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If parents can't find suitable child care and then can't work, "the impact on the economy is writ large.”

Juneteenth does not represent the end of slavery in America, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Dumps of water-soaked coal ash scattered around the state are chock-full of arsenic, boron, chromium, lead and other heavy metals. Nearly al...

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People joined the second annual Drag March for change on June 13, 2021. The event was led by drag performers of color and built on last year...

The second annual Drag March for Change, led by drag performers of color, built on last year’s demands for more gigs, inclusion and respect...

Film and TV actor Ned Beatty, who was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in "Network" and appeared in a number of the most signi...

Before her death Saturday, Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity was perhaps the world’s most unlikely nun. As the world emerges out of quaranti...

Nine people were shot overnight in Chicago and a dog also was struck by gunfire, according to Chicago police.

No one was injured during a house fire Wednesday in St. Charles.

The FBI is heading the investigation along with Hobart and Lake County police.

A 14-year-old boy’s neck was grazed by a bullet as he was standing on a sidewalk on the South Side Saturday evening, according to Chicago po...

CPD sergeant struck in hit and run on South Side, police said.

A top Chicago police official was demoted this week, according to department sources, the latest high-ranking cop to lose his command spot u...

At least 10 people were wounded in a shooting in the Chatham neighborhood early Saturday morning, are among two dead and 18 injured in shoot...

Across Chicagoland, business owners and patrons tried to wrap their heads around what it means to have the COVID-19 reins taken off.

Two separate special prosecutors appointed to investigate the same state’s attorney’s office might well be unprecedented, legal observers sa...

Life Is Work Resource Center & Solidarity resale shop is the first black & brown trans-led social services organization in the Midwest.

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An appellate court has ordered that a mother found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing her 4-year-old daughter in Bloomingdale m...

A Chicago police officer was arrested Friday on federal charges of breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and entering a Democratic senator’s...

A security guard at First Midwest Bank was shot and killed Friday afternoon in what police are investigating as a possible ambush during a r...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois legislators continue to negotiate an energy deal ahead of threatened shutdowns of nuclear plants by the pare...

As the superintendent of Hillside District 93, Kevin Suchinski feels the weight of keeping his students and teachers safe during the pandemi...

Naperville couple Aaron and Tonya Rhoden are about to undergo a surgery in which she will give him her kidney.