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Kirksey was a mentor to hundreds of basketball students in the Chicago area, including former NBA players Juwan Howard and Eddy Curry.

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More than three dozen companies who won Illinois marijuana craft grower licenses will continue waiting for them after a court ruling kept th...

A proposed meeting between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and social worker Anjanette Young has been called off after the two sides couldn’t agree on...

A third man has been charged with murder in connection with a botched Dec. 3 carjacking that left a retired Chicago firefighter dead.

Duke Webb, 37, faces three counts of murder and three counts of first-degree attempted murder for injuring three other people in the shootin...

Beavers, Illinois’ largest rodents, are in city lagoons, rivers and streams. They’re on Instagram, and TikTok. Sometimes a nuisance, and at...

Chicago officials on Monday began distributing vaccines to long-term medical care facilities and outpatient clinics, marking another milesto...

Chicago police say a former alderman was driving an Audi that rammed and sideswiped at least eight cars along four blocks of a street in the...

What an intense year it was — in weather. “What sticks out to us was that we experienced many extremes,” Brett Borchardt, meteorologist for...

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

Chicago police were searching for two men after gunfire was exchanged with officers in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side la...

Winter weather may finally end Chicago's historic lack of snow this year and throw a wrench in any New Year's Eve plans, forecasters said Mo...

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

Almost one year after recreational marijuana legalization took effect, few past criminal cases that qualify for expungement have been cleare...

Reflections on the year that has passed.

Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton: 'We cannot move forward as a society if we do not firmly commit to protecting Black women and girls.'

More than 200 people, many of them politicians, clergy members, activists and union members gathered outside of Chicago Public Safety headqu...

Chicago police were investigating two unrelated homicides Sunday and no arrests had been made in either case.

Social worker Anjanette Young has agreed to meet privately with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot following public uproar over a mistaken police...

A person was fatally shot in the chest near the corner of Archer and Lawler Avenues Sunday morning, in Chicago.

The Christmas day fire was reported at 2:50 a.m. at 9954 S. 84th Terrace, Palos Hills, in a 40-unit building. There were no injuries, but 56...

Two men died as a result of fatal town house fires occurring on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, two of four blazes firefighters that took p...

A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley on Dec. 26, 2020, killing three people and injuring three others , police said.

A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley, killing three people and injuring three others Saturday night in what authorities bel...