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After six weeks of testimony, the “ComEd Four” bribery trial involving an alleged scheme to bribe House Speaker Michael Madigan is nearing an end.Before the jury…
A man died Tuesday near Wadsworth when the car in which he was riding apparently failed to slow at a stop sign and was struck by…
A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was apparently caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin…
What started in 2021 as a push for equity in education is now a campaign that seeks to secure “sweeping anti-racist legislation” in at least 20…
A man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one of them said she mistakenly got into his car thinking it…
A man and a woman were killed Tuesday night when their utility terrain vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree near Antioch, according to the…
National weather officials are expecting thunderstorms to develop Wednesday evening with winds up to 60 mph in portions of north-central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana.The…
A 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded in the Austin neighborhood last week died Monday afternoon, records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office show.Police officers…
The Feds began tearing down a vacant three-story building on South State Street this week, but preservationists may have stayed the demolition of adjacent, century-old skyscrapers…
Last year at the end of Ramadan, Faiza Siddiqui — like millions of Muslims each year — was waiting intently for the moon sighting announcement determining…