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Illinois fireworks: Full list of Chicago, suburban fireworks shows, parades for July 4
While Chicago's Navy Pier fireworks took place Wednesday, there are still plenty of suburban fireworks shows and parades set to take place on July 4, with some celebrations set to take place over the weekend. Here's a full list of fireworks shows and parades scheduled for Independence Day and Fourth...
Chicago Air & Water show won't happen at its usual time this year. Here's why
The Chicago Air & Water show is typically held later in August each summer, but that won't be the case this year. One of the most popular summer events in the city will instead be held a week ahead of schedule for 2024. And it's not the only major festival...
Editorial: Walgreens could join other major retailers fleeing high-crime parts of Chicago
Walgreens is in trouble. And that means trouble for Chicago. The Deerfield-based pharmacy giant, having lost about three-quarters of its market value since the beginning of 2022, is embarking on a major turnaround plan, which will entail the closure of hundreds of stores nationwide if not well over 1,000. Fully a quarter of Walgreens’ roughly 8,500 stores in the 50 states, the District of ...
3 Chicago suburbs rank on report America's ‘Wealthiest Suburbs'
Three Chicago suburbs were just ranked among the wealthiest suburbs in the country, with two of them nestled along the glitzy North Shore of Lake Michigan. The new report, from GoBanking Rates, looked at all cities in the United States with 5,000 or more households and isolated the 50 cities with the highest average income. It also took into account the typical home value for 2024 and metro area to help determine and rank a list of the 50 wealthiest suburbs in America, editors said.
Dry, warm, humid for Independence Day in Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mostly dry today for Fourth of July festivities. There's a minor chance of an afternoon shower or storms in the afternoon and evening. There are better chances for scattered showers and storms to arrive by night (after the fireworks). Pleasant weather for the weekend. Saturday and Sunday in the 80s. The next rain chance develops late Sunday into Monday. Seasonable temperatures in the 80s continue for next week.What to expect for ThursdayStray storms, warm and humid. High of 86Chance of showers tonight Possible showers and rumbles of thunder overnight. Low of 71Showers for FridaySCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDER HIGH: 81
Thousands expected at Navy Pier for massive fireworks display
The City of Chicago's fireworks extravaganza won't be held on the Fourth of July, but Navy Pier will still put on a show for residents on the eve of the holiday. According to officials, thousands of visitors are expected to line the lakeshore to watch the massive display, which is being cosponsored by Choose Chicago and NASCAR.
NASCAR hosts interactive day for Chicago kids ahead of street race
CHICAGO - Excitement is revving up for NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race, which rolls into town this weekend!. Set for Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 7, it will serve as the centerpiece of Chicago’s Fourth of July festivities – but the fun has already begun. In celebration...
With nests on telephone poles, once-endangered osprey are flying high in Cook County
Wildlife biologist Chuck Rizzo climbs into what looks like an enormous white bucket and slowly begins to rise. The metal arm of an aerial lift truck propels him higher and higher, above thick underbrush and then even some treetops, toward a striking sight in an otherwise ordinary Cook County forest preserve: a sturdy, stick-strewn platform built on top of a 50-foot telephone pole. “How is it?” ...
Graduate of Northwestern prison program dies at Stateville Correctional
Michael Broadway, 51, walked across the stage at Stateville Correctional Center in November to receive his diploma from Northwestern University. He was one of the first incarcerated students in the country to graduate from a top-10 university, according to Northwestern. Broadway died June 19 while incarcerated at Stateville, the Illinois...
New task force to address high-risk funeral processions
On June 7, Bernadette McLain of Forest Park was driving north on Des Plaines Avenue. But when she turned right on Jackson Boulevard, she encountered a funeral procession traveling west down the same road. Suddenly, McLain said, a big black SUV was speeding toward her, traveling the wrong direction into...
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