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Michelle Icard's new book recommends conversations that feel especially relevant when a pandemic is constantly changing our norms, needs and...

Several marquee names in Chicago’s criminal-justice circles are in the running to become Cook County Public Defender.

Homeless Chicagoans are receiving COVID-19 vaccines as part of a city strategy to aggressively reduce transmission of the virus and work tow...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot declined to publicly take sides in the battle for control of the state Democratic Party between her City Council floor...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a historic $44.7 million judgement against the city stemming from a shooting by an off-duty Chi...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed an ordinance on Tuesday closing loopholes in Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance, prohibiting police from coopera...

Is that ... the sun? Over Chicago? Is the snow ... melting?

Travelers from more than a dozen states and territories, including Illinois neighbors Wisconsin and Indiana, no longer will face COVID-19 te...

A woman who told police she lured an 18-year-old Lynwood, Illinois, man to Gary so her boyfriend could kill him has been charged with murder...

A 43-year-old woman died Monday afternoon after an SUV that may have been fleeing a police traffic pursuit ran a red light in Englewood, hit...

A pedestrian was fatally struck by a Metra train at or near the La Grange Road station Tuesday morning in La Grange, leading to significant...

The Chicago Park District was expected to announce Tuesday the city’s lakefront, playgrounds and indoor aquatics centers will begin to reope...

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

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

Conservative Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey announces governor run, pledges to fight ‘political elites’

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

The push to change gained steam after the police killings of George Floyd and Jacob Blake, the latter in Kenosha.

Former longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan as chairman of the state Democratic Party on Monday, one day after anointing a 26-yea...

Nurses voted 276-109 in October 2019 to be represented by the union, which also represents nurses at University of Chicago Medicine in Chica...

The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. hit 500,000 Monday, an unimaginably tragic number. Data tracked by Johns Hopkins University put the...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs sweeping Illinois criminal justice bill at Chicago State University.

The three teens, all of Gary, allegedly picked up Adriana Saucedo, 27, on Nov. 19, 2019, at her Portage home for a drug deal arranged by Si...

The male victim had a “large laceration” on his head and was unconscious, but still breathing, charges allege. Hospital staff later said he...

Chicago aldermen advanced two settlements in lawsuits alleging police misconduct in a wrongful raid and in the fatal police shooting of a ma...

Barring a last-minute change of heart from the White House, Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch will be stepping down from his high-profile po...