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Six people are killed and 20 others are injured in shootings across Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2023-07-23

Two people are killed and seven wounded during a mass shooting near a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2022-05-19

Rioting and looting occurs in Chicago, U.S., after a police shooting. Thirteen police officers are injured, two people are shot, and more than 100 are arrested.
2020-08-10

American singer R. Kelly pleads not guilty to 11 additional sex-related felonies during a court hearing in Chicago.
2019-06-6

Over 100,000 protest the election of Donald Trump in Chicago; Los Angeles; Oakland, California; Philadelphia; Portland, Oregon, New York City; Seattle and other major cities, reflecting a deep political divide in the United States.
2016-11-9

Barack Obama chooses his home city of Chicago for his presidential library.
2016-07-27

United States Federal agents are combing three states for 32 cases of commercial grade explosives, about 500 pounds of 2½ to 5 inch aerial shells, stolen from a CSX train traveling from Chicago, Illinois, through Ohio that arrived in Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday.
2016-04-23

Four third-party U.S. presidential election candidates—representing the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Justice parties, who were excluded from the high-profile televised encounters between Mitt Romney or Barack Obama—attend their own presidential debate hosted in Chicago by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, which hopes for a more transparent and open electoral system. Romney (with the Republican Party) and Obama (with the Democratic Party) refuse invitations to attend the debate, televised on international news channels but on no major U.S. network.
2012-10-23

Chicago's Midway International Airport closes due to the snow with 1,300 flights cancelled at O'Hare Airport.
2011-02-1