Chicago

United States Postal workers who deliver mail in some of Chicago’s more violent neighborhoods are threatening to halt their services after a mail carrier was shot in the city’s South Side earlier this month. The carrier, a 24-year-old woman, was left critically and injured after being shot multiple times at 91st Street and Ellis Avenue…

Cities in some parts of the country are reeling from a holiday weekend of bloodshed, including the murder of an 8-year-old in Chicago and the shooting of a 6-year-old in New York City, as officials continue to grapple with gun violence nationwide.The young girl was killed and two adults were severely wounded after they were…

An eight-year-old girl was killed and two others were shot on Monday while traveling in a vehicle on Chicago's South Side, according to police.The girl and three adults were sitting in a Subaru SUV at a stoplight on Union Avenue at West 47th Street around 6 p.m. local time when a black Dodge Charger directly behind…

A lack of vitamin D may be associated with a higher risk for getting COVID-19, according to newly published research out of the University of Chicago. Researchers looked at 489 patients tested for COVID-19 at University of Chicago Medicine between March 3 and April 10, whose vitamin D levels had been measured within a year…

A deadly weekend of Chicago gun violence left two police officers wounded early Sunday, a police department spokesman confirmed.Both officers were hospitalized but their medical conditions were not immediately known, the spokesman wrote on Twitter.Between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon at least 5 people were killed and more than a dozen hurt in city shootings.A 19-year-old man was fatally…