Новости за 17.08.2020

A 9-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to the head as he rode in a car on the South Side Monday afternoon, according to police and fire officials.

Little Beans Cafe will close its Chicago location in the Logan Square area in hopes of keeping its Evanston location operating.

Walker told police he didn’t know about the warrant and police took him into custody.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office engaged in “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures” in its prosecution of Jussie Smollett, but prosecutors’ conduct did not rise to the level of criminal wrongdoing, according to Special Prosecutor Dan K. Webb.

One person was critically injured and two other people also were hurt following an explosion that leveled a home on Sunday in Joliet.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

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There simply is no reasonable way to equate felony burglary with social justice reform, Dahleen Glanton writes.

When the Democratic National Convention gets underway Monday, no delegates will be traveling to Milwaukee, Wisc., with the coronavirus pandemic is still coursing through the country. Neither will any of the speakers. Not even Biden will accept the party’s nomination in the key swing state’s largest city.Instead, virtually all of the convention will be held remotely — four nights of solely-for-TV festivities, capped by Biden’s speech on Thursday night.

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Two women went before a Cook County judge on Sunday just a day after a protest turned into a violent clash between demonstrators and police officers, roiling downtown again.

The harmony of Illinois Democrats has been broken in recent weeks in disagreements over whether embattled House Speaker Michael Madigan should continue to lead the party and over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s response to looting in Chicago’s Loop. But in a 90-minute virtual welcoming party Sunday evening, the Illinois delegation to the Democratic National Convention was urged to pursue unity in defeating Republican President Donald Trump in November.

Young organizers stood outside the Wentworth District police station Sunday morning to demand the release of fellow activists arrested at Saturday’s protest and draw attention to the violent tactics they say officers employed that evening.

A Little Village vendor who sold homemade carmelized peanuts for 25 years to put his two sons through college in Mexico was killed by car fleeing police. Now, his family is hoping to be able to send his body back to Mexico for burial.