The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

After backlash, Chicago City Council drops restrictive new rules to public seating at its meetings

The new rules were prompted after a number of intense and chaotic City Council meetings.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

City Council set to alter paid leave ordinance, but not enough to satisfy business leaders

The proposed quick fixes include a six-month delay — until July 1 — in the requirement that businesses give Chicago employees five paid sick days and five paid vacation days per year.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

So long, Solis? Defense rests in Burke trial after briefly questioning ‘hostile’ witness, FBI mole Danny Solis

Burke’s defense attorneys made good on their promise to call Solis to testify, forcing him out into the open nearly five years after the Chicago Sun-Times revealed his cooperation with the feds in January 2019.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Here’s one roadmap to easing the mental health crisis among teen girls

Mental health crises are rising among girls and young women. Working on Womanhood, developed in Chicago, helped reduce symptoms of PTSD.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Chicago celebrates Hanukkah, lighting 31-foot-tall Daley Plaza menorah

On the fifth night of Hanukkah, a crowd gathers in the Loop for a menorah lighting and to celebrate light and life.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Chicago-area businesses close, dozens rally to call for cease-fire in Gaza: ‘Nobody else needs to die’

Businesses mainly in the south suburbs, including restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores and gas stations, closed Monday ahead of a rally in solidarity with Gaza.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Rev. Raymond Goedert, Chicago Archdiocese official who admitted knowing of clergy sexual abuse, dead at 96

Rev. Goedert, a survivor of the Andrea Doria shipwreck, said in a 2007 deposition that he knew 25 priests had broken the law over the years by abusing children but never alerted police.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Nonprofit donates $460,000 to widows, children of fallen firefighters: ‘We’re a family’

The EMWQ Retirees’, Widows’ and Children’s Assistance Fund was founded to provide financial assistance to the children and widows of active service members of the Chicago Fire Department who die.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Nicki Minaj tour coming to Chicago’s United Center in 2024

The rapper’s Pink Friday 2 World Tour arrives in Chicago on April 24.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 11, 2023

Four years later, City Council finally poised to extend lobbyist requirements to nonprofits

Nonprofit groups complained they could not afford to jump through regulatory hoops or pay hefty fines for honest mistakes. On Monday, the Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight passed a revised ordinance aimed at easing those concerns.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 11, 2023