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Rapper Kendrick Lamar appears at the MTV Video Music Awards, on Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif., left, and Canadian rapper Drake appears at the premiere of the series "Euphoria," in Los Angeles on June 4, 2019.

[Photo] Rappers are beefing — I’m team Kendrick Lamar

Olivia Waltezke, Contributing Writer
June 4, 2024
Chicago 43rd Ward Alderman Michele Smith speaks during a City Council meeting, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in Chicago.

[Photo] Michele Smith, Ald. of Lincoln Park Ward, resigns

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor
July 22, 2022
A Russian tank T-72B3 fires as troops take part in drills at the Kadamovskiy firing range in the Rostov region in southern Russia, on Jan. 12, 2022.

[Photo] Headed to disaster? US, Russia harden stances in talks

Matthew Lee & Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press
January 17, 2022
Kyle Rittenhouse, center, enters the courtroom with his attorneys Mark Richards, left, and Corey Chirafisi for a meeting called by Judge Bruce Schroeder at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)

Kyle Rittenhouse cleared of all charges in Kenosha shootings

Associated Press
November 19, 2021
Ethiopian Military parade at a rally organized by local authorities in support of the Ethiopian National Defense Force.

U.S. Sanctions Eritrea’s military, ruling party over Ethiopia

Associated Press
November 14, 2021
Then Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa Fiame Naomi Mata’afa speaks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Australian High Commissioner to Samoa Sue Langford as they arrive at Faleolo Airport in Apia, Samoa on Sept. 8, 2017. More than three months after winning an election which sparked a constitutional crisis, Samoa's first female prime minister was finally able to take office on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Samoa’s 1st female PM takes office after constitution crisis

Associated Press
July 27, 2021
In this May 13, 2021, file photo, smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City. Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, accused the Israeli military of carrying attacks that "apparently amount to war crimes" during an 11-day war against the Hamas militant group in May. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Human Rights Watch: Israeli war crimes apparent in Gaza war

Associated Press
July 27, 2021
Former president Jacob Zuma gestures as he addresses the press at his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Natal Province, Sunday, July 4, 2021. Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing his 15-month prison sentence and impending arrest by police. South Africa’s top court, the Constitutional Court, last week sentenced Zuma to prison for defying a court order that he should testify before a commission investigating allegations of rampant corruption when he was president from 2009 to 2018. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)

South African court to rule on arrest of ex-president Zuma

Associated Press
July 6, 2021
Israeli Arab women hold a sign during a protest ahead of a vote by Israel's parliament on renewing a law that bars Arab citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, outside the parliament building in Jerusalem, Monday, July 5, 2021. Israel's new government faces an early challenge in deciding whether to renew the temporary law first enacted in 2003. Critics say it's a racist measure aimed at limiting the growth of the Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security reasons and to preserve Israel's Jewish character. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel blocks law that keeps out Palestinian spouses

Associated Press
July 6, 2021
Farmers Market in Wicker Park operational with mask wearing and other Covid-19 safety procedures

CDC: Fully vaccinated people can largely ditch masks indoors

Associated Press
May 13, 2021
Lucius Giannini stands for a portrait Thursday, April 15, 2021, in San Diego. Giannini graduated from the University of California at San Diego at the end of last summer with a degree in political science. He had hoped to find work with the Peace Corps, or maybe teaching English overseas. But the Peace Corps was bringing all its volunteers home, and no one was hiring for overseas teaching. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Job market for new grads: Much hiring but much competition

Associated Press
May 9, 2021
FILE - In this April 15, 2021, file image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin address Judge Peter Cahill at the courthouse in Minneapolis during Chauvin's trial in the death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case

Associated Press
April 20, 2021
FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2021 file photo, people receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the Martin Luther King Senior Center in North Las Vegas. Coronavirus cases are continuing to decline in the U.S. after a winter surge. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases in the country dropped below 100,000 on Friday, Feb. 12 for the first time since November 4. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Average US virus cases dip below 100K for 1st time in months

Associated Press
February 14, 2021
In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, law enforcement personnel walk toward the Allina Health clinic where multiple people were shot in Buffalo, Minn. Doctors say they're facing increasing threats of violence for refusing to prescribe opioids or trying to wean patients off the addictive painkillers. The issue was underscored by Tuesday's shooting at the Minnesota clinic.

