Caroline Kubzansky

Caroline Kubzansky covers afternoons and evenings for the Metro desk. She previously covered local government and goings-on throughout the north and northwest suburbs for the Tribune's Pioneer Press. She is a committed Chicago partisan and a native of Washington, D.C.

Police officers work at the scene where a woman was fatally shot in the 1500 block of South Laflin Street on May 4, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Homeless woman shot, killed in Near West Side vacant lot: police

May 5, 2025 at 7:55 a.m.

A homeless woman was shot to death in a vacant lot on the near West Side Sunday evening, according to Chicago police. Police said an unknown man approached the woman,...

Reports of a possible fatal vehicle accident Friday night in Winnetka

May 3, 2025 at 9:33 p.m.

A serious car accident was reported Friday night on Church Road in front of Indian Hill County Club in north suburban Winnetka. Details on the accident were not immediately available...

Odai Alfayoumi, father of Wadee Alfayoumi, and his wife, Hadeel al-Hafi, outside the Will County Courthouse in Joliet following the sentencing of Joseph Czuba on May 2, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Plainfield man sentenced to 53 years in prison for hate crime in killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy

May 5, 2025 at 12:47 p.m.

A jury convicted 73-year-old Joseph Czuba in February of murder and hate crime charges in the fatal stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi, who was Palestinian American, and the wounding of his...

People outside a combined shelter, used to house migrants and the homeless, in Chicago on April 10, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Early months of combined migrant, homeless shelters in Chicago see success, structural challenges

May 2, 2025 at 5:02 p.m.

Nearly three years after buses of migrants began arriving in Chicago from the southern border, the city and state have merged emergency shelters created in response with the city's preexisting...

Division 9 of the Cook County Jail seen on Oct. 28, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Cook County Jail inmates claim guards allowed assault in retaliation for prior complaint about forced sex

May 1, 2025 at 8:14 p.m.

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually assault them at knifepoint after one of them complained...

South Chicago man shot, killed in Roseland, police say

April 30, 2025 at 12:16 p.m.

A suspect remained at large after a man was shot to death in what police called a domestic incident in the Roseland neighborhood on the far South Side Wednesday morning.

Autopsy: Roseland infant boy died of child abuse

April 30, 2025 at 9:26 a.m.

Kayson Flowers died Monday in Roseland at two months old, authorities said. An autopsy ruled he died of multiple injuries related to child abuse.

State Sen. Emil Jones III talks to reporters in the lobby after his bribery trial ended in a mistrial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on April 24, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Mistrial declared in federal bribery trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III after jury deadlocks on all three counts

April 24, 2025 at 7:16 p.m.

The corruption trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III ended with a mistrial Thursday, with the jury unable to find agreement on any of the three counts in the case,...

Illinois State Sen. Emil Jones III makes a thumbs-up gesture as he leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on April 23, 2025, after another day of deliberation in his federal bribery trial. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

Jury tells judge they cannot agree on any counts in bribery trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III

April 24, 2025 at 5:15 p.m.

After note warning of an impasse, judge tells jury in trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III a deadlock would be premature at this point in their talks and to...

Then-Ald. Carrie Austin listens during a City Council meeting at Chicago City Hall on Feb. 23, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

‘More facts are better than fewer’: Cardiac expert will weigh in on former alderman’s fitness for trial

April 23, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

A federal judge said he was likely to grant a motion to sever the ex-alderman's corruption case from her former chief of staff's on the grounds of her failing health,...

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