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The curriculum goes far beyond explaining the importance of Juneteenth, starting with Ancient Africa. “We’re going to go deep," said one off...

With Illinois reopened, some suburban Chicago parents want mask mandates in schools to be lifted.

Southwest suburban state Sen. Michael Hastings drops his bid for the Democratic nomination for Illinois Secretary of State

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At an emotional hearing, Steven Todd was sentenced to 12 years in a woman’s fatal 2019 shooting outside Coach’s Corner bar in Hammond.

Chicago’s slow walk toward civilian oversight of the Police Department stalled Friday in an extraordinary City Council committee meeting tha...

A Florida man’s case was kicked up to federal court Thursday in the June 11 fatal shooting of a Gary bank security guard and a second suspec...

The completion of a runway in the northern part of O'Hare International Airport hasn't brought much of the anticipated relief to residents w...

A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a chemical plant near Rockford this week used foam containing toxic compounds that hav...

Chicago may stay dry this hot Friday but a few storms could "pack a punch."

Chicago's Air and Water Show will be replaced this year with with an event only featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.

A man who had been standing with his girlfriend on a Gold Coast sidewalk late Thursday was shot and critically wounded in an attempted carja...

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Frances Hall was born, in the 1920s, in tiny York, South Carolina. Like columnist Mary Schmich's father, her father had wanted a boy. “Since...

I'm leaving the Chicago Tribune after a career that's been a privilege and an honor. If you've read me, thank you. If you're written to me,...

The Chicago Bears should leave Soldier Field and move to Arlington Heights. But the horse track and draft some horses!

A Maywood man was charged with first-degree murder in a fatal 2020 shooting on the Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois State Police said.

After arguing for nearly a decade that Michael LaPorta shot himself in a botched suicide attempt, the city’s Law Department now says Kelly p...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs elections package into law, as well as measures to implement $42 billion budget.

Only four Illinois coal plants will remain without announced closure dates after the NRG plants are shut down for good, a dramatic change in...

Families of Englewood mass shooting victims hold vigils to remember their loved ones.

The USO Great Lakes Center on Naval Station Great Lakes underwent a $2.9 million renovation to transform the facility into a bright, open, m...

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Chicago police are looking for a woman they say randomly attacked three strangers, stabbing them "for no apparent reason."