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Kids Blow Through Stops on Portage Trails as City Mulls E-Bike Crackdown

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Kids Blow Through Stops on Portage Trails as City Mulls E-Bike Crackdown

Damon R. Sheffield

About 23 hours ago

Portage is weighing helmet, lighting and signaling requirements for e-bikes as Indiana cities rewrite rules for faster electric rides.

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About 23 hours ago
Kids Blow Through Stops on Portage Trails as City Mulls E-Bike Crackdown
Aug 01, 2026
Illinois Tollway Glitch Hits 100,000 Drivers With Old Toll Warnings
Jul 31, 2026
Chicago CTA Eyes New York And San Francisco-Style Fare Gates
Jul 31, 2026
Hundreds Of Motorcycles Swarm Dan Ryan After Posen Gas Station Gathering

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San Francisco Appeals Court Says Hiring a Hit Man Is "Not Categorically a Crime of Violence"

San Francisco Appeals Court Says Hiring a Hit Man Is "Not Categorically a Crime of Violence"

Mission Curry House Ordered Closed After Inspector Finds Live Cockroaches Inside Both Ovens

Mission Curry House Ordered Closed After Inspector Finds Live Cockroaches Inside Both Ovens

Bay Area's Oliver Tree Killed When Two Helicopters Smashed Into Each Other Above Rio de Janeiro

Bay Area's Oliver Tree Killed When Two Helicopters Smashed Into Each Other Above Rio de Janeiro

FBI Crushes National Predator Ring; 205 Arrested, 115 Children Saved in LA, SF, DC, Chicago, & NY

FBI Crushes National Predator Ring; 205 Arrested, 115 Children Saved in LA, SF, DC, Chicago, & NY

Beach-Blocking Billionaire Ditches the Niners to Buy the Team That Ruined Their Season

Beach-Blocking Billionaire Ditches the Niners to Buy the Team That Ruined Their Season

Floyd Mayweather Charged With Felony Theft Over $200K Watch Bought With a Bounced Check

Floyd Mayweather Charged With Felony Theft Over $200K Watch Bought With a Bounced Check

Oakland Firefighters Gave a Smoke-Choked Pigeon Oxygen — and 11 Million People Lost It

Oakland Firefighters Gave a Smoke-Choked Pigeon Oxygen — and 11 Million People Lost It

Marina Residents Erupt Over Giant 25-Story Tower Plan for Beloved Safeway

Marina Residents Erupt Over Giant 25-Story Tower Plan for Beloved Safeway

Nationwide Staffing Scam Unravels, Ringleader Crispian Atkins and 12 Others Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Deception

Nationwide Staffing Scam Unravels, Ringleader Crispian Atkins and 12 Others Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Deception

Disgraced Bank Exec Edward Gene Smith Pleads Guilty to Decade-Long Sexual Assault and Child Porn Scandal in New York

Disgraced Bank Exec Edward Gene Smith Pleads Guilty to Decade-Long Sexual Assault and Child Porn Scandal in New York

Politics

Park Ridge OKs Murals With Red Tape After City Hall Art Brawl

Chicago

Park Ridge OKs Murals With Red Tape After City Hall Art Brawl

About 6 hours ago

Chicago City Hall In Chaos As Budget Boss Bolts Amid $90 Million Hole

Chicago City Hall In Chaos As Budget Boss Bolts Amid $90 Million Hole

Damon R. Sheffield

About 24 hours ago

110,000 Books Pile Up in Chicago Libraries as Driver Shortage Drags On

110,000 Books Pile Up in Chicago Libraries as Driver Shortage Drags On

31 minutes ago

Illinois Bans Secret Courthouse Filming of Domestic Violence Victims Starting 2027

Illinois Bans Secret Courthouse Filming of Domestic Violence Victims Starting 2027

Damon R. Sheffield

18 minutes ago

Real Estate

Streeterville’s NBC Tower May Swap Empty Offices for Hundreds of Apartments

Chicago

Streeterville’s NBC Tower May Swap Empty Offices for Hundreds of Apartments

Richard M. Sullivan

About 5 hours ago

Wirtz Unloads $78M In Suburban Apartments To Fund Chicago Megaprojects

Wirtz Unloads $78M In Suburban Apartments To Fund Chicago Megaprojects

About 6 hours ago

Bucktown 606 Trail Luxury Complex Fetches $42M Despite Chicago Anti-Gentrification Rule

Bucktown 606 Trail Luxury Complex Fetches $42M Despite Chicago Anti-Gentrification Rule

About 23 hours ago

After 609 Days in City Hall Limbo, $2.6M Avondale Six-Unit Finally Gets Green Light

After 609 Days in City Hall Limbo, $2.6M Avondale Six-Unit Finally Gets Green Light

Richard M. Sullivan

1 day ago

Crime

Dolton Slaps 9 P.M. Teen Curfew After Summer Takeover Chaos

Chicago

Dolton Slaps 9 P.M. Teen Curfew After Summer Takeover Chaos

Richard M. Sullivan

About 3 hours ago

Chicago CTA Rider Left With Shattered Face After Garfield Park Blue Line Beatdown

Chicago CTA Rider Left With Shattered Face After Garfield Park Blue Line Beatdown

About 4 hours ago

CTA Fare Jumper Flattens ER Nurse at 95th Street as Guards Stand By

CTA Fare Jumper Flattens ER Nurse at 95th Street as Guards Stand By

Richard M. Sullivan

About 4 hours ago

Streeterville High-Rise Blaze on East Ohio Leaves 1 Seriously Hurt, Floods Street With Fire Crews

Streeterville High-Rise Blaze on East Ohio Leaves 1 Seriously Hurt, Floods Street With Fire Crews

Richard M. Sullivan

About 5 hours ago

Arts & Events

Patti Smith, Pulitzer Phenom And Legal-Thriller Legend Rock Chicago’s 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest

Chicago

Patti Smith, Pulitzer Phenom And Legal-Thriller Legend Rock Chicago’s 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest

Aug 03, 2026

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Giant Bubble Takeover Runs Through September

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Giant Bubble Takeover Runs Through September

Damon R. Sheffield

Jul 31, 2026

Northlight Comes Home: New Church Street Stage Set To Jolt Evanston’s Downtown

Northlight Comes Home: New Church Street Stage Set To Jolt Evanston’s Downtown

Richard M. Sullivan

Jul 28, 2026

Loop Arts Surge Drops $395 Million On Downtown Chicago

Loop Arts Surge Drops $395 Million On Downtown Chicago

Jul 22, 2026