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

Mayor Lori Lightfoot reported making $497,000 in 2019, her first year in office, according to a tax return released by the mayor’s office. L...

Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose novels, such as “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Lonesome Dove,”...

A 35-year-old man was arrested Thursday morning for an attack last month on Ald. Brendan Reilly outside a bar in his downtown ward, Chicago...

Eight people were shot, one of them fatally, when at least two gunmen opened fire at a gathering at a Wrightwood neighborhood storefront ear...

Two men have been charged with murder in a killing Wednesday afternoon outside an Illinois secretary of state’s driver facility in Bridgevie...

A person was hit by a CTA Yellow Line train Friday morning in Evanston, leading to the suspension of service on the line, officials said.

Eight people were shot, one of them fatally, when at least two gunmen opened fire at a gathering at a Wrightwood neighborhood storefront ear...

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President Joe Biden’s Thursday news conference was a perfect example of his stubborn and un-American refusal to behave in a way that matches...

While Chicago levied hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines on bars, restaurants and other businesses for violating COVID-19 restrictions...

It's not just about renaming schools but working on anti-racist practices, one CPS official said.

Through the dismal months of this pandemic winter, Jerry Coyne sometimes wondered whether his beloved Honey would ever come back.

A Chicago police officer and a security worker were shot on March 25, 2021, in the South Side's Brighton Park neighborhood during an inciden...

Chicago Public Schools is updating its procedures for changing school names. CPS has several schools named for slaveholders.

A Chicago police officer was shot Thursday afternoon in the South Side’s Brighton Park neighborhood, authorities said.

A bill that would make Juneteenth National Freedom Day the 13th official state holiday is headed to the Illinois Senate floor.

Jean-Paul Coffy and Yakini Ajanaku-Coffy's nightly performances united their neighbors and brought people together from across Chicago. On S...

Illinois legislators moved the Black Caucus' health care overhaul and a measure making ballot drop boxes a permanent Election Day fixture to...

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A Chicago man was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison in connection to a Batavia man’s overdose death in 2018, Kane County prosecutors...

A Chicago police officer facing firing over accusations he lied about a fatal shooting of a man by another cop on the West Side intends to r...

A Chicago man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Chicago police have detained him more than 60 times in the past 15 years because he has t...

Maywood man charged in 2020 homicide that happened in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.

In what authorities have been warning for months might happen in the U.S., the resurgence is being fueled by loosened restrictions, a more i...