Residents packed a public meeting to voice concerns about Amtrak's proposed Midwest maintenance facility in Bridgeport, with many criticizing the project's potential impact on nearby neighborhoods and questioning how the proposal has moved forward.
A commercial vehicle hit a bridge on the Edens Expressway Thursday evening in the north suburbs, hospitalizing at least two people and shutting down all southbound lanes and two northbound lanes for a time, Illinois State Police said.
An arrest has been made months after the murder of a city worker. She was found fatally shot inside of a home on the city's North Side in February, Chicago police said.
Five Lincoln-Way East High School students have "voluntarily withdrawn" from the school following an investigation into alleged racial harassment at a football game, according to Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210.