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St. Joseph High School in the west suburbs will close at the end of the current school year after more than six decades.

The Chicago Park District says it had the authority to remove a Columbus statue from a Near South Side park, despite an Italian American org...

Longtime political operative Rudy Acosta, 70, pleaded guilty Tuesday to misleading the FBI in a series of interviews in 2017 and 2018 about...

A former Melrose Park police officer is facing federal gambling charges stemming from an illegal bookmaking operation run by a longtime mob...

A Lombard man has been charged with murder following an altercation Saturday in an Elmhurst bar.

An additional 100,729 coronavirus vaccine doses were administered in Illinois Monday, while the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19...

The Chicago Police Department bomb squad disarmed a live grenade left in a lunch bag in the Austin neighborhood Tuesday morning, officials s...

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

Chicago Public Schools high school teachers will refuse in person work Wednesday if no COVID-19 vaccine plan is in place.

A downstate man has been charged with threatening to murder a Chicago federal judge who was overseeing his prisoner’s rights lawsuit nearly...

Statewide, 49 children were hospitalized Monday with either confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, according to state data.

The Illinois attorney general’s office is investigating a hack of its computer network that was discovered over the weekend, officials said...

The Chicago Fire Department will no longer allow dogs at firehouses after a firehouse dog killed a family pet near an Englewood fire station...

A 19-year-old man who died Monday night in a shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the city’s South Side was identified by authorities...

Cook County Health has paused distributing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following recommendations from the FDA and Centers for Disease Cont...

A 26-year-old Chicago man was charged Monday with first degree murder in the stabbing death of a 75-year-old man in the Rogers Park neighbor...

A man was stabbed on a CTA platform and left in serious condition in a West Side hospital early Tuesday morning.

As Muslims everywhere embark on a second Ramadan during the coronavirus pandemic, many are hoping to make the most of another opportunity to...

A 25-year-old Des Plaines man with a long history of traffic violations was driving 108 mph and under the influence of drugs when he caused...

The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs is facing a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of one of 36 residents who di...

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

Former Chicago Police Department leaders Garry McCarthy and Jody Weis blasted the city for what they said was failing to punish to bad offic...

Hundreds of protesters faced off against police in Brooklyn Center after nightfall Monday, and hours after a dusk-to-dawn curfew was announc...

A residential neighborhood in Morton Grove is under a heavy police presence as officers from across northern Cook County responded to a repo...

Residents are protesting the possible trapping and killing of a couple of suburban beavers after a homeowners association board said they pl...