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The Most Fun City in America
The Most Fun City in America
Dec 2, 2024 11:53 AM CST

The Most Fun City in America

Las Vegas wins top honor from WalletHub, while Hawaii's Pearl City is dubbed least fun

(Newser) - If you're heading into 2025 with an eye for some affordable fun, WalletHub has broken down which American cities are your best bet. The site looked at 182 of the most populated cities in the country, using more than five dozen metrics in three main categories: entertainment and recreation...

Trump May Have Potent Tool Against Sanctuary Cities
Trump May Have Potent Tool
Against Sanctuary Cities
the rundown
Nov 27, 2024 7:27 AM CST

Trump May Have Potent Tool Against Sanctuary Cities

New president could try to withhold federal funds to places such as Chicago, Denver, and New York

(Newser) - It's possible that Chicago will emerge as ground zero in the immigration fight during the early days of the new Trump administration. A Washington Post story looks at how President-elect Trump's pledge to enact mass deportations of migrants will play out in major Democratic-run cities that generally fall...

Jussie Smollett Stunner: Court Overturns Conviction

Illinois Supreme Court rules in case of actor's alleged hoax attack in 2019

(Newser) - A big surprise in the case of actor Jussie Smollett : The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned his conviction on allegations that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019, per the AP . The Chicago Sun-Times calls it a "blockbuster" decision "that will...

45 Years Later, Teen's Death Linked to Serial Killer

Police in Illinois say Kathy Halle was murdered by Bruce Lindahl

(Newser) - DNA found on the clothing of a suburban Chicago woman who was kidnapped and killed 45 years ago matches that of a suspected serial killer who died two years later. The DNA of Bruce Lindahl, who's believed to have killed as many as a dozen women and girls, was...

The US Cities That Rats Love Most
The US Cities That
Rats Love Most
Oct 22, 2024 8:32 AM CDT

The US Cities That Rats Love Most

Chicago tops Orkin's list for 10th year straight

(Newser) - For 10 years straight, one city has claimed the title of America's "rattiest city," according to the Orkin pest-control service , and it's "won" the honor again this year, reports Patch . That city would be Chicago, whose "abundance of alleys" has helped the rodents take...

Tiny Dots on Chicago's High-Rise Windows Make a 'Huge Difference'

Avian advocates are working to stop birds from fatally smashing into the city's tall buildings

(Newser) - With a neon-green net in hand, Annette Prince briskly walks a downtown Chicago plaza at dawn, looking left and right as she goes. It's not long before she spots a tiny yellow bird sitting on the concrete. It doesn't fly away, and she quickly nets the bird, gently...

15-Year-Old Charged in Murder of Postal Worker

Suspect was apprehended in Cedar Rapids

(Newser) - A 48-year-old postal worker was shot dead on her Chicago route on the morning of July 19; a 15-year-old has now been arrested in her killing. USA Today reports the unnamed male was taken into custody in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday and has been charged with first-degree murder. Police...

Family: Unjustly Held American Was Raped in Chinese Prison

Father, brother call attention to case of Chicago woman Dawn Michelle Hunt

(Newser) - Dawn Michelle Hunt thought she'd won a free trip from Chicago to Australia in 2014. Instead, the US woman landed in a Chinese prison for life, narrowly escaping execution. As the New York Times reports, the trip she thought she'd won was part of a drug trafficking scheme....

Suspect Charged With Killing 4 on Chicago Train

Rhanni S. Davis was arrested 90 minutes after Labor Day mass shooting

(Newser) - A 30-year-old man accused of carrying out a mass shooting on a Chicago Transit Authority train on Labor Day has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Rhanni S. Davis was arrested around 90 minutes after the shooting on a Blue Line train bound for the Forest Park suburb,...

Chicago Train Victims Were Shot in Their Sleep

'For people to feel unsafe, it's justified,' says Forest Park deputy chief

(Newser) - The four people fatally shot on a Chicago transit train early Monday were sleeping and may have been homeless. Surveillance video shows the victims were asleep in two cars of a Blue Line train that was headed into the Forest Park terminal west of Chicago, the last stop on the...

