1+ hour ago   (343+ words) Former Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans has been appointed to serve as a justice for an Illinois appeals court, securing a prestigious judgeship nearly a year after he was unseated as the top Cook County jurist. The Illinois Supreme…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (653+ words) Letters to the future were written this week in Palos Hills. The Green Hills Public Library District asked community members to ponder their lives, their pasts and write their hopes, their news, their habits and even their favorite slang and…...

11+ hour, 43+ min ago   (656+ words) Alex Blacio wasn’t scheduled to work Monday afternoon, but when a shift opened up at the indoor trampoline park where he’d recently been hired, he grabbed it. The 16-year-old was saving every paycheck to buy his mom a new house…...

13+ hour, 6+ min ago   (658+ words) The author of the op-ed “Requiring AI audits makes sense. But Illinois legislators got the order of things wrong” (July 16) argues against the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB315), but his case rests on a flawed premise: that accountability must wait…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (447+ words) This September will mark the 40th anniversary of the passage of Chicago’s Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO). This history is personal to me as my mother was one of the founders of the Tenant’s Organization of Evanston, the organization that…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (693+ words) Chicago Tribune Recently, the federal 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act officially became law. The legislation offers many ideas and solutions to bring down housing costs, but buried in it is something particularly novel: the Whole Home Repair Act (Section 202). This…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (567+ words) When Meghan Martewicz interviewed for a clinical therapist job at St. Coletta’s of Illinois several months ago, the job seemed like a good fit. Then, just before she started, Martewicz discovered she had a generational link to the nonprofit agency…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1046+ words) The next Chicago mayoral election will be held on Feb. 23, 2027. Nine candidates have formally announced campaigns so far, but others are expected to declare in the coming months. The list of hopefuls includes longtime insiders of Chicago politics as well…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (778+ words) Mayor Brandon Johnson praised the “maturation” of Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, whose handling of sexual harassment issues involving former state Rep. Harry Benton has made him politically vulnerable in leading the supermajority House Democratic Caucus in Springfield. “Watching…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (407+ words) La empresa dirigida por Elon Musk reportó una pérdida de 541 millones de dólares, equivalente a 9 centavos por acción, en los tres meses hasta junio, menos de la mitad de lo que los analistas financieros habían esperado. Los ingresos saltaron a…...