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James "Tail Dragger" Jones was a Chicago blues singer who gave raw performances at clubs around the city for decades.

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout...

Tom Skilling, the dean of Chicago TV weathercasters, is stepping down

Johnson will make $221,052 next year, a 2.24% pay hike that is more modest than the 9.6% raise most aldermen accepted last year.

Allegations that a Naperville student was videotaped burning a copy of the Quran this summer have prompted action by school district officia...

Investigators with the Chicago Department of Human Resources had recommended in May that First Deputy Commissioner Mary Sheridan be suspende...

A number of motels across Lake County are being used to shelter nearly 300 people experiencing homelessness, half of whom are children.

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Man accused of weapons charges in slaying of CPD officer Ella French pleads guilty.

Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge the...

For fans planning to catch a screening in the Chicago area, we’ve compiled a list of what to know: how to score tickets, what’s included in...

Current conditions at Midway Airport are light rain with fog/midst at 55 degrees. Farther north at O’Hare International Airport conditions a...

A 21-year-old man and a teenage boy were shot overnight on the West Side in the North Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago police said

The Land Use Commission voted unanimously to send approval of Northwestern University’s Ryan Field rebuild to the City Council but voted aga...

th Avenue. Police said three armed males entered a business wearing ski masks and armed with handguns.

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The Local School Council voted to hire Kerry Dolan, an assistant principal at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep in Roseland.

James Weiss, son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios, sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison in a bribery case with elem...

There are a lot of pieces to a $16.6 billion budget proposal. Here's a breakdown of the highlights.

The budget comes as the commuter rail service’s ridership remains below pre-pandemic levels, with many white-collar workers continuing to wo...

Arin Fox faces 40 to 60 years in prison, prosecutors said. Other charges of aggravated battery and possession of a stolen vehicle were dropp...

Debate on a resolution in support of Israel proposed by Ald. Debra Silverstein was postponed after a progressive ally of Mayor Brandon Johns...

Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton remained in intensive care on Wednesday while dealing with a rare form of pneumonia. Donations t...

After family's role taking down 'El Chapo,' Armando Flores walks out of federal court a free man.