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A Chicago police officer was arrested on an allegation that he choked someone who was handcuffed in the backseat of a police vehicle nearly...

A clerk working at a North Center neighborhood corner store was shot during a robbery Saturday evening.

Officials at the Archdiocese of Chicago say mounting debt and declining enrollment will lead to the shuttering of four suburban Catholic sch...

A 27-year-old man was nearly six times the legal limit when he plowed head-on into another car, fatally wounding a 12-year-old girl and inju...

A 35-year-old man was a victim of a carjacking after arranging a test drive of his vehicle online, police said.

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

Four passengers suffered minor injuries Saturday morning after the first car of a southbound Blue Line train derailed on the Kennedy Express...

Two victims are dead, and at least 6 others were wounded since Friday evening in city shootings, police said.

Chicago and suburban Cook County are officially open for indoor dining for the first time since late October under coronavirus pandemic rest...

No one questions the troops’ ability to bolster the massive operation’s efficiency or pace, but there have been debates nationwide concernin...

A CPS official called the numbers "encouraging."

As of Thursday, roughly 90,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots had been administered in Illinois' long-term care facilities — far less than half of t...

A Cook County judge on Friday threw out the case of a man who spent decades behind bars for the devastating double murder of two 13-year-old...

Parents in Joliet Public School District 86 this week were notified that the district’s board of inspectors voted to remain remote through t...

A snowstorm could hit northern Illinois on Monday, with early forecasts showing more than 6 inches of snow could hit some areas.

Man fatally wounded in a vehicle in a parking lot on the West Side, Chicago police said.

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

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

Eleven-year-old Meryem Yildirim could hear her mother sob from the kitchen while rolling applause and music heralded Joe Biden’s inauguratio...

Man caught living at O'Hare International Airport released on bail Wednesday, officials said.

The recent “ridiculous spike” in carjackings across Chicago is due largely to young people taking cars around the city to joyride in the veh...

The recommendations from the inspector general were sent to the Chicago Police Department ahead of two major pending investigations, one int...

After four decades at the helm of Illinois politics, Michael Madigan may no longer be “Mr. Speaker,” but he remains at the center of an ongo...

Dog gets the chance to prove he’s not dangerous after two-year court fight in DuPage County.

With indoor dining returning throughout parts of the Chicago area there is new attention on the state’s system for managing COVID mitigation...