2nd Cook County inmate dies after positive coronavirus test
A Chicago jail under court order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus saw the second death of an inmate who had tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.
A Chicago jail under court order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus saw the second death of an inmate who had tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.
A man convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
There was no crowded church, no streets lined with officers and respectful onlookers and no packed cemetery — a show of respect that has for generations comforted the families of fallen officers.
A funeral for the first Chicago Police officer to die from complications of the coronavirus will look unlike any funeral for a city officer in memory.
Unemployment claims in Illinois jumped nearly 13% last week, with 201,041 new claims largely attributable to the spread of the coronavirus.
A security guard and a 16-year-old girl were shot and wounded on a train when the guard’s gun accidentally discharged, striking both of them, police said.
The federal government will buy 30,000 ventilators from General Motors by the end of August for $489.4 million.
An “L” passenger was killed when he was shoved from a subway platform into the path of a train, police said.
Contributing to the cause of the crash was the Tippecanoe Valley School Corp.’s inadequate safety assessment of school bus routes, resulting in a prevalence of bus stops that required students to cross high-speed roadways, the NTSB said.
A Chicago firefighter who died Tuesday night from complications of COVID-19 is the first member of the department to be killed by the virus, a spokesman said.