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Lakeview mom Carmen Cruz asked Facebook if someone could play catch with her 13-year-old son and Ashvin Lad answered the call. A friendship...

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On the stand, Weaver claimed she did not remember Silva discussing details of what happened and couldn’t independently recall what she earli...

The Illinois House on Wednesday approved a comprehensive gun safety measure

In a rebuke to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois House sends a bill calling for an elected Chicago school board to Gov. J.B. Pritz,er

Authorities said Johnson is the man who approached a 16-year-old girl at about 7:30 p.m. on June 7 as she walked along the path, just north...

A federal lawsuit seeks fair compensation and justice for the family of a man who died after being beaten by guards at a Downstate prison.

Acting United States Attorney Tina Nommay, issued a motion to dismiss Shelton’s indictment based on the appeals court decision.

The campaign plans to run about 2.5 million digital ads including targeted mobile ads and almost 1 million ads on Facebook and Instagram.

The billionaire has specifically designated colleges and universities with diverse student bodies to receive her money, and to spend it how...

Suburban school district officials demand that Illinois educational officials reveal COVID-19 guidelines for fall.

A Chicago woman who in 2019 was forced to stand handcuffed and unclothed in her home after police officers raided the wrong residence harshl...

Chicago police believe two people entered an Englewood home early Monday and shot eight people — four fatally and seven in the head, accordi...

Part of the issue is that the pandemic affected visas, and many camp counselors in the past have come from abroad.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs into law a bill making Juneteenth and official state holiday in Illinois

Billows of smoke stemming from a deck fire in a Near North building caught the attention of many Chicagoans but left no one injured.

A state lawmaker is asking the Illinois Department of Corrections to let her meet with women in the Logan Correctional Center after a hunger...

A Chicago woman arrested just hours after the killing of a 43-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood Monday has been charged with murder...

Highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s were expected on Wednesday in the Chicago area before warmer weather Thursday and a chance of thunderst...

The proposal is among a dozen bipartisan policing bills up for Assembly approval that have broad support among the law enforcement community...

Illinoisans' world has opened up without COVID-19 restrictions, but mask shaming is still real. Experts discuss the moral questions surround...

First, camp directors worried about campers feeling comfortable enough to return. Now, they’re struggling to get enough counselors. The YMCA...

Five people were shot late Tuesday near Garfield Park, Chicago police said, making it the second mass shooting in the city in a day.

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The Biden administration said it is approving 18,000 loan forgiveness claims from former students of ITT Technical Institute, a chain that c...