Doctors who say no to opioid use face threats from patients

Associated Press
February 14, 2021
Roseland Community Hospital RN Rhonda Jones, prepares bed linens, towels and a hospital gown Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, for a new patient at the South Side of Chicago hospital. Jones has treated many patients with severe COVID-19, a relative died from it, and her mother and a nephew were infected and recovered, but she is still holding out getting the vaccine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Dr. Rita McGuire, an obstetrician and infection control specialist at Roseland Community Hospital talks Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, with staff members about taking the COVID-19 vaccine. McGuire says countering misinformation and mistrust about vaccinations is a daily battle. Many workers ''have not forgotten about those studies where they used us as experiments,'' McGuire said, including the infamous Tuskegee research on Blacks with syphilis. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

FILE - In this June 6, 2019, file photo Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. Washington state's richest residents, including Bezos and Bill Gates, would pay a wealth tax on certain financial assets worth more than $1 billion under a proposed bill whose sponsor says she is seeking a fair and equitable tax code. Under the bill, starting Jan. 1, 2022, for taxes due in 2023, a 1% tax would be levied on "extraordinary" assets ranging from cash, publicly traded options, futures contracts, and stocks and bonds. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, will step down as CEO

Associated Press
February 2, 2021
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Biden sworn in as nation’s 46th president

Associated Press
January 20, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo syringes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit in a tray in a vaccination room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Taking a new direction to speed release of coronavirus vaccines, President-elect Joe Biden's office said Friday he would end the current practice of holding back vaccine doses to guarantee that people who get their first shot can also get a required second inoculation three weeks later. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

With virus surging, Biden to speed release of COVID vaccines

Associated Press
January 10, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

The Latest: Education head DeVos quits, cites Trump rhetoric

Associated Press
January 7, 2021
Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael Warnock wave to the crowd during a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Democrats Ossoff and Warnock are challenging incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff election on Jan. 5. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

Warnock, Ossoff win in Georgia, handing Dems Senate control

Associated Press
January 6, 2021
People attend a rally in support of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US Capitol locked down as Trump supporters clash with police

Associated Press
January 6, 2021
Observers watch an official work as ballots are counted for Georgia's Senate runoff election at the Georgia World Congress Center on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority

Associated Press
January 6, 2021
FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. Moderna Inc. says it will ask U.S. and European regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as new study results confirm the shots offer strong protection.

Moderna asking US, European regulators to OK its virus shots

Associated Press
November 30, 2020
Minnesota United midfielder Marlon Hairston, left, falls after a second-half collision with Chicago Fire attacker Ignacio Aliseda during an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, at Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minn.

[Photo] Chicago Fire’s 2020 season ends in disappointment

Ernesto Hernandez, Assistant Sports Editor
November 15, 2020
Alex Trebek, host of "Jeopardy!" attends a ceremony honoring the show's executive producer Harry Friedman with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, in this Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, file photo. “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died Sunday , Nov. 8, 2020, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. Trebek died at home with family and friends surrounding him, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said in a statement. Trebek presided over the beloved quiz show for more than 30 years. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Alex Trebek, long-running ‘Jeopardy!’ host, dies at 80

Associated Press
November 8, 2020
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, meets with Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Barrett confirmed as Supreme Court justice in partisan vote

Associated Press
October 26, 2020
Sherrellis Sheria Stinnette, grandmother of Marcellis Stinnette, 19, speaks to the media during a protest rally for Marcellis Stinnette who was killed by Waukegan Police last Tuesday in Waukegan, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Stinnette was killed and his girlfriend and mother of his child, Tafara Williams, was wounded when a police officer in Waukegan opened fire Tuesday night after police said Williams' vehicle started rolling toward the officer following a traffic stop. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald via AP)

Chief: Illinois officer who shot Black couple in car fired

Associated Press
October 25, 2020
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, Dodeye Ewa, 16 year old study at the family library in Calabar, Nigeria. The third child is bothered by President Donald Trump's rhetoric and his policies toward international students, most recently one announced Friday that limits their stays in the U.S. to two or four years with uncertainty about whether their visas will be extended. (AP Photo/Daniel H Williams )

