Lorena Paredes News Today

We are working with our partners in states across the country to defend reproductive freedom.

Thursday brought the first major winter blast of the season, a storm that crawled across the middle of the country, disrupting travel, upending holiday planning and shuttering much-loved holiday attractions including the city’s Christkindlmarket. But though forecasters had called for temperatures to plummet throughout the day into the single digits — a 20 to 30 degree drop from morning — no storm proved too daunting for some hearty Chicagoans.

Nearly 25,000 coronavirus tests taken by Chicago Public Schools students were rendered invalid.