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The health of the local restaurant scene will play a key role in determining the vibrancy of downtown as it emerges from the pandemic.

Cook County prosecutors on Friday reversed course and agreed that 44 convictions related to convicted ex-Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts sh...

The lack of an endorsement is good news for Giannoulias’ two major opponents, Chicago City Clerk Anna Valencia and Ald. David Moore.

Two Southern Illinois University-Carbondale graduate students and a Missouri woman died Thursday after their vehicles collided on a highway,...

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Cynthia Albritton, a.k.a. Cynthia Plaster Caster, the legendary artist and former Chicago mayoral candidate, has died after a long illness.

Neighborhood volunteers and professionals from the Chicago Regional Trees Initiative planted 20 trees at a ceremony earlier this month.

Credit agency said even with series of upgrades that Illinois’ credit remains lower than any other state in the nation.

In the GOP race for governor, Richard Uihlein's $2.5 million to Darren Bailey still trails Griffin's $20 million to Richard Irvin.

Plovers represent a conservation success story for a species once down to about a dozen nesting pairs, their efforts aided by restored habit...

The maternal grandmother of slain teen Laquan McDonald said she still wants federal charges to be pressed against his shooter, former Office...

A federal prosecutor on Thursday delivered an impassioned defense of the deferred prosecution deal with former Ald. Daniel Solis.

Sens. Steve Landek's and Tony Muñoz's decisions open the door for allies to become the next state senators for seats in Chicago and the west...

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3 charged in massive art fraud, sports memorabilia scheme involving phony Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig bats, doctored paintings

Tony Ragucci, a former cop and longtime mayor of Oakbrook Terrace, pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges.

Students at the University of Illinois at Chicago are only two weeks away from finishing classes this semester, yet many undergraduate cours...

The ruling restores the district’s ability to enforce the requirement while a lawsuit challenging the practice continues in a downstate cour...

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Acclaimed Chicago bakery Lost Larson paid a fired worker lost wages after the National Labor Relations Board found merit to her claim of ret...

Since Illinois legalized sales of marijuana in 2020, this was the first 420 with few COVID restrictions.

Map showing 30 stations — in Chicago and the suburbs — where drivers can receive up to $50 in gas for free on Saturday, April 23.

The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and tr...

Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez on Wednesday asked a federal judge to consider the “rampant and unchecked corruption” of his predecessor, Al...

In front of red light cameras at an Oak Brook Terrace intersection, Raul Montes Jr. and Frank Coconate, both longtime opponents of red light...