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Two south suburban Cook County mass COVID-19 vaccination sites will accept walk-in appointments starting Wednesday as demand for shots dwind...

At their first in-person meeting since the beginning of the pandemic, Chicago aldermen on Wednesday approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-pro...

Six people jumped, stabbed and beat a man late Tuesday, critically injuring him and leaving Chicago police searching for a motive for the We...

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

Members of an area crime task force have arrested a man on a charge of murder in connection with a Chicago woman’s fatal stabbing last week,...

The Chicago Cubs could get a rare Friday night home game this June to give them a better chance to beat the Miami Marlins, perhaps a testame...

A toddler was killed Tuesday when his father accidentally backed over the child with his pickup truck, according to the Lake County sheriff’...

A 16-year-old is in custody after forcing a woman onto the ground at gunpoint to steal her car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early W...

The goal of the surveillance is to help public health officials better allocate resources, prevent outbreaks and break chains of transmissio...

Each time the virus transmits is another opportunity for a mutation to occur, potentially creating a new — and possibly more problematic — s...

Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, called the bystanders who bore witness to George Floyd’s murder “a bouquet of humanity.” The ph...

The investigation will be a more sweeping probe of the entire Minneapolis Police Department and may result in major changes to policing ther...

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When we remember a death, we’re also honoring a life. And while it’s possible to dwell too much in the past, anniversaries offer a chance to...

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The conviction doesn't end the fight for equality in America, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Floyd’s death 'sparked a pivotal movement for Americans fighting to end systematic racism.'

Concordia Place Apartment tenants' living situation became untenable, Rainbow PUSH offered to help.

A spike in COVID cases has left ICU beds in Illinois hospitals in tight supply

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for the Illinois National Guard in Chicago as a Minnesota jury deliberated the fate of the former Minneapolis...

2100 could be stark: average annual temperatures warming by 4 to 9 degrees, a month of 95-degree or higher temperatures, 3 more inches of sp...

Ecosystems have weathered significant changes: Illinois changed from tundra after the last ice age to sprawling prairies. But the pace of ch...

The Obama Foundation on Tuesday announced a new fundraising goal of $400 million over five years that will go toward building the Obama Pres...

Snyder is scheduled for sentencing July 1 before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois, the third judge...

“We strongly encourage parents and children to talk about the importance of vaccination,” a state health official said.