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Chicago police issued a community alert Tuesday warning residents in the Austin and Grand Central districts of carjackings of vehicle used i...

Sweet and Thrifty 2 in Homewood offers people ages 16-21 help with job skills and life skills, such as obtaining a Social Security card and...

A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed in connection with the 2017 death of Kenneka Jenkins, the 19-year-old Chicago woman who d...

Lopez, alderman of the 15th Ward on the Southwest Side, says he will run in the March Democratic primary against progressive Garcia in the 4...

Five people died from exposure to a chemical that spilled after a semitruck overturned in central Illinois, according to autopsies conducted...

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"Of all the bird species that have expanded their range northward into Illinois, the limpkin is the most dramatic," an ornithology expert sa...

Robert Brown says the River North neighborhood has become the city’s unofficial weed district, with four pot shops already operating within...

With the number of buses of migrants arriving in Chicago set to hit unprecedented levels this week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Joh...

Layoffs began Saturday for 243 workers at the Chicago Heights stamping plant, where Ford employs a total of about 1,000 people.

Police did not specify a relationship between the two victims and described both as being in stable condition.

The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in a Country Club Hills attemped armored car robbery...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Chicago by hospitality union Unite Here Local 1, alleges about 130 workers were laid off in violation...

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A man who allegedly left a machine gun inside his parked car at Naperville’s TopGolf facility — the third loaded gun to be recovered from a...

Lawyers for indicted former 14th Ward Ald. Edward Burke are seeking to bar any mention at trial next month of the alderman’s law firm winnin...

The triggerman in an execution-style slaying in Naperville has been convicted of first-degree murder following a four-day DuPage County jury...

Police said an occupant in a white SUV fired shots in the 3600 block of South Archer Avenue at about 10:44 p.m. A 21-year-old man was shot i...

No suspects are in custody, and police said they are investigating.

The Chicago Fire Department transported the man to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition, according to police.

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The survey also indicates that public racial equity statements made in 2020 did not lead to intentional actions.

While urbanization negatively affects species diversity across North America, it hits critters living in warmer cities with less vegetation...

An unknown gunman inside a vehicle pulled out a firearm and fired shots at the four victims in a vacant lot, Chicago police said.