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The union didn’t elaborate but said members will resort to “escalating actions if necessary.”

PAWS Chicago volunteers picked up the animals, a mix of cats and dogs, in Springfield in the organization’s animal rescue van. The team also...

Southern Illinois hospitals say they’re filling their ICU beds, postponing surgeries and even turning away some patients.

Chicago now has real-time monitoring of the river, a result of years of collaboration, developing technology and calls from advocates for a...

While suburban school districts are being reimbursed for the meals served to students this school year - which at some districts, has alread...

The Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee County has a federal contract to house ICE detainees.

Challengers to new state legislative maps say they shortchange Illinois' growing Latino population

ComEd parent Exelon says it'll shut down a nuclear plant bgy Sept. 12 if lawmakers don't pass a bailout.

One of R. Kelly’s accusers testified that he kept a gun by his side while he berated her as a prelude to forcing her to give him oral sex in...

In Pullman, the history of railway innovation meets with the history of the labor struggle, the civil rights movement, immigration and urban...

Forecasters warn of "life-threatening" swimming conditions in Lake Michigan Thursday.

Chloe Mrozak, 24, was arrested Aug. 28 at the airport in Oahu and faces a misdemeanor charge of falsified vaccination documents.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Biden's nomination of Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan

A man and woman on a motorcycle were killed and another man was killed in an unrelated crash overnight, police said.

The Edens Expressway was closed for an hour and traffic backed up for miles as state police troopers investigated the 165th shooting on Cook...

Two Chicago police officers have been arrested for allegedly beating a teen boy they arrested earlier this year on the South Side, officials...

A local Afghanistan veteran refuses to give up as the last U.S. military flight took off from Kabul and his interpreter friend is left behin...

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Richard Villanueva, 57, of Waukegan, was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault and criminal sexual assault, both felonies, Tuesday...

Illinois lawmakers debate energy policy and state legislative maps during a one-day special session in Springfield.

More than two dozen Illinois schools are reporting COVID-19 outbreaks, just weeks after students returned to the classroom for in-person lea...

In the letter, Ella French’s mother thanked the city of Chicago and surrounding communities, Chicago police and “all the women and men in la...

Allen pleaded guilty in March to reckless homicide with a motor vehicle in a 2018 case. He was sentenced him to 30 months of probation.

A 27-year-old woman from Markham sustained non-life-threatening injuries in one shooting, and there were no injuries reported in the second.