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

An online sales company has stopped selling merchandise supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, the Antioch teen who killed two people and wounded a th...

Traditionally most restaurants in the historic Chinese neighborhood on the South Side of the city remain open on Christmas Day

After a deployment in Afghanistan that included a bout with COVID-19, returning Illinois National Guard Maj. Scott Liebhaber doesn’t mind if...

A 48-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy were killed after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a street in the Gage Park ne...

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A growing number of Local School Councils, from West Ridge to Logan Square to West Englewood, oppose the plan to start bringing young learne...

Yes, Santa Claus is real. This columnist explains that Christmas without Santa Claus would be ahistorical, a ship of dreams with no wind in...

The ritual of having the mariachi community come together to play at the funeral or wake of a musician who has died has become a common prac...

The Captain James A. Lovell FHCC in North Chicago is one of 133 VA centers across the United States that are receiving limited amounts of th...

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Donors gave more than $10,000 to support low-income students at Dominican University after a Tribune story highlighted the challenges of a c...

In some neighborhoods, Santa has a more familiar face. He or she is the minister, the social worker, the police officer, the teacher and the...

With health officials repeatedly warning against family gatherings during the end-of-year holidays, experts say the number of Americans trav...

The five Great Lakes of North America: Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie.

A woman who says Chicago police officers pulled her from a car by her hair and placed a knee on her neck at the Brickyard Mall has filed a f...

Mia Wright, whose arrest May 31, 2020, outside Brickyard Mall was caught on camera, leading to two officers being relieved of duty as offici...

Much is at stake when it comes to the Great Lakes region. Warming temperatures and more precipitation can mean more flooding. Invasive speci...

More than 100,000 people in Illinois had been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Tuesday night, and hundreds of thousands more doses are bein...

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

Chicago-area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes was once called the “king” of Medicaid fraud, but is now free after his 20-year sentence was...

Joliet police officers on Tuesday shot and killed a male who was in the street “brandishing what appeared to be a black semi-automatic handg...

Tom Burek, mens and womens swim coach at Monmouth College in Western Illinois, died from COVID-19 after a long battle. His death leaves a bi...

Hammond Police are investigating the shooting death of a Chicago man Tuesday evening at a Hohman Avenue apartment.

A gusty and unseasonably warm Wednesday in Chicago will give way to below-normal, bone chilling cold for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, al...