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Andrew Holmes, anti-violence activist, stands with local DJs July 1, 2020, surrounded by children, and photos of children killed recently by gun violence, in the parking lot of Universal Entertainment Center in West Pullman denouncing the violence in Chicago and calling for politicians to invest more resources into South and West side communities. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

As the Fourth of July approaches, they fear it’ll be another bloody weekend and stressed the need for days of peace instead of tears. Читать дальше...

The manipulative girl, 10, throws tantrums that prevent the couple from being alone together.

A woman was killed and another woman seriously injured in a vehicle crash July 2, 2020, in the 600 block of West 115th Street. | Sun-Times file photo

A 28-year-old woman was driving a black Ford SUV east on 115th Street, when she swerved into oncoming traffic in the 600 block of West 115th Street and struck a Honda Civic.

Scott Eastwood (right) plays one of the U.S. soldiers stationed in a vulnerable base in eastern Afghanistan in “The Outpost.” | Screen Media

A stellar cast including Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood play troops at an Afghan base stormed by the Taliban

Thirteen people were shot, one fatally, July 1, 2020, in Chicago. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo

A 30-year-old woman got into a fight with someone she knew about 11:10 p.m. in the 10600 block of South Oglesby Avenue when someone pulled out a handgun and it went off, fatally striking her in the chest.

Bullpens have been added outside the foul lines at Guaranteed Rate Field for summer camp. (SoxTV)

Guaranteed Rate Field won’t look the same when the White Sox get started at summer camp Friday.

Young Kim | Wheeling police

Young Kim was last seen about 9 a.m. Wednesday at his home in the 600 block of Prestwick Lane, Wheeling police said.

A SWAT team responded to a barricade situation July 1, 2020, in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue in Rogers Park. | Sun-Times file photo

The man was seen going into an apartment complex with a gun about 9:50 p.m. in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said.

A man died July 1, 2020, after being shot in Gary, Indiana. | Gary police Facebook photo

Steven Rice, 30, was shot near 15 Avenue and Cleveland Street, according to the Lake County, Indiana, coroner’s office.

A woman was killed in a domestic-related shooting July 1, 2020, in Trumbull Park. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo

Police are questioning a person of interest.

Security guards stationed at the front doors ask guests a series of questions and enforce face mask requirements at Rivers Casino in Des Plaines on Wednesday, the first day of reopening following an unprecedented three-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Close to a thousand gamblers were on the gaming floor of Rivers Casino by midday, with around-the-clock cleaning crews sweeping through and hand sanitizing stations set up throughout the building.

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Here’s what we know today about the continuing spread of the coronavirus and its ripple effects in Chicago and Illinois.

Screenshot from provided bodycam footage of former CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson asleep in vehicle. | Provided

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the ordinance she pushed through the City Council in September 2019 allows the release of inspector general reports only when a matter of compelling public interest involves a death or a felony.

Three people were shot July 1, 2020, in Lawndale. | Sun-Times file photo

A 16-year-old boy was grazed in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.

Tommy Hottovy during a mound visit with Alec Mills and Willson Contreras last season. | Getty

Hottovy shared details Wednesday of being isolated in a spare bedroom at home for 30 days. The more he relived the experience — especially as related to his wife and young children — the more the tears came.

Chicago police investigate the scene where a toddler was shot earlier this week in West Englewood. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Karen Sheley of the ACLU of Illinois criticized “paternalistic claims that young men should be in jail for their own safety.”

Cheryl Johnson talks to neighbors in Altgeld Gardens, Wednesday July 1, 2020 | | Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Housing authorities and the EPA should work together to better inform residents about health threats, the report says.

Students put their coats in their lockers on the first day back to class at Roswell B. Mason Elementary School on the Southwest Side after last fall’s teachers strike. Students will find school very different come fall. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia / Sun-Times

It won’t be ‘business as usual,’ state officials say, ‘but rather the convergence of a new reality.’ Like one-way hallways and quarantine rooms and daily temperature checks.

A man was killed in a crash June 30, 2020, in Waukegan. | Waukegan police Facebook photo

A 50-year-old man was riding a Harley-Davidson when he was struck by a semitrailer that tried to merge into a lane, police said.

“Whatever the president is doing isn’t working, except with an ever-shrinking white, male, uneducated base that is still buying what he’s selling,” writes S.E. Cupp. | AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Just how much Trump cares about anyone besides himself is a question that’s truly being put to the test right now.