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A newborn baby was found in the drawer of a seemingly discarded dresser in a West Side alley Tuesday morning, officials said.

There were at least six confirmed tornado touchdowns during a three-hour period Monday night, forecasters said. The number could double to a...

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The shooting death of Chicago police officer Ella French shows how badly the city needs to trace the roots of violence and find answers that...

A combination of feeling unappreciated, being underpaid and being unnerved by COVID-19 has resulted in fewer officials being available for p...

Man found dead in a laundromat.

A tornado warning was issued for DeKalb County after a tornado was confirmed near Kirkland, 11 miles northwest of the city of DeKalb, about...

In Illinois, the average daily temperature has increased throughout most of the state in the last century by 1 to 2 degrees.

The man told them he didn’t have explosives and only made the comment to keep the deputies from entering his apartment, the sheriff’s office...

A 36-year-old California man has been charged with murder after a punch during an argument on July 27 in Oakbrook Terrace resulted in the de...

Two brothers are facing felony charges after a traffic stop Saturday night in West Englewood ended in tragedy, with Chicago police Officer E...

A pastor at Willow Creek Community Churchcq has tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a large conference at the church, officials sai...

At a news conference Monday, relatives of Abil Rosiles Jr. renewed their calls for the arrests of the Round Lake Beach police officers invol...

The mayor’s office said it's “time for us to come together" to fight a "common enemy."

The gun used to kill Chicago police Officer Ella French during a traffic stop Saturday was bought in a sham purchase by an Indiana man, fede...

Minor flooding hit low-lying areas of the far northwest suburbs Monday but storms were expected to clear out, leaving a hot and humid work w...

At least 78 people were shot this weekend in Chicago, 11 of them fatally.

The story of how the White Sox and Yankees came to play at the still-popular tourist attraction might be worthy of a movie all its own.

Lurie Children’s Hospital joins a growing list of employers in the Chicago region giving employees a deadline to get vaccinated.

The CTA Red Line was running again normally Monday morning on the Near South Side after a train stalled at Roosevelt station caused a servic...

Janet Kroll, 77, of Mount Prospect, was among six people who were killed in a sightseeing plane crash in southeast Alaska.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

The conception of the Chicago River as something unnatural or unclean is something that nonprofit Urban Rivers hopes to challenge with a pro...

The violence beginning Saturday night also included two separate mass shootings in separate Gresham nightclubs, and an apparent murder-suici...

After two weeks of competition between athletes from all over the world, the closing ceremony officially ended the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 8,...