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“We’re pushing for metrics" and want "safer numbers" before returning, a teacher union official said.

Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan’s demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lake...

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The pro-Trump domestic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Capitol are losing jobs, Republicans who egged them on are losing corporate donors an...

Some Donald Trump supporters in the Chicago area said the US Capitol riot snapped their fidelity to the president, but others insisted he wa...

Oak Park man facing battery charges after allegedly punching police officer

The head of CPS asked CTU to honor the contract the union went on strike to secure.

Potato chip maker Utz Brands plans to buy Chicago-based Vitner’s as it seeks a bigger bite of the salty snacks market in the Midwest.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan announced Monday morning that he is suspending his bid for another term leading the chamber, hours af...

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Local health departments soon will be able to start vaccinating those 65 and older against COVID-19, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday, pr...

Anthony Faulkner spent his last minutes alive unaware that directly behind him stood a gunman who would shoot seven people on Saturday.

An Evanston aldermanic candidate was targeted with racist death threats during a Zoom interview with the Democratic Party of Evanston Jan. 1...

The Chicago Police Department is looking into whether any of its officers participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, offici...

The pair haven’t been identified, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether they were UPS employees.

In a 23-minute video on his Facebook page posted around 11:45 a.m. on Jan. 6, Kelly poses for photos with and hugs supporters. He also joi...

Aldermen pressed city officials to justify their plan to start reopening Chicago public schools Monday as some students began returning to c...

Police discovered four people of “unknown description” had been in possession of firearms and several rounds were fired in the parking lot...

The head of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ affairs stepped down Monday amid ongoing criticism of the agency’s handling of a coronaviru...

The Chicago Tribune and its parent company will leave Prudential Plaza at the end of this month, leaving the city’s largest newspaper withou...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said President Donald Trump’s actions last week incited the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol and consti...

A group of labor and church leaders, as well as three Chicago aldermen, offered a stinging rebuke Monday of John Catanzara, saying he should...

Body camera footage shows Chicago police detain Esael Morales, who has filed a federal lawsuit against off-duty Officer Joseph Cabrera and o...

About 6,500 CPS students in pre-kindergarten and special education were due to arrive to schools for in-person classes on Jan. 11, 2021, in...