Lyons Township automotive teacher surprised with $100K prize
Lyons Township automotive teacher Jordan Engelhardt received $30K and his program got $70K as a Harbor Freight grand prize ...
No motive given in fast-food restaurant double homicide on Southwest Side
A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered a fast-food worker held in custody days after surveillance video captured him ...
Aurora City Council votes down 27% pay hike for aldermen
The Aurora City Council voted down a proposed 27% pay increase for aldermen Tuesday night and used a parliamentary maneuver to delay another vote until their next meeting later this month.
3 things we learned from the Chicago Bears in England, including Jaquan Brisker’s status and offensive line depth
When the Chicago Bears announced that strong safety Jaquan Brisker didn’t travel with the team to London, a slight ...
Gary International Black Film Festival returns for its 14th year
When Karen Toering started a local film festival, she never expected it to be as successful as it is now. “It just blew us away,” said Toering, founder and director of the Gary International Black ...
Amazon unveils AI to help delivery drivers find packages faster
Called Vision Assisted Package Retrieval and in development since 2020, the tool will be deployed in 1,000 Amazon vans next ...
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins, life’s building blocks
Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — ...
Court documents: Man faces decades behind bars in rape, robbery of sex worker in Gary
Deandre M. Gardner, a.k.a. Deandre Faison, 27, was charged Tuesday with three counts of rape, a Level 1 felony; one count of criminal confinement, a Level 3 felony; armed robbery, a Level 3 felony; ...
Chicago Sky executives say they’re ‘in a good place’ with Angel Reese and other players after coach Teresa Weatherspoon’s sudden firing
The Chicago Sky are seeking a new coach for the second time in less than a year with an emphasis on “structure, discipline ...
Of Notoriety: Columnist’s car hits 400,000-mile mark of on-the-road reporting
Last month marked a true transportation milestone in my lifetime chapter of daily travels and adventure.While driving at 9:21 ...
Tres hombres han corrido todos los maratones de Chicago desde 1977. Ahora, a sus 70 años, no romperán la racha.
Randy Burt cenó pizza de pepperoni y bebió vino tinto el 24 de septiembre de 1977. A la mañana siguiente, se puso su antiguo ...
‘A day of reckoning’: Gary man gets 101 years in Illinois woman’s ‘19 murder
More than five years after Jessica “Heaven” Flores went missing, her family faced Drew Carter, the man convicted in her 2019 murder. “Today is a day of reckoning,” Flores’ sister Marianna Perez ...