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Homeless dogs and cats who have been overlooked by those seeking a pet will have their adoption fees waived at a virtual adoption event spon...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot again called for the release of body worn camera footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 13-year old Adam...

At least four, and potentially more than eight, Michigan Republicans who attended a district meeting at a restaurant tested positive for COV...

Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died in a federal prison, a person...

The teachers union indicated it's possible to reach a deal, but it's unclear if that will happen before Monday.

Two men were shot and killed as they sat in a parked vehicle in Englewood early Wednesday.

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Speech experts are monitoring how living in a world where most adults wear masks might impact children learning to speak.

Downers Grove baker Chuck Kalousek battles COVID-19 while the community rushes in to help

Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop,...

The family of 13-year-old Adam Toledo has viewed video of his shooting by a Chicago police officer in a Little Village alley.

The oldest son of ex-Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, imprisoned for killing his third wife, is facing felony drug charges after autho...

Over and over, the families of people harmed by police are summoned to be peacekeepers despite the violence inflicted on someone they love,...

A white police officer from Wisconsin who was investigated and cleared for shooting and injuring a Black man during a domestic dispute has r...

The shooting of Daunte Wright revitalizes the movement to defund the police. So what does that mean?

Daunte Wright, was fatally shot in Minnesota by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn., last week. Adam Toledo, 13...

Man, woman convicted in 2016 killing of congressman’s grandson both sentenced to 30 years in prison

A Black football player at an Illinois high school captured on video sitting in a locker littered with banana peels says he’s “fine” and wan...

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Health departments across Illinois, along with Walgreens and Jewel-Osco, paused distribution of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine after blood-clot ca...

Johnson, his brother, Jaron Johnson, and his mother, Patricia Carrington, kidnapped and shot a woman hours before trial in an attempt to fin...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday said she was confident local residents won’t be deterred from getting vaccinated aga...

Police said they are investigating a Sunday incident in Palos Hills in which a 42-year-old woman was struck and killed by a Pace bus

The driver of the truck, who was not identified, was transported to a hospital with unknown injuries.

Denise Gardner breaks ground at Art Institute by becoming first Black woman board head