4 Dead in Mass Shooting on Chicago-Area Train

Police say Forest Park shooting appears to be random act

(Newser) - Four people were fatally shot on a train Monday morning in what the Chicago Transit Authority calls a "heinous and egregious act of violence." Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin said all four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train headed into the Forest Park terminal...

Activists Accused of Putting Mealworms in Delegates' Breakfast

Staff said to have quickly dealt with incident at Chicago's Fairmont Hotel early Wednesday

(Newser) - It may have actually been mealworms, not maggots, that sickened a guest at a breakfast for delegates at a Chicago hotel Wednesday. "I'm not sure that those were maggots," the city's police superintendent told the AP Thursday. "There was sawdust, so they were probably mealworms....

Suspect Who Holed Up in Restaurant's Ceiling Is Captured

Joshua Zimmerman escaped Mississippi courthouse, is wanted on murder charges

(Newser) - After almost 70 days on the run, authorities say a murder suspect is back in custody. Joshua Zimmerman, who escaped from the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi, on June 14, had been tracked to a seafood restaurant in Chicago. The New York Times cites a statement from the US...

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Tear Down Security Fence at DNC

Inner security perimeter was not breached

(Newser) - Dozens of protesters broke through a security fence near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day Monday as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza, the AP reports. Families with babies in strollers, students, elected leaders and others holding...

Dems in Chicago Are Lighting Up Trump Tower

Ahead of convention, Dems project messages slamming the former president onto his hotel

(Newser) - The Democratic National Convention opens Monday in Chicago with eyes on highlighting Kamala Harris' bid for the presidency, and a day ahead of that, the Democratic National Committee was busily trolling her rival Donald Trump by projecting less-than-flattering messages on his Trump Tower in Chicago. As NBC reports, those messages...

DNC Marks a Symbolic Passing of the Torch

President Biden and first lady to speak on Monday's opening night

(Newser) - The Democratic National Convention kicking off Monday in Chicago is more noteworthy than usual, coming just four weeks after President Biden shuttered his campaign and made way for Vice President Kamala Harris to ascend to the top of Democrats' ticket, per the AP . Up until a month ago, Biden had...

Chicago's Long Holiday Weekend Was a Brutal One

More than 100 people were shot, and 19 were killed

(Newser) - The four-day holiday weekend was an especially violent one in Chicago:
  • Big numbers: The Chicago Sun-Times counts 105 people shot from Thursday through Sunday, and 19 of those victims were killed. That's up from 73 shootings and 11 fatalities during last year's four-day weekend for the Fourth, per
...

Mom: Resort Where Daughter Went Missing 'Unsettling'

Colette Seymore, mom of Taylor Casey of Chicago, wants FBI to get involved in Bahamas search

(Newser) - Nearly two weeks after Chicago's Taylor Casey disappeared in the Bahamas , her family is frustrated by what they see as a bare minimum search effort and pleading with the FBI to get involved. Casey, 41, was last seen June 19 at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island. The...

He Just Got a New Kidney, No Anesthesia or Opioids Needed

John Nicholas underwent an 'awake' transplant surgery at Northwestern: 'Very surreal'

(Newser) - Usually, a kidney transplant patient at Northwestern Memorial Hospital spends two to three days after the procedure recuperating in the Chicago medical center before being sent home. John Nicholas was back in his own bed the next day, partly thanks to surgeons operating on him using an uncommon "awake"...

Tragedy Strikes Family on Their Way to Vacation

Missouri girl, 8, dies after falling ill on SkyWest flight bound for Chicago; cause of death isn't clear

(Newser) - An 8-year-old Missouri girl flying to Chicago with her family for vacation died after getting sick while in the air. The child, IDed as Sydney Weston of Carl Junction, "suddenly became ill and then unresponsive in flight," the Peoria County Coroner's Office said Thursday in an online...

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