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Thursday, blustery onshore winds are expected to create high waves and rip currents that officials said would be life-threatening, cautionin...

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The George Washington Casseday House in Joliet, built in the 1850s, first was moved out of the way of a gas station development and now owne...

Elected officials have until Sept. 15 to reject the 2.24% raise or it will automatically be applied to their salaries next year.

Two nearby industrial wastelands have been cleaned up and transformed into city parks. But the Acme site is still contaminated with a centur...

The meeting was the latest in a series of community meetings being held in neighborhoods across the city, where residents have pushed back a...

One woman was charged with battery, while charges are pending for two other suspects, police said.

One of the important government moles in Chicago political history, former Ald. Daniel Solis is not expected to take the witness stand for f...

Once powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down from his elected office, a Democratic ward committeeman's post.

The woman was identified as Kelly Jirgal, 46, by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern st...

The exact charges the president’s son would face were not immediately clear, but he has been under investigation in Delaware on gun and tax...

The Indiana Court of Appeals last month upheld convictions for a former couple in connection with a 10-year-old boy’s abuse death, court fil...

Prosecutors in the Georgia election subversion case involving ex-President Donald Trump say a trial would likely take four months.

The Rev. Tanya Lozano said the missing man is Bryan Jackson, an athletic trainer born and raised in Chicago.

The union representing workers alleges the Kinzie locked out housekeeping staff who took part in an informational picket outside the hotel S...

Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don’t think about when they open cans of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches ma...

A flash flood warning was issued for southeastern Cook County and Will County until 9:45 a.m. as scattered storms continue to move through t...

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Experts attribute some of the declines to habitat loss or pesticide use but warn that climate change poses new risks..

Funding for the institute is drawn from the same $480 million donation the Ryan Family Foundation made in 2021 to support the university's p...

IT consultant hired by City Hall tells council that the city needs to act now to better deliver services.

Swaysee Rankin, 15, had survived a previous shooting and helped save the life of a 10-year-old girl injured in another shooting, according t...

After years of seeking approval, a Milwaukee suburb is finally set to start pulling millions of gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan to...

Jaramaine Wilcox Jr., 32, was shot in Blue Island, David Parra, 30, and Jose Antonio Munoz Chavez, 32, were both shot in Chicago Heights, an...