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The Wrigley Building celebrates its 100th anniversary. The latest edition of “Ask Geoffrey” explores how the Chicago icon transformed Michigan Avenue.

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times A 2-year-old boy was shot in the head during an apparent road-rage incident late Tuesday morning on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park. The boy was at Lurie Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said. A dispute over one car not letting the another car into a lane of traffic about 11 a.m. on northbound Lake Shore Drive just south of Soldier Field apparently led to the shooting, Chicago Police Cmdr. Jake Alderden said at a news conference Tuesday afternoo...

2-year-old critically wounded in road-rage shooting on Lake Shore Drive By Sun-Times Media Wire FOX 32s Sally Schulze reports... CHICAGO - A 2-year-old boy was shot in the head during an apparent road-rage incident late Tuesday morning on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park. The boy was at Lurie Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said. The shooting followed a dispute over one car not letting the another car into a lane of traffic about 11 a.m. on northbound Lake Shore Drive just s...

Sun-Times file photo Chicago saw an especially bloody Easter with at least seven people shot and killed citywide during the 24-hour period. The entire weekend’s toll was 34 people shot, eight of them fatally, in gun violence heavily concentrated on the South and West sides. Easter weekend was more deadly, but saw less shootings, than last weekend when 36 people were shot, four of them fatally, between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday. Englewood homicide The last murder on Easter Sunday was a 4...

Published April 4, 2021 • Updated on April 4, 2021 at 10:56 am A teen is in critical condition after he was shot while driving on Lower Wacker Drive Sunday morning, Chicago police say. According to authorities, the 18-year-old man was driving a vehicle with his girlfriend in the passenger seat at approximately 7:10 a.m. when the car was approached by several other vehicles. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS...

Eight people were wounded in city shootings since Friday night, Chicago police said.

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times A pair of homeless outreach workers with the Salvation Army drove around Lower Wacker Drive Friday evening, searching for people in need. Whenever they saw a row of tents where a group of people were staying, they jumped out of their road-salt-stained van with a meal in one hand and a rolled-up blanket in another. It was the first of 21 homeless encampments The Salvation Army was set to visit throughout the night, offering help to anyone willing to accept it. They also...

Ald. Ray Lopez makes no secret of his love for dogs. Here. he holds his dog Tomas during an interview at his home in 2019. Lopez is sponsoring a new ordinance to protect dogs from being left outside in cold weather. Sun-Times file The City Council’s resident dog lover is at it again — this time to protect dogs from being left out in the cold. One day after Chicago was walloped by its biggest snowstorm of the year, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) wants to strengthen the city’s animal cruelty ordinan...