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1 week ago | 
wgntv.com | Michael Johnson |Erik Runge |Julian Crews
CHICAGO — Chicago police are searching for a driver that a witness says fled on foot after running a red light and causing a crash that killed a 79-year-old man Tuesday night on the Near West Side. According to police, officers responded to the scene of the crash around 8:30 p.m. in the 2400 block of West Jackson Boulevard. They were told by a witness that a black sedan going south on South Western Avenue ran a light and hit a white sedan going west on W. Jackson Blvd.
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3 weeks ago | 
wgntv.com | Michael Johnson |Erik Runge
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Aviation Administration officials and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy are at separate hearings Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill, as cancellations and delays continue to plague Newark International Airport and impact other airports around the country. Testifying in front of a House committee, Duffy promised to work with the major airlines at Newark to come up with a pared-down schedule to make sure people can count on their flights leaving the airport.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Rachel Abrams |Maggie Haberman |Michael Johnson |Olivia Natt |Chris Haxel |Rachel Quester | +3 more
The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Michael Benoist, Liz O.
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3 weeks ago | 
wgntv.com | Michael Johnson |Judy Wang
CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, three days after the 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary made history as the first American elected to lead the Catholic Church. Known as the Angelus blessing, Pope Leo — the former Robert Prevost — delivered a prayer, a sermon and a blessing to the estimated 100,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
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4 weeks ago | 
wgnradio.com | Michael Johnson |Julian Crews
Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in South Holland, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the first pope from the United States. More on the new pope:Robert Francis PrevostDate of Birth: Sept.
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1 month ago | 
inforum.com | Michael Johnson |Michael Johnson
STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat locker and determined that meat processing was his path forward. He looked throughout the Midwest for meat processing training and found few options. Ridgewater College in Willmar, Minnesota, was on his short list.
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1 month ago | 
wcia.com | Erik Runge |Michael Johnson |Jeremy Tanner
CHICAGO (WGN) – Former President Joe Biden warned a Chicago audience assembled Tuesday at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled that the Trump administration has “taken a hatchet” to Social Security. Biden, 82, was the headliner for the event, which was slated to be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel. “In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction.
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1 month ago | 
fox44news.com | Erik Runge |Michael Johnson
CHICAGO (WGN) – Former President Joe Biden is in Chicago on Tuesday to speak at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in an effort to rally bipartisan support for Social Security. Biden is listed as the headliner for the event, which will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel.
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1 month ago | 
krqe.com | Erik Runge |Michael Johnson
CHICAGO (WGN) – Former President Joe Biden will be in Chicago on Tuesday to speak at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in an effort to rally bipartisan support for Social Security. Biden is listed as the headliner for the event, which will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel.
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1 month ago | 
fox2now.com | Erik Runge |Michael Johnson
by: BJ Lutz, Erik Runge, Michael Johnson Posted: Apr 15, 2025 / 12:02 PM CDT Updated: Apr 15, 2025 / 12:02 PM CDT CHICAGO (WGN) – Former President Joe Biden will be in Chicago on Tuesday to speak at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in an effort to rally bipartisan support for Social Security.
