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While some urban counties are bouncing back from a pandemic-driven exodus, Cook County’s population has yet to recover its losses, according to U.S. census data released…
National Weather Service officials are expecting severe thunderstorms ahead of a cold front which may develop into tornadoes Friday in some areas.Officials warned of a ‘robust’…
The role lobbyists play in Springfield politics took center stage Thursday in the “ComEd Four” bribery trial, where the government’s star witness acknowledged on cross- examination…
Cook County judges should be recused from hearing the case against two former Cook County prosecutors facing charges in connection with the wrongful conviction of a…
A crew of at least four people in a gray sedan went on a robbery spree that began at about 4 a.m. Thursday on the Near…
A person was pronounced dead, and at least four others hurt Wednesday night during a chain-reaction traffic accident in the Ashburn neighborhood, Chicago police said.Around 9:15…
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A 16-month-old boy was fatally shot by his 5-year-old sibling at a northwestern Indiana apartment, authorities said.The older sibling accessed a handgun inside the Lafayette…
Two West Side incumbent aldermen — one seeking his third term and the other looking to get elected to her first — are fending off a…
Chyrl Hrpcha’s family left Joliet’s East Side 30 years ago in search of space. They found it at the southern edge of the city, in a…
SPRINGFIELD — Two days after an assailant gunned down six people at a school in Nashville, a couple hundred gun rights advocates were joined by a…