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A Florida man got a 10-year sentence Wednesday for threatening a woman with a knife and trying to steal her car in the Oakbrook Center parki...

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly, with the Northern District of Illinois, will now preside over Snyder’s case, after U.S. District...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker notified the Federal Reserve on Wednesday that Illinois plans to borrow an additional $2 billion from a special lending p...

McHenry County’s top prosecutor announced Wednesday that his office will not enforce Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s order to ban indoor dining at rest...

A day before Thanksgiving, state and city officials painted a dire picture of what could happen if residents don’t skip the holiday’s tradit...

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

Chicago police are investigating after a statue of William McKinley — the nation's 25th president, for whom a city neighborhood also is name...

Three people have been charged with murder in the June killing of a 44-year-old man who one of the three was a caregiver for, according to C...

A Chicago police officer was found dead in his West Chesterfield home Tuesday, prompting his department to launch a death investigation to r...

An Austin neighborhood man is charged with shooting to death his neighbor in an attack early this month, according to police and court recor...

The renaming of the Vista Tower to The St. Regis Chicago is the latest reminder that the names of Chicago's skyline giants are anything but...

Court Commissioner J.C. Moore on Tuesday denied a defense request to allow the teen to be released to house arrest with GPS monitoring

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The information gleaned by contact tracers is feeding a growing database that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has cited as a guide in making decisions ab...

The Chicago Tribune is partnering with the University of Chicago to answer your questions about COVID-19 in our first Facebook Live event De...

Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Michelle Prickett are both doctors who work in the COVID ICU. They are also best friends. Their friendship has su...

A woman and her service dog were found dead in her living room after a fire that authorities say originated on her stove in a North Side hig...

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Federal agents seized items, including a Porsche and a Lamborghini, allegedly purchased with illegally obtained COVID-19 small business reli...

A man arrested in DeKalb this week was ordered held without bail Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of fatally shooting a man in the back...

The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs is launching an independent investigation of a coronavirus virus outbreak that has torn through...

Chicago aldermen on Tuesday narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $12.8 billion “pandemic budget” for 2021, a package that will fund city...

On the night Chicago police responded to a domestic incident at the home of former Superintendent Eddie Johnson last month, his wife told of...

A rooftop fire at the IKEA store in Schaumburg Tuesday afternoon that damaged more than 20 solar energy panels was likely sparked by a fault...

A 57-year-old Black man, laid off during pandemic, determined that the one thing he wanted to do before he died was to learn to read .