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

Topping Preservation Chicago’s annual list of the city’s most endangered historic buildings is something that isn’t a building at all. The l...

A Chicago gym spurred an outbreak of at least 55 COVID-19 cases over the summer after infected people attended indoor high-intensity exercis...

Two people were injured in a shooting Wednesday morning on the outbound Stevenson Expressway on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Illinois State Pol...

COVID-19 "has definitely have definitely opened all of the equity gaps" in CPS, one activist said.

Aldermen introduced a plan on Wednesday to significantly tighten the rules the Chicago Police Department must follow to obtain and execute s...

Ten hours after an ice- and snow-covered awning collapsed, pinning a Schiller Park woman under its weight, firefighters used an airbag syste...

A 44-year-old man died after being rushed to the hospital following a fire Wednesday morning in south suburban Hazel Crest that also left tw...

After record-breaking snow and cold to start February, the end of the month appears to flip the script to above-normal temperatures. So what...

Chicago police are investigating the death of a man who apparently fell on the Blue Line tracks Tuesday night at a West Side “L” station.

Reckless homicide charges have been filed against a 20-year-old man who Chicago police say was driving an SUV through Englewood on Monday wh...

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

The Cruzes are selfish and tone-deaf, but let's not laud those who leaked her trip texts, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Former state Sen. Daniel Biss declared victory Tuesday in the election for Evanston mayor.

Former Speaker Madigan calls on successor Edward Guerra Kodatt to resign just two days after installing him as his replacement

No criminal charges against Rochester, NY, officers who restrained Daniel Prude, a Black man, until he stopped breathing.

Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday said she called for an investigation into the attack against an alderman outside a downtown Chicago bar in p...

Joseph X. Ramirez’s wife suffered head injuries during the incident shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday in the Edison Park neighborhood.

Chicago’s top federal prosecutor will stay on the job — for now.

Jury notices have been sent out for Cook County’s first pandemic-era jury trial, Chief Judge Timothy Evans’ office confirmed Tuesday.

Severe cold and heavy snow in February that spurred a sharp increase in utility bills prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to call for a $...

Chicago has caught up on its delayed vaccine shipments from last week’s snowstorm as of Tuesday, public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwa...

He and two accomplices -- the woman and a second girlfriend -- were charged in a string of seven armed robberies in Hammond dating between N...

A damning federal report concluded several agencies missed “multiple opportunities” to shield children living at the former West Calumet Hou...