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Leading Illinois Democrats criticized Downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis on Friday for reportedly downplaying the role of pandemic...

After suffering from a domestic violence knife attack, a Bronzeville family is trying to navigate the social safety net while it recovers ph...

Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital last month performed the first known double lung transplant in the U.S. that used lungs donated f...

There have been hundreds of carjackings in Chicago already this year, brazen crimes that have frightened city residents and frustrated polic...

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

Over the years, he collected local Emmys for his innovative broadcast work and won gratitude for mentoring younger news professionals.

A standoff with police in the Ashburn neighborhood that started when a woman stabbed her husband late Thursday ended peacefully after almost...

“A lot of these bills are targeting sports and activities where many of these kids finally truly feel safe and part of a team and a communit...

As part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 budget plan is a proposal to install 96 parking pay boxes covering about 750 spots, mostly on the Nor...

A federal court jury found former Portage mayor James Snyder guilty of soliciting bribes as his two-week retrial on the charge concluded Fri...

A Peoria man is accused of threatening the life of former President Donald Trump, a U.S. attorney and a federal judge, federal prosecutors a...

Cook County prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against Ronald Montgomery, who had been scheduled for the county’s first COVID-era jury tr...

New Chicago Bears quarterback Andy Dalton has gotten a frosty reception, as fans had their eyes on Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. Here'...

A firefighter who fell through the floor of a burning West Englewood home Thursday night, triggering an alert for a firefighter in danger, w...

Two men and a 17-year-old girl have been charged with carjacking and kidnapping man after he went to a Kenwood neighborhood home to try to h...

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Scientists looked at 30 years of measurements, some hourly, to track seasonal patterns far below the surface.

Some Chicago restaurants like Superkhana International and Split-Rail are waiting until staff get COVID-19 vaccines before opening for indoo...

Chicago nurse couldn’t save her father from COVID-19 but optimistic about saving others.

Riverside businessman targeted in murder plot found dead by FBI informant who helped save his life years ago.

Most exposure to lead in water can be traced to pipes known as service lines that connect homes to municipal water supplies. Illinois has mo...

Democrats in the Illinois House voted Thursday to approve a resolution condemning Republican state Rep. Chris Miller for his role in the Jan...

A pedestrian was left in critical condition after being hit by several vehicles while crossing the Kennedy Expressway Thursday night, offici...

Amid an uproar over improperly administered vaccine doses, the city of Chicago is withholding first doses of coronavirus vaccines from a Wes...

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