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Lakendra Porter allegedly got into a fight with two other women and a man in the 1000 block of West Belmont Avenue on Sunday, police said. She allegedly pulled out a knife and began swinging it at the group.

With nearly half of its lifeguard jobs still unfilled, the Chicago Park District will limit access to no-swimming-allowed portions of North Avenue Beach and Calumet Beach to divert enough lifeguards to open 37 neighborhood pools on July 5.

Crews were battling a fire on the Lower West Side Tuesday night.

A person was seriously injured in a vehicle crash on Interstate 294 Tuesday afternoon. 

The suspect forcibly shoved the victim in his the back seat. A physical struggle ensued with the victim, who sustained numerous stab wounds throughout the body, police said.

A Rockford man has been arrested after allegedly using an electronic communications device while driving, and crashing into another vehicle — which resulted in the death of another person.

While the number of ballots cast in Chicago is steadily increasing by the hour, voter turnout in still down this primary.

Dr. Allison Arwady said that 2,000 kids between six months and five years old in Chicago have received their first vaccine doses.

Six suburban polling places will stay open an hour late Tuesday evening, the Cook County Clerk’s Office announced.

The Chicago police officers were on bicycle patrol at a South Side park when an unknown offender began shooting towards them Tuesday afternoon.