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According to the charging documents, a parent contacted the school resource officer on April 16. The parent was at the high school on April...

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Illinois’ representation in the U.S. House will drop from 18 members to 17 next year, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Monday in releasing...

1982 Greylord-era murder case tainted by judge is re-docketed in Cook County.

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

Evanston, Chicago and other suburbs have taken steps in recent years to upgrade sewer systems in an effort to reduce flooding. But those sam...

DNA from a bloody knife linked a young man with a prior robbery conviction to a brutal February attack on a Chicago police detective working...

With limited attendance and less than two months of school left, CPS determined the officers "were not necessary at this time."

A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot Monday morning in the Little Village neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Chicago weather this week will bring a veritable buffet of conditions — with wind, rain, a conspicuous cold front and the possibility of rec...

The city of Chicago on Monday sued a northwest Indiana gun store, alleging it has sold hundreds of guns that wound up in the hands of gang m...

I'm all for Sarah Voss and her teammates wearing uniforms that make them most comfortable. But I'm leery of any message to girls and women t...

A teenager has been charged in three different carjackings of rideshare drivers at gunpoint in December in the Morgan Park Police District,...

A woman died after being was found sitting in the driver's seat of a white Dodge Journey on the Far South Side Sunday night, suffering from...

A man was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead on a Red Line train in Lakeview early Monday, police said.

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As summer approaches, we are braced for an onslaught of violence, while hoping that it isn’t as bad as the last one.

“Trans people have become objects of curiosity, but that knowledge hasn’t been for trans people,” TJ Billard says.

Demitri Jackson was recently arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, on a murder warrant related to the June 2020 shooting death of Kentray Young.

Both gunmen remained at large, while East Garfield Park man faces a first-degree murder charge in Jaslyn’s death April 18.

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, died at her h...

A judge ordered a man held without bail in connection with the fatal stabbing of a good Samaritan who tried to protect a teen girl who was b...

A man was arrested in Jefferson Park on Saturday after police learned he had been wielding an ax in a Blue Line train car, police said.

Two Southland school districts that have increased in school teaching say higher numbers of students, staff isolating due to COVID-19 largel...

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