Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."
Mayor Lightfoot announces Chicago restaurants now will be allowed to serve at 40 percent capacity or 50 people starting on Fat Tuesday.
All Chicago Public School classes will be remote Tuesday due to heavy snow and extreme winter weather, officials said
Four school-based vaccination sites dedicated to inoculating Chicago Public School staff are set to open next week.
White people in Illinois are being vaccinated at twice the rate of Black and Hispanic residents, state data shows.
KONKOL COLUMN: There's a reason Preckwinkle, Lightfoot set aside differences to buck Gov. Pritzker's coronavirus vaccine plan: Reality.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara faces misconduct charges before the police board that could lead to his firing.
Chicago Restaurant Coalition says incremental increase of indoor-dining capacity "grossly unfair" to industry hit the hardest by shutdowns.
Deal with CTU now gives Chicago Public School parents the option to send kids to in-person learning starting Thursday.
KONKOL COLUMN: Biden should pump the brakes on the political ousting of U.S. Attorney John Lausch, a threat to Illinois' corrupt status quo.
Chicago Restaurant Coalition calls on Mayor Lightfoot to tap $50 million from tax increment financing for grants to struggling eateries.
KONKOL COLUMN: CTU showdown with City Hall over reopening schools is big money, bare-knuckles Chicago politics funded by taxpayers.
UPDATE: CTU boss says teachers will "remain remote until we land an agreement," setting the stage for a second strike in two years.
Chicago Public School officials extended a negotiation "cooling-off" period with the teachers union over terms for returning to classrooms.
KONKOL COLUMN: Gov. Pritzker's hand-picked statistical calculations provide a skewed reality about the state's coronavirus vaccine response.
KONKOL COLUMN: Group led by CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates sent a robotext lobbying for governor to remove teacher-strike speed bump.
Mayor Lightfoot backs off her lockout threat as in-person learning negotiations with Chicago Teachers Union seem to inch closer to a deal.
KONKOL COLUMN: There's something beautiful about Woodstock celebrating a movie that made it famous, as it always does, even during pandemic.
Chicago Teachers Union members who don't show up for work Monday will be blocked from remote learning portals, setting the stage for strike.
Mayor Lightfoot said if Chicago Teacher Union members don't show up for work Monday "we will have no choice but to take further action."
Indoor-dining capacity to remain at 25 percent up to 25 people even if Chicago reaches metrics that allow for larger gatherings.
