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The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake last summer was suspended for three days this year because his service weapon was stolen jus...

Chicago police are conducting a death investigation after a body was found in water at Douglass Park Saturday afternoon.

A 57-year-old man was taken into custody after Chicago police say he hit and injured a female with his vehicle in the Logan Square neighborh...

As police were searching for a former teacher at a Joliet diocesan school who was charged with traveling to meet a child and grooming, the 4...

A 28-year-old Plano woman who was charged with aggravated battery to a child under 13 in connection with dropping her 5-year-old daughter of...

Family of Anthony Alvarez marched through Portage Park Saturday to demand charges in fatal Chicago police shooting: ‘He didn’t deserve to ge...

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

Eight people were wounded in city shootings since 4 p.m. Friday, Chicago police said.

A 35-year-old man was pronounced dead after he was stabbed in the neck and chest in the Little Village neighborhood, police said.

In-person graduations are also expected to be more common than last year.

Despite divisions in Chicago’s Latino community over Adam Toledo’s death, a desire for a more empathetic and culturally aware police force b...

Arlington International Racecourse opens for what’s expected to be its final season.

Arlington Park opened what may be its last season Friday, after owner Churchill Downs said it was shutting down the iconic horse racing trac...

In the city of Chicago, buckthorn is the second-most populous tree. It squeezes out native plants, and its foliage creates dense shade in wh...

La Grange Park police arrested two men, a 28-year-old from Tinley Park and a 19-year-old from Oak Lawn, after shots were fired at the Parkho...

People who care about trees are fighting to save them as Morton Aboretum census shows their benefits: natural cooling on hot days, carbon an...

Two people were found dead Friday afternoon inside in apartment in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said.

Illinois’ seven-day average for COVID-19 vaccinations fell to 92,747 Thursday, the lowest level since the week ending March 22, as Gov. J.B....

Speaking after a report sharply criticized the Illinois VA's handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at a home for veterans, Gov. J.B. Pritzker admi...

One of two shooters who opened fire at a car in a McDonald’s drive-thru, killing 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams and wounding her father on the West...

A Chicago Police Department document being circulated among police leaders and obtained by the Tribune contains ideas for new rules for foot...

A 75-year-old Flossmoor man who was vaccinated for COVID-19 later contracted the virus and died in late March, with an underlying health iss...

“We are doing everything we can think of' to encourage student vaccines, a CPS official said.

The Niles mayor says he believes the police chief should be put on leave while the village investigates allegations police failed to follow...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos announced she would not seek reelection after serving since 2013 in a northwest and west central Illinois...