Chicago

In the modern NFL, $2.2bn won’t stop the Chicago Bears’ flight to the suburbs

The city’s mayor unveiled ambitious plans to renovate historic Soldier Field. But Bears ownership sees better commercial opportunities elsewhere

Melissa Jacobs

26, Jul, 2022 @9:24 AM

Highland Park suspect’s father to be investigated for signing gun application

Crimo Jr denies any responsibility for the attack, saying ‘I had no – not an inkling, warning – that this was going to happen’

Gloria Oladipo

07, Jul, 2022 @5:04 PM

Highland Park shooting: suspect considered attacking another parade

Police on Wednesday also identified the seventh shooting victim in the July 4 mass killing as Eduardo Uvaldo, 69

Guardian staff and agencies

07, Jul, 2022 @6:43 AM

Highland Park shooting: appeal raises $2m for toddler who lost both parents

Two-year-old Aiden McCarthy was found wandering alone but has since been reunited with his grandparents

Guardian staff

06, Jul, 2022 @3:10 PM

Highland Park shooting death toll rises to seven as details of victims emerge

Shooting injured dozens as dead include grandfather Nicolás Toledo, teacher Jacki Sundheim and financial broker Steve Straus

Guardian staff

06, Jul, 2022 @2:29 AM

Highland Park shooting death toll rises to seven with 46 injured – as it happened

Suspect pre-planned Fourth of July parade attack and wore ‘women’s clothing’, police say

Chris Stein

05, Jul, 2022 @8:59 PM

Highland Park shooting: police say suspect used women’s clothing disguise; 7 now dead

YouTube has taken down page belonging to man in custody, while Instagram and Twitter have terminated his accounts, as death toll increases

Coral Murphy Marcos and Ramon Antonio Vargas

05, Jul, 2022 @5:23 PM

As fireworks lit up the sky, firearms displayed an uglier face of US culture

America’s national day became a twisted showcase of another form of US exceptionalism: its exceptionally easy access to guns and the resultant mayhem

Ed Pilkington in New York

05, Jul, 2022 @5:03 PM

Gun violence condemned after shooting at Fourth of July parade – as it happened

At least six people were killed and 30 injured after a shooting in the Chicago-area suburb of Highland Park just after 10am local time

Gabrielle Canon (now) and Lauren Gambino (earlier)

05, Jul, 2022 @2:46 AM

‘This isn’t freedom’: Fourth of July shooting rocks Chicago and shocks US

Leaders and activists demand change after shooter targets Highland Park parade celebrating Independence Day

Erum Salam and Coral Murphy Marcos

04, Jul, 2022 @7:32 PM

‘It’s important to fight’: US cities erupt in protest as Roe v Wade falls

Soon after the supreme court struck down abortion protection, pro-choice demonstrators took to the streets

Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Victoria Bekiempis in New York

25, Jun, 2022 @5:01 AM

Deaths of three Chicago women prompt urgent heat warnings

Experts say cities are failing to grapple with the deadly threat after discovery of bodies in senior housing facility