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Many younger CPS students will get their first glimpse of a classroom Monday.

The democratic socialist Vermont senator visited deep-red Indiana to pitch the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion budget plan filled with new...

Personal items owned by Al Capone are included in a hybrid auction that's currently accepting bids online and with the gavel dropping during...

Diane Patricia Capone, a granddaughter of Al Capone, talks about her upbringing and why her family decided now is a good time to sell items...

A mass resignation of bus drivers leaves Chicago Public Schools scrambling to transport kids to Monday's first day of school.

Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant on both “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and hourlong drama “Lou Grant” is dead at age 91.

Hurricane Ida makes landfall on Louisiana coast with winds up to 150 mph, on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Gulf states.

Three people were injured, two critically, in a hit-and-run in the Lakeview neighborhood around 12:50 a.m. Sunday, Chicago police said.

Dental records were used to identify a 19-year-old pregnant woman who was found dead in Lake Michigan earlier this month, the Lake County Sh...

On Aug. 26, the Supreme Court allowed evictions under a federal moratorium to resume, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing the l...

A 27-year-old man was shot dead while driving around midnight Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood, and at least 16 other people were inju...

Illinois State Police hope high-resolution cameras along area roadways will deter and detect the growing number of expressway shootings.

The High school football season kicks off at Gately Stadium on Chicago's South Side.

While high school sports are still operating under the shadow of COVID-19, some major changes are evident as the school year begins. Spectat...

Around 6:53 p.m., a witness told officers that a 36-year-old man had jumped from Montrose Harbor Drive into the water, according to Chicago...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Aug. 21 with COVID-19, has moved to a rehabilitation center as...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker points to pandemic science in imposing controversial mask and vaccine mandates, but the political calculus also...

The family of Miguel Vega, who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in Pilsen last year, have filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit...

Critics have said the bill's reforms don't go far enough.

A teen has been charged with murder in the mid-August killing of a 70-year-old woman who was on her way to work, according to Chicago police...

The average number of new COVID-19 infections continues to climb in Illinois, albeit rising less sharply in recent days, as the state prepar...

A letter from a horse: Please stop taking ivermectin to treat COVID-19. That’s our medicine, you ninnies.

A red car crashed into the Gold Coast’s Dior store Friday, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Three feet of social distancing "‘where possible’ is unacceptable,” the CTU president said.