2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (318+ words) Atlanta United was held without a goal for the fourth time in seven games this season in a 1-0 loss to the Chicago Fire on Saturday night. The Five Stripes dropped to 1-5-1 on the season and are 12th in the Eastern Conference…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (907+ words) Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's tawniest neighborhoods " a bystander caught up in a gang shootout. Twenty years later in…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (843+ words) Dozens of complaints, including several filed this week in Chicago, allege decades of systemic abuse of children by the employees of detention facilities. Similar lawsuits have popped up in states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, but Illinois stands out for…...