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Two women, ages 21 and 22, had been riding the train when two young men approached them and one took out a knife.

Kevin and Irina McCarthy left behind a 2-year-old son who was with them when they were killed.

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Highland Park is "going to get all the resources that’s needed," Ald. Jeanette Taylor said. "And we’re just left to, ‘Oh, that’s the norm. ....

On June 1, Paul Vallas, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, announced he would be running for mayor for a second time. Since launching...

An off-duty sergeant died Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Police say there is no ongoing threat.

The covered bridge in Long Grove again was struck by an oversized vehicle Saturday morning. Officials say it's the 35th such incident in the...

A child was among five people hospitalized after an early Sunday morning rollover crash.

An unknown person shot and injured a boy, 17, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Saturday night, Chicago police said.

Port Milwaukee has positioned itself as a top destination for cruise ships, and other Great Lakes cities are looking to do the same by incre...

The inflationary property tax increase could nearly quadruple in 2023 to $85.5 million, a Tribune analysis shows.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas also gets a boost from a few wealthy contributors.

Second Chicago police officer has died by suicide in as many days, police say

A man and a woman were both pronounced dead after an early morning head-on crash on the Far South Side in the Morgan Park neighborhood, Chic...

A 14-year-old boy was grazed by gunfire Friday night on the South Side in the Woodlawn neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Chicago police opened a death investigation after a CTA employee was found lying unresponsive on the tracks early Saturday morning in the Lo...

Nearly two weeks since the mass shooting in Highland Park left seven people dead, a close community shattered and lives changed forever, har...

“There’s no new evidence to open the case back up,” Michelle Williams, chief of staff for Attorney General Lynn Fitch, told The Associated P...

Danny Golden, 31, has been getting an outpouring of love and well wishes from family, friends and a number of notable figures this week, whi...

Four Cook County employees committed “financial fraud directed at the federal government” by wrongly collecting roughly $120,000 in payroll...

Maximum fine for ethics violations would rise from $5,000 to $20,000 and ex-aldermen would be banned from lobbying the City Council.

John R. Froines, a quiet but politically stalwart chemist who stood trial alongside six other anti-war activists — known collectively as the...

Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park,...

The surprise move comes shortly after Mayor Lightfoot appointed Scott's sister to replace him on the City Council.