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16+ min ago (184+ words) December 8, 2025 / 5:21 AM CST / CBS Chicago One woman was killed and another hospitalized when a car lost control and crashed in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood early Monday morning. At 1:30 a.m., the two women were in a black sedan when heading west in the 3800 block of West Diversey Avenue when the woman who was driving, 31, lost control and struck a parked car, police said. The car then veered across the road and hit the rear of a semi-trailer truck that was headed east on Diversey Avenue. The woman in the passenger seat of the car that crashed, also 31, was ejected and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver of the car was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition. The man who was driving the truck was not injured and refused medical treatment. Citations were pending Monday morning....

21+ min ago (34+ words) One woman was killed and another hospitalized when a car lost control and crashed in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood early Monday morning. Woman killed after sedan hits parked car, semi in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood...

37+ min ago (401+ words) The government shutdown may be over, but Congress still hasn't solved the biggest problem left on its plate: Extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies to avoid a'doubling of insurance premiums or replace them with something new altogether. Lawmakers have committed to a vote in December. While public debate about the issue has centered on dollars and deficits, the stakes are actually far greater: Access to comprehensive health coverage can determine whether people live or die. But HSA deposits do nothing to prevent the real harm. The health consequences of losing insurance " or of having insurance that is difficult to affordably use " are well documented. A substantial body of'research shows a clear relationship between lack of comprehensive coverage and higher death rates. The U.S. Supreme Court once observed that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy." In the context…...

37+ min ago (696+ words) This page has long supported the responsible use of nuclear power to generate electricity. Illinois was the birthplace of the first-ever reactor at the University of Chicago, after all, and now has more reactors than any other state. Westinghouse, a nuclear pioneer, has announced plans to build 10 large reactors in the U.S., with construction to begin by 2030. Each of its AP1000s could supply 750,000-plus homes or, alternately, some of the power-hungry data centers coming online to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. Trump issued executive orders in May that aim to quadruple the use of nuclear power in the U.S. by 2050, including a "wholesale revision" of Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations. So far, so good, as government red tape is a glaring reason why just a few new reactors have come online since the 1980s. Unfortunately, Trump's otherwise welcome support of nuclear power comes with a…...

37+ min ago (562+ words) Friday night was a bit chilly in Geneva, but Lara Sisto insisted that hearts and spirits were still warm thanks to the annual Christmas Walk going on in the city's downtown. "I'm from Geneva and I come to this every year," she said at the Christmas Walk. "If it's the holidays I have to be here. I moved here in 2012 and I've been here every year since. I haven't missed a year. It just feels very joyful " a lot of small-town community." The Geneva Chamber of Commerce sponsored the annual Christmas Walk on Friday, an event that continues to bring thousands to the downtown area in order to take part in a tradition that has spanned nearly seven decades. Chamber staff added that there were no changes this year to the holiday event and that the traditions of the Candy…...

37+ min ago (479+ words) Sometimes, one crisis seems to lead to another for President Donald Trump " and he's got plenty of trouble brewing. Amid all this anguish, Trump took the opportunity at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday to advance collective punishment against another immigrant group that he doesn't like: Somalis. "They contribute nothing," Trump told reporters in a rambling tirade in a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. "I don't want them in our country." Trump further averred that the war-torn East African country from which they fled "stinks" and that they are "garbage." Even for Trump, who once infamously dismissed African nations and other developing nations as "shithole countries," the malevolence and vulgarity of his anti-Somali outbursts was stunning. And what end did he imagine they served? Casting a broad shadow of suspicion on immigrants from other nations, especially nonwhite and Islamic ones, has been a yearslong…...

37+ min ago (345+ words) State Street is a great street. So it certainly deserves a splashy station, especially one promising room to move, natural light shining through a glass canopy and elevated vistas allowing Chicagoans to check whether or not there are people there doing things they don't do on Broadway. But $444 million? And a construction time of three years, beginning Jan. 5? That's not a concept-to-opening time, but simple demo and construction. To build a design that was unveiled four years ago. When this new station, designed by TranSystems and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was announced in 2021 by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the cost was announced as $180 million. Now, we're told, it's a mind-blowing $444 million. For one previously existing station. Stunning. We doubt your paycheck increased at that rate. We like the pizzazz of the new State and Lake, at least on paper, and perhaps all…...

37+ min ago (1228+ words) Miscanthus grass grows at AEC Supply's farm in Minooka on Nov. 25, 2025. AEC Supply has a program for erosion control and a greenhouse program that both use miscanthus fiber as an input. The crop won't be harvested until around March. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune) When you look across a field of miscanthus, it's "hypnotically beautiful," says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two decades grown the first commercial field of this grass in Illinois. Dense, sun-loving and often called "giant," it blooms in late summer to fall with a showy silver flower. Just like cornstalks across the Midwest, this crop grows several feet tall as it reaches up to the sky. And similar to soybean cultivation in the last century, annual production of miscanthus " mostly grown on tens of thousands of acres in the eastern U.S. " is projected to skyrocket…...

37+ min ago (1566+ words) The Basque-influenced steakhouse offers a five-course dinner ($205) from 4 to 10 p.m. Christmas Eve including grilled king crab with caviar, black truffle and cheese pasta and roast duck with foie gras dirty rice. 214 W. Erie St., 312-800-8935, asadorbastian.com/event/basquechristmaseve Imagine you're vacationing in Paris this Christmas Eve with a four-course meal ($120 plus $70 for wine pairings) prepared by chef Martial Noguier and Les Nomades chef Roland Liccioni including diver sea scallop with lobster sauce, braised flat iron wagyu rossini and poached pear with bittersweet chocolate sauce. 840 N. Wabash Ave., 312-944-8400, bistronomic.net The River North steakhouse offers a special menu including crab-stuffed mushrooms ($29), prime rib with horseradish cream ($59) and classic stuffing with cranberry sauce ($15). 4-9 p.m. Dec. 24 and 1-9 p.m. Dec. 25. 60 W. Ontario St., 312-787-7100, chicagochophouse.com/holiday-menu A Mediterranean-inspired dinner for two ($125) includes crispy Brussels sprouts, shawarma-spiced roasted chicken, beef tenderloin kebab and honey pie. Place an order by 5 p.m. Dec. 22 for…...

45+ min ago (736+ words) Libre no reconoce las elecciones celebradas bajo injerencia y coacci'n del presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, y la oligarqu'a aliada que han embestido al pueblo hondure'o con un golpe electoral en curso, expres' la candidata de la formaci'n de izquierda Libertad y Refundaci'n (Libre) mientras le'a un comunicado de su partido. Los datos parciales publicados por el momento sit'an a Moncada en tercer lugar, muy por detr's de dos candidatos conservadores. El proceso de conteo lleva paralizado desde el viernes, lo que ha producido inquietud entre los hondure'os. Moncada afirm' que se hab'a adulterado la soberan'a nacional porque el Sistema de Transmisi'n de Resultados Preliminares (TREP) fue manipulado en su c'digo fuente. Sin utilizar las tres llaves del sistema de seguridad, a espalda de los t'cnicos responsables, fue adulterado e intervenido el software, violando la Ley Electoral y…...