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In high school, Jordan Parker wrote a paper on plastic pollution titled: “Is our country doomed to be buried beneath its own garbage?” Decades later, that question continues to galvanize

It’s easier for the billion-dollar corporation behind these stores to pay fines than it is to fix problems in their stores, an expert said. “They simply do not care,” Ald. Matt O’Shea said.

A truck crashed into a building on 79th Street on Chicago's South Side Wednesday morning.

“This church was a real mainstay and cornerstone of the community for so long,” said Ward Miller with Preservation Chicago. “It’s really wrenching to see the building not only closed but vacant and vandalized.”

Yellow Banana’s Save A Lot in Richton Park marked for closure

Chicago shootings this weekend have left at least 12 people shot, two fatally, the police department said.

The 28-year-old was found with a gunshot wound to his chest about 2:50 a.m. in the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue.

A man found shot to death after a Chicago shooting in Auburn Gresham in the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue, police said.

There was an Auburn Gresham shooting Thursday night. A Chicago police officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect on South Winchester Avenue.

Officers found the unidentified 29-year-old victim around 8:30 p.m. Friday in the 8400 block of South Vincennes Avenue with a gunshot wound to the head.