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Monarch butterflies, the Indiana Dunes, steel and wind turbines are among the many details incorporated into the design of the new Kankakee...

A state trooper was shot in the leg while interacting with Cristobal Santana, 37, state police said. Family members of slain Chicago Public...

Pamela Darring said she was driving on 183rd Street Aug. 25 when a black SUV driven by Glenwood village administrator Brian Mitchell got beh...

Mario Munoz of the 3900 block of West Fullerton Avenue was charged with a felony count of arson to property more than $150, and one misdemea...

An unknown man driving a pickup truck ignored a red light signal Tuesday afternoon fatally striking a woman crossing DuSable Lake Shore Driv...

A 22-year-old woman was pronounced dead after a hit-and-run crash Tuesday night in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Updates to the city-owned building are needed to make the space more efficient and modern, according to Assistant City Manager Erin Jason.

About 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, robbers got out of a red sedan and broke out a glass side door of a bar in the 1500 block of North Dayton Street.

A Palestinian American woman whose 6-year-old son was killed in what police are calling a hate crime in unincorporated Plainfield Township h...

Two armed robbers traveling in a black SUV demanded victims property in four separate robberies overnight on the North and Northwest sides,...

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Cook County State's Attorney's office brought hate crime and aggravated battery felony charges against a Skokie man for pepper-spraying prot...

At least three people have died in cycling-related accidents around Cook County in three weeks.

Meeting on tap to address complex visa process for visiting artists.

The fire in the 2800 block of North Racine Avenue was struck out by 6:30 p.m., according to Chicago Fire Department officials.

Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday af...

The evening rush hour crash sent the victim to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, authorities said.

Illinois House Democrats introduced a bill that would extend a controversial private school tax credit for another five years,.

The move could set the stage for a lengthy legal battle between the city and FOP, whose president vowed Tuesday to take the fight to court i...

The group is hoping the appellate court will halt or even potentially reverse construction of the museum for the former president.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposes new state agency devoted to early childhood services and consolidating work now handled by three separate entiti...

A man recording a TikTok video was arrested for allegedly shoving South Side Ald. Gregory Mitchell in the lobby at City Hall, authorities sa...

Republican Tom Emmer abruptly abandoned his bid to become House speaker, withdrawing hours after winning the internal party nomination.

On Oct. 19, 12 days after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that killed hundreds and many others taken hostages including many Americans,...