Foreign students show less zeal for US since Trump took over

Associated Press
October 25, 2020
Madison Zurmuehlen poses for a photo on the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Amid pandemic restrictions aimed at keeping students safe and healthy, colleges are scrambling to help them adjust. Zurmuehlen said daily practices, with masks, are “the one thing I look forward to,” so it was tough when campus sports were canceled for two weeks after an outbreak among student athletes and staff. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Stressed freshmen missing quintessential college experience

Associated Press
October 25, 2020
In this Sept. 29, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Trump and first lady test positive for coronavirus

Associated Press
October 2, 2020
FILE - In this April 6, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg applauds after a performance in her honor after she spoke about her life and work during a discussion at Georgetown Law School in Washington. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

Associated Press
September 18, 2020
Referees huddle on an empty court at game time of a scheduled game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic for Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Bucks players don’t take the court for NBA playoff game

Associated Press
August 26, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Biden receive a virtual briefing on COVID-19 from public health experts in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

AP FACT CHECK: Harris eligible to serve as VP, president

Associated Press
August 14, 2020
Protesters listening to speakers outside of Chicago's immigration and Customs Enforcement center on July 10, 2020. // Manifestantes escuchan a oradores fuera del Centro de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Chicago el 10 de julio de 2020.

La administración Trump revoca las restricciones puestas sobre estudiantes internacionales

Hillary Flores, Marcus Robertson, and Associated Press
July 15, 2020
Protesters listening to speakers outside of Chicago's immigration and Customs Enforcement center on July 10, 2020. // Manifestantes escuchan a oradores fuera del Centro de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Chicago el 10 de julio de 2020.

Trump administration reverses restrictions on international students

Marcus Robertson and Associated Press
July 14, 2020
AP Explains: Juneteenth marks day last enslaved people freed

AP Explains: Juneteenth marks day last enslaved people freed

Associated Press and Ella Lee
June 19, 2020
Lori Lightfoot lifts 9 p.m. curfew, fully reopens Loop access

Lori Lightfoot lifts 9 p.m. curfew, fully reopens Loop access

Associated Press
June 7, 2020
Officials urge George Floyd protesters to get coronavirus tests

Officials urge George Floyd protesters to get coronavirus tests

Associated Press
June 7, 2020
In this May 5, 2020, file photo Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cotton has risen to the ranks of potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders by making all the right enemies. Now, the Arkansas lawmaker is making more by lining up behind President Donald Trump’s law and order recipe for controlling civic unrest.

Lauding ‘force’ against protests, Sen. Cotton raises profile

Associated Press
June 4, 2020
In this photo taken with a wide angle lens, demonstrators stand in front of Los Angeles City Hall during a protest over the death of George Floyd Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Los Angeles. Floyd died in police custody on Memorial Day in Minneapolis.

Report: 3 more officers to be charged in George Floyd’s death

Associated Press
June 3, 2020
A sign along the bluff in downtown St. Joseph, Mich., encourages social distancing Tuesday, June 2, 2020, as the state slowly continues to open after being shut down for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)

Lightfoot says Chicago’s reopening to go on despite unrest

Associated Press
June 2, 2020
Two officers wearing protective facial coverings.

Trump threatens military force against protesters nationwide

Associated Press
June 2, 2020
Ismael Kamara stand in front of a poster with names from people died after police violence the demonstrators say, as he attends a rally to commemorate George Floyd and against racism and police violence in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 1, 2020. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day May 25.

Family-ordered autopsy: Floyd died of asphyxia

Associated Press
June 1, 2020
Chicago Police officers cross the street in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

19 killed, 63 wounded in Chicago weekend gun violence

Associated Press
June 1, 2020
A woman is helped after being hit with pepper spray after curfew on Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Minneapolis. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day.

Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control

Associated Press
June 1, 2020
Chicago announces new efforts to boost Census participation

Chicago announces new efforts to boost Census participation

Associated Press
May 30, 2020
The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A, Friday, May 29, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch on Saturday, May 30. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts will blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company.

