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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…
One of the police officers who stopped the shooter who killed six people at The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning is from Chicago.And those…
Weeks after a man shot a security guard after robbing a Loop skyscraper’s bank of more than $23,000, officials tracked him down and say his flirting…
A Chicago man was exonerated Wednesday after spending almost three decades behind bars for two 1994 murders — a conviction he and his lawyers claim was…
Cardinal Blase Cupich urged Catholics across the Archdiocese of Chicago to join him in prayer “for the swift and complete recovery” of Pope Francis, who was…
The two people found dead Monday in the parking lot of the Lockport Walmart were identified Wednesday, but as their autopsies are pending police said it…
A 32-year-old Joliet man has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting his father Monday during an argument, police said.Jakeem Williams was charged with three…
The prosecution’s star witness in the “ComEd Four” trial testified Wednesday that then-House Speaker Michael Madigan called upon the utility to raise $450,000 at its annual…
The former CEO of the once lauded Chicago tech start-up Outcome Health did not commit fraud but rather trusted the wrong person, a defense attorney argued…
A seemingly relentless series of severe storms, likely with deadly tornadoes, are forecast to rip across parts of America’s Midwest and South over the next couple…