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A four-year-old boy drowned Monday evening in an unincorporated area near Northbrook, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.

Patients said the problem has been occurring since last week and kept some of them from buying their medicine.

A 14-year-old boy was one of three people struck by gunfire in an East Garfield Park shooting, authorities said.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday that the Delta variant already is a “growing presence in Illinois,” and officials expect it to be the dominat...

The two outbreaks occurred in Schuyler and Adams counties.

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73-year-old white woman from Chicago completes a 40-day hunger strike for slavery reparations. Rachelle Zola said she's moving on to build r...

The county coroner’s office identified the dead man as Ivory Biggs, 35. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that Biggs died from drowning,...

Chicago Heights police investigate shooting death of 36-year-old city resident

Harvey police have not provided information regarding two homicides that occurred early Wednesday

She was a jazz singer, an actress, a poet and a writer. Her passions were anything creative and fun, her family said.

A Calumet City man was charged with murder Monday in connection with the shooting death of a 30-year-old woman over the weekend, according t...

The National Weather Service confirmed touchdowns of one tornado Friday and three on Saturday in northern Illinois, as thunderstorms and wav...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she's forging ahead with plans to spend $40 million the development of DuSable Park and to provide additional prog...

Chicago police leaders have stripped the officer who fatally shot Anthony Alvarez of his badge and police powers two months after the shooti...

An explosion and massive fire at a chemical plant in northern Illinois that filled the sky with black smoke and forced the evacuation of hun...

Private day care centers say they have been "strangled" by Chicago's universal pre-K rollout in Chicago Public Schools.

Eleven people were shot, one fatally, late Sunday in the second of two mass shootings in Chicago in the span of about two hours, police said...

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Five people were shot, one of them fatally, Sunday night in the South Shore neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

A 23-year-old woman was killed and five men were injured in a shooting in South Shore, about two hours before 11 people were shot in another...

Eleven people were shot, one fatally, late Sunday in the second of two mass shootings in Chicago in the span of about two hours, police said...

A bill awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature would require all college campuses to “designate an undocumented student resource liaison” by...

Until last week, the Chicago area had been experiencing drier weather than usual, which can be a risk factor for increased presence of West...

A group was standing outside shortly before 8:45 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street when someone in a black SUV drove by and fired s...