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North Korea on Wednesday offered its first official confirmation that it had detained a U.S. soldier who bolted into its country last month.

A passenger jet had to abort its takeoff at Boston’s Logan International Airport when another aircraft on the ground got too close to the ru...

Rescuers resumed the search Wednesday morning of a teenage man who went missing at Winnetka Beach early Tuesday morning.

The trial of Tim Mapes is expected to continue Wednesday with the testimony of former state Rep. Lou Lang, who was forced to resign at Madig...

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Here's what to know about this year’s Chicago Air and Water Show: how to get to the lakefront (or avoid it), weather conditions, what to exp...

Light pollution coupled with the Canadian wildfires is making stargazing increasingly difficult in the Chicago area, enthusiasts say. They’r...

Chicago publicist Trevian Kutti and Orland Park pastor Stephen Cliffgard Lee were named as defendants in the Georgia indictment brought agai...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker also showed up to encourage the party to back President Biden's reelection, while trash-talking Donald Trump.

Michael Long, of Chicago, a private security guard at a Ford Heights club, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death o...

One of the questions asked by host Steve Harvey was, “What was the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?” Timothy Bliefnick answered “sa...

Roger Hochschild, a longtime Discover executive, stepped down “effective immediately” Monday as CEO, president and board member at the credi...

The Elgin man killed in a motorcycle crash in West Dundee last week was the owner of Tortilleria Chihuahua as well as a part-time actor.

Chicago police opened a death investigation after a 27-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday afternoon inside a vehicle on the South Side in...

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A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

The federal money will supplement state and local efforts to help Cook County residents and businesses who suffered losses due to severe sto...

An elderly man has been declared mentally unfit for trial on charges that he shot his Antioch area neighbor in April, allegedly in a dispute...

A Highwood teen said “Do it! Do it!” moments before he was fatally shot by another teenager, Lake County prosecutors said at a Tuesday bond...

The work is intended to help to remove about 3 miles of the slow zones.

Victor Parra was a Chicago-area radio host, musician and bandleader who championed Afro-Cuban jazz music as host of his weekly radio show, o...

Staff at the Art Institute were the first at a major Chicago museum to unionize when they voted to join the American Federation of State, Co...

Waves between 6 to 9 feet were expected along with dangerous currents at beaches along Lake Michigan, officials said.

Lobbyist Will Cousineau is expected to make his second appearance on the witness stand in federal court as prosecutors on Tuesday attempt to...

Christkindlmarket will return to Daley Plaza in the Loop, Gallagher Way outside Wrigley Field and RiverEdge Park in Aurora starting Nov. 17.