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Some of downtown’s busiest streets will become concert halls, restaurants and shops this summer as the city tries to recapture the energy it...

A 16-year-old New Trier High School sophomore died early Wednesday morning after she fell on the CTA purple line tracks in Evanston.

More than a year after severe restrictions due to COVID-19, Illinois and Chicago are scheduled to fully reopen on Friday, marking an emotion...

A Waukegan man was shot in the head during a Wednesday encounter with another man, but is expected to survive, city police said.

Lawmakers recently approved a resolution for a task force to study alternate uses for the proposed extension of Illinois Route 53 in the nor...

A group of Jewish House Democrats accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of likening the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban and giving “cover to terr...

A special prosecutor will be appointed to investigate the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office's conduct in the Jackie Wilson case, a trial...

A woman was arrested this week downtown carrying what police have termed a “ghost gun,” one of the most recent appearances of such weapons t...

A 34-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and is facing a charge of child sexual abuse after a WGN-TV news crew reporting on an abuse attack...

A man died Wednesday night after falling into Lake Michigan off Jackson Park and being submerged for more than 20 minutes, officials said.

A 37-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and weapons charges after he hit a CTA bus with gunfire in the West Pullman neighbo...

A West Town man has been charged with reckless homicide in the death of a 1-year-old girl following a hit-and-run traffic crash involving se...

A woman and her husband in their 90s were killed when their vehicle was struck by a semi-truck, police said.

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Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

More than two years after Aurora mass shooting exposed flaws in state gun laws, Illinois Democrats have yet to act despite having total cont...

With the state nearing the end of the bridge phase, readers offer their to-dos for this season and next.

A collision on the Dan Ryan Expressway triggered by road rage led to a shooting and a hit-and-run that left a 5-year-old boy hospitalized We...

Good Samaritans helped the man out of the water and he wasn’t injured in the attack.

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The Lake County coroner’s office has identified the victim as LaDarius Cowart, 18.

Two weeks after Chicago police released its first draft of a foot pursuit policy, activists and attorneys with the Consent Decree Coalition...

Where should you put your mask when dining out at a restaurant?

Illinois’ Republican legislative leaders filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn redistricting maps drawn by Democrats, conten...

A memorial billboard for a Chicago police officer killed in a 2018 attack at a South Side hospital was vandalized Wednesday morning, police...