School's out for 300,000 Chicago students as teachers strike for better support and duty nurses
More than 32,500 teachers and other staff walked off the job Thursday in Chicago, canceling classes for 300,000 students in nation's third-largest school district. At the heart of the dispute is class sizes and resources rather than pay, with teachers saying they want more social ...
Man who drove SUV through suburban Chicago mall charged with state terrorism
A man accused of driving an SUV through a suburban Chicago shopping mall was charged Sunday with state terrorism and ordered held without bond. Police in Schaumburg said the Cook County state's attorney had authorized the charge against Javier Garcia, 22, of Palatine, Illinois. Garcia ...
Suit settled over Chicago teen confronted by school about home sex video
The case of a Chicago teenager who killed himself after being confronted at school about whether he made a video of himself having sex has been resolved. A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of 16-year-old Corey Walgren focused on the questions about how ...
U.S. charges at-large ex-Illinois software engineer with taking stolen trade secrets to China
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said a software engineer has been indicted on charges he stole trade secrets from the suburban Chicago locomotive manufacturer where he once worked and took them to China. Xudong Yao, also known as William Yao, faces nine criminal counts in the ...
Iran claims U.S. 'detained' its volleyball team at Chicago airport
Iran charged Monday that the United States had "detained" its visiting men's volleyball team at a U.S. airport for several hours. The foreign ministry's director for North America told Swiss ambassador Markus Leitner, whose country represents U.S. interests in Iran, that the team was detained ...
Embattled actor Jussie Smollett apparently dropped from 'Empire'
Jussie Smollett will not be returning to U.S. television series "Empire," the show's creator says, marking the first public confirmation that the actor has been dropped after a furor over claims that he was the victim of a hate crime. Responding to a Variety report ...
Illinois hospital failed to alert authorities in womb-cutting murder case
Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the baby boy, as she claimed. Clarisa Figueroa is charged with ...
A U.S. judge on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old who was arrested as a teenager for an attempted car bombing in Chicago to 16 years in prison. Adel Daoud was 18 years old when he was arrested in 2012 for attempting to engage in "violent jihad" ...
Chicago elects gay black woman, Lori Lightfoot, as mayor in historic first
In a historic first, a gay black woman was elected mayor of America's third-largest city Tuesday as Chicago voters entrusted a political novice with tackling difficult problems of economic inequality and gun violence. Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practicing lawyer who has ...
Trump calls Jussie Smollett case 'embarrassment' and announces review
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will "review" the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week. Trump wrote in an early-morning Twitter ...
Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police over hate-crime hoax
Television actor Jussie Smollett, arrested last month on a single charge of perpetrating a hate-crime hoax, has been newly indicted on 16 felony counts of falsely reporting to police that he was assaulted by two strangers shouting racist and homophobic slurs. The indictment, returned by ...
Actor Jussie Smollett indicted over lying to Chicago police about false hate-crime assault
A grand jury in Chicago has returned a 16-count felony indictment against television actor Jussie Smollett, accusing him of falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a hate-crime assault, according to court documents made public on Friday. Smollett, who is black and ...
