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Detectives are conducting a death investigation after a woman was found dead inside an office building Monday night in the Loop.

Cleaning personnel found the woman, 40, about 10:50 p.m. in a sixth-floor business office at 1 N. Wacker Drive, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Her name hasn’t been released, and an autopsy was pending Tuesday. Читать дальше...

A man warms up near an encampment under the Dan Ryan on Canalport Avenue on the Southside, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024.

Tuesday’s high temperature was 2 degrees at 4 p.m. at O’Hare.

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In the Disney classic “Frozen,” Elsa sings “the cold never bothered me anyway,” but even the Snow Queen herself might have something to say about the area’s current cold snap.

That’s because Chicago has been in the clutches of Mother Nature’s icy grip for a stretch it hasn’t experienced in nearly 30 years.

High temperatures in the city have failed... Читать дальше...

A pedestrian bundles up against the cold on South Wentworth Avenue in Chinatown on Tuesday.

DePaul’s Tony Stubblefield coaches at Villanova on Jan. 12. The Blue Demons lost 94-69.

Ice chunks float in the water near Fullerton Parkway as temperatures were just above 0 degrees Monday afternoon. High temperatures in the city have failed to reach 5 degrees or above for three consecutive days for the first time since February 1996, according to the National Weather Service.

A state legislative panel agreed Tuesday to allow permanent rules to go into effect spelling out how people can register assault weapons that are now heavily regulated in Illinois.

A tornado downed trees in a neighborhood by Bowes Road and Corron Road west of Elgin last July 12. Illinois had the most tornadoes in the country last year with 120.

Author Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) researches global patterns of oppression in “Origin.”

University of Miami football coach Mario Cristobal travels by helicopter on his recruiting visit to Fenwick’s Nate Marshall.