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: If Cheeseheads are smarter than Illinoisans, they'd learn from our coronavirus-tainted election and postpone April voting.
City establishes $2 million COVID-19 Housing Assistance Grant program to help people make rent, mortgage payments amid coronavirus pandemic.
Humanitarian former mayoral contender Willie Wilson will donated $1 million to help people who lost their jobs due to the new coronavirus.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot: "Dear God. Stay Home. Save Lives." City could be expecting 40,000 hospitalizations due to Coronavirus in coming weeks.
KONKOL COLUMN: Social distancing will save lives. But it seems North Siders won't get it until they get "it" — the new coronavirus, that is.
Hours after Mayor Lightfoot threatened a lakefront shutdown during the coronavirus stay home order, police closed walking path at North Ave.
KONKOL COLUMN: Whether you like it or not, keep calling your guilt-resistant parents who continue to defy stay-at-home orders every day.
Chicago police will start issuing $500 tickets and arresting stay-at-home order scofflaws "because we must," top cop Charlie Beck said.
Chicago police say traffic stops have dropped significantly and 911 calls decreased by 30 percent after the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot: "I don’t just want them dumped onto the streets into a void and showing up in an emergency room."
Chicago offers a little financial help to public transportation riders whether they're staying home or not during coronavirus crisis.
KONKOL COLUMN: Even if scientists brew up a coronavirus cure, we still live in a city infected by shooters who won't put the guns down.
Mayor Lightfoot's administration partners with hotels, YMCA to create more isolation rooms and beds for homeless as coronavirus spreads.
Hatzalah Chicago, an all-volunteer Orthodox Jewish ambulance service, donated N95 masks to local police amid shortage due to coronavirus.
NBC Universal donate medical masks used as TV props on NBC's "Chicago Med," "Fire" and "P.D." to real-life coronavirus first responders.
Chef Carlos Gaytan serves up 11-item to-go menu at Tzuco in River North and splits the profits among a skeleton crew of "volunteer" workers.
Without more coronavirus tests Illinois is "flying blind," unable to identify location of "real clusters" of infected people, expert says.
Illinois Health and Hospital Association calls on construction companies, veterinarians and dentists to donate face masks, N95 respirators.
KONKOL COLUMN: Don't trust texts, tweets and Facebook posts from normally intelligent friends spreading misinformation about coronavirus.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot extends CPS closure through April 20, orders sick people to stay home and announces fund for small business loans.
