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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ended up spending 286 days in space — 278 days longer than anticipated when they launched. They circled Earth 4,576 times and traveled 121 million miles by the time of splashdown.
Police say a boy entered a room in a home in the 5000 block of South East End Avenue about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and found a firearm. When a man attempted to retrieve the weapon it discharged, striking the boy, who was hospitalized in good condition.
The inbound reversible express lanes will become exclusively outbound Tuesday morning, just two months after they reopened following a year of improvements, the Illinois Department of Transportation said in a news release. Two outbound lanes will also close.
Makai Kvamme was the starting point guard on all three teams and the senior stepped up in the fourth quarter and the overtimes to secure the win on Saturday.
Kevin Henley Jr., 35, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, police said. Henley is accused of shooting and killing Zulma Calderon-Pacheco, 21, inside Mansion Nightclub in west suburban Stone Park on March 8
An Illinois measure would target the disclosure of fees for businesses, including restaurants, hotels and lodging, food delivery apps, live-ticketed events and independent contractors. So-called 'junk' fees include service fees for popular concerts, resort fees for hotels and additional fees tacked onto restaurant bills.
Heights Crematory Inc. had its license suspended in February when investigators found hundreds of boxes of unclaimed cremated remains at the site. Authorities allege operators took in new bodies in violation of the suspension.
Sources say the union is now 'barreling toward an escalated conflict.' The teachers union can take a strike vote at any time and that would give 10 days notice before starting a walkout.
The Illinois Deer Classic, Friday through Sunday, March 21-23, in Peoria, and Riverside Fishing Club's swap meet on Saturday, March 22, in Berwyn lead Go & Show this week, last one of the winter. Plus Hike the Nite is Saturday, March 22, at Orland Grasslands.
Dan Bernstein, a midday host on The Score, was not on the air Monday after a flare-up on X over his catch of a thick northern pike caught at Northerly Island after his shift on Thursday.
An annual tradition that dates back over half a century, the transformation of the Chicago River into a green waterway took place at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.
Covering a prescribed burn, beginning to end, at the Indian Boundary Prairies in southern Cook County.
The high court ruled last year in the landmark Rudisill case that veterans could get up to 48 months of college benefits under two different GI Bills.
Police say a man stole a cop car in Bedford Park, then took a USPS truck and crashed it about 3:30 p.m Wednesday in the Oak Lawn area. A woman and two children, ages 4 and 7, were hospitalized.
Authorities say Erin L. White, 26, defaced a Tesla dealership and service center with graffiti targeting President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. She is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday in Rolling Meadows.
