist. He was transported to...

160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed August 24, 2023. In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a …

9 hours ago · A 12-year-old died from injuries sustained in a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen on Chicago’s South Side. Police said the girl was inside an apartment on the 7100 block of South Constance Avenue in the city’s Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood shortly after 6:45 p.m. Sunday when the incident occurred. The victim was transported to...

Jan 1, 2025 · Time to study up, Illinois. New state laws are now in effect. They include some of the defining bills of the 2024 legislative session and others that will change how people get IDs, evaluate job postings and even cancel gym memberships. In addition to the laws taking effect today, the state’s minimum wage has...

Pastor of St. Benedict Parish dies January 14, 2025. Rev. Stephen F. Kanonik, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and pastor of St. Benedict Parish on Irving Park Road in Chicago, died Jan. 7, at the age of 68.

State models county’s medical debt relief program November 20, 2024. A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 residents has already helped thousands eliminate $72 million of debt, the governor’s office announced.