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

1 dead, at least 6 injured, including a 12-year-old boy in city shootings since Friday morning, police say.

Illinois Democrats stage partisan tour de force in first legislative session after the ouster of powerful Speaker Michael Madigan.

Summer is our liberation, a liberation that has never felt as acute as it does this year, says columnist Mary Schmich, who offers her resolu...

A 24-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting a partially paralyzed man and his dog in January on the South Side.

A college admissions consultant claims schools are "putting their students at a major disadvantage" without letter grades on transcripts.

Illinois stands ready to create 110 new recreational marijuana stores this year after the state Senate voted 50-3 Friday to approve a measur...

Just shy of two months after the controversial fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a police officer in a Little Village alley, the...

A pedestrian has died after a BMW hit her and its driver tried to flee the scene in the Loop on Friday evening, according to Chicago police.

The turnaround approach "is a relic," one Board of Education member said.

A former Joliet diocesan teacher was indicted on five counts Thursday after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly traveling to me...

The Chicago Park District is returning to the roots of many of its youth programs this spring and summer by sponsoring a track and field com...

A plan before the Cook County Board would change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. But Commissioner Stanley Moore, who said he's a des...

A look at the Civil War general from Downstate who gave us, in a sense, an enduring national holiday, a bustling Chicago neighborhood and mo...

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

CVS is giving away a trip to Bermuda as well as other prizes. The City of Chicago is teaming up with barbershops and hair salons and offerin...

Tim Mapes, the longtime chief of staff for former House Speaker Michael Madigan, was indicted on charges of lying to a federal grand jury in...

John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus this week, according to his famil...

A Far South Side man was ordered held without bail after prosecutors said he admitted pouring gasoline on his wife and lighting her on fire...

Illinois legislators don't expect to have congressional maps ready before the end of the session and possibly until fall, and are considerin...

Rain is forecast to continue through Saturday, giving the Memorial Day weekend a stormy start. The storms kicked up dangerous waves along th...

In Illinois and the Midwest, there are numerous neighborhoods bordering properties producing air, water or soil pollution.

A jury reached a verdict Friday afternoon in the murder trial of a farm laborer charged with killing a University Iowa student in 2018.

Timothy Mapes, the longtime chief of staff to former House Speaker Michael Madigan, pleaded not guilty Friday to lying to a grand jury in th...

Waves of up to 11 feet along Chicago's lakefront will close Chicago beaches to swimming the first day they're supposed to be open since 2019...