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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers and helped push the US withdrawal from Vietnam, dies at 92.

A 55-year-old man, identified as Scott J. MacDonald, was possibly suffering a psychotic episode when he approached a Des Plaines officer the...

Robert Crimo Jr. is charged with seven counts of reckless conduct for allowing his son to obtain a license to buy firearms.

Warning: Graphic content. Des Plaines police released the body-camera footage of a man with an ax and approaching an officer before he was f...

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the drowning death of a 7-year-old Chicago boy that occurred at a Portage beach on Thursday...

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted early Friday to end funding for a pandemic-era child care subsidy program over the o...

The Chicago Bears have plans to build a new enclosed football stadium on the site, as part of a $5 billion housing and entertainment distric...

Shortly after 6:15 a.m., the trooper attempted to pull a vehicle over near Montrose Avenue when the vehicle fled.

Chicago police are alerting adults about a man who performed a lewd act on himself in front of a 6-year-old girl inside of a wooden tower on...

Warnings against swimming at Lake Michigan’s beaches continue into Friday afternoon as weather officials expect high waves and dangerous cur...

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Heather Mack scheduled to enter guilty plea during an in-person hearing in federal court in Chicago on Friday.

On I-55 in central Illinois, a weather phenomenon fueled by gusting farm soil led to a deadly 84-vehicle crash.

A sudden dust storm on I-55 claimed the lives of 8 people in May — everyday people just traveling through central Illinois.

The Chicago Police Board on Thursday voted to fire a CPD sergeant for his role in the botched 2019 raid at the home of social worker Anjanet...

The Seth Warner house of Austin survived the Great Chicago Fire only to be damaged in an early morning fire on Thursday.

An Antioch resident doing yard work Thursday morning discovered an item believed to be a WWI-era anti-tank rocket, official said.

A verdict has been reached in the trial of a politically connected Chicago businessman James Weiss, accused of corrupting the political proc...

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The Gaming Board issued a “determination of preliminary suitability” Thursday for Bally’s Chicago, setting the table to launch the city’s fi...

Officials said waves between four to seven feet are expected at beaches at Lake and Cook counties in Illinois, and in Lake and Porter counti...

Police in Porter County and Cincinnati, Ohio are working to put together the pieces of a case that started with the discovery of a body in a...

A federal jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a politically connected Chicago businessman accused of corrupting the political pr...

A firefighter was in good condition Thursday morning after a fire broke out at the 152 -year-old Seth Warner home, the oldest remaining stru...

City code puts the responsibility on the Department of Public Health to make sure that contractors working on city construction and demoliti...