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An Illinois grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted the father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park,…
The city’s early vote count is far outpacing recent election participation as voters return mail-in ballots in record numbers two weeks before Chicago’s Feb. 28 municipal…
The Chicago Bears embarked on a new era Wednesday with the purchase of a site in Arlington Heights where the team hopes to build a new…
With less than two weeks to go before Chicago’s election, Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t laughing at the Bears anymore.AdvertisementHer first reaction to the team’s interest in…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker stressed additional funding for education in his $49.6 million budget proposal Wednesday while also using the occasion to blast “a virulent form…
National Weather Service officials issued a wind advisory Wednesday morning for portions of central, east central, north central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana in effect…
University of Chicago Medicine’s new cancer hospital will cost $182 million more to build than expected — and have fewer beds than originally planned — because…
On rainy afternoon last week, Robinette Haywood waited in line for a food pantry under an awning at the Chosen Tabernacle church with her two youngest…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday will propose $75 million in additional spending to add 5,000 slots to existing state-funded preschool programs, a modest down payment on…
Political committees supporting mayoral challengers U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in…