Skokie

A suburban Chicago school district has said students of color will get the first chance to return for in-person learning when schools reopen, citing "a pandemic" of "inequity and racism, and classism" that preceded COVID-19.

A person is in custody after a man was stabbed Wednesday evening in Skokie in the north suburbs.

A man charged with an armed carjacking Sunday at a mall parking garage in north suburban Skokie has been ordered held without bail.

Two children were arrested after a Sunday carjacking in north suburban Skokie led to a SWAT standoff in Cragin on the Northwest Side.

A 53-year-old Hinsdale woman was found dead Thursday evening on the Edens Expressway near suburban Skokie.

CTA Yellow Line trains are running again after being suspended for more than five hours Tuesday due to a derailment in north suburban Skokie.

Fenner remains hospitalized after allegedly refusing to leave the cab of a semitrailer while armed with a handgun, state police said.

An armed truck driver from Michigan barricaded herself inside a semitrailer Wednesday morning, prompting a SWAT response that shut down the Edens Expressway for more than three hours.

There's no statewide mask order, but some Illinois towns are making their own, requiring people to wear masks in public or stay home.

A CTA machinist is the first transit agency employee to die of coronavirus.

A married couple who emigrated from Ukraine more than two decades ago died of the coronavirus only hours apart over the weekend.

An officer fired a single shot, striking the man in the abdomen, police said. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Eight more people in Cook County have died from coronavirus.

Two teenagers have been charged with a fatal shooting last week in an unincorporated area near Maine Township in the northwest suburbs.

Crews responded and closed down a nearby service street, he said

Deiel T. Reese, 46, was arrested Jan. 9 and charged with five felony counts of burglary, according to a statement from Skokie police.