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The office identified the youth as Carys Castillo, 16, of the 8000 block of Keating Avenue. The death has been ruled a homicide, while the s...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker deploys Illinois National Guard troops to Chicago in anticipation of a verdict in the trial of a former Minneapolis polic...

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On Friday April 16, Hinsdale High School District 86 announced that 155 students and staff members across the district are in quarantine due...

The university has recorded 209 new coronavirus cases since March 26.

Jaslyn Admas, a 7 year old, was shot six times in Chicago as a string of mass shootings has unfolded nationally. Welcome to America.

Rakayo Alandis Vinson, 24, appeared in court on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide for the early Sunday shooting at the Somers H...

First lady Jill Biden used a visit to a community college in Dixon on Monday to promote efforts to make higher education more affordable, a...

The 22-month-old boy who was shot on Lake Shore Drive earlier this month has been transferred out of the intensive care unit at Lurie Childr...

Kowalewski was staying at the hotel because he was getting ready to move into a place of his own family members said at the time.

U.S. appeals court says no full hearing in Michael LaPorta case.

A man charged with murder in the stabbing death early Saturday of a woman at an apartment in the Bronzeville neighborhood argued with her ab...

Nearly 50% of Illinois residents 16 and older have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. That was one metric that could hav...

Former State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias has released the first ad for next year’s race for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state...

With people getting vaccines and protocols in place, the benefits of returning outweighed the risks, one parent said.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said authorities believed they had done what they needed to by seizing the pump-action shotgun from Bran...

Penguins at the Chicago's Shedd Aquariuim enter their nesting and mating season.

The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru was a first grade student who attended a Chicag...

What are Chicago’s pro teams saying about the COVID-19 vaccine? How many players have received it? And what does it all mean for potentially...

Tribune Publishing is moving ahead with plans to be acquired by Alden Global Capital and has ended discussions with a Maryland hotel executi...

Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has reached a new deal with reduced tax breaks for its scaled back p...

Attorneys in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd are set to make their closing arguments Mond...

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A man riding a CTA bus opened fire, aiming toward the bus driver, but missed, police say.

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