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Black people led all ethnic groups in arrests with 2,311 arrests, making up more than three-quarters of all marijuana arrests in Chicago. La...

Not every opioid user garners the same amount of empathy, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Exelon's six Illinois nuclear plants provided more than half of the electricity generated in the state in 2019, with Byron and Dresden respo...

The Whiting refinery is the nation’s sixth largest, with a capacity to process more than 400,000 barrels of oil a day.

The body of a man found by a fisherman Tuesday morning near the Calumet River on the Far South Side died of multiple gunshot wounds, officia...

Here's what we know about the COVID-19 outbreak in Michigan.

The Chicago Fire Department needs to put in place stronger policies to deal with the sexual harassment and racial discrimination that have l...

Teachers from Chicago’s prestigious Latin School are taking steps this week toward organizing a teachers union, officials with the Illinois...

The Chicago Police Department has made new rules about how cops should treat protesters as the city braces for more demonstrations over the...

State Sen. Kimberly Lightford said she tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, making her at least the third person linked to the state governm...

The victim, Monica Mills, 43, of Hammond, was taken to St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago where she later was pronounced dead, officials...

A pregnant Gary woman is in stable condition Wednesday afternoon after a shooting in which the suspect barricaded herself in her house with...

Openlands Lakeshore Preserve in Highland Park is closed to the public until further notice after military materials were found on two separa...

Preliminary construction for the Obama Presidential Center at Jackson Park has begun, officials said Wednesday while kicking off a process t...

Federal charges made public Wednesday alleged a Springfield man stormed the floor of the U.S. Senate during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol...

Williams was transported to Franciscan Health Hammond where she was pronounced dead around 8:15 a.m., according to the Lake County Coroner’s...

Chicago activists, lawyers, helped Cariol Horne reverse her firing from the Buffalo Police Department after she contended she stopped anothe...

But acting U.S. Attorney John Childress announced Wednesday that a 17-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges...

Mousa admitted he went to M&M; Beauty Supply, 3712 Main St., on Oct. 27 and stabbed an employee in the side of his face behind the counter,...

One person was being detained Wednesday afternoon after a body was found in the trunk of a vehicle at a business in the Belmont Central neig...

An additional 138,538 coronavirus vaccine doses were administered in Illinois Tuesday, as the number of residents who have been fully vaccin...

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

Mayor Lori Lightfoot hopes to spend nearly $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money to pay off the short term borrowing her administratio...

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot prepared to warn the city about a yawning budget deficit last summer, she lined up more than $100,000 in upgrades to...

A mass vaccination site in Gary is giving Illinoisans shots since the state opened eligibility requirements for COVID-19 shots earlier than...