The cold weather over the last few weeks has been a reminder of how difficult winters can be in the Chicago area. It also ...

Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his plan to form a reparations task force ahead of the 2024 Juneteenth holiday. He called it “a pledge to shape the future of our city by confronting the ...

Vermont Salvation Army discovers valuable gold coin in Red Kettle donation bucket, significantly boosting Barre location's ...

“Let’s talk about how far we’ve come,” Hochul said today. “The number of shootings with injury nearly doubled in 2021 when I first took office. Doubled from two years earlier. So crime was very much ...

Resources for a successful eviction diversion program dried up as filings increased in Berks County’s busiest eviction court. New efforts to fill the gap are missing a key piece of ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to shift $3.9 billion in long-term housing to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. As my ...

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A trio of migrant teenagers were charged in the fatal stabbing of a 49-year-old homeless man in Chicago over the weekend, according to officials. Wuinayker Rodriguez-Vasquez, 16, was charged as an ...

Three juvenile Venezuelan migrants are part of a group that allegedly attacked, murdered, and robbed a homeless man in downtown Chicago early Sunday, according to prosecutors and a Chicago police ...

A total of 12,034 people were homeless in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties in January, when outreach workers and volunteers spent a week asking people two dozen questions, including where ...

Jon Hansen, host and executive producer of the Block Club Chicago Podcast, joins Wendy Snyder (in for Bob Sirott) to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. Jon has details on: Some Chicago ...