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Trees can soak up water dumped during intense storms, which already disproportionately affect communities on the South and West sides with b...

Karels is accused of three counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his children, Bryant, 5, Cassidy, 3, and Gideon, 2. Authorities s...

An EF-0 tornado touched down during Monday's supercell storm, and temperatures are expected to hit record highs Wednesday, the National Weat...

A Yorkville man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of an Aurora woman who went missing 19 years ago and whose remains we...

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Juneteenth, a state holiday since last year, marks the date on June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell enslave...

After recent traffic deaths, including two toddlers, Chicago advocates are calling for citywide infrastructure that would prioritize the saf...

The fifth annual We Walk for Her march pushed for urgency and more attention to Black women who have gone missing or been killed.

Craft cannabis growers hope a judge on Wednesday will reverse his order that shut down the entire industry, arguing that they were unfairly...

While the refund would be about $17 million more than previously proposed, utility watchdog says it still isn't enough.

A heat wave arrived in Chicago on June 14, 2022, following a supercell storm that moved through the area on Monday night. An excessive heat...

Gloria Allen, most widely known as Mama Gloria, a Chicago transgender icon and activist who was the subject of an award-winning documentary...

Schools interested in renewing with SHIELD or beginning a partnership should sign up by July 15 to guarantee testing on the first day of sch...

The Chicago Art Institute's lions were taken down for conservation, and the Brachiosaurus cast outside the Field Museum was disassembled due...

City and suburban authorities had mere hours overnight to transition from clean up after a line of powerful thunderstorms left thousands wit...

The Bucktown location is the fourth unionized Starbucks in Chicago.

The winner was chosen from among almost 300 design entries.

Naperville police released a graphic video Tuesday that shows a veteran Naperville police officer fatally shooting a 28-year-old Naperville...

A clerk for a South Side school has been indicted in an expanding federal fraud case involving an alleged scheme to falsify orders for suppl...

Caterpillar Inc. will move its global headquarters from Deerfield to an existing office in Irving, Texas, the company announced Tuesday

A child and two adults were missing after they were swept away in a drainage ditch in Milwaukee a day earlier following severe thunderstorms...

The lawyer for R. Kelly has asked a federal judge to sentence the onetime R&B superstar to a mandatory minimum 10-year prison term.

Dissecting the city's iconic red, white and blue configuration to explore how it came to be and why it's considered one of the best flags in...

Green, 26, said his range of life experiences makes him a strong candidate.