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The death of Karen Lewis, the former Chicago Teachers Union president who once considered running for mayor, sparked an outpouring of condol...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot continued to try to show she’s making changes in the fallout from the Anjanette Young wrongful police raid controversy...

One thing about cold weather and Chicago — it’s not new. The city’s coldest recorded temperature took place Jan. 20, 1985, but many of the c...

The Chicago Board of Education will pick a new school name in March from three finalists: Harriet Tubman Elementary, Katherine Johnson Eleme...

Karen Lewis, former leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, has died. She was 67.

An East Chicago police officer was listed in critical condition after being shot along with two other people hit by gunfire Sunday evening.

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

Four new food pantries are set to open this spring as part of a major grant from the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which is shifting its...

“I don’t know why we should be differentiated” from other teachers, a Columbia College Chicago adjunct professor said.

During a pandemic, everyone pays the price for centuries of second-rate health care for Black Americans, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Chicago police leaders acknowledged needing to do a better job being transparent with the public as their department is under continuing pre...

A small cannon device that was fired in the backyard of a home by the homeowner blew up, spraying metal shrapnel that struck the man, police...

The lawsuit said the woman, who was an alcoholic, is believed to have drank the Blumen hand sanitizer, which was recalled last year after of...

President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Sovie...

A wind chill advisory will be in effect most of Sunday and another 1 to 3 inches of snow could fall Monday, forecasters said.

The deal is still contingent on broader approval of the terms by the teachers union.

The 79-year-old civil rights leader experienced “abdominal discomfort” on Jan. 29 and was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for sur...

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

Don Tracy of Springfield picked as new Illinois Republican Party chairman.

A man is dead after being shot while breaking up a fight between two other men including the gunman, who then crashed into a squad car on th...

Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, broke out windows and threw things from fourth-floor windows Saturday.

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

If you think it’s cold now, Chicago, just wait. Because Mother Nature is just getting, er, warmed up.

One person was dead and several were injured following a shooting early Saturday at a hotel in west suburban Bloomingdale, according to WGN-...

In Chicago, a blue city and famous union town, brawling with the teachers union can be a politically fraught prospect for mayors — and it’s...