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Mr. Fix It with upgrades for your home
Mr. Fix It Lou Manfredini joins WGN Morning News with some upgrades, products to use around the home. Lou is raising money for Misericordia. Support his fundraiser here: Lou’s fundraiser for Misericordia. Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered...
GOP convention sets the stage for the Democratic convention in Chicago, activists and police say
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Activists who marched outside the Republican National Convention are trumpeting their efforts, despite crowd estimates falling short. Milwaukee police are praising their cooperation with other agencies in convention security, even as Ohio officers face scrutiny for shooting and killing a man while in the city. Some...
Common teaming with orchestra for a Millennium Park 'experience'
For this week’s Millennium Park 20th anniversary celebration, Common and the city’s cultural planners are putting together what could be a quintessentially Chicago moment. Just imagine the sound of a live orchestra swelling behind the Chicago-born artist as he raps a line from his song “The Corner”: “These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove.”
Friday Forecast: Temps in low 80s with mostly sunny conditions
CHICAGO — Temperatures in the low 80s with mostly sunny conditions and cooler lakeside. High: 81/78. Mostly clear tonight. Low: 63. Saturday Forecast: Increasing clouds, cooler lakeside, ESE 5-10 mph. High: 82/79.
3 shot outside Lyon’s Den hookah lounge
CHICAGO — Three people were shot overnight outside Lyon’s Den, a hookah lounge on the border of Wicker Park and West Town where a shootout left one dead and another injured last year. Authorities have not publicly linked the latest shooting to the business. Here’s what we know...
Goal! For migrant kids, a free soccer program in Chicago
When 8-year-old Mathias Bastó first arrived at Skinner Park on Chicago’s West Side on a recent afternoon, he stared in excitement at the field where a group of about 15 kids were about to start soccer practice. A volunteer greeted him and pointed to a box full of pairs of shoes and shin guards.
ShotSpotter sparks a political power struggle
This story was published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. In February, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his plan to decommission ShotSpotter, a controversial gunshot-detection technology that alerts police to shootings by using hundreds of acoustic sensors throughout the city.
Search on for robber who hit man with pliers on CTA Red Line
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police late Thursday were asking the public to help them find a man who robbed another man and hit him with a pair of pliers on a CTA Red Line train this past weekend.At 9:53 p.m. Sunday, the man walked up to another man on a Chicago Transit Authority train at 47th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, and they got into a quarrel, police said.The robber choked the man, hit him in the head with the pliers, and took his cellphone, police said.The robber was described as being between 30 and 35 years old.Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago Police Mass Transit detectives at 312-745-4447.
New 16th District Commander Robert Vanna meets District Advisory Committee
Robert Vanna, a 30-plus year police veteran, has been named commander of the 16th (Jefferson Park) District. “We’re all in it together,” Vanna said at the July 18 meeting of the 16th District Advisory Committee. Vanna said that his career, which includes being a detective, a watch operations...
9-year-old pedestrian critically injured in South Side hit-and-run crash: Chicago police
A 9-year-old pedestrian was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash on Chicago's South Side Thursday night, Chicago police said.The girl was crossing the street with two others when the driver of a silver SUV failed to stop at a red light and hit her just before 8:40 p.m. in the 9500-block of South Paxton Avenue in the city's Jeffery Manor neighborhood, CPD said.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchChicago fire crews took the girl to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition.No one else was injured in the incident, and the vehicle drove away, police said.SEE ALSO: 2 sentenced to probation in 2022 Clearing street racing crash that killed pedestrianNo one was in custody later Thursday night.The Major Accidents unit is investigating.INTERACTIVE SAFETY TRACKER | Track crime and safety in your neighborhood
Man fatally shot during carjacking at Fuller Park gas station, Chicago police say
A Polish immigrant who was shot and killed on his way to work earlier this week on Chicago's South Side is being remembered as "loyal and polite."ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchThe shooting happened Sunday morning during an attempted carjacking at a gas station in the 5400 block of South Wells Street.Michal Ciskal was shot in the chest and later died, Chicago police said.His friend said Ciskal has been preparing for his parents and 10-year-old brother to visit Chicago. He hadn't seen them in nearly three years.SEE ALSO | Chicago shootings: At least 36 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city, police sayNo further information about the shooting was immediately available. Chicago police continue to investigate.INTERACTIVE SAFETY TRACKER Track crime and safety in your neighborhood
Woodlawn resident alleges unjust foreclosure, gains neighborhood support
CHICAGO - Christiana Powell, a longtime resident of Woodlawn, claims her family was among the first to integrate the neighborhood. Now, she's embroiled in a battle to prevent what she alleges is an unjust foreclosure and eviction. Supporters, including neighbors and allies, have established a protest encampment in Powell's yard,...
Chicago man pleads guilty to wire fraud in investment scheme
SACRAMENTO, California — Gary Klopfenstein, 62, of Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud in relation to an investment scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Klopfenstein served as the Chief Wealth Officer of Zolla Financial, an investment company operated by individuals in Shasta...
Russian Billionaire Suddenly Abandoned This Illinois Mansion?
It sounds like something you'd see in a spy thriller, but it's a real life Illinois thing. Neighbors have wondered out loud why a Russian billionaire just suddenly abandoned an exotic Illinois mansion and left the country. The mystery begins with an investigation of this out of the way Illinois...
VIDEO: Black leaders ditching Illinois Democrats, stand with GOP state's attorney candidate
(The Center Square) – Some Black leaders from the Chicago area are urging others to ditch Democrats and vote Republican. After Wednesday’s GOP breakfast outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee Wednesday, Republican Cook County State’s Attorney candidate Bob Fioretti made his case to the media that he will bring back law and order. “You can’t bring businesses to the county unless we have safety in our streets, safety in...
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