Chicago Tribune

People caravan in what organizers called the 2nd Annual Black and Brown Unity Car Parade, which began Friday evening near the Martin Luther...

AIDS Garden Chicago's groundbreaking stirred recollections for Mary Schmich: "I suddenly saw a ghost. He was standing there at the edge of t...

As Chicago prepares for this year’s slated groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Center, the former president on Friday touted the upcomi...

Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.

A legion of yellow-vested doorknockers will be fanning across at least 13 Chicago neighborhoods this summer to promote the COVID-19 vaccine...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown announced Friday morning that the department will focus on community policing by expanding its civ...

Northeastern Illinois University has announced a new, one-time, scholarship for incoming fall undergraduate students to promote access to ed...

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who as a candidate vowed to veto any partisan redistricting plan for the legislature, signed into law Friday...

A freight train has hit a pedestrian near west suburban Riverside on Friday afternoon, causing delays to several Metra BNSF trains on Friday...

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

So far, three Republicans say they’re seeking to challenge Pritzker in next year's election.

A Portage man faces charges from a fatal crash that killed a Hammond woman in August.

An Ingleside man was reported in critical condition after he was struck by a car as he walked along Route 59 Thursday evening, according to...

NPR correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff's new book looks at cultures around the world and finds that parents and children benefit tremendously...

Two people are dead and three others were injured in shootings from 8 p.m. Thursday to Friday morning downtown and on the South, Southwest,...

An unidentified person died in a traffic crash Friday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood after a vehicle the person was in struck a...

A Minnesota man has been charged with first-degree murder in the 1972 stabbing death of Naperville 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson, linked to t...

A semi-truck carrying fireworks rolled over and caught fire on the Tri-State Tollway at Saint Charles Road in west suburban Berkeley early F...

How has COVID-19 affected college enrollment/,/ and what makes a student successful on the path to a degree? Two recently published reports...

A woman died and six people were displaced in a residential fire early Friday in Englewood.

A 15-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park late Thursday night, according to Chicago police...

The son of a veteran who hailed from the northwest suburbs worked with federal officials and a museum in Papua New Guinea to send the artifa...

CPS grads were more likely to transfer from a four-year to two-year school than the reverse.

A group of concerned citizens, who helped raise nearly $5,000 for a stone half ledger to be placed atop the grave of Eugene Williams in Linc...

Sensible tips for reentering society as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in Chicago and Illinois and post-pandemic life opens up.