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Young people in Chicago and elsewhere were poised to become eligible for the Pfizer vaccine after the Food and Drug Administration this week...

One man has died and another man in his 80s was in critical condition after a fire started in an East Chatham apartment building on Wednesda...

A young woman’s experience while being held on immigration charges at McHenry County jail is helping spur efforts to end the practice of kee...

A man who allegedly opened fire with an AK-47 in the killing of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at a West Side McDonald’s drive-thru last month is b...

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complimented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group The Staple Singers, has died, a spoke...

Mike Polisky stepped down Wednesday from his newly appointed role as Northwestern athletic director as criticism continued to mount against...

A Dundee man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for blindfolding and binding a Spring Hill Mall security guard in order to steal mobile pho...

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Interim Treasury Department rules released earlier this week on how the various funds from the latest round of federal relief can be spent r...

It's vaccination, not testing, that will be the game-changer for schools, one expert said.

Four Cook County Sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital after being struck in the head and face by a man due in bond court at the Sko...

Illinois residents who received unemployment benefits in 2020 and filed their income taxes before March 15 can expect refunds from the Illin...

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon leaving a funeral in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago polic...

Illinois launches a $6 million summer tourism campaign as it sets to fully reopen from coronavirus shutdown restrictions

Rabbits — which “breed like rabbits” — can start having babies in just a few months and DuPage County's animal control agency has been swamp...

The family of two brothers and their nephew who died in an explosion along a bank of the Illinois River next to Starved Rock State Park on M...

Northwestern University announced Wednesday that students will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine next academic year.

Judy Mahoney had to take a job at Byrne Elementary because her old school wasn't wheelchair accessible. Now Byrne is eliminating her positio...

U.S. Attorney John Lausch was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering what’s often referred to as a mini-stroke, according to his spok...

More than 140 people connected to Northwestern signed a letter addressed to the university board of trustees in support of new athletic dire...

South Side Ald. David Moore was admonished by the city Board of Ethics for using the official government 17th Ward Facebook account to campa...

Liz Cheney's ouster at the hands of cowardly Republicans who choose Donald Trump over America is an inflection point. Our democracy is in pe...

The former head of a North Shore charity for children with disabilities pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to stealing more than $800...

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

An Elmhurst University student who had ripped off a drug dealer made a false report of a man with a gun on campus, cops say.