SpaceX rocket ship blasts off into orbit with 2 Americans

Associated Press
May 30, 2020
A man poses for a photo in the parking lot of an AutoZone store in flames, while protesters hold a rally for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Violent protests over the death of the black man in police custody broke out in Minneapolis for a second straight night Wednesday, with protesters in a standoff with officers outside a police precinct and looting of nearby stores.

Violent protests rock Minneapolis after death of black man in police custody

Associated Press
May 28, 2020
In this April 13, 2020 file photo, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker gives a daily state update on the coronavirus outbreak in Chicago. Seven Midwestern governors announced Thursday, April 16, 2020 that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, after similar pacts were made in the Northeast and on the West Coast. The latest agreement includes Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kentucky.

Pritzker issues rules as Illinois prepares for reopening

Associated Press
May 25, 2020
Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015

Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015

Associated Press
May 25, 2020
Under Lightfoot's discretion, there has been a higher presence of CPD in CTA stations.

Chicago police plan more holiday, summer weekend patrols

Associated Press
May 23, 2020
In this April 20, 2020, file photo, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference in Chicago. Chicago officials say the nation's third-largest city cannot begin to loosen restrictions designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus before early June. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said all parts of the state are on track for restrictions to begin loosening on May 29. But Mayor Lightfoot said Friday, May 22, that the city is not yet hitting the metrics in her plan for gradually loosening restrictions and that she is hopeful that can happen by early June.

Lightfoot estimates Chicago can begin reopening in June

Associated Press
May 22, 2020
New Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, center, and others wear masks amid the coronavirus pandemic during session at the State Capitol, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Springfield, Ill.

Illinois lawmakers, 6 feet apart, catch up on delayed work

Associated Press
May 20, 2020
The Chicago River overflowed its banks and flooded the Riverwalk after overnight showers and thunderstorms across the city Monday, May 18, 2020 in Chicago.

Flooding hits parts of Midwest

Associated Press
May 19, 2020
University of California at Berkeley graduate Tyler Lyson stands in front of Sproul Hall on the closed Cal campus in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, May 11, 2020. Lyson watched his parents’ financial collapse in the Great Recession, a decade ago. He vowed he’d find the security they never had: He would get a college degree.

Fear of the future: Class of 2020 enters a world in crisis

Associated Press
May 18, 2020
In this April 23, 2020 file photo, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces an extension of the stay at home order for Illinois as well as a mandatory face covering order at his daily Illinois coronavirus update at the Thompson Center. Illinois State Rep. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia filed suit against the order, and a judge in southern Illinois ruled Monday, April 27, 2020, that the Illinois governor's order to stem the spread of the coronavirus exceeds his emergency authority and violates individual civil rights.

Pritzker defends extended order, faces salon owner lawsuit

Associated Press
May 10, 2020
Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers a reporter's question during a news conference to provide an update to the latest efforts by the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team in Chicago on Monday, April 20, 2020.

Lori Lightfoot sets five-phase plan for reopening city

Associated Press
May 9, 2020
A "Covid kills businesses too" sign is shown outside Euro Treasures Antiques Friday, May 8, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Scott Evans is closing his art and antique store after 40 years. With a drastic drop in customers due to COVID-19 concerns and shelter-in-place orders, Evans says it was no longer cost effective to stay open.

US unemployment surges to a Depression-era level of 14.7%

Associated Press
May 9, 2020
In this April 23, 2020, photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, a researcher holds a dead Asian giant hornet in Blaine, Wash. FILE - This Dec. 30, 2019 photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture shows a dead Asian giant hornet in a lab in Olympia, Wash. It is the world's largest hornet, a 2-inch long killer with an appetite for honey bees. Dubbed the "Murder Hornet" by some, the insect has a sting that could be fatal to some humans.

Bug experts dismiss worry about US ‘murder hornets’ as hype

Associated Press
May 7, 2020
A woman wears mask as she leaves a store during the coronavirus pandemic in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, May 5, 2020. New Illinois rules about wearing a face mask over age 2 start Friday, May 1, when they can't maintain a 6 foot social distance in public.

Pritzker: 5-part reopening plan dependent on infections

Associated Press
May 6, 2020
Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers a reporter's question during a news conference to provide an update to the latest efforts by the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team in Chicago on Monday, April 20, 2020.

