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A man riding a scooter died after colliding with a truck in the South Austin neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

Illinois' roads, bridges and water systems not in great shape, but infusions of state and federal funding provide reason for optimism.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration suspended Evergreen Park Pharmacy’s ability to dispense certain medications after it allegedly gave...

El Milagro was fined $11,200 for meal break violations, but the Illinois Department of Labor says the company has not paid that fine.

Metra is preparing to replace nearly a dozen rail bridges, marking the next phase of a project that began more than a decade ago.

Charges are pending Thursday for person who is in police custody after a fatal shooting outside the Brickyard Mall that left a 47-year-old w...

A high school student was dead on the scene when an Amtrak train hit him Thursday morning in the Logan Square neighborhood, authorities said...

After nearly four years, Chicago finally has a new permanent U.S. marshal.

Officials are looking to choose a site for Chicago's first casino by early summer. Here's what to know about the proposals.

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley said he will not run for Chicago mayor because his candidacy would interfere with his focus on “stopping Putin’s geno...

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Construction began in 2007 on a house on Donwood Drive near Naperville with five bedrooms, a two-story dining room, a rotunda and an elevato...

Illinois law bans schools from fining students. But an investigation has found police do it for them, issuing costly tickets that burden fam...

How reporters from the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica reported on ticketing of students in Illinois schools.

240 bills have been introduced around the country this year, including two in Illinois.

ComEd customers will begin receiving a carbon credit for about $20 per month beginning in June, an unexpected dividend from the state's bail...

Settlements totaling $800,000 were made in claims brought against the late Clements — a prominent civil right advocate — and four other cler...

A dozen CPS buildings have already done away with school police officers.

The Chicago Park District is asking to shield from the public records in the lawsuit alleging Mayor Lori Lightfoot berated attorney for the...

Lombard man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday after police caught him headed toward the village’s municipal campus with a M...

Phillip Hanks, a Joliet father of six, received a multivisceral transplant — a simultaneous transplant of multiple organs — at Indiana Unive...

Judge Salvador Vasquez agreed that the state’s argument for the maximum sentence was valid but ultimately decided it wasn’t appropriate. He...

An armadillo walks atop a log as captured on Jim Martin's trail camera on Aug. 6, 2021 near Murphysboro.

Dion Dawson’s early life may have been filled with poverty, hardship and bouts with homelessness, but his last two years have been nothing s...

Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its massive $1 billion data center under construction in DeKalb to nea...