Payments to Little Village residents approved in the $12.25 million settlement over Hilco’s dust storm
Developer Hilco and its subcontractors agreed to pay the money to neighborhood residents for the 2020 botched smokestack implosion.
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Developer Hilco and its subcontractors agreed to pay the money to neighborhood residents for the 2020 botched smokestack implosion.
About 60% of people are interested in exploring green funeral options, more than ever before.
Preckwinkle said she expects the Democratic Party will be united behind President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.
Officer Luis Huesca, 30, was returning home from work about 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street when a ShotSpotter alert went off, police Supt. Larry Snelling said. No one has been arrested.
The answer for non-Equity actors, it turns out, has gotten more complicated post-COVID.
The Catholic church’s transparency on accusations of sexual abuse by clergy members, including the Rev. Mark Santo, remains inconsistent and lacking across the United States, clouding the extent of the crisis more than 20 years after it exploded into view.
The British conductor, who led nearly 700 Lyric performances of 62 operas, died in Chicago from leukemia.
The officer, a 30-year-old man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died due to his injuries.
About 14% of those in the apprenticeship program found permanent full-time employment with the transit agency, a Sun-Times investigation found. Others, some strung along for years, remained in low-paying roles with no benefits.