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Cook County prosecutors last week quietly dropped all charges against a man accused of fatally shooting 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins as her f...

An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived — someone’s apparent COVID-19 test...

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COVID-19 deaths on the rise again in Illinois prisons as inmates and advocates call for additional protections.

A man was shot and killed Monday afternoon during an armed robbery in the city’s Bridgeport neighborhood on the city’s South Side, according...

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A week after the first shipment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine arrived in Illinois, more than 63,000 health care workers across the state h...

A woman died in a fire early Monday morning a Zion senior apartment center, according to Lake County authorities.

The Chicago Housing Authority has given 54 families in public housing their own home this year through their Choose To Own homeownership pro...

Chicago on Monday started handing out grab-and-go activity kits for children and teens for use during the winter break as other activities u...

All of the Chicago Police officers who were involved in the raid of Anjanette Young’s home have been placed on desk duty, the latest measure...

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

For many families, winter break is fraught with anxiety about what school will look like in January.

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Most African American women know we could have been Anjanette Young, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Even as the first vaccine shots begin to roll out to health care workers, doctors and nurses say they are struggling to make it through the...

When 9-year-old Janari Ricks was shot and killed at Cabrini-Green's rowhouses during a violent Chicago summer, the killing evoked the tragic...

Michael “Moose” Cusack, pioneering athlete in Special Olympics, dies.

A woman in her 70s has died Sunday night after two gunmen opened fired into a home in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the South Side.

Bail was denied Sunday to a former postal carrier and elder care van driver accused of driving down his former girlfriend as she left her jo...

Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, has resigned over the Anjanette Young raid, annoucing his resignation in an email to emplo...

A man shot in the head by a gunman who Chicago police open fired on has died after the West Side attack on Friday.

Classic Chicago winter weather is on the horizon this week with bursts of snow predicted for late Sunday into Monday morning, according to t...

The device called the SoToxa Mobile Test System is a handheld analyzer that uses an oral fluid swab to detect the presence of drugs. Results...