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Approximately 130 million people across 22 states, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, are now under heat alerts and excessive heat warnings, o...

More than 70 parents and community members attended Tuesday’s Homer Elementary District 33C Board meeting demanding the resignation o board...

Officers responded to call of a person shot Tuesday night and found several wounded, including a 15-year-old boy in the Lawndale neighborhoo...

Closing arguments are set to begin Wednesday in the perjury trial of former Democratic insider Tim Mapes over allegations that he lied befor...

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Johnson repeatedly said his administration is in "full force."

The mayor said "bringing people together is what the city of Chicago wants," but there are many tough challenges beyond that.

Nearly 100 asylum-seekers who made a home at a community-run shelter in Pilsen must leave the building by Sept. 3 due to a confluence of bad...

In April, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board blocked former Cicero police Officer Zenna Ramos from certification as s...

Over 500 nurses at Ascension St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet took to the picket line at the start of a four-day lockout.

The union representing 340,000 UPS workers said Tuesday that its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last mont...

The agreement ends a lengthy legal odyssey that turned would-be restaurant partners into rival litigants

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The state of mind of Democratic insider Tim Mapes after he was forced to resign in 2018 were the focus of his perjury trial Tuesday as the d...

National Weather Service officials are expecting dangerous hot conditions midweek in portions of Illinois as the heat index may reach up to...

President Joe Biden named Chicago attorney Edward “Ed” Siskel White House counsel Tuesday.

A man was seriously injured overnight when he was struck by a red sedan that fled the scene in the Stony Island Park neighborhood on the Sou...

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CPS has been preparing for the throng of new English learner students, most of them migrant children, with about 1,000 of them enrolling bef...

The federal government has called for an “all hands on deck” approach that includes planting milkweed in parks, public lands and rights of w...

Illinois State Police are investigating and the Will County state’s attorney’s office was processing charges.

Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the perjury trial of Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madiga...

Throughout the summer, there were doubts that the all-boys charter school would be permitted to open its Bronzeville and Englewood campuses.

The Oak Park Library received a threat that was investigated and deemed not viable. Still, branches were closed out of caution.

CPS faces big changes ahead as it begins its move to being governed by an elected school board, not one appointed by the mayor.