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A federal judge in New York on Friday granted a two-week delay in sentencing for R. Kelly.

Opponents worry about crime and traffic and are skeptical of the casino's touted economic benefits.

The mayor of Riverdale is under federal investigation for allegedly receiving secret payments from a garbage and recycling firm.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Superintendent David Brown will hold a press conference Friday afternoon after a mass Near North Side shooti...

U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was an Englewood native who is considered the first African American astronaut. Lawrence was p...

A tornado reportedly touched down in southeastern Illinois, knocking down trees and damaging a high school in Mount Carmel.

Despite a somewhat sunnier outlook, aldermen were frustrated with CPS officials, at times cutting them off and criticizing answers as inadeq...

Police Superintendent David Brown will address the media Friday morning after a shooting that left two people dead and eight wounded blocks...

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Washington’s budget battles have thwarted a plan for tuition-free community college, but locally, schools like Harper College are offering s...

The mayor has made “very real strides" in some areas of ethics reform but has "backpedaled on others," one observer said.

Five gunshot victims and a burn victims were taken to area hospitals, the fire department said.

Democratic candidates for Illinois secretary of state question each other's ethics and lay out plans to modernize the office in a meeting wi...

Wilson’s charitable giving raises thorny issues about a candidate providing handouts to potential voters.

With her son’s death in the heart of Chicago still roiling the city, Seandell Holliday’s mother said she didn’t give the 16-year-old permiss...

Lakeview Pantry is changing its name to Nourishing Hope and opening a new headquarters it says will help it better serve Chicagoans on the S...

A trade organization that represents gas station owners alleges in a lawsuit that a requirement that businesses display signs advertising a...

A balloon release is held in memory of 16-year-old Seandell Holliday at Gary Comer College Prep on May 19, 2022. Holliday was shot and kille...

During Reinking’s bench trial, Tazewell County prosecutors argued that the rural Morton, Illinois, man knew his son, Travis Reinking, had un...

Milwaukee Avenue has the highest bike traffic in Chicago, yet only 13% of it has protected bike lanes.

Candace Behrens called out The Fox Club, a vintage store in Chicago, for selling her a fake Coach purse. The TikTok video of Behrens retunin...

Evidence showed Taylor was in police custody when the murders happened.

Promontory Point, along South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, is a man-made peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan. It's located in Chicago's Burnha...

On Thursday, WGN-AM 720 celebrates its 100th anniversary, still going strong as the “Voice of Chicago” after a century of broadcasting that...

VP of Naperville nonprofit to help kids’ mental health charged with child pornography