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 Tuesday, Feb 5 A series of emails obtained and published by Splinter News on Monday appears to show Joe Ricketts, the patriarch of the family that owns the Cubs, sharing and endorsing racist jokes and conspiracy theories. Ricketts, 77, and his son and team Chairman Tom Ricketts, issued separate statements regarding the emails. |   | |
| An Ice Storm Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for much of the Chicago area from 6 p.m. this evening to 6 a.m. Wednesday. |
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| Some Democratic lawmakers are trying to nearly double Illinois' statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour over several years, aiming to give raises to more than a million workers and an early victory to new Gov. J.B. Pritzker. |
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| President Donald Trump will deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Here is everything you need to know. |
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| When Morgan Richardson went on 23andMe, she just wanted to know about her ancestry. But Richardson, whose single mom used a sperm donor to conceive, soon discovered that she had more than a dozen half siblings, all children of the sperm donor. |
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| Unionized educators at four Chicago International Charter School campuses went on strike, launching the city's second work stoppage at the independently operated campuses after hours of negotiations failed to reach a last-minute contract agreement. |
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| A series of 15 dashboard camera, body camera and recovered cell phone videos from the police-involved shooting of Jemel Roberson on Nov. 11, 2018 were released by the Cook County Sheriff's Office in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. |
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| U.S. News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of the best hotels, and a couple of Chicago properties snagged spots in the country's top 5. |
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