Kade Heather

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kade Heather

El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Los funcionarios de salud han reportado los primeros dos casos confirmados de sarampión del año en el Condado de Cook. Una persona con la enfermedad es un adulto de Chicago que viajó internacionalmente a principios de abril a través del Aeropuerto O’Hare, según el Departamento de Salud Pública de Chicago (CDPH). Comenzó con un brote el 25 de abril y ha estado aislada en casa desde que fue diagnosticada.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kade Heather

On a recent sunny spring afternoon on one block in Lincoln Square, children run and blow bubbles, make chalk drawings on the pavement and zip by on scooters. Pedestrians, dog walkers and cyclists pass through the 4700 block of North Lincoln Avenue — without concern for vehicles speeding by. It’s a stark contrast to the typical rush hour on the block, when cars would come to a standstill on the narrow street, drivers honking at each other.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kade Heather

Health officials have reported the first two confirmed measles cases of the year in Cook County. One person with the disease is an adult from Chicago who traveled internationally through O’Hare Airport in early April, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. A rash started April 25 and they have been isolated at home since being diagnosed. They also had received one prior dose of the two-dose MMR vaccine, which covers measles, mumps and rubella.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kade Heather |Violet Miller |Pat Nabong

James Dmello awoke at 3 a.m. Saturday to watch the televised funeral Mass for Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Dmello, 57, of suburban Cary, was overcome with emotions and immediately knew he and his wife, Anne, had to be present for a Mass memorializing the pope because “if he was for us, then we have to be for him.”“It was too much, like, I couldn’t control myself. I woke up 3 in the morning and nonstop until it got over, I was there the whole Mass,” Dmello said.

2 weeks ago | audacy.com | Kade Heather

The family of a carjacking suspect fatally shot by Kane County sheriff's deputies in 2023 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff's office. James Moriarty, of Aurora, was shot and killed May 23, 2023, at the Randall Road and Fabyan Parkway intersection on the border of Batavia and Geneva after he stole a car and led police on a chase through the western suburbs, officials have said. Moriarty, 38, crashed the car when sheriff's deputies stopped it.