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Longtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who went on to preside over the corruption tr...

One person is dead and four others injured following a drive-by shooting Sunday morning in Garfield Park.

Actress and singer Jane Birkin has died at age 76, according to France’s Culture Ministry and French media.

Elgin started working on an emergency disaster plan after the devastating 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, something that proved a huge hel...

After 154 years, the Kane County Fair has become about as resilient as the professional bull riders at the event who get back up and dust o...

More than 10,000 asylum-seekers, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in Chicago since August. Long wait times required for federal work auth...

Recent storms suggest rain can now fall so quickly that stormwater tunnels can’t move runoff to McCook Reservoir fast enough to prevent sewa...

A railyard contractor from Chicago's Roseland neighborhood was killed early Saturday during an accident in a south suburban railyard, offici...

Nature lovers gathered for a bilingual community walk through the McKinley Park neighborhood Saturday to promote the important impact of urb...

National Weather Service officials called an air quality alert in effect until Sunday and said a few thunderstorms are possible Saturday aft...

Park Ridge’s Pickwick Theatre will become a venue for both live performances and movies through a partnership with the Copernicus Foundation...

One bill would require state agencies and public universities to reduce their purchase of single-use plastics.

The ramifications remain to be seen — from potentially marring the reputation of the prestigious research university to galvanizing oppositi...

Authorities began searching for Matthew Briggs on Saturday after reports he was carrying out a series of violent crimes, including breaking...

Residents of an island polluted with PFAS chemicals have filed claims demanding more than $40 million from a western Wisconsin city they say...

An Illinois man is in custody after leading state police on a chase on I-65 Wednesday, then slamming into multiple cop cars.

Under current city rules, clearing sidewalks when they are snowy or icy is the responsibility of property owners

The union is seeking to represent about 230 retail employees at the five-story coffee emporium on Michigan Avenue and Erie Street, the large...

Lori Lightfoot sent campaign solicitations to city workers while Ald. Jim Gardiner directed staff to issue bogus citations to a critic, the...

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Kevin Lyons, 40, an HVAC technician from the Gladstone Park neighborhood, was convicted in a stipulated bench trial earlier this year of all...

More than 8,000 visitors — twice as many as expected — traveled to Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Naperville Tuesday for an encounte...

Dick Lanyon, who worked 48 years with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, will talk about the reversal of the Ca...

Robert Crimo Jr. is scheduled to stand trial Nov. 6, before Judge George Strickland. At a Friday hearing, Crimo, opted for a bench trial, wh...

Dr. Edmond Confino was an obstetrician and gynecologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He retired from Northweste...