The most recent victims included 27 people from Cook County, including five people in their 40s and two in their 50s.

Illinoisans 65 and older will soon be able to sign up for appointments at the site. The vaccinations will provide a significant bump to vaccinations in and around Chicago.

A group of parents are keeping their kids out of virtual and physical classrooms Monday, hoping to pressure the school district into making changes.

Chalkbeat Chicago received more than 350 responses from families and students citywide.

Sunny days in the 40s and 50s are expected all weekend — and during next week, too.

CPS expects about 60,700 students in the elementary grades and in intensive special education programs to learn in school buildings by mid-March — slightly fewer than 30 percent of the eligible students.

La ciudad está experimentando un promedio de cinco muertes por día, en comparación a un promedio diario de nueve muertes correspondiente a la semana anterior. Dicho índice es el más bajo en meses.

Officials pulled the Streets and Sanitation Department's real-time plow truck tracker offline this week, after neighbors complained of delays on social media. But you can still check when plows visited your block — it's just harder to do so.

Currently, 713,000 Chicagoans are eligible for vaccines under Phase 1B — but the city has received only 218,250 first doses for this group.

The city is seeing an average of five deaths per day, down from an average of nine deaths per day the week prior. That's the lowest that figure has been in months.

Residents should remove their chairs, cones and other objects to prevent them being thrown away, according to Streets and Sanitation.

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

The abrupt end meant aldermen couldn't approve hundreds of millions of dollars for people who need help, Mayor Lightfoot said. "In a time where people are hurting and bearing an inordinate burden, what we need is progress, not parliamentary tactics."

"She texted me and said she was talking about something brought to her by her staff," Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez said following the mayor's gaffe.

The Anjanette Young Ordinance would ban no-knock warrants and place tighter restrictions on the police's ability to get warrants. “We’re going to continue to push this until it happens,” Young said.

At least 20,374 people have died from COVID-19 in Illinois, and another 2,201 deaths are probably related to the virus.

Complaints of delayed mail have dogged the Post Office for months, with issues reported in every part of the city — but four South Side post offices have faced thousands of complaints.

Preservationists revealed their annual list of the seven places and spaces in Chicago they fear may be lost to demolition, development and Mother Nature Wednesday.

Chicago, which has its own coronavirus vaccination campaign, won't do the same because doses are still too limited, officials have said.