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Here's another variation on the fraud entangling the Illinois Department of Employment Security: account hijacking, in which people's jobles...

So far, there has been no public talk of relocating one of the world’s largest music festivals from its iconic downtown Chicago location.

Flint, who built a Midwestern drag dynasty from a tiny gay bar in River North, is the owner of the 52-year-old Baton Show Lounge — home of t...

The case positivity rate has skyrocketed this month, from 0.9% to 4%.

Voters will select a full Board of Education for the first time in 2026.

The state of Illinois Thursday published the list of winners of 55 new marijuana retail store licenses – though a judge has ordered that the...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has spent more than $2.5 million in crisis management following a massive ransomware hack that cripple...

We’ll be at Lollapalooza all weekend long. Follow along for day 1 updates from our team at the festival.

The college student told police he awoke to find a person he thought was an intruder standing near his bed, so he grabbed a signed sports me...

At least four chains of Chicago community health centers, which collectively serve about 80,000 low-income patients, will require their work...

Mayor Lightfoot said she's more optimistic that other measures, like hospitalizations, are not surging.

Severe thunderstorms overnight left 40,000 people without power as winds as strong as 75 mph downed tree limbs and powerlines.

With Illinois adopting the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention masking recommendations — including universal indoor masking at...

Crowds of a few dozen young concertgoers congregated at the Lollapalooza entrances well before 11 a.m. Few masks were seen.

A 16-year-old boy who was shot in the shoulder and believed to be a victim, later was arrested on suspicion of shooting a 42-year-old man, p...

Anthony Lorenzi, 34, is expected to appear in court Thursday after he was extradited from California on a warrant and arrested Tuesday on su...

Dion Dawson’s charity, Dion's Chicago Dream, works to combat food insecurity in his Englewood neighborhood.

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A woman was arrested after stabbing a CTA worker in the neck with a knife, police said.

If COVID-19 relief is used to create CPS jobs, what happens when the aid dries up?

Data being compiled by the University of Chicago Crime Lab and shared with the Tribune suggests that the perception that violence in Chicago...

As clean energy bill talks stall, both Exelon and some lawmakers claim they're trying to protect jobs at the plants.

Two historians on Wednesday provided their perspectives to an Illinois legislative committee tasked with making a recommendation on the fate...

Lily Hicks was taken to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, where she died, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The number of applicants qualified for the upcoming lottery for new marijuana store licenses in Illinois jumped to 626 as a result of a resc...