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Illinois Senate President Don Harmon has contracted a breakthrough case of the coronavirus after being vaccinated this spring

Grandmother of two girls, ages 7 and 6, who were shot in Chicago Sunday says her surviving granddaughter has a ruptured lung.

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Illinois Democrats doled out $2.8 million in federal coronavirus relief money on everything from flood relief to violence prevention program...

A vigil was held Aug. 14 for 15-year-old Melissa Rendon in the Oak Park alley where her body was found on Aug. 7.

A 7-year-old girl was killed and a 6-year-old girl seriously injured in a Sunday afternoon shooting on the Northwest Side in the Belmont Cen...

Thirty-three people — including nine teenagers — were shot in Chicago Saturday afternoon into early Sunday -- three of them fatally. Since F...

The Bud Billiken Parade first launched in 1929 and returned Aug. 14, 2021, with the theme of “Back to School, Back to Life and Back to Bud B...

The Bud Billiken Parade, a South Side tradition since 1929, made a comeback Saturday after taking a year off for the pandemic, but this time...

Two people were hospitalized after a vehicle struck them Saturday afternoon in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side, authorities sai...

The interactive project commemorates the 500-year anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlan — modern-day Mexico City — by showcasing more tha...

An 18-year-old man was shot dead in a drive-by late Friday afternoon in the Cragin neighborhood, and at least 10 others were injured in sepa...

A Chicago police officer was transported to the hospital after being dragged by a car Friday evening in Englewood.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs measure banning police from making some background checks on speakers at public meetings

Funeral services for Chicago police Officer Ella French will be held next week, officials announced Friday.

Illinois schools will no longer be allowed to ban braids, locks, twists or other hairstyles associated with race or ethnicity beginning next...

The parent of a suburban high school freshman who was suspended on the first day of school and sent home for not wearing a mask said Friday...

Storm clouds and rain are finally not on tap for the rest of Friday and the weekend for the first time since last weekend with Friday’s high...

The Illinois State Board of Education restored a suburban private school’s state recognition Friday, after school officials agreed to fully...

New Census data shows Chicago's population has grown over the past decade, which runs afoul of claims by Fox News hosts and former President...

Chicago native Andrew Spencer is “full in” on trying to find love.

Employees will be ineligible to work if they don't get fully vaccinated by Oct. 15.

The roving Community Safety Team has drawn criticism as its officers, often less-experienced, work city hotspots to tamp down violence

Vaccinated-only bars and restaurants in Chicago are meeting little pushback. "Vaccination status, we feel, is the best way to mitigate as mu...

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