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Two teens were arrested Tuesday after someone took a woman’s vehicle at gunpoint in the Rogers Park neighborhood, according to Chicago polic...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday followed through on a pledge to introduce a plan to the City Council that would eliminate loopholes in the...

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability announced Tuesday that it finished its investigation of the 2018 fatal officer-involved shootin...

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

The Cabrini-Green rowhouses are the surviving Cabrini buildings near where the infamous high-rise housing projects stood.

Health care workers in Chicago and Peoria received the first COVID-19 vaccine shots in Illinois.

An Aurora man has been charged with reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence after a passenger in his vehicle died durin...

The popular black and orange butterflies were determined to be warranted for listing under the Endangered Species Act, but they’ll have to w...

Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out more than $700 million in cuts Tuesday to deal with a projected $3.9 billion budget deficit, contendi...

Nearly three weeks after Thanksgiving, no dramatic post-holiday surge in COVID-19 has emerged in the latest state data, although some hopefu...

The FBI is searching for a man who robbed a Fifth Third Bank in Aurora Monday afternoon.

As winter break nears, CPS and CTU still appear far apart on plans to reopen schools.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s law department attempted in court this week to block local news station WBBM-Ch. 2 from airing body camera footage of...

The Chicago Board of Ethics has fined an alderman $5,000 for defending a former City Council colleague in a criminal case, saying doing so v...

This is the latest installment, and close to the last, of my four-year rhyming chronicle of the presidency of Donald Trump, based, as always...

Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday agreed to drop six more convictions connected to disgraced ex-police Sgt. Ronald Watts

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is expected to be nominated by President-Elect Joe Biden to serve as Secretary of Transportation, whi...

A Wisconsin man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a mental health institution for stabbing four of his family members.

Five frontline medical workers received the vaccine against COVID-19 in Chicago on Tuesday morning, marking an important milestone in the fi...

COVID-19 vaccinations begin in the Chicago area.

Public health officials are trying to convince a wary portion of the public that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, amid phony as...

A federal judge plans to complete sentencing Tuesday afternoon for an Ohio man who falsely claimed to be a long-missing Illinois child.

A 22-year-old man charged with murder has escaped in Gary while being extradited from Texas.

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