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In the summer of '66, Robert Marx stood guard over a pile of rocks, hoping to keep them from being hurled at civil rights marchers.

A Hometown Police Department officer was hit by a vehicle while investigating a crash early Saturday, according to the department.

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

Cook County’s public health leader on Saturday said the suburbs could soon return to previous COVID-19 restrictions as the region grapples w...

A woman died after shooting herself while driving with multiple children Friday afternoon on an Interstate 57 ramp at south suburban Matteso...

Eight people were wounded in city shootings since Friday night, Chicago police said.

Find out which local garden centers are open, how to start a vegetable garden and how to care for indoor plants during the coronavirus pande...

A 22-year-old armed man who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer during a foot pursuit in the Portage Park neighborhood on the city’...

Three men were injured Friday evening when a driver ran into a Chicago Fire Department vehicle with its lights and sirens activated, trigger...

When the calendar turns to the spring municipal elections, political passions are no longer contained to Republicans and Democrats. Behind t...

Illinois set a record with $109 million in sales of recreational marijuana in March — a huge 35% increase from the previous month.

As the Archdiocese of Chicago consolidates many parishes, closes some churches and leaves the fate of others up in the air, John Holden has...

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has announced it intends to release video evidence of this week’s shooting by Chicago police of...

A bill that would allow secure ballot drop boxes and curbside voting to become permanent fixtures in Illinois elections was signed into law...

Pritzker commutes sentence of Gerald Reed, an inmate who alleged abuse by Burge detectives

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A man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for the 2016 murder of a Waukegan High School student, Lake County prosecutors said Friday.

Jury trials are set to resume Monday for the first time in more than six months at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, where mandated COVID-19 test...

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

A Hazel Crest mother and her three teenage children escaped unharmed after their home was sprayed with at least 30 bullets in what police sa...

If Sir Georg Solti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969 to 1991, could be an imposing presence, his wife was the bal...

Mayor's office points to other accomplishments since taking office and says her focus has been on COVID-19 and civil unrest prompted by Geor...

As President Joe Biden pushes his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan to shore up and transform the nation’s infrastructure, the dusting off of o...

Concerned citizens, journalists, nonprofits, lawyers and gadflies all make regular use of FOIA requests, and information that Illinois resid...