Lori Lightfoot threatens party-goers with arrest as coronavirus toll mounts

Associated Press
May 3, 2020
The Ferry family, from Chantilly, Va., who were in the middle of taking a family photograph, are surprised by a second fly over by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, in a "salute to frontline COVID-19 responders," as seen near the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial that depicts a flag raising over Iwo Jima, in Arlington, Va., Saturday, May 2, 2020.

Sun draws many out in US, Europe; Russia virus numbers grow

Associated Press
May 2, 2020
This video framegrab image from MSNBC's Morning Joe, shows Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaking to co-host Mika Brzezinski, Friday, May 1, 2020. (MSNBC's Morning Joe via AP)

Biden on sexual assault allegation: ‘never, never happened’

Associated Press
May 1, 2020
Rajpath, India's ceremonial boulevard is deserted, as India's Presidential Palace is seen during a lockdown amid concerns over the spread of Coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, April 27, 2020.

PHOTOS: Virus-era glimpses of a world without humans

Associated Press
May 1, 2020
In this March 10, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries

Associated Press
April 30, 2020
In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, the company says its experimental antiviral drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test.

Gilead drug proves effective against coronavirus in US study

Associated Press
April 29, 2020
In this April 25, 2020 file photo, Illinois State Rep. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, right, speaks at a protest against Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order in front of the Capitol building in Springfield, Ill., during the coronavirus outbreak. A judge in southern Illinois ruled Monday, April 27, 2020, that Pritzker's stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the coronavirus exceeds his emergency authority and violates individual civil rights.

Judge rules Pritzker’s stay-at-home order an overreach

Associated Press
April 27, 2020
In this April 22, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington. After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is planning to shift President Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation.

Health officials ready new guidelines as restrictions ease

Associated Press
April 27, 2020
In this March 30, 2020, file photo, a public service message reminding people to Stay Home Save Lives is seen on a billboard near the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday, April 23, 2020 extended his stay-at-home order through May 30 as the highly contagious COVID-19 continues its rounds. Pritzker's first decree was to expire April 30.

Pritzker extends stay-at-home order amid COVID-19 spread

Associated Press
April 24, 2020
Chicago Police officers cross the street in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

Chicago City Council signs off on new police superintendent

Associated Press
April 23, 2020
A woman carries a shopping bag as she walks on the sidewalk in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Several major spring and summer events in Chicago have been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pritzker says Illinois won’t hit COVID-19 peak until mid-May

Associated Press
April 22, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks with reporters after the Senate approved a nearly $500 billion coronavirus aid bill, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Congress set to pass $483B virus aid as Trump eyes next deal

Associated Press
April 22, 2020
A lone woman boards a Chicago Transit Authority bus in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Monday, April 20, 2020, as a public service billboard reminds people of the continuing fight against COVID-19.

Chicago works to reach more black residents amid pandemic

Associated Press
April 21, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington.

Trump says he’ll ‘suspend immigration,’ offers no details

Associated Press
April 21, 2020
A masked worker departs a gate at a Boeing production plant Monday, April 20, 2020, in Renton, Wash. Boeing this week is restarting production of commercial airplanes in the Seattle area, putting about 27,000 people back to work after operations were halted because of the coronavirus.

Some US producers, states reopening amid political pressure

Associated Press
April 21, 2020
In this July 22, 2017 file photo, Chicago Sky's Stefanie Dolson raises her hands in the second half of the WNBA All-Star basketball game in Seattle. Dolson says she tested positive for the cororavirus. She is the first known Chicago professional athlete and the second WNBA player known to have contracted COVID-19. Dolson announced that she caught the virus in a video that aired Friday, April 17, 2020 during ESPN's broadcast of the WNBA draft.

Chicago Sky center Stefanie Dolson says she has COVID-19

Associated Press
April 19, 2020
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Medical students in Illinois graduate early amid pandemic

Associated Press
April 19, 2020
As seen through a window, President Donald Trump watches newscasts in an area behind the James Brady Press Briefing Room with Steven Groves, center, White House deputy press secretary, and press assistant Margo Martin, after speaking about the coronavirus at the White House, Friday, April 17, 2020, in Washington. Public health experts are becoming concerned that people will use their partisan identification to decide which officials to believe whenever parts of the country start edging back to a new normal.

