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A report has raised questions about how senior exemptions were calculated by the assessor.

Forecasters said Chicago area residents can expect at least one storm system to move through the area, beginning as early as 6 p.m. Another...

Stopping the next real threat remains a major worry, experts said, as hotels are not equipped to thwart attempts to bring weapons in and law...

Illinois legislative inspector general resigns, saying lawmakers haven't shown an appetite for true reform and calling her post a 'paper tig...

At least five people were shot Wednesday afternoon in Gresham, about 12 hours after another shooting that left five people wounded in West G...

Service to some Midwest cities was cut in half during COVID-19

An off-duty Chicago police officer was found dead Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide on the Southwest Side, officials said.

A former Chicago Public Schools elementary school principal has been arrested on federal charges alleging a scheme to have employees file fo...

David Loveday, a longtime GOP strategist, dies at 65.

Olympics fans can request to book a stay at Scottie Pippen's Highland Park home to watch the Tokyo Games. Airbnb bookings for his home open...

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett is expected back in Cook County court in person Wednesday for the first time in more than a year, but...

A man filling up his car at a Wisconsin gas station was shot and killed by another man Tuesday, with the suspect fleeing the scene and dying...

Five people were shot early Wednesday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

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A lawsuit was filed against a property management company on behalf of six people who were injured when a West Side apartment's porch collap...

Camp Lakota, in Woodstock, is set to become protected land, after the McHenry County Conservation Foundation purchased the camp’s 160 acres...

Here are five things to know about 16-inch softball, a Chicago classic.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is one of three governors and five mayors who will join President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday for a biparti...

A 2-year-old boy and a man were critically injured in a shooting in West Humboldt Park on Tuesday evening, according to police.

Cook County sheriff's police investigating death rule homicide in forest preserve near Tinley Park

The McHenry County Conservation Foundation — with the help of the Illinois Audubon Society, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation and i...

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Mark Kelly, Chicago’s widely admired leader of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), announces he will retir...

Superintendent David Brown used Londre Sylvester, a local rapper who recently was ambushed and gunned down, as his latest example for why he...

University of Chicago Medicine is requiring its workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, making it at least the second Chicago-area hospital system...