Hundreds of migrants reportedly live inside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for several weeks as the Windy City prepares to relocate them into shelters.
Hundreds of migrants reportedly live inside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for several weeks as the Windy City prepares to relocate them into shelters.
Police have arrested a man in Chicago, Illinois, who is suspected of beating a pastor to death inside her apartment last weekend.
On Thursday, a National Weather Service team will survey damage in Northeast Illinois after tornadoes struck the region Wednesday evening.
Chicago’s mayor says the city’s weekend problem with downtown violence and crime can only be fixed by parents instilling values in their children at home. Hundreds of teenagers and young adults gathered downtown over the weekend, including at the city’s famous Millennium Park, where some engaged in “reckless and disruptive behavior” and were arrested, Chicago police told Channel 5.
Nine adults and six children were arrested late Saturday night. Two tweens in the middle of a large crowd around State and Madison streets were shot. A 14-year-old boy was shot at 31st Street Beach during a similar gathering on Friday.
Cars were damaged on both evenings. Channel 5 said it pulled its TV crew from the area due to fears for the employees’ safety. Police were outnumbered, the station said.
A Chicago pastor spent 345 days camping out on a rooftop in an effort to raise $35 million to build a community center in the city’s South Side.
Chicago pastor Charlie Dates was appointed as the new pastor of the 10,000-member Salem Baptist Church of Chicago on Sunday, succeeding founding pastor James Meeks.
A shooting in Chicago Sunday morning left a 7-year-old boy hospitalized after he was shot while on his way to church with his parents.
A 20-year-old good Samaritan in Chicago was recently honored for his actions after saving a man who fell on the CTA subway tracks.
Last Monday, two beloved Chicago pastors were killed in a suspected hit-and-run on the Far South Side of Chicago.
A Chicago pastor has decided to camp out for 100 days to combat the city's near-record levels of gun violence.