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The boy was shot several blocks from Guaranteed Rate Field on the other side of the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Mike Shannon, a two-time World Series winner and longtime St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster, has died. He was 83.

More than a dozen police reports obtained by the Tribune show how the chaos unfolded downtown earlier this month and Chicago police struggle...

Cook County prosecutors have accused Steven "Mustafa" Hawthorne — a former shining example of successful inmate reentry into society — of co...

Gun shop owners around the state were swamped with weekend crowds after a federal judge in the district court for the Southern District of I...

Anita Wilkens, 36, of the 2900 block of South State Street, was arrested Friday for one misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing and one mi...

National Weather Service officials said it was a small chance for thunderstorms to erupt Saturday afternoon in portions of north central and...

Most of the trees went from the bud phase to leafing out, without blossoming, according to the Chicago Park District.

The racist outburst against Reem Townsend drew immediate condemnation from the DuPage Township Democrats, the Will County Progressives and t...

The situation has “drastically" worsened in the past 10 days, with a tenfold increase in arrivals, including many children, officials said.

A shootout during a funeral service left one person injured Friday in Maywood.

The ruling comes just days after a counterpart in Chicago upheld the ban on many higher-powered firearms and large-capacity magazines.

Current Maine South High School Principal Dr. Ben Collins has been chosen as the next superintendent of Park Ridge-Niles Community Consolida...

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At least two adults were taken to an area hospital after a chemical was sprayed during a disturbance Friday afternoon at. Chicago Bulls Coll...

With fewer than 90 miles of water mains still to be replaced, state law is forcing city workers and contractors for the first time to pull o...

Naperville police are investigating a noose found on a tree Thursday afternoon on Scullen Middle School property at 103rd Street and Mistflo...

A man and a woman died from gunshot wounds after police found them Thursday evening inside Frank's Chicago Shrimp House in Burbank, accordin...

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The trip, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, was designed to promote cross-cultural understanding among youths in both countries.

In February, Clarice Boswell had surgery to receive an electronic hearing device called a cochlear implant.

Police were looking for a shooter inside a stolen white Kia, who shot two people on the Near South Side, one fatally Thursday afternoon.

Critics of the old system say it made students and communities feel they were being labeled deficient, not just their schools.

Manufacturing innovation center mHub announced the $50 million redevelopment a century-old Near West Side factory building, with plans to r...

A federal jury deliberated for a third day Thursday without reaching a verdict in the “ComEd Four” trial.