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Protesters gathered in Logan Square Friday night for Adam Toledo, 13, fatally shot by police during chase and "armed confrontation" in Littl...

A 28-year-old Waukegan man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a 2019 road-rage shooting near a Waukegan middle school.

A joint City Council committee debated an ordinance on Friday that would mandate an online database of closed complaints against Chicago pol...

The author, who grew up on the South Side and in Evanston, traveled around the country to understand how race infuses questions of “belongin...

A man died Friday afternoon when he was hit by a South Shore Line electric commuter train near the Skyway on the city’s South Side.

Nine months after Commonwealth Edison admitted to a bribery scheme that padded its profits and helped topple former Speaker Michael Madigan,...

Illinois is launching “College Vaccination Days” — appointments set aside at vaccination sites for college students.

The next step in opening Chicago Public Schools to in-person learning is on track to start Monday with high school students eligible to head...

City officials will again provide COVID-19 vaccines to Loretto Hospital after pausing the program last month to review allegations of dosage...

The release of troubling video of 13-year-old Adam Toledo being fatally shot by a Chicago police officer rocked the city from the mayor’s of...

An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday after a Gary man skipped the last day of his 3-day rape trial, court records show.

A 21-year-old man allegedly used a “large machete” to slash his co-worker to death at an auto body shop before stuffing the body in the trun...

Last year, the first year recreational marijuana was legalized in Illinois, the COVID pandemic shut down most 420 cannabis celebrations. Thi...

In a letter to the Federal Election Commission, the Illinois Democratic Party acknowledges that its new chair, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, cannot...

Illinois House Speaker forms task force to look at monuments on state property

The city of Chicago would add protections for gender identity under its anti-hate crime ordinance, alongside race, sexual orientation, relig...

Michael Madigan’s legal bills connected to an ongoing federal corruption probe skyrocketed in the first three months of this year

Chicago public health officials announced changes to the city’s inoculation deployment strategy on Friday, as they deal with the ongoing pau...

CTU's House of Delegates "overwhelmingly" endorsed the pending agreement.

Three Chicago men were arrested in a small city in Georgia northeast of Atlanta this week following a police pursuit caught on video that sh...

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

For couples where one person might be hesitant or resistant to vaccines, it can create a difficult space to navigate.

A handful of career staffers at the Chicago office helped bring local impacts to light by deploying air monitoring equipment outside an agen...

A 17-year-old girl is dead after being shot in the head Thursday evening while riding in a vehicle in Little Village, authorities said.