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DOV HAMMER playing the blues in Chicago.

From Chicago to Tel Aviv and back: Dov Hammer and his harmonica record some blues in the Windy City

Max Long, one of the allegedly assaulted DePaul students, addresses the media outside Chicago's Cook County Circuit Court, wearing a yellow hostage pin and commemorative dog-tag necklace, April 2, 2025.

Jewish DePaul students sue university for over $50,000 after alleged antisemitic attack

Chicago resident Peter Katz found stickers with Nazi symbolism on his Tesla last month.

A Chicagoan wanted to protest Elon Musk — and put a swastika sticker on a Jewish man’s Tesla

By Grace Gilson/JTA

The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023.

US antisemitism task force to meet leadership of four major cities

By MICHAEL STARR

A Southwest Airlines jetliner departs from Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., December 27, 2022. (Illustrative)

Southwest jet narrowly avoids colliding with business jet at Chicago airport

By REUTERS

Screenshot of Frank Sinatra from the trailer for the film Pal Joey, 1957

Sensational: Remembering Frank Sinatra's concert in Jerusalem

By DVORA WAYSMAN

Traffic going into Chicago, Illinois.

New York City comes second, Chicago third. Which city is the world's traffic jam capital for 2024?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi

Suspect in October hate crime shooting of Orthodox man found dead in Chicago jail

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi

Man charged with shooting Chicago Orthodox Jew had map of potential Jewish targets

By Mathilda Heller

Actor Jussie Smollett makes a court appearance

Illinois top court reverses actor Smollett's false hate crime report conviction

By REUTERS

A mummy.

Lady Chenet-aa’s mummy reveals its secrets to team of researchers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A demonstrator looks on as workers dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, at DePaul university in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., May 16, 2024.

Masked attackers assault two Jewish students outside DePaul University of Chicago

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The West 45th Penthouse in Manhattan.

Rihanna’s former NYC penthouse among high-profile properties heading to auction amid market shift

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Reverend Mitchell Ikenna Johnson

'Antisemitic' Chicago Board of Ed. President resigns, effective immediately

By Mathilda Heller

Police officers block a street on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 22, 2024

Terror charges filed against suspected shooter of Chicago Jewish man

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Reverend Mitchell Ikenna Johnson

New Chicago Board of Ed. President to remain despite calls for his resignation over antisemitism

By Mathilda Heller

Speakers from left to right: David Goldenberg, Shlomo Soroka, Rabbi Levi Mostofsky

Chicago mayor under fire days after antisemitic shooting

By JULIE MANGURTEN WEINBERG

Chicago police at March on DNC, Chicago, Illinois, US, August 19, 2024.

Chicago Jewish man on way to synagogue shot by attacker shouting 'Allahu Akhbar'

By Mathilda Heller