Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for the first time this week chartered a plane to fly migrants from his state to Chicago, marking an escalation after months of having bused migrants to Democratic-run cities to protest President Joe Biden’s border policies. Abbott, a Republican, acted after Chicago began impounding buses carrying […]
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A five-year-old boy has died inside an overcrowded Chicago shelter alongside 2,300 migrants after staff allegedly refused to call an ambulance. Jean Carlos Martinez, 5, was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital on Sunday after days of being sick at the Pilsen shelter south of downtown Chicago. Four other children […]
GLENCOE, Ill. — Chicago Botanic Garden is dazzling patrons and visitors from around the world with their fifth annual holiday display of light and music: Lightscape. Clusters of multigenerational households push strollers, carry children and walk arm in arm with older relatives as they navigate the 1.3-mile (2.1-kilometer) experience in […]
CHICAGO — Richard Hunt, a prolific Chicago artist who was the first Black sculptor to receive a solo retrospective at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and whose public works drew praise from presidents, has died at age 88. Hunt “passed away peacefully” Saturday at his home, according to […]
As we know from official Pentagon documents, UFOs are usually circular, triangular or even a white oblong like a ‘Tic Tac’. Now, the US government can add another shape to its list – and it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen. A photographer in Chicago has shared his stunning shot of a spooky […]
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife “If I can’t have them neither can you” pleaded guilty but mentally ill Friday to three counts of first-degree murder for killing their three young children, a prosecutor said. Jason Karels, 36, of Round Lake Beach will be sentenced to […]
Chicago spent nearly $1million to build a migrant camp on a toxic site, as the city continues to struggle with a massive surge of asylum seekers, with officials now impounding incoming buses. Official records seen by ABC 7 show the city spent more than $985,000 on the shuttered migrant camp at […]
A Chicago man spent close to a decade behind bars for murder – thanks to the eyewitness testimony of a witness who’s since admitted to being blind. Darien Harris was locked up in 2011 aged 18, just a week before he graduated high school, and accused of shooting dead a […]