The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

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Lamar Taylor has served 22 months while awaiting trial and is likely to be released soon.

A massive winter storm is winding across the central U.S., threatening to disrupt air traffic during the busy holiday season, rake Chicago with a blizzard and send an arctic blast as far south as Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Worst conditions to develop Thursday night, with a possible blizzard and dangerously low temperatures expected by Friday, the National Weather Service warned.

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Six flights – from Boston, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, New York JFK and Washington DC – have been cancelled outright

A man was sitting in a car in the 2000 block of West Chicago Avenue when he was shot in the head, police said.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Burr Ridge, Illinois, businessman to nearly five years in federal prison for swindling $2.6 million from hospitals seeking coveted protective gear in the traumatic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and blowing much of it on credit cards and luxury cars.

CHICAGO — More than 100 Benito Juarez high school students joined a walkout midday Monday on the school’s first day of classes since four teens were shot and two were killed Friday.