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A Lake County business owner whose family runs a lucrative gambling parlor pleaded guilty Thursday to skirting nearly $2.5 million in federa...

In less than five minutes, a man brandishing a rifle hit a woman with it and tried to carjack another woman before aiming the rifle at respo...

Ferrai Pickett, the target of a racist letter in her Ukrainian Village employer's mailbox, has held an annual play date promoting diversity...

Illinois officials are calling for a fundamental shift in how the state pays nursing homes, a move they say will increase staffing and impro...

A Chicago man faces charges that he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend while in Hammond, according to an affidavit.

As beach season arrives, Lake Michigan water levels are easing up after last year’s near-record highs.

The shift doesn’t mean shoreline communities are in the clear. Many are still working to preserve what’s left of disappearing bluffs, repair...

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

A man who attempted suicide after he was gored by a bull can’t sue an insurance company for deciding to stop covering his medication, the st...

A new phase of census data releases started last month as the U.S. Census Bureau completed its process of counting the population of the cou...

A 16-year-old was one of two people who were killed in a shooting at a South Shore store Wednesday night, Chicago police said.

David Johnson, who served three terms as the first Black mayor of south suburban Harvey, has died at the age of 72, according to his family.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

The Tribune will be talking to the University of Chicago Medicine’s Dr. Allison Bartlett on Facebook Live May 26 to answer parents' question...

Lollapalooza returns to Chicago, the lineup is amazing and COVID-19 restrictions will be eased. But maybe social distancing is something we...

Minors who crossed U.S.-Mexico border brought to Chicago-area shelters, await asylum case decisions.

Two Republicans joined with 12 of the Democrats in Illinois’ 18-member congressional delegation Wednesday in voting for a bipartisan commiss...

Rank-and-file cops issue no confidence vote for Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown.

Witnesses intervened when a Chicago man allegedly attempted to sexually assault a Northwestern student in Evanston on Tuesday morning, polic...

Journalists of color long had accepted the crumbs handed to us, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Metra will restore Saturday service on seven lines to pre-pandemic levels beginning Memorial Day weekend.

More than a dozen Oswego and Aurora area residents spoke out during an Oswego Village Board meeting Tuesday night, many asking for justice t...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended her decision to grant interviews on her two-year anniversary in office only to journalists of col...

Events return and venues reopen as Chicago COVID-19 mask restrictions ease.

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to 12 years in prison in connection with the 2016 shooting death of a 19-year-old journalism student wh...