Ex-school chief charged with looting lunch program for needy
Federal fraud charges have been filed against a private school operator who is accused of looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a school nutrition program.
Federal fraud charges have been filed against a private school operator who is accused of looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a school nutrition program.
Funding for police officers in Chicago Public Schools will be cut by more than half, while other ‘major reforms’ will be implemented for the way police operate in the school district, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and district CEO Janice Jackson said.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker touted a University of Illinois saliva test on Wednesday as a potential “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19.
Investigators believe a single assailant has stabbed four homeless men while they slept, killing one and seriously injuring three others since July, police said.
A man who was helping clean up a crash scene fell to his death when he stepped backward over a highway bridge’s railing, police said.
After nearly 30 years behind bars, a man who claimed he was tortured into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit by detectives working under Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge is now free.
Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be killed Aug. 26 at the federal prison in Indiana where he’s been held.
The University of Notre Dame canceled in-person undergraduate classes for two weeks after a spike of coronavirus cases that occurred since the semester began Aug. 10.
One of two men convicted in the murder of Michael Jordan’s father in 1993 will be released from prison in three years, state officials said.
Two former Chicago White Sox ticket sellers have pleaded guilty to federal charges for their roles in a scheme where thousands of tickets to the team’s games were fraudulently sold.