An Illinois police chief is retiring 39 years after he stopped an assassin’s bullet intended for former President Ronald Reagan with his chest.Tim McCarthy was part of Reagan’s Secret Service detail at the Washington Hilton Hotel when Reagan was shot in a lone-gunman assassination attempt on March 30, 1981.After retiring from the Secret Service, McCarthy became…
Chicago will move to phase four of reopening from the coronavirus this Friday along with the rest of the state, officials announced Monday. That means museums, the Lincoln Park Zoo and youth summer camps, along with indoor dining and other amenities, will be allowed to open “with limited capacities and appropriate safeguards,” according to Mayor…
State officials announced Wednesday there had been 77 additional fatalities related to COVID-19 confirmed, for a statewide death toll of 6,095. Officials also reported 625 new known cases, pushing the statewide total to 129,837. Earlier Wednesday, Cook County officials confirmed that the death of a 9-month-old who died in March was caused in part by…
Officials with the Illinois Department of Public Health have confirmed that two batches of mosquitoes have tested positive for West Nile virus, the first positive tests of the summer. According to authorities, workers with the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District collected a positive batch of the insects on May 31 in River Forest, and…
CHICAGO (WLS) -- With more than a million people unemployed in Illinois, here's a job you can do to be a real asset to your community and you don't need any prior experience. It's COVID-19 contact tracing, and by making a few calls, you could save lives and get paid.The city of Chicago is expected…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…