Experts worry politics will guide voters’ coronavirus precautions

Associated Press
April 19, 2020
A woman walks on the sidewalk in front of NorthShore Skokie Hospital sign in Skokie, Ill., Friday, March 27, 2020. Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a stay-at-home order for the entire state, which went into effect on March 21, 2020 and lasts through at least April 7.

Volunteers deliver meals to hospitals during coronavirus crisis

Associated Press
April 18, 2020
In this April 13, 2020 file photo, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker gives a daily state update on the coronavirus outbreak in Chicago. Seven Midwestern governors announced Thursday, April 16, 2020 that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, after similar pacts were made in the Northeast and on the West Coast. The latest agreement includes Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kentucky.

7 Midwest states to partner on reopening the economy

Associated Press
April 16, 2020
President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington.

Trump gives governors 3-phase plan to reopen economy

Associated Press
April 16, 2020
Former softball coach Eugene Lenti pictured at the 2018 Big East Championship.

DePaul accused of ignoring allegations of abuse by Eugene Lenti

Shane René, Lawrence Kreymer, Ella Lee, and Associated Press
April 16, 2020
A woman waits at a Chicago Transit Authority bus shelter during the coronavirus pandemic on the city's West Side Wednesday, April 15, 2020.

Illinois could face $7B deficit over 2 years after COVID-19

Associated Press
April 15, 2020
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, right, delivers his homily over empty pews as he leads an Easter Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Due to coronavirus concerns, no congregants were allowed to attend the Mass but it was broadcast live on a local TV station.

Amid coronavirus, world’s Christians mark an Easter like no other

Associated Press
April 12, 2020
Christina Caldwell, left, of Henry Ford Population Health helps unload supplies with Matt Thatcher, who donated them from the Detroit Golf Club, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Detroit. The hospital is also in need of gowns and other PPE items and hopes more donations will be coming in from others to help during the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. states share, get creative in hunt for medical supplies

Associated Press
April 10, 2020
In this April 7, 2020 file photo, amid fears of the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of protesters drive around Cook County Jail and the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, honking their horns and chanting to demand the "mass release" of detainees at the jail. A federal judge has ordered Cook County Jail on Thursday, April, 9, 2020, to take steps to protect inmates from coronavirus.

Judge orders Chicago jail to do more to halt spread of coronavirus

Associated Press
April 9, 2020
In this Sept. 29, 2019 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pauses while speaking at a campaign event at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Sanders' campaign said Wednesday the Democratic presidential candidate has had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and that he’s canceling events and appearances "until further notice."

Sanders drops 2020 bid, leaving Biden as likely nominee

Associated Press
April 8, 2020
A normally student filled campus square at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., is deserted in face of the coronavirus, as the liberal arts school, like many others, faces financial and enrollment challenges Friday, April 3, 2020. At present, the school has switched to on-line teaching. Colleges across the nation are scrambling to close deep budget holes and some have been pushed to the brink of collapse after the coronavirus outbreak triggered a series of financial losses.

Financial hits pile up for colleges as some fight to survive

Associated Press
April 7, 2020
Travelers with their luggage walk past the Hankou railway station on the eve of its resuming outbound traffic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Starting Wednesday, residents of Wuhan will be allowed to once again travel in and out of the sprawling city where the coronavirus pandemic began, ending an 11-week lockdown.

China’s virus pandemic epicenter Wuhan ends 76-day lockdown

Associated Press
April 7, 2020
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot signs an executive order to ensure coronavirus-related benefits offered by the city of Chicago are available to immigrants and refugees, Tuesday morning, April 7, 2020.

Lori Lightfoot’s order gives immigrants access to Chicago’s virus relief

Associated Press
April 7, 2020
Students and professionals alike cross the street. At the Loop Campus, the buildings are integrated among office buildings, restaurants and stores.

Coronavirus upends high school seniors’ college decisions

Associated Press
March 31, 2020
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, speaks at the Thompson Center in Chicago during the daily update on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Monday, March 30, 2020.

Illinois inmate dies from COVID-19; dozens more sickened

Associated Press
March 31, 2020
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