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."
KONKOL COLUMN: Gov. Pritzker needs to explain, not blame, why other states perform better under the same federal vaccine rollout rules.
Two teenage girls allegedly put a driver in a chokehold and stole the vehicle on the West Side around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said negotiations with the teachers union must continue "for as long as it takes to get a deal done."
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara faces firing again for allegedly filing a false report against former top cop.
KONKOL COLUMN: While Chicagoans return to work as coronavirus spread slows, strike-happy CTU uses pandemic as a political bargaining chip.
Chicago school official: “The district has no choice but to ask parents to keep your children home," on Wednesday.
"As a Black woman I’m stepping up and getting it, and we need everyone to do the same," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said after getting vaccinated.
Two brothers claim St. Sabina's activist priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger abused them during sleepovers at church rectories in the 1970s.
State officials lift coronavirus restrictions to allow Chicago restaurants to resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity up to 25 people.
City inspector general calls for changes to police policies in the aftermath of a botched raid that left an innocent woman handcuffed naked.
CPS officials push ahead with reopening more in-person learning as Chicago Teachers Union threatens a walkout in protest.
First responders, teachers, grocery clerks, transit workers and corrections employees among eligible to get coronavirus vaccines next week.
KONKOL COLUMN: Former Chicago police superintendent's "exclusive" media apology tour sounds more like a confession.
KONKOL COLUMN: Gov. Pritzker didn't show leadership changing pandemic metrics that led to rolling back COVID-19 shutdowns. He got shoved.
KONKOL COLUMN: Mayor Lightfoot shouldn't let Gov. Pritzker's meaningless coronavirus metric benchmarks continue to kill restaurants.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will tell governor it's time to talk about reopening bars and restaurants to bring gatherings out of "shadows."
Chicago health care providers will be able to start administering coronavirus vaccine to people age 65 and over next week, officials say.
Retired Chicago firefighter David Quintavalle was grocery shopping and celebrating wife's birthday in Chicago during Capitol insurrection.
Celebrity Chef joins Chicago Restaurants Coalition's demand that Mayor Lightfoot push governor to allow 20-percent indoor-dining on Jan. 29.
Chicagoans can now avoid mandatory quarantine with a negative coronavirus test before arriving in Chicago